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beach, on 2012-03-11 13:23:02, said:
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This is a hilarious explanation for why they might want to see the marriage cert or the actual wife but entirely credible. There must be committees of Immigration Police generals who do nothing all day but dream up new regulations that serve no purpose whatsoever but make Thailand seem as xenophobic as possible.
I like the word xenophobic,, went to Immigration in BKK 4 years ago to get another Re-Entry Permit in my residence book. Was told, "Sir, your previous Re-Entry Permit" hasn't been used and you need to cancel it first!" I replied: "But it's expired since 4 months and the year before I was not able to travel due to our projects here, so I couldn't use it, but anyway it's expired. Normally it takes 3 days of procedure to cancel an unused and expired Re-Entry Permit. With my flight to leave Thailand the next day she kindly sped up the procedure down to 3 hours with consulting her seniors which was a nice and thankful experience. Even it's completely incomprehensible to have a payed but unused Re-Entry Permit cancelled I deeply appreciated her effort to get me a new one the same day.
I don't understand what a "residence book" has to do with a re-entry permit.
I'm on my fourth year of an extension of permission to stay due to retirement for an O visa. Every year I buy a single re-entry permit when I do my extension. Never know when you might be called out of the country suddenly and not have time to get a re-entry permit. I've never used any of those single-entry permits and the officers at Chiang Mai immigration have never said I have to cancel them. They simply expire when the permission to stay expires and I always buy a new one at the same time I get a new permission to stay.
In fact, normally the officer sees the unused re-entry permit in my passport when processing the extension and reminds me it's now expired and I need to get a new one.
