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[auserb]

Lite Beer, on 2009-02-13 09:32:36, said:

auserb, on 2009-02-13 05:02:18, said:

I will be comeing to Thailand on 26 of February and will be staying 29 days in Thailand, most of the time I will be staying in Srisaket Province and 1. week in Pataya.

My question is :, will I be issued a month visa on the airport, and do I need to fill in some papers or report to any of Immigration offices in Thailand while staying or traveling. thanks for an answer

You will be issued with a 30 stamp and will not have to visit an Immigration Office,

Great, thak you kindly

[Lite Beer]

auserb, on 2009-02-13 05:40:24, said:

Lite Beer, on 2009-02-13 09:32:36, said:

auserb, on 2009-02-13 05:02:18, said:

I will be comeing to Thailand on 26 of February and will be staying 29 days in Thailand, most of the time I will be staying in Srisaket Province and 1. week in Pataya.

My question is :, will I be issued a month visa on the airport, and do I need to fill in some papers or report to any of Immigration offices in Thailand while staying or traveling. thanks for an answer

You will be issued with a 30 stamp and will not have to visit an Immigration Office,

Great, thak you kindly

Bear in mind that day one is the day you arrive so you should just sneak in with enough days.

[auserb]

Lite Beer, on 2009-02-13 09:42:24, said:

Bear in mind that day one is the day you arrive so you should just sneak in with enough days.

sure, thanks I will be arriving on the 26 February and returning on the 24 of March . it is only 27 days
Thanks for warning..

[rodcourt49]

venturalaw, on 2009-02-12 14:37:53, said:

In the north it lists Chiang Mai and Chiang Mai Airport. I was aware of only one immigration office in Chiang Mai - that being next to the airport. Is there another one?

[lioness]

Fore Man, on 2009-02-12 22:07:50, said:

SteveB2, on 2009-02-12 22:00:24, said:

Following many problems during the last year or so with getting visa extensions processed at Jomtien Immigration, many long time xpat friends have been using the Bangkok immigration HQ to process their visa application and extension paperwork. Reports about BKK immigration admin have been very good, with processing and documentation requests exactly 'as published' and everything straight forward.

Tell me that what we are seeing here is simply the equivalent of a drug dealing 'turf war' - where an immigration office in a region where officials buy their jobs and routinely extract lucrative bribes to process applicants paperwork are trying to ensure that all punters 'on their turf' have to deal with them alone, and can't escape to the sanity of an alternative immigration center

I have been through 4 annual extensions for retirement reaons and have never paid a bribe. I think you are overstating things when you use the term 'routinely'...unless it applies to a single office somewhere in this Kingdom...but I doubt that it applies across the board.

I have never paid a bribe or in fact been asked, however at the local immigration office there is a gap under the counter and I have seen quite large amounts  of money passed under it, I guess it was built for the job.

[SiriusBlack1]

Does this affect tourists? I mean, if you're in the country on a tourist visa, presumably you don't "live" anywhere in the Kingdom at all. So surely you should be able to give the name of a hotel near the immigration office and use any office you please?

[hamishgillan]

So if you don't own a house then this doesn't matter does it, as you aren't really from awywhere but your foreign country......(?) ^^,Right.

[hamishgillan]

No offence, but it's a pretty useless pdf file isn't it, I mean it doesn't give the locations(addresses) of each relevant office. (Does it?)

[connel707]

Maverell, on 2009-02-12 21:38:33, said:

Anybody know the what the rationale is behind these changes ? 5555555555555555555 Stupid question I know !

Quite simply, Its all about the money..!!!!!

[DavidHouston]

george, on 2009-02-12 21:40:17, said:

Maverell, on 2009-02-12 21:38:33, said:

Anybody know the what the rationale is behind these changes ?

Jurisdiction of each Immigration office is one reason.

I suspect that the reason is that Immigration is still a paper-intensive function.  There apparently is still no centralized database that Immigration maintains for foreigners coming in and out of the country.  All records are maintained on paper at the single location where the foreigner obtained his or her visas and extensions or provided notifications.  Therefore any further contacts with Immigration which require reference to the original documents, need to be done at the location where the documents are kept.

That seems like a rational explanation.

[noahvail]

icequeen, on 2009-02-12 21:47:21, said:

But as I only live 10 minutes away from the Sriracha office and 30 minutes away from the Pattaya office this doesn't make sense to me.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Don't feel bad.  I'm in Issan, and it was about an hour and a quarter to Khon Kaen.  Now it's going to be 3 hours to Chiang Kan - each way.  And that doesn't include the flight to Bangkok to get the letter about my income.  And my extension date is 4 January, when it's still really busy.  Oh, joy oh, joy.

[ubonjoe]

SiriusBlack1, on 2009-02-13 07:12:05, said:

Does this affect tourists? I mean, if you're in the country on a tourist visa, presumably you don't "live" anywhere in the Kingdom at all. So surely you should be able to give the name of a hotel near the immigration office and use any office you please?

It does not affect tourists. Those on visa exempt entries, VOA's, non immigrant visas. tourist visas and etc. will not be tied to an office. They can go to the nearest office to where they are at when they need to do business with immigration.
It's  primarily for those who are on long term extensions of stay.

[john b good]

What I cannot understand (perhaps I do understand) but it seems that the people who ring in all of these changes do not really want any foreigners in the country.

They want our money (what percentage of Thai families are totally funded by foreigners money?) but they keep changing the rules, moving the goal posts etc.

If the Thai immigration had a comprensive computerised system it wouldn't matter where you went to fulfill all the requirements "unless the main purpose of the exercise is to cause as much inconvenience to as many people as is humanly possible"

Edited by john b good, 2009-02-13 07:54:31.

[pnustedt]

I was told a few weeks ago by my local immigration that this was coming in because there were a number of anomalies and illegal activity involving foreigners. They were working more closely with local police and a number of foreigners were under investigation. They are building up a local database of the whereabouts of all foreigners in their area - if you go to a local office for the first time you may be asked for a map, etc. of your place of residence.

There was also a lot of movement with immigration officers being transferred from one office to another.

[ignis]

English guy in the next Village [78 yrs old] he has always been to Pattaya for his Extensions. [he is not the only one as I know of 2 other that live 40 and 55 km north of BKK that go to Pattaya]

We live near Sai Noi which is 50km north west of BKK, will he have to change and now go to BKK ?

I just renewed my extension in BKK [always been to BKK every yr] the Immigration Officer goes to the back and get my file, so what happens to someone that has been for year to the same Immigration? all his paperwork will be at that office..

Will all the paperwork from people that have always gone to a out of area office have there paperwork sent to the correct office on 15th Feb ??

Many people I know both married and single are on 'Retirement' extensions many like me have a 800k 'Fixed Term Bank Deposit' which is used only for the yearly extension......... re money must show came from outside of Thailand, in my case xx million did so in 2003, the officer always looks over the past years so can see this money arrived from outside of Thailand..

So if you start going from 15th to a NEW Immigration Office where is the paperwork trail

[ubonjoe]

icequeen, on 2009-02-12 21:47:21, said:

I'm not sure if anyone will be able to answer this question but after reading the list of immigration areas I checked my address on the proof of income letter I got two weeks ago from the British Consulate in Pattaya, the last part of my address reads Amphur Sriracha, Nongprue, Banglamung, Chon Buri.
The way I am reading the list of immigration areas this means that I can continue to use the Pattaya immigration office as I have done previously. I would be very happy if this is the case as I have always found them much easier to deal with than Sriracha. But as I only live 10 minutes away from the Sriracha office and 30 minutes away from the Pattaya office this doesn't make sense to me.
Does anyone have any ideas?

Your address doesn't make any sense either. It contains 2 Amphurs and one subdistrict. It shouldn't have
Nongprue, Banglamung in it.
I think if Pattaya enforces the new rules they will send you to Sriiacha.

[pnustedt]

ignis, on 2009-02-13 09:00:01, said:

So if you start going from 15th to a NEW Immigration Office where is the paperwork trail

A friend of mine who always used the Immigration office in Phibun Maghasan was told by post that his file had been moved to Phu Sing Immigration and he was told that he should use that office in future.

[ubonjoe]

hamishgillan, on 2009-02-13 07:29:53, said:

No offence, but it's a pretty useless pdf file isn't it, I mean it doesn't give the locations(addresses) of each relevant office. (Does it?)

I agree. Immigration has done a poor job of listing addresses and there are offices that do not show up on their website as checkpoints.
If you go to this webpage it lists the central checkpoints. If you move the mouse pointer over Checkpoints it shows different areas of the country then click on the one where you live.
http://www.immigrati...hp?page=central
Also the checkpoint names are links to checkpoint websites if they have one. You will get a blank page if they don't. For example: Aranyaprathet Checkpoint

Also this link gives a list of offices with phone numbers. http://www.immigrati....php?page=phone

[cyborgx]

Anyone know where the Klong Toey office is?

[Seneque]

connel707, on 2009-02-13 07:33:18, said:

Maverell, on 2009-02-12 21:38:33, said:

Anybody know the what the rationale is behind these changes ? 5555555555555555555 Stupid question I know !

Quite simply, Its all about the money..!!!!!

Yes but probably not what you think as in over 20 years i never had to pay the so-called tea-money (perhaps having all the documents in order helps). The extension is 1900bt,  they probably want to make sure to collect this from their 'local' foreigners preventing them going to another office.

[ubonjoe]

cyborgx, on 2009-02-13 08:20:42, said:

Anyone know where the Klong Toey office is?

From their website which is entirely in Thai.

ด่านตรวจคนเข้าเมืองท่าเรือกรุงเทพ : ถนนสุนทรโกษา แขวงคลองเตย เขตคลองเตย กรุงเทพมหานคร 10110 :

โทรศัพท์ 0-2249-0806-7 ,0-2249-4122 : โทรสาร 0-2249-0807

Edit: For translation and map see this post: http://www.thaivisa....=...t&p=2507773

[Mario2008]

Flyfisherman, on 2009-02-13 02:22:54, said:

Lite Beer, on 2009-02-12 22:11:21, said:

block2, on 2009-02-12 21:52:50, said:

The link is not working for me, can anyone tell me where I will have to go, i'm in Nakhon Sawan

Fanxs in advance.

Regards
Block

Tak

Tak>>>Mae sot???

Yes, your office is called Tak-immigration but located in Thasalud, just outside Mae Sod on the border with Burma.

[BigSnake]

Maybe easy the workload on some increase for other. Will it really be enforce?? I think it will be great for my area.   

[asia_pilot]

Just a little question. Is there still an immigration office at Don Muaeng Airport ?

[ubonjoe]

pnustedt, on 2009-02-13 08:10:16, said:

ignis, on 2009-02-13 09:00:01, said:

So if you start going from 15th to a NEW Immigration Office where is the paperwork trail

A friend of mine who always used the Immigration office in Phibun Maghasan was told by post that his file had been moved to Phu Sing Immigration and he was told that he should use that office in future.

That's because Phibun is doing a good job. I recently got a letter from them telling me about the changes made to the police order for my marriage extension. I wonder how many other offices sent out letters like that?