Immigration Closed For Holidays On The 4th And 5th Of May

[ubonjoe]

4 May (Monday) Additional Day approved by cabinet.

5 May (Tuesday) Coronation Day

Source: Public Holidays 2015

All government offices will be closed both days,

They are also both bank holidays which means the main offices will be closed and incoming international transfers will not be processed.

[ubonjoe]

A off topic post has been removed. Topic is about immigration being closed not bars. Please post on the general forum or the pub.

[bikerbri]

Another 5 day holiday!!

[nzexpat]

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Another 5 day holiday!!

What a silly comment !

Check out the huge list of Public Holidays available in the USA !

http://publicholidays.us/

Stop begrudging the Thais a couple of days leave.

Edited April 22, 2015 by nzexpat

[OJAS]

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Another 5 day holiday!!

What a silly comment !

Check out the huge list of Public Holidays available in the USA !

http://publicholidays.us/

Stop begrudging the Thais a couple of days leave.

Not to mention the huge number of bank (= public) holidays in the UK, particularly during the merry months of April & May this year!

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

Sort of back on topic, will immigration offices also be closed the following week on Wed 13 May for Royal Ploughing Day, which is also a "red-letter" day in my Thai calendar?

[lopburi3]

Actually there are none - holidays in the US are a state matter and vary greatly - there are only 10 yearly observed Federal holidays that are also observed by all the states. In Thailand the number is 16.

There are no national holidays on which all businesses are closed by law. Federal holidays are only established for certain federally chartered and regulated businesses (such as federal banks), and for Washington, D.C.

What can be argued is that most Thai do not work a 5 (or less) day week so having more holidays helps to make up for that to some extent (for those that actually get them - many do not).

[55Jay]

USA? What the...... ?

[ubonjoe]

Another 5 day holiday!!

How do you get 5 days. It is only 4. May 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.

[Mario2008]

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Another 5 day holiday!!

What a silly comment !

Check out the huge list of Public Holidays available in the USA !

http://publicholidays.us/

Stop begrudging the Thais a couple of days leave.

Not to mention the huge number of bank (= public) holidays in the UK, particularly during the merry months of April & May this year!

https://www.gov.uk/bank-holidays

Sort of back on topic, will immigration offices also be closed the following week on Wed 13 May for Royal Ploughing Day, which is also a "red-letter" day in my Thai calendar?

Royal Ploughing day is normally not an official holiday, with maybe the exception for Bangkok. I believe the government sometimes closes government institutions on that day to relieve the traffic in BKK. So you might want to check BKK-immigration, but elsewhere it should be business as usual.

[ubonjoe]

Royal Ploughing day is normally not an official holiday, with maybe the exception for Bangkok. I believe the government sometimes closes government institutions on that day to relieve the traffic in BKK. So you might want to check BKK-immigration, but elsewhere it should be business as usual.

If I recall correctly all government offices close on Plowing day.

All the immigration offices were closed last year.

[Mario2008]

indeed marked as a holiday.

Strange as I remember seeing the ceremony on TV at school a year or two at school, which means it wasn't holiday.

[Tywais]

indeed marked as a holiday.

Strange as I remember seeing the ceremony on TV at school a year or two at school, which means it wasn't holiday.

I have found it confusing also. Immigration is closed but it is not a bank holiday and I don't remember the university closing for it.

[KhunBENQ]

Another 5 day holiday!!

How do you get 5 days. It is only 4. May 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th.

Isn't Fri May 1st a public holiday? (at least a closing day for gov. offices?)

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Cabinet-approves-May-4-extra-holiday-making-five-d-30252747.html

Edited April 27, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[Mario2008]

No official holiday in Thailand on the first.

[KhunBENQ]

I doubt that.

The Thai calendars (Bangkok Bank and two "others") clearly mark May 1st as a holiday,

And the news from The Nation is more than clear:

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/breakingnews/Cabinet-approves-May-4-extra-holiday-making-five-d-30252747.html

January 27, 2015 2:35 pm

The Cabinet Tuesday approved May 4 as an extra holiday, making a five-day weekend from Friday May 1 to Tuesday May 5, Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said. The first of May is the National Labour Day while the fifth of May is the Coronation Day.

Thailand Post, no delivery from May 1st to May 5th.

http://thainews.prd.go.th/CenterWeb/NewsEN/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNSEV5804250010001

R.B. with an original long weekend May 1 to 3 depicted.

In the text then corrected to long weekend May 1 to 5.

http://www.richardbarrow.com/2014/07/eight-long-weekends-in-thailand-during-2015/

During 2015, there are now nine long weekends in Thailand. These are as follows:

• ...
• May Day & Coronation Day Holidays: Friday 1st May to Tuesday 5th May 2015

Edited April 27, 2015 by KhunBENQ

[lopburi3]

May 1 is a public holiday but believe it is still not a government holiday (as always tainted with Communist stain). But not sure as it may have changed in status.

[nzexpat]

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I doubt that.

The Thai calendars (Bangkok Bank and two "others") clearly mark May 1st as a holiday,

And the news from The Nation is more than clear:

January 27, 2015 2:35 pm

The Cabinet Tuesday approved May 4 as an extra holiday, making a five-day weekend from Friday May 1 to Tuesday May 5, Tourism and Sports Minister Kobkarn Wattanavrangkul said. The first of May is the National Labour Day while the fifth of May is the Coronation Day.

Thailand Post, no delivery from May 1st to May 5th.

http://thainews.prd.go.th/CenterWeb/NewsEN/NewsDetail?NT01_NewsID=WNSEV5804250010001

R.B. with an original long weekend May 1 to 3 depicted.

In the text then corrected to long weekend May 1 to 5.

http://www.richardbarrow.com/2014/07/eight-long-weekends-in-thailand-during-2015/

During 2015, there are now nine long weekends in Thailand. These are as follows:

• ...
• May Day & Coronation Day Holidays: Friday 1st May to Tuesday 5th May 2015

So What ?

[KhunBENQ]

So what? What?

Closed on May 1st.

Or not clear?

[Time Traveller]

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Another 5 day holiday!!

What a silly comment !

Check out the huge list of Public Holidays available in the USA !

http://publicholidays.us/

Stop begrudging the Thais a couple of days leave.

What are you talking about?

The United States has like 6 days federal public holidays a year (when I worked there). Even employers are not obligated by any law requiring them to give their staff the day off or pay them if they do not work.

Contrast with Thailand's official holidays + the "approved additional" holidays which number around 16 days a year, there is no question why worker productivity and GDP per capita is 10 times higher in the United States compared with Thailand. And probably always will be.

[nzexpat]

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So what? What?

Closed on May 1st.

Or not clear?

The massive importance of your question has what bearing on who ?

[slipperylobster]

Who cares about immigration having a holiday...when you can just do your reporting at 7 Eleven?

ThaiVisa declared that service open on 1 April...

However, I am still getting the shrug by the cashier.

Edited April 27, 2015 by slipperylobster

[Tywais]

May 1 is a public holiday but believe it is still not a government holiday (as always tainted with Communist stain). But not sure as it may have changed in status.

It is not a government holiday as immigration is open and government schools are open (my school has never closed for labor day in the many years working there). It is a banking holiday and private companies/businesses may let their employees off as it is labor day. So for laborers, yes it is a long 5 day holiday. Believe there is some confusion in the articles themselves.

BOT Banking Holidays

Although the annual, May 1st, National Labour Day non-working public holiday of Thailand is not observed by the Government sector of Thailand, the aforementioned declaration of Monday, May 4, 2015, as an additional, one-off non-working public holiday in Thailand, does apply to the Thai government sector, and will be in addition to the official list and dates of the bank holidays and non-working public holidays in Thailand, for the calendar year 2015, which were announced this past summer (13-Jul-2014).

Thailand News Update

[pontious]

Thats all clear then.

[OJAS]

On a different tack, does anyone know for sure whether or not the British Embassy will be open next Monday and Tuesday? The 4th and 5th of May are not included in the list of 2015 dates on the GOV.UK website when they will be closed, which I find surprising:

https://www.gov.uk/government/world/organisations/british-embassy-bangkok/office/british-embassy-bangkok#public-holidays

I'll be mailing them an application for my latest income confirmation letter this week, and would like to know whether or not I can include next Monday and Tuesday in calculating the Embassy's 10-working-day processing period.

Edited April 28, 2015 by OJAS

[CMBob]

There's a full slate of appointments on the online queue for Chiangmai Immigration for May 4th so I would expect them to be open. Last year in January I unknowingly got an appointment for May 1st (not realizing it was Labor Day) but happily found the Chiangmai office open and doing business as usual.

If CM Immigration isn't open Monday, there'll be some teed-off people who in January stayed up after midnight to snag one of those May 4th appointments.

[OJAS]

There's a full slate of appointments on the online queue for Chiangmai Immigration for May 4th so I would expect them to be open. Last year in January I unknowingly got an appointment for May 1st (not realizing it was Labor Day) but happily found the Chiangmai office open and doing business as usual.

If CM Immigration isn't open Monday, there'll be some teed-off people who in January stayed up after midnight to snag one of those May 4th appointments.

The 4th May was only very recently designated by the Cabinet as a "fill-in" public holiday between the weekend and Coronation Day (Tuesday the 5th) - long after it was possible to make online bookings at Chiang Mai Immigration for that day, presumably. So I fear that your only option might be to have to go there bright and early on Wednesday the 6th.

Edited April 28, 2015 by OJAS

[Old Croc]

Great.

I have to get my extension next week, and register the address, and fix up a stuff up with my last 90 day report (only given 46 days!).

With Immigration closed for the first two days, Wednesday will be a sh..t fight, leaving two days to get things sorted.

[ubonjoe]

Great.

I have to get my extension next week, and register the address, and fix up a stuff up with my last 90 day report (only given 46 days!).

With Immigration closed for the first two days, Wednesday will be a sh..t fight, leaving two days to get things sorted.

I would guess immigration made the report date the same as the date your extension ends There are many offices doing it that way if you next report would be after you extension ends.

Mine did it last year so I just did my application and report 2 weeks early on the same day.

[Tywais]

There's a full slate of appointments on the online queue for Chiangmai Immigration for May 4th so I would expect them to be open. Last year in January I unknowingly got an appointment for May 1st (not realizing it was Labor Day) but happily found the Chiangmai office open and doing business as usual.

If CM Immigration isn't open Monday, there'll be some teed-off people who in January stayed up after midnight to snag one of those May 4th appointments.

This was just posted in another topic so CM immigration will be closed on the 4th, Monday, also. And there will be some unhappy campers who have queues for that day.

[Guest]

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Another 5 day holiday!!

What a silly comment !

Check out the huge list of Public Holidays available in the USA !

http://publicholidays.us/

Stop begrudging the Thais a couple of days leave.

What are you talking about?

The United States has like 6 days federal public holidays a year (when I worked there). Even employers are not obligated by any law requiring them to give their staff the day off or pay them if they do not work.

Contrast with Thailand's official holidays + the "approved additional" holidays which number around 16 days a year, there is no question why worker productivity and GDP per capita is 10 times higher in the United States compared with Thailand. And probably always will be.

It is official ...

There is nothing .. Nothing so small, so trivial that the Thai Visa Old Ladies with Cramps can not have a cat fight over.

Is the need to find something wrong with every GD thing in Thailand so deep, that you are actually complaining about a holiday ... in a country you are not a citizen of, and probably not working in? How, pray tell, is this a problem for you?

Please God, spare me from ever having to run into this chap over coffee or a drink.... oh wait .. no chance of that ... i will be able to hear the whining a kilometer away!

Really.

Thailand is on holiday. THE SKY IS FALLING !!! OMG! A HOLIDAY !!! ALL IS LOST !!!!