Udon Thani Immigration: Special fees to transfer visa?

[UTH001]

I got a new passport last week and need my current visa transferred to the new passport. A free (no cost!) service, as far as I know but probably not in Udon Thani? Has anyone had any experience in transferring a valid visa from an old to a new passport? And how much was charged for that? Is it actually possible to carry an expired passport (and a new passport), without actually transferring the visa to the new passport? And not getting any problems at BKK airport?

[dragonfly94]

They do not transfer visa's

[nzexpat]

As said "Visas" are not transferred use both passports if you really have an unexpired "Visa"

Are you sure you have a valid visa ?

[bouph12]

I was asked for 500 baht to transfer the information last year - not a special fee, just a clear attempt at extortion. I wouldn't pay, so he flatly refused to do his job. I've shown new and old passports together on trips by land and air since then without any problem, BKK included..

[nzexpat]

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I was asked for 500 baht to transfer the information last year - not a special fee, just a clear attempt at extortion. I wouldn't pay, so he flatly refused to do his job. I've shown new and old passports together on trips by land and air since then without any problem, BKK included..

So you have a valid multi-entry visa or an extension of stay with a valid multi-re-entry permit !

What will you do when they expire

[casualbiker]

They transfer extension of stay. I didn't know they didn't transfer visa's.

[nzexpat]

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They transfer extension of stay. I didn't know they didn't transfer visa's.

Valid visas are never transferred.

Extensions of stay are transferred together with a note of the visa which allowed the original entry .

[Eddy B]

You can get the stamp in your old passport transferred to your new passport and the cost is free. They should not ask for any payment but you might have to wait and fill out a form before they do it. You could also just carry both passports as long as the date in your old one is still valid.

[paz]

You can get the stamp in your old passport transferred to your new passport and the cost is free. They should not ask for any payment but you might have to wait and fill out a form before they do it. You could also just carry both passports as long as the date in your old one is still valid.

Actually if you get a new passport in Thailand you are supposed to transfer the entry stamp and extensions if any. Otherwise you can have trouble when leaving because immigration would have to exit stamp a different passport not in their database.

[Soutpeel]

You can get the stamp in your old passport transferred to your new passport and the cost is free. They should not ask for any payment but you might have to wait and fill out a form before they do it. You could also just carry both passports as long as the date in your old one is still valid.

Actually if you get a new passport in Thailand you are supposed to transfer the entry stamp and extensions if any. Otherwise you can have trouble when leaving because immigration would have to exit stamp a different passport not in their database.

Categorically not true, I did exactly this last year and the exit stamp is put in your new pp with a hand written note, referencing your old passport number

[OJAS]

You can get the stamp in your old passport transferred to your new passport and the cost is free. They should not ask for any payment but you might have to wait and fill out a form before they do it. You could also just carry both passports as long as the date in your old one is still valid.

Only if it's an "extension of stay" stamp and not a "visa" one, of course!

[Mario2008]

If you have an extension of stay you are supposed to have the details transferred, if you are on a visa entry you can just leave with showing both new and old passport.

[ubonjoe]

You can get the stamp in your old passport transferred to your new passport and the cost is free. They should not ask for any payment but you might have to wait and fill out a form before they do it. You could also just carry both passports as long as the date in your old one is still valid.

Actually if you get a new passport in Thailand you are supposed to transfer the entry stamp and extensions if any. Otherwise you can have trouble when leaving because immigration would have to exit stamp a different passport not in their database.

Categorically not true, I did exactly this last year and the exit stamp is put in your new pp with a hand written note, referencing your old passport number

You might of just been lucky to of gotten a helpful immigration officer.

There have been reports of people with extensions of stay having problems when leaving the country without the stamps being transferred.

[Si Thea01]

Put my passport through the wash and had to go to BKK to apply for another. Received new passport after two weeks and then off to Udon with the old and new. New stamps affixed and everything updated, the charge? Zero.

[gilo]

When I was leaving after the long overstay the (visa exempt) entry stamp from 2003 was "transferred" into my new 2014 passport and the overstay stamp was then placed beside it by the i/o in Suvarnabhumi. I had been told previously that having the old passport with the stamp and TM6 would be necessary for a reasonably speedy clearing of the overstay so that the officers could place the entry stamp into the new passport. It looks quite incongruous as it predates the actual passport by more than a decade.

[kalbz]

I had my retirement visa & multi entry stamp transferred to my new passport at Udon. It cost 500 bt.

[paz]

I had my retirement visa & multi entry stamp transferred to my new passport at Udon. It cost 500 bt.

Which is, to be clear, is money that they pocketed because there is no official charge.

[sgtsabai]

No, the 500 baht is just to buy staff pizza for lunch...lol. I won't fight over 500 baht, although I might be sorely tempted to. Thais have a long memory. I'll know more in a few weeks, just turned my old passport in today to Embassy Outreach in Udon and when new comes back will have to do extension of stay/multi-entry permit, they are due in May anyway. Not looking forward to it, but If I get same lady as the past few years shouldn't be too big a problem, maybe, I hope.

[ALFREDO]

I had entry stamps, or extensions of stay transfered in the last 1,5 years twice in Udon Thani, as I used 2 Temporary,

short time Emergency Passports. Paid once nothing and other time 500 Baht.

Was again end of March now in Udon Thani Immigration, to change the extension of stay stamps into the new 10 year validity Passport, same time I asked for a 7 day extension of stay, on top of my 60 day extension to reach my flight to EU without overstay.

BUT, the female officer denied that possibility and for the transfer of stamps I would have to wait until the BIG BOSS came back in 30 min?

So, I decided, to make a border run to Vientiane, had next day my 2 boys with me, 7 and 11

and as their Passports had no validity anymore, tried to get a border Pass for the boys with Thai ID cards and housepaper, birth certificates and everything else needed, so my thought.

BUT, border Pass denied, as I am no Thai, and border Pass under 12 needs a Thai person from same family applying.

At that point I got pissed and after leaving some steam out in that Nong Khai border Pass office - a call with my GF the mother of the children did not help - lost some documents there also in a bit hectic, I decided a change of plans.

Back to Udon Thani in the cinema for the boys and stayed than 5 days Overstay,

went with my 2 Passports to Suvarnabhumi, one was canceled from my Consular section already,

paid there the fine = 3.500.- and stamps (Was a 60 day family Extension of stay after a Non Immigrant -O-) got transfered to new Passport.

Free and without any problem.

[hgma]

My Wife transfers her visa (dependent extension of stay with Re entry multiple,every year in a new Lao passport.........Lao paspoorts 32 pages, a multiple weekly visits to the family and friends and there you go,

It's free but we tip..........how much?

Private.(decision)

NongKhai

[paz]

No, the 500 baht is just to buy staff pizza for lunch...lol. I won't fight over 500 baht, although I might be sorely tempted to. Thais have a long memory.

Be reassured, the front line officer that is hungry for your money have zero power on deciding anything that regards your application. That is for the chief officer named and depicted on the organizational chart displayed in every office.

[kalbz]

Yes, the 500 bt is tea money. But who cares, it's peanuts. I don't mind the corruption in Asia, it sure beats living in a nanny state, big brother nations, where only the rich & powerful are allowed to be corrupt. The people here work hard for little money. Back home we are lazy & get big money. That's how come i can live here, the normal Thai people can't afford to live in my country, and the rich Thai people don't want to

[CqK]

I was charged 500 bt. at Nakhonratchasima Immigration in Don Kwien this week to have the visa extension stamp transferred to my new passport. My husband (who is Thai) was told there was a 500 bt. fee for the service and there would be no receipt for the 500 bt. I really don't know what the alternative would be. It's their Kingdom. They write the rules and that's it.