Interesting. It reads like Phuket has managed to speed up the process from over a few years ago, compared when I had to do such in the 2020-to-2023 timeframe. Typically I would show up at Phuket Immigration at around 10:00am (after having first visited may local bank to get all the bank paperwork) and i would be sitting there at immigration until after 6pm. I was always impressed that even thou immigration doors closed, the staff work quite late, even after 6pm. ... I was always asked for my TM30 by the Phuket immigration volunteers who screen one's paper work. The IOs (from what I recall) would glance at the TM30, and then discard it. Anyway, the one full day at Phuket immigration every year (and back then my timing as bad as it was always crowded like a zoo - and the seating was a hard thin bench outside) was one of the factors that motivated me to go for an LTR visa (which required me to restructure my finances a bit). Thanks for the report thou. Most of the expats I know in Phuket are on Type-Os (for either marriage or retirement) so its good to read the process is less painful now. .
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