90-day report and extensions

Here in Sisaket they seem to have streamlined the 90 day report process by stapling a pre-printed slip (about the size of a bus ticket(if you can remember them)) and stamping the new date on it. I was in and out this week within 3 minutes!
 
Ivor the Engine said:
Here in Sisaket they seem to have streamlined the 90 day report process by stapling a pre-printed slip (about the size of a bus ticket(if you can remember them)) and stamping the new date on it. I was in and out this week within 3 minutes!
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I'm sure that's an excellent result for you and possibly many others who "live next door" to an Immigration Office.

However, others do not and have to get their arses into gear and spend around 1 hour and 10 litres of diesel (in my case; more for others) to satisfy this whimsical requirement.
 
Yorky said:
I'm sure that's an excellent result for you and possibly many others who "live next door" to an Immigration Office.

However, others do not and have to get their arses into gear and spend around 1 hour and 10 litres of diesel (in my case; more for others) to satisfy this whimsical requirement.
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Not quite ‘next door’ but it does take me 5 minutes on the scooter!


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A difficult question for me to answer as I am not involved personally with visas and extensions. If you do not renew the passport this year, then you will get a 10 month extension until 27 October 2022 and no doubt a further year from that date in your new passport.

You will be aware that a passport needs 6 months validity to be able to travel to most countries, although that is unlikely to affect you.

If you are happy to get a 10 month extension for the price of 12 months then wait, but I would recommend applying for a new passport at least 6 months before October 2022, and make the application immediately following a 90 day report. If you want a full year extension, then apply for a new passport ideally in May/June this year and immediately following your 90 day report.

HMPO have recently advised that new passports are taking up to 8 weeks to produce, and with the wait time to obtain an appointment with VFS Bangkok, timing is critical. It could get better though it could of course get worse
 
Prakhonchai Nick said:
HMPO have recently advised that new passports are taking up to 8 weeks to produce...............
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Have HMPO given any reason why it is taking so long to produce a document that even before the computer age, was likely to be issued within a week or two?
 
nomad97 said:
Nick, on the subject of extensions and passport renewals, I have a couple of questions. My annual extension to the visa is due on 30th December 2021. My 10-year passport expires on 27 October 2022. Should I renew my passport 1 year early, say October 2021, in order to obtain the full 12-month extension in December? Alternatively, should I seek an extension on my existing passport even though it will expire 10 months later on 27th October 2022? Would Immigration extend the validity the following year and transfer to the new passport in 2022?
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Do yourself a favour and get your new passport before October 2021 since all your current IMM stamps have to be forwarded into the new passport.

As well your 90 day report of address must have your new info.

Sure you lose one year on your passport every ten years but why needlessly trouble yourself over it. (imho)
 
Yorky said:
Have HMPO given any reason why it is taking so long to produce a document that even before the computer age, was likely to be issued within a week or two?
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2 reasons Yorky.
1) Covid 19, with HMPO not worjking every day and when they are with very reduced staff
2) Brexit and upcomimg summer season. Many Brits want the new blue British passport. not the EU one
 
Coffee said:
As well your 90 day report of address must have your new info.
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That is not entirely correct.

My old passport expired in June 2020. In October 2019 I applied for a new passport which I received in November 2019 (expiry date November 2029). My previous passport had then been cancelled.

I reported my address twice (on-line) after that and it was approved. In May 2020 I applied for my extension of stay plus the transfer of all the required "visa" information from my old to my new passport. There was no problem whatsoever despite @nomad97's prophecy of doom.
 
Prakhonchai Nick said:
A difficult question for me to answer as I am not involved personally with visas and extensions. If you do not renew the passport this year, then you will get a 10 month extension until 27 October 2022 and no doubt a further year from that date in your new passport.

You will be aware that a passport needs 6 months validity to be able to travel to most countries, although that is unlikely to affect you.

If you are happy to get a 10 month extension for the price of 12 months then wait, but I would recommend applying for a new passport at least 6 months before October 2022, and make the application immediately following a 90 day report. If you want a full year extension, then apply for a new passport ideally in May/June this year and immediately following your 90 day report.

HMPO have recently advised that new passports are taking up to 8 weeks to produce, and with the wait time to obtain an appointment with VFS Bangkok, timing is critical. It could get better though it could of course get worse
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Thank you Nick. My next 90-day report is 23rd march (next week). The next one after that would be around 16th June, just over 6 months before the end of the year. Decisions, decisions.
 
nomad97 said:
Thank you Nick. My next 90-day report is 23rd march (next week). The next one after that would be around 16th June, just over 6 months before the end of the year. Decisions, decisions.
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I would wait until after the June 90 day report. September would normally have been OK, but in present conditions June would be safer.
 
Prakhonchai Nick said:
I would wait until after the June 90 day report. September would normally have been OK, but in present conditions June would be safer.
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If the UK lockdown is ending soon, working conditions could go back to normal (ish). I will wait and see what is happening in mid-June before making a decision. I do know that SWMBO favours an earlier renewal of the passport, rather than a shortened extension to stay. Not that it makes any difference, from what I can see.
 
Regarding the 90 day on-line extranet "failure", a comment from a ThaiVisa member..........

"The explanation may be even more straight-forward (and asinine). The Thai Immigration extranet website had a security certificate that was valid for 90 days, from 23 November 2020 to 21 February 2021. That totally free security certificate appears to have been allowed to lapse and was not renewed by Thai Immigration -- an exercise that would require at least one conscious human being with a functional brain. Of course, this doesn't exclude the possibility that this was all foreseen as part of a planned server upgrade. In which case, it would have been nice if our friends had the courtesy to inform their beloved farang guests -- in advance or at least on the day the server went down -- that the online "service" would be unavailable for a month. By the way: I think quite a few enterprises have figured out how to build up a new server offline and then activate it seamlessly, with little or no interruption in service? [End of logical farang rant, which no one from Thai Immigration will ever read and/or care about.] As for the system suddenly being available again on Monday morning, 22 March -- like flicking on a light switch -- I will believe it when I see it. In the extremely likely event that it doesn't come to pass, I'm steeling myself for a 500 km round trip to Bangkok to visit my dear friends at Muang Thon Thani to partake once again in this joyful ritual."
 
Yorky said:
I'm sure that's an excellent result for you and possibly many others who "live next door" to an Immigration Office.

However, others do not and have to get their arses into gear and spend around 1 hour and 10 litres of diesel (in my case; more for others) to satisfy this whimsical requirement.
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The diesel is cheaper than the beer Yorky !!!
 
Prakhonchai Nick said:
I would wait until after the June 90 day report. September would normally have been OK, but in present conditions June would be safer.
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Headline from the UK today:

PASSPORT applicants have been told to expect delays of up to 10 weeks, following a huge backlog of applications from 2020 and a rush to get new passports from Britons eager to go on holiday when restrictions lift this year.​


www.express.co.uk

Passport nightmare as holidaymakers warned of 10 week wait

PASSPORT applicants have been told to expect delays of up to 10 weeks following a huge backlog of applications from 2020 and a rush to get new passports ahead of restrictions lifting this year.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk

Looks like I will wait until 2022 before I renew the passport. Things should be a little easier in 12 to 15 months' time. I will be happy enough with a 10-month extension.
 
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