immigration office closure

[SteveMack]

Please can someone tell me when the Udon Thani Immigration office closes at Xmas and New year, as I will have to get a 30 day extension in the first week of January , Thanks,

Edited August 12, 2017 by SteveMack
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[ubonjoe]

Open on Christmas day. Closed for New Years on January 1st.

[SteveMack]

1 minute ago, ubonjoe said:

Open on Christmas day. Closed for New Years on January 1st.

thanks Joe, is it only closed for 1 day?

 

[brewsterbudgen]

Christmas Day is a great day to go to Immigration.

The staff put out minced pies and mulled wine. [emoji1]

[ubonjoe]

8 minutes ago, SteveMack said:

thanks Joe, is it only closed for 1 day?

 

Just one day for the New Year.

[BritTim]

3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

3 hours ago, SteveMack said:

thanks Joe, is it only closed for 1 day?

 

Just one day for the New Year.

I am going to take a big risk here and suggest the invariably correct @ubonjoe might possibly be mistaken in this case. According to my notoriously unreliable memory, usually both December 31 and January 1 are public holidays. Since December 31 falls on a Sunday this year, I think immigration will be closed January 2. This source suggests my impressions might possibly be correct: https://publicholidays.asia/thailand/2018-dates/

[ubonjoe]

9 hours ago, BritTim said:

I am going to take a big risk here and suggest the invariably correct @ubonjoe might possibly be mistaken in this case. According to my notoriously unreliable memory, usually both December 31 and January 1 are public holidays. Since December 31 falls on a Sunday this year, I think immigration will be closed January 2. This source suggests my impressions might possibly be correct: https://publicholidays.asia/thailand/2018-dates/

I was thinking the same thing until I checked this year and previous years. This year the 1st was on a Sunday so Monday the 2nd was a holiday but not the 3rd.

[BritTim]

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

11 hours ago, BritTim said:

I am going to take a big risk here and suggest the invariably correct @ubonjoe might possibly be mistaken in this case. According to my notoriously unreliable memory, usually both December 31 and January 1 are public holidays. Since December 31 falls on a Sunday this year, I think immigration will be closed January 2. This source suggests my impressions might possibly be correct: https://publicholidays.asia/thailand/2018-dates/

I was thinking the same thing until I checked this year and previous years. This year the 1st was on a Sunday so Monday the 2nd was a holiday but not the 3rd.

It never ceases to amaze me how difficult it can sometimes be to find the answer to simple questions in Thailand. I cannot find a good reference for what immigration offices did January 3 this year, but the Royal Thai Embassy Vientiane did observe it as a (Thai) holiday: http://vientiane.thaiembassy.org/en/embassy/calendar.php. The Royal Thai Consulate in Penang did the same (http://www.thaiembassy.org/penang/contents/files/news-20170616-084149-075885.pdf). Calendars I consulted do not seem to agree on whether the 3rd should have been treated as a holiday.