crazykopite Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I have heard of immigration office , post office, but never a visa office is this something new where one can go and get a visa without the immigration route !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinx Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Please get your facts straight. Visas are NOT issued from within Thailand; that is something that is done at a Thai Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country. You can get an extension of stay for an existing visa, but not a new visa. Can you please indicate whether you turned over your passport to a Thai Immigration department (in Phuket) or to a private company? If the latter, well, in my opinion, that was unwise. Not entirely true. You can arrive on an entry-permit stamp and go to immigration with the appropriate papers and they will stamp your passport with a non-imm O visa. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slipperylobster Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Please get your facts straight. Visas are NOT issued from within Thailand; that is something that is done at a Thai Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country. You can get an extension of stay for an existing visa, but not a new visa. Can you please indicate whether you turned over your passport to a Thai Immigration department (in Phuket) or to a private company? If the latter, well, in my opinion, that was unwise. and you can convert an existing visa to a 90 day O.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonjoe Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Off topic posts removed and one inflammatory profanity laden post. Topic is not about who owns the passport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherrylee2512 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 are you talking about a company that promises to give the visas? as appose to immigration? ive heard lots of stories one friend i know sent theirs and it turned out that they had been raided where they send the visas and that the passport was taken away by police. a lot of the companies do the visas in illegal ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemguy Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. They may have lost it ( always possible ) and rather than say they lost it they are just postponing you over and over again. Probably best to go to your Embassy and tell them the Visa office has lost your passport and you need another one. Have them ask the Visa office officials how they could lose a passport like that ...and wait for their answer. More than likely they will say they have not lost it. If that is the case then have Your embassy ask why it is not returned to you for so long and have the Embassy demand that the passport be returned to you....ASAP. More than likely you will not get any immediate response or help from your Embassy as they tend to be indifferent to the problems of their nationals...but maybe with a passport being ( lost ) by a Visa office may peak their interest and act on your behalf. Good luck Cheers Edited August 11, 2014 by gemguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AYJAYDEE Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. They may have lost it ( always possible ) and rather than say they lost it they are just postponing you over and over again. Probably best to go to your Embassy and tell them the Visa office has lost your passport and you need another one. Have them ask the Visa office officials how they could lose a passport like that ...and wait for their answer. More than likely they will say they have not lost it. If that is the case then have Your embassy ask why it is not returned to you for so long and have the Embassy demand that the passport be returned to you....ASAP. More than likely you will not get any immediate response or help from your Embassy as they tend to be indifferent to the problems of their nationals...but maybe with a passport being ( lost ) by a Visa office may peak their interest and act on your behalf. Good luck Cheers I doubt he gave his passport to thai immigration. it was probably some private outfit that was going to get him a visa (somehow) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneday Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. The advice on that thread was to go to the police. Take the advice. What they are doing is illegal. It sounds like many visa offices are now having problems getting certain types of visas so they are probably keeping it in the hope they can succeed and not have to give your money back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession treason? lol Perhaps a law course is in order here. Treason only applies to the actual national in question. In this case, the officials are Thai. So, how does the Crown charge Thai immigration officers with treason, for messing with someones else's passport? A hysterical post, from a fabulously under informed individual, lacking the facts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BradinAsia Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Chumpy, would you mind telling us what a visa office is? Are you talking about an immigration office? One can get lots of help on this forum, but if you can describe the problem with a bit more clarity... Edited August 11, 2014 by BradinAsia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saroq Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession Which visa office is it being held by? If it's not British then is can't be treason. And even if it were a visa office of the UK it's wouldn't be the crime of treason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenl Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 We can discuss and presume all we like here, if the OP does not come back to clarify there really is no point in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John1thru10 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. The advice on that thread was to go to the police. Take the advice. What they are doing is illegal. It sounds like many visa offices are now having problems getting certain types of visas so they are probably keeping it in the hope they can succeed and not have to give your money back. This sounds likely, actually. I might think to go to your own embassy instead of the police, however. If it was a 'work around' to immigration, you might not want to walk into the police station and announce this without a passport in your possession. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suradit69 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession "what they are doing is tantamount to Treason" Utter nonsense. This is Thailand not Britain. Since the O/P doesn't make clear what country he's from or what "a visa office" means, your hysteria is beyond ridiculous. Passports can be held by police in any country. If "a visa office" means an immigrations office, either they have a reason to hold it pending some legal action or it's simply being processed and not ready yet. Getting hysterical is almost certainly not going to speed things up. If the "visa office" is some business, then he should report it to the police if they won't return it, which is what his embassy would tell him to do. Do you think the ambassador from his country is going to head a commando raid on "a visa office" to retrieve it? Edited August 11, 2014 by Suradit69 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDGRUEN Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Please get your facts straight. Visas are NOT issued from within Thailand; that is something that is done at a Thai Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country. You can get an extension of stay for an existing visa, but not a new visa. Can you please indicate whether you turned over your passport to a Thai Immigration department (in Phuket) or to a private company? If the latter, well, in my opinion, that was unwise. Not entirely true. You can arrive on an entry-permit stamp and go to immigration with the appropriate papers and they will stamp your passport with a non-imm O visa. Does anyone here know how this works ... I have heard of it before ... what are the appropriate papers? Serious and sincere question... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinLOS Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Anyone that doesn't know that in every major town with a decent sized farang population there's a bunch of lawyers offering visa services of various levels of legality hasn't been here very long. Sometimes these services are totally legal, processing extensions and doing your 90 day reports for you.. Nothing more dodgy than Thai elite card assistance center.. Other times they simply smooth out the hassle of rude or plain difficult immigration officers.. Yet more dodgy is managing to prove finances when those might not be there. Finally there's the totally illegal sending passports put of the country for new visas.. Until a couple of months ago this was still workable at a few Aussie consuls, now I don't know of any.. It's not unlikely the visa agent was providing this illegal activity, while assuring the customer of its legitimacy, and now cannot complete. I would go to the company and tell them they have 24 hours before the police become involved and you just want the passport back, if it fails, work the immigration volunteer or tourist police line of attack first.. Failing that go to the Thai police and register the theft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangebrew Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Two ways to do this one get new one from embassy but you need to file police report telling what happened or have embassy check why there holding on to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevenl Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Please get your facts straight. Visas are NOT issued from within Thailand; that is something that is done at a Thai Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country. You can get an extension of stay for an existing visa, but not a new visa. Can you please indicate whether you turned over your passport to a Thai Immigration department (in Phuket) or to a private company? If the latter, well, in my opinion, that was unwise. Not entirely true. You can arrive on an entry-permit stamp and go to immigration with the appropriate papers and they will stamp your passport with a non-imm O visa. Does anyone here know how this works ... I have heard of it before ... what are the appropriate papers? Serious and sincere question... Yes, possible but only some immigration office do this, most notably Bangkok. Standard paperwork for non-immigrant visa is required. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chillout101 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Give away passport to an agent without getting a receipt, sorry to say but that is plain stupid on your part. Even if you have used them for 50 years you should always get a receipt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mataleo Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. It sounds like some dodgy visa agent is holding the passport because they cannot get whatever they claimed they could do done. Or perhaps have lost it doing whatever they were supposed to be doing. I think what I would do is go to the police and report it stolen. If they are not able to get it back then get a new passport. Hey im polish. In my case when i lose passport its bad. To get new one i must prove in embassy that im polish. Speaking language is not enough. They want bkrth certificat which is in poland some office in town where i was born. But how can i go get it without passport. I think they gives 1 year temp passport for emergencies. But not sure they would give just like that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigman Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 First of all.. Where did you lodged your passport? Next.. If you feel you not trying to bypass local rules and law... using "agent" Why not to report it to your embassy? ?? It should be your first duty as a passport holder! If you feel something is " fishy" even doing mistake dealing with any office. Do you realize you can be arrested not having passport exept maybe having Thai drivers licence. To be honest ..I would not use this site to look for help. Simply saying ...if I'm not trying to do dishonest thing in any country then i would read a guidance on embassy Website " what to do when passport is lost" including other potential scenarios especially now when this issue about stolen passports is still hot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbalEd Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession Hyperbolize much? Anyway, you can't be treasonous against a country of which you are not a citizen. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbalEd Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 a little more info from the OP may be helpful. Did they (somebody) give you a receipt? Why do they have it in the first place? It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Seems obvious to me. They've lost your passport and can't admit it. The Thai losing-face thing, you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingstonkid Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Has anyone else noticed that the OP has vanished. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetley Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Has anyone else noticed that the OP has vanished. ....arrested? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
attento Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession How do you know it's a British passport? Doesn't matter.. ALL passports are property of HM Queen !!! RULE BRITANNIA! totster Nah, those days are long gone. Scotland will get rid of her too next month, then my passport will be the property of Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor Billy Connolly or whoever becomes our king. Nah, it will be a close run race for Head of State between Susan Boyle and The Krankies . . . . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mumjokmok Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession i personally would contact general melchett to appropriately deliver messages like that. bbbaaaaaaayyyye isn't that right darling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinx Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 It was given to the office many months ago in order to get a 1 year visa,every time they say that it will be ready next week,can anyone advice on what to do?I don't have a receipt no,I had been doing business with this office for 14 years previously. Please get your facts straight. Visas are NOT issued from within Thailand; that is something that is done at a Thai Embassy/Consulate in a foreign country. You can get an extension of stay for an existing visa, but not a new visa. Can you please indicate whether you turned over your passport to a Thai Immigration department (in Phuket) or to a private company? If the latter, well, in my opinion, that was unwise. Not entirely true. You can arrive on an entry-permit stamp and go to immigration with the appropriate papers and they will stamp your passport with a non-imm O visa. Does anyone here know how this works ... I have heard of it before ... what are the appropriate papers? Serious and sincere question... First -- you do your homework, read the thai immigration website and get the papers you need together. 2nd - - you arrive at BKK with either a visa issued in another country, or a "permit to enter" stamp usually valid for 30 days 3rd -- you go to your embassy and get a letter of confirmation of income -- AND/OR -- go to your bank and get a statement of balance that matches your passbook (the and/or depends on the method or mix that you choose to prove your finances) 4th -- take yourself, passport, rental agreement, receipts for rent paid, embassy letter of income, etc ( the "etc" depends on your nationality and the immigrations office you're dealing with ) to you local immigration office and apply for a Non-immigrant O visa. - usually for 90 days 5th -- During the 90 days do the next bit of homework and repeat the recipe to get the annual extension. I've left out lots of details but they are easily filled in if you do your homework -- this post is just a work-plan for you. good luck :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bim Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 what they are doing is illegal and punishable by law,the passport is the property of the Crown ie H M THE QUEEN and can not be held or kept I suggest you contact the British Embassy in Bangkok as what they are doing is tantamount to Treason by keeping a crown possession I think you need to read up on what treason is. Such utter rubbish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
connda Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Don't worry. Your passport will show up with someone boarding a Malaysian Airliner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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