I'll be going to Immigration sometime this week to get the appropriate information transferred from my old passport to my new UK passport. What supporting docs do I need to provide? Is it simply a copy of my old passport, the ID page of my new passport and the letter from the UK Embassy confirming I have a new passport / asking Immigration to do the transfer?

Any advice appreciated

What do you have that you want transferred? Unless on an extension of stay there is no need to do any transfer. If you have a visa entry you can just leave the country.

If you have an extension you will need this form completed. http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/download/pdf/transferstamp.pdf

Copies of every page of your old passport that have anything for Thailand on them. Copy of new passport photo page. Letter from the embassy.

 

 

Basically as you have stated plus a copy of the latest departure slip in your old passport and a completed Transfer Stamp To A New Passport form downloadable from the Immigration Bureau website at http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/en/base.php?page=download

 

But do make sure that you submit A4 copies of old and new passport page pairs and aforementioned departure slip. I got told off by my local office for providing them with A5 copies and they made me redo them on A4 sheets!

ooes the U/K/ still give a transfer letter?

I heard they were stopping that.

Anyhow I did the process on my U.S. passport and current visa in June 2016.

The girls at CW downstairs at the copy shop know eaxctly what to copy.

That's how they make their living so they have done it many times.

2 Baht for esch copy and 100 Baht for 4 photos (if you need them).

You will need 1 photo anyhow to paste on the applicarion form.

Everything done in less than 5 minutes at the  copy shop.

Then upstairs to get a queue number, and wait to be called.

They do not transfer visa stamps, they write a note in your new passport in Thai with a stamp that references your old visa stamp in your old passport.

Takes about 15 minutes after you are called as they enter your new passport number and date of issue into their computer database, while  you wait until they return your passport.

At least that was what was done for me.

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Edited October 16, 20169 yr by IMA_FARANG
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5 minutes ago, IMA_FARANG said:

ooes the U/K/ still give a transfer letter?

I heard they were stopping that.

Anyhow I did the process on my U.S. passport and current visa in June 2016.

The girls at CW downstairs at the copy shop know eaxctly what to copy.

That's how they make their living so they have done it many times.

2 Baht for esch copy and 100 Baht for 4 photos (if you need them).

You will need 1 photo anyhow to paste on the applicarion form.

Everything done in less than 5 minutes at the  copy shop.

Then upstairs to get a queue number, and wait to be called.

They do not transfer visa stamps, they write a note in your new passport in Thai with a stamp that references your old visa stamp in your old passport.

Takes about 15 minutes after you are called as they enter your new passport number and date of issue into their computer database, while  you wait until they return your passport.

At least that was what was done for me.

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I just did mine this past week....no need for photos. No place on transfer form for photo.

My circumstances are a little different. I have a non-o marriage extension. I got a re-entry permit and on arriving back in LOS, the imm officer at the airport stamped an extension stamp in my passport similar to the one I had in the old one. He dated it and signed it. Do I still need to get stamps from old one transfered to the new one?

 

Many thanks.

1 minute ago, thequietman said:

My circumstances are a little different. I have a non-o marriage extension. I got a re-entry permit and on arriving back in LOS, the imm officer at the airport stamped an extension stamp in my passport similar to the one I had in the old one. He dated it and signed it. Do I still need to get stamps from old one transfered to the new one?

 

Many thanks.

You still need to get all the relevant stamps transferred at immigration.

All immigration at the airport did was an annotation of your extension and a new entry stamp.

 

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2 minutes ago, thequietman said:

I got a re-entry permit and on arriving back in LOS, the imm officer at the airport stamped an extension stamp in my passport similar to the one I had in the old one.

 

I very much doubt the IO stamped an "extension" in your passport. More likely the IO stamped an "arrival" stamp headed "NON-RE" and a permission to stay as indicated by the re-entry permit. 

 

You need your other stamps transferring to the new passport.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

What do you have that you want transferred? Unless on an extension of stay there is no need to do any transfer. If you have a visa entry you can just leave the country.

If you have an extension you will need this form completed. http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/download/pdf/transferstamp.pdf

Copies of every page of your old passport that have anything for Thailand on them. Copy of new passport photo page. Letter from the embassy.

 

 

I have a one year extension of my permission to stay and a multiple re-entry permit.

OK. I already downloaded the transfer form in your link but wasn't going to use it as it is addressed to INSPECTOR OF SUB-DIVISION 2, BANGKOK IMMIGRATION DIVISION . Since I will be going to the newly-opened Buriram Immigration, I think I'll wait and see if they have their own version of the form. I've read elsewhere that they are using different forms than the ones Surin Immigration use.

Thanks to everyone for all the advice given.

Edited October 16, 20169 yr by buckwhelk
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3 hours ago, IMA_FARANG said:

ooes the U/K/ still give a transfer letter?

I heard they were stopping that.

 

I gather that you are given this when you collect your new passport in person - although you have to enter particular relevant details yourself.

2 hours ago, buckwhelk said:

I have a one year extension of my permission to stay and a multiple re-entry permit.

OK. I already downloaded the transfer form in your link but wasn't going to use it as it is addressed to INSPECTOR OF SUB-DIVISION 2, BANGKOK IMMIGRATION DIVISION . Since I will be going to the newly-opened Buriram Immigration, I think I'll wait and see if they have their own version of the form. I've read elsewhere that they are using different forms than the ones Surin Immigration use.

Thanks to everyone for all the advice given.

 

Your immigration office might well accept this form despite it being addressed to an inspector in the Bangkok Immigration Division - Rayong Immigration certainly did in my case. If I were in your shoes I would still be inclined to complete the Immigration Bureau form, but, if I were asked to complete another form, so be it.

@OJAS Thanks for the good info