New visa offices

[fredob43]

Had to do my Retirement visa today at Nakhon Sawan. All as usual was very good top notch.

Right now about the new Visa offices.

The main lady told me that in a few months every district will have it's own office K.P.Phet has already got their one just waiting for the comps: to be installed. If anyone wants to know it's by the banana market on the 1 highway.

Petchabun will also be getting there own one. So you wont have to go to Phitsanulok.

Sukhothai Will also have it's own one.

Please don't ask when they will be open or where they are in your town, but have been reliably informed it'll be sooner than later. Up to you to make inquires.

Oh had to fill out the new forms.

Don't know what all the fuss is about. All they want is your Email Address, peeps to contact in Thailand and wherever you come from EG USA. That's just if you have a problem. Yes they do ask what bars places you frequent I just put down Big C and Tesco. For bars I just put tea total.

You only have to do it once for Buddha sake. I did it whilst they sorted my visa.

In and out in 40 minutes that's because I didn't have any forms so had to fill all out before they could start.

I shall miss the N/S office but I wont miss the journey the roads in and around N/S are still the pit's.

[Muhendis]

Yesterday was my 90 day report in Kap Choeng office and the lady there told us there would be an office in Buriram soon which would be brilliant for me.

[NoshowJones]

Your last sentence is spot on.

[fredob43]

Yesterday was my 90 day report in Kap Choeng office and the lady there told us there would be an office in Buriram soon which would be brilliant for me.

Looks like I'm on the right tract. The Lady did say everywhere will have it's own visa office. I just put in PET: SUK: & K.P.PHET because she mentioned those pacifically.

Joy of joys time for a beer.

[stoneyboy]

Long over due in Phetchabun

[Kwasaki]

Overdue in Sukhothai too the drive to Maesot twice a year wasn't always a good experience.

Not long back from Maesot they told me to go Sukhothai office 2017 and that is beginning May '17.

[PETERTHEEATER]

......The main lady told me that in a few months every district will have it's own office.......

By district do you mean Province or Amphoe?

[twizzian]

Yesterday was my 90 day report in Kap Choeng office and the lady there told us there would be an office in Buriram soon which would be brilliant for me.

Looks like I'm on the right tract. The Lady did say everywhere will have it's own visa office. I just put in PET: SUK: & K.P.PHET because she mentioned those pacifically.

Joy of joys time for a beer.

90 day report in N/S is always a breeze, in & out avg 2-3 mins.

[fredob43]

......The main lady told me that in a few months every district will have it's own office.......

By district do you mean Province or Amphoe?

Province I would have thought. She even knew where the new office for K.P.Phet district was going to be, and it's some 10km outside of K.P.Phet town.

I sorted it out on the way back from N/S yesterday.

As she said only a shell of an office at present awaiting all the comp: printers desks to be fitted.

Could be up and running in a matter of days/weeks but knowing how the Thais work could still be months. Whatever it's coming and will save me a 240km round trip.

Now where's my Mug of tea.

[Muhendis]

Yesterday was my 90 day report in Kap Choeng office and the lady there told us there would be an office in Buriram soon which would be brilliant for me.

Looks like I'm on the right tract. The Lady did say everywhere will have it's own visa office. I just put in PET: SUK: & K.P.PHET because she mentioned those pacifically.

Joy of joys time for a beer.

90 day report in N/S is always a breeze, in & out avg 2-3 mins.

That's great to have such an efficient immigration staff however this is not a discussion about staff speed but about the location of the office relative to where we each live. As has been remarked the return trip for many of us can be as much as 3 - 4 hours. Relocation of the offices to only 10 - 20 mins each way is splendid news.

[alboxblue]

Yesterday was my 90 day report in Kap Choeng office and the lady there told us there would be an office in Buriram soon which would be brilliant for me.

Looks like I'm on the right tract. The Lady did say everywhere will have it's own visa office. I just put in PET: SUK: & K.P.PHET because she mentioned those pacifically.

Joy of joys time for a beer.

Will the office in Nakhon Sawan still remain open? I live 80kms south of N/S, so i certainly do not want to have to travel any further north to do my reporting. So it appears, that although some will benefit, others will lose out?

[Kwasaki]

Good map here of Provinces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_Thailand.

Maybe ones that haven't will get one, dunno but you can see the trip from mid of Sukhothai to Maesot Tak was a good hike.

Edited July 11, 2016 by Kwasaki

[fredob43]

Yesterday was my 90 day report in Kap Choeng office and the lady there told us there would be an office in Buriram soon which would be brilliant for me.

Looks like I'm on the right tract. The Lady did say everywhere will have it's own visa office. I just put in PET: SUK: & K.P.PHET because she mentioned those pacifically.

Joy of joys time for a beer.

Will the office in Nakhon Sawan still remain open? I live 80kms south of N/S, so i certainly do not want to have to travel any further north to do my reporting. So it appears, that although some will benefit, others will lose out?

If N/S was the office that is nearest to you, and in the same Province you should be fine to carry on using it. The new ones are for peeps that live out of Province, Like myself who lives in K.P.Phet it'll save me a trip of over 200km.

[Kwasaki]

Just had note back with 90 day notification slip from Maesot.

 

Sukhothai Immigration office they reckon has been open since 11th May '16 wish l had know that before going to Maesot on 12th May '16.  

 

Anyway Telephone No. 055 010229   if it helps anyone.

[MrMuddle]

This is good news, it will save me an all day trip to Phitsanulok, every year !

[KhunBENQ]

More and more news about new immigration offices coming in.

One per province will of course result in some pretty small offices.

 

In a German language forum a member wrote about his 90 day report done at a new(?) office in Prachin Buri.

[KhunBENQ]

The thread would get much attention in the visa subforum.

[Kwasaki]

18 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

This is good news, it will save me an all day trip to Phitsanulok, every year !

Not too sure but if your Province comes under Phitsanulok for your extensions it will stay that way.

 

Sukhothai Province did not have a immigration office it came under Tak immigration in Maesot which was 2 hours away and quite a bit of a drive.

 

Phitsanulok immigration office is only 40 mins drive but l couldn't use it.  

 

[Kan Win]

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New visa offices

There is no such office in Thailand

 

Win

[MrMuddle]

Never had you down as being pedantic,  Kan Win ! 

[Kan Win]

Yes, OK on this point only as in the main thread of Visas etc.. at the top of this whole forum, they keep on correcting folks, so I just did in case someone really believes that New visa offices exist, which off course they do not.

 

Ta for your input MrMuddle.

 

Win

 

 

[fredob43]

I must apologise for putting Visa offices it's just that I cant spell immigration.

 

The one in K.P.Phet is still not open, today according to them it'll still be another 3 months.

What the 4 peeps that work there are doing Buddha only know. They do have comp's: but alas no internet.

[Kwasaki]

12 hours ago, fredob43 said:

I must apologise for putting Visa offices it's just that I cant spell immigration.

 

The one in K.P.Phet is still not open, today according to them it'll still be another 3 months.

What the 4 peeps that work there are doing Buddha only know. They do have comp's: but alas no internet.

 

 Go and stand in a corner and no beer for 1 hour.  

 

 

[fredob43]

4 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

 

 Go and stand in a corner and no beer for 1 hour.  

 

 

I'm one of the peeps that don't drink well almost. 2 pints a week is about my limit.

Now if you had said no Tea that would have been a real disaster have about 10 mugs a day.

[tutsiwarrior]

'My friend was advised that the rules had changed in the last three weeks. He is Swedish and his English is not very good, hence my posting. The problem may have arisen with the drop in exchange rate of the Euro and immigration wanting to see more of a reserve in case of a future drop in exchange rate. He did manage to get a bank statement in his and his wife''s name showing 50,000 baht and took that to the new immigration office in Suphanburi. It appears to be open, but not yet fully functional. They phoned Bangkok to verify they had sighted the bank statement (and may have copied it to mail to Bangkok). Presumably all is well now. It appears at least in this case they allowed a combination of money in the bank and the income statement. Immigration official told him that when they investigated marriage visas they found a large number of cheats (something like 1 in 3), so they are expanding requirements to catch these. Ayuthaya immigration requirements include photos of both partners in the house with tv on, food on the table and in front of the house,  photo in the bedroom (you can keep your pants on), translation of the passport to Thai, and the house inspection at short notice .'  

 

 

the above is from a thread in the visas and immigration forum recently and is big news to me...

 

anyone got a link to a website that has all the contact details for this new immigration office in Suphanburi? Anybody been there yet on immigration business? anything to report, positive or negative?

 

thanx

 

[MrMuddle]

On 10/8/2559 at 3:48 PM, fredob43 said:

I'm one of the peeps that don't drink well almost. 2 pints a week is about my limit.

Now if you had said no Tea that would have been a real disaster have about 10 mugs a day.

Me too, the last pint of beer I bought cost me two shillings and three pence. In the bar at the Red Rose, in Middlesbrough !
I don't drink  tea either, only water.

[Kwasaki]

21 hours ago, MrMuddle said:

Me too, the last pint of beer I bought cost me two shillings and three pence. In the bar at the Red Rose, in Middlesbrough !
I don't drink  tea either, only water.

 

OK so now your a Monk. 

Edited August 14, 2016 by Kwasaki

[fredob43]

9 hours ago, Kwasaki said:

 

OK so now your a Monk. 

I would like all to know that I'm not a monk. I just don't like Thai beer. Now if I could get my hands on a good pint of bitter that would be a different thing.

[Kwasaki]

On 8/15/2016 at 0:06 AM, fredob43 said:

I would like all to know that I'm not a monk. I just don't like Thai beer. Now if I could get my hands on a good pint of bitter that would be a different thing.

 

It was an attempted humorous comment to MrMuddle. 

Red Lion CM has bitter beers. 

[fredob43]

37 minutes ago, Kwasaki said:

 

It was an attempted humorous comment to MrMuddle. 

Red Lion CM has bitter beers. 

Gathered that K K . Yes I know I can get bitter in BKK C.M but both are 4 hours from me. We do have a bar that sells bottles of Bitter in K.P.P but they want 210bt for 3/4 of a pint and as of yet I haven't won the lotto. Our local German bar sells some 15 different German beers but they are still the larger type.

 

I did go to M/Sot the other week to get some Guinness (in cans) at the duty free, but they were out of stock. So spent an hour or two wandering round the Casino watching the Thais lose their cash very entertaining.