New Passport and visa transfer

[frodo77]

My local office is Jomtien. Next year I will be renewing my Canadian passport at the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok. Then I will have a passport with no stamps in it - no arrival stamp for example. Will there be a problem transferring my retirement extension visa to the new passport?

[oncearugge]

"Visas" are never transferred.

Extensions of stay based on retirement ect. are transferred. The service is free and routine.

[ubonjoe]

The will do a stamp with info about the visa you used to get the entry you have been extending along with your most recent extension stamp.

[WayneS]

I had a new passport with my non O in my old passport, I carried both with me and went in and out about 20 times from swampy and it was never questioned.

[ubonjoe]

I had a new passport with my non O in my old passport, I carried both with me and went in and out about 20 times from swampy and it was never questioned.

That is because you had a visa. Visas are not transferred which means you have use both passports until the visa expires.

Only extensions of stay are transferred.

[frodo77]

The will do a stamp with info about the visa you used to get the entry you have been extending along with your most recent extension stamp.

So no problems?

[ubonjoe]

No problem to get your extension stamps transferred.

[OJAS]

But please do make sure that the Canadian Embassy provide you with your new passport a letter basically confirming its validity and non-validity of the old one. Although Jomtien do not normally require such a letter as a prerequisite to effecting the necessary stamps transfer according to recent reports on here, you might, of course, have the misfortune to encounter a rogue officer who had got out of bed the wrong side that particular morning and insisted on this letter!