Hello,I have a one fyear extension of stay visa,some call a retirement visa.I've got to go home soon for a few weeks and I'm thinking of getting a new passport(much easier than doing it here) how will this work when I come back to Thai.

Thanks in advance

First and foremost, have you acquired a re-entry permit (or will you be doing this at the airport when you depart)?

When you eventually re-enter Thailand you will need to present both old and new passports to the IO at BKK. He/she will then stamp you in for the rest of your extension period in the new passport. You will then need to go along to your immigration office with your old and new passports to get your existing extension of stay stamp transferred to the new passport. For this purpose they will also require copies of both passports plus a completed version of the "Transfer Stamp to a New Passport Form" downloadable from http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/en/base.php?page=download

If your comment about it being easier to renew your passport back home rather than here means that you are a fellow Brit, you would also be strongly advised to obtain the misleadingly-titled "Visa Transfer Letter", as per the attachment, from the Embassy, in case Immigration ask you for it

Get a re-entry permit first!

Re-enter Thailand with both passports. You will be stamped in on the new passport and than be told to go to your own immigration office to have the stamps transferred from old to new passport.

You will need copies of your old passport for this, as well they might require a letter from your embassy regarding your new passport.

Get a re-entry permit first!

Re-enter Thailand with both passports. You will be stamped in on the new passport and than be told to go to your own immigration office to have the stamps transferred from old to new passport.

You will need copies of your old passport for this, as well they might require a letter from your embassy regarding your new passport.

If you keep the official receipt you got when you got the passport in your home country, some immigrations offices might accept that in lieu of an embassy letter.

If you are by chance an American, it's extremely easy to get a new passport at the US embassy in Bangkok. You can also get one through one of the consular outreaches to places like Pattaya and Phuket and ... I forget where else they run the outreach program. I applied at a Pattaya outreach and had the option of them sending it out by prepaid EMS or I could collect it from the embassy myself. I chose to collect it in Bangkok and had it in less than 10 days.

Oops. Just checked your profile and you're from Northern Ireland. I'll leave that paragraph in, in case some American read this thread and is thinking about getting a new passport, even though it wouldn't apply to you.

BUT this might be of interest to you: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/794342-british-passport-renewal-2-weeks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feed:%20thaivisa24%20(today#39;s best thaivisa topics)

Edited January 25, 201511 yr by Suradit69

Get a re-entry permit first!

Re-enter Thailand with both passports. You will be stamped in on the new passport and than be told to go to your own immigration office to have the stamps transferred from old to new passport.

You will need copies of your old passport for this, as well they might require a letter from your embassy regarding your new passport.

If you keep the official receipt you got when you got the passport in your home country, some immigrations offices might accept that in lieu of an embassy letter.

If you are by chance an American, it's extremely easy to get a new passport at the US embassy in Bangkok. You can also get one through one of the consular outreaches to places like Pattaya and Phuket and ... I forget where else they run the outreach program. I applied at a Pattaya outreach and had the option of them sending it out by prepaid EMS or I could collect it from the embassy myself. I chose to collect it in Bangkok and had it in less than 10 days.

Oops. Just checked your profile and you're from Northern Ireland. I'll leave that paragraph in, in case some American read this thread and is thinking about getting a new passport, even though it wouldn't apply to you.

BUT this might be of interest to you: http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/794342-british-passport-renewal-2-weeks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=feed:%20thaivisa24%20(today#39;s best thaivisa topics)

Do you need to surrender your old passport (American) to obtain a new one? Mine runs out in December and the Thai immigration told me I needed a new one before I report in May.

Thanks for the help.

The old passport will be returned to you, but do ask for it to be returned if applying in the US.

Do you need to surrender your old passport (American) to obtain a new one? Mine runs out in December and the Thai immigration told me I needed a new one before I report in May.

Thanks for the help.

When you apply they give your old passport back to you. Then when the new one comes in about 10 days they stamp your old one cancelled, cut the corners off the front cover and give it back to you.

Application info here: http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/passports.html

You can do your extension but it would only be valid until the date in December when your passport expires.