TB Immigration Infobrief 008/19 – 90 Day Notice (continued)
The TB Immigration Info Letter 005/19 – 90 Day Report Chiang Mai Immigration was concluded with the question “How does the 90 Day Report happen in your Immigration Office, or maybe you do it by post or online and what are your experiences with it?”
However, the response options were closed, so it was not possible to respond directly to the question. Some readers have then sent their experience via contact. I want to thank them for this and also do not want to withhold them from the reader. Hence this extra follow-up letter.
Report from Ruud
Subject: Udon Thani and On-Line
My experiences with Immigration Office Udon Thani are very positive: fast, friendly handling. I made my first 90 day report at the same time as the year extension. That went fine. Everything was arranged within half an hour.
I did my 2nd 90 day report online. To my surprise, the application went without a hitch. My surprise was even greater when the APROVED arrived by email after only 20 minutes. That saved a ride to Udon Thani. I would like to go there again for the next year extension
Message from Mark
Subject: Chiang Mai
Again Positive report about ChiangMai Imm/office..
Today 90-D report was made..was arranged within 15-Min..and indeed No more That “red tape” of copies Pp etc..that Imm. in fact already owns Tig..Repeat So Only TM-47..90-Day Notification & Receipt of Notification (previous 90-Day Notification) are Essential Now..!!
Hopefully Next step Abolishing this act..as Mr Big Joke..Chief of Immigration suggested
Message from Ko
Subject: Hua Hin Immigration
At the immigration office in Blu Port in Hua Hin, you no longer need anything for the 90-day notification. Just your passport. Special counter for 90 days, outside in a few minutes, self-set waiting for you
Report from Jos NT
Subject: Korat Immigration
90 days notice in immigration KORAT.
On Ronny's question how the 90-day notification goes in the various immigration offices, here is my experience in the KORAT office.
Thursday, February 7, 2019. The notification is made in a separate building than where the visa extensions take place (same address). It is clearly marked on the building. Arrived 12h14. Back outside at 12h17.
When entering you first go to a servant who is sitting at a table in the waiting room. He will give you a form TM47. Wasn't necessary for me because it was already completed and signed at home. She checks the match between the name on your passport and TM47 and sees whether the documents 'Departure card', 'Receipt of notification address TM30' and the last 90 days of notification are present in your passport. Then she sticks the TM47 on the page where your last visa is mentioned. You get a number and you can go to the counter.
At the counter, to the left and right of the counter, is a full-page color poster with the message “No tips please”.
The immigration officer took my passport and TM47, did some typing on the PC and stapled the new receipt of TM47 into my passport. Finished.
Very smooth, neat and friendly service. Never knew otherwise in KORAT. This was my eighth 90 day report and I have never been asked for copies of anything. When I spontaneously offered them a few times in the beginning, I was told that it was not necessary. Maybe it has to do with the fact that the documents are already present in my passport.
Report from KP
Regarding Chiang Mai Immigration
I also had to report for my 90 days at Immigration in Chiang mai. I had already read that copies of passport etc. would no longer be necessary. But after 10 years of reporting every 90 days with a stack of copies, I still had something like seeing and then believing”.
I entered the new office at 13.15 pm this afternoon and at 13.23 pm (!!) I walked out again with an extension and the pile of copies.
In addition to a new building with ample parking space, it has apparently also been administratively swept through. What do you do with the same copies every time? In recent years, those copies have always been put in boxes / binders and nobody looked at them. This also raises the question of whether the relevant copies could still be found in an emergency.
A great experience.
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Immigration office Udon.
Usually there are quite a few people waiting, but they are also gone in no time. 90 days report old piece of paper from the passport, put a new one in and it's done. New visa depending on a normal visa or married visa. Normal visa if you have everything neatly with you, and otherwise you will be helped super friendly and copies will be made for you. A married visa a little more time, especially the first time because there is still research to be done. But this was just a pleasant official who came to visit us and since it was noon we had a nice meal together. So nothing but praise for the immigration Udon. But I think it is also selected for customer friendly staff including the boss who just participates if necessary.
That's right and in Udon you only need a passport for your 90 days, the Immigration Officer types your name and passport number into the computer, prints it out and you sign it.
Immigration officer tears off the last slip and staples it in your passport.
If you come in and no one is at the separate desk for the 90 days, you walk out again after 2 minutes.
Married Visa that I have within 45 minutes or earlier have had it for 10 yrs .
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Pekasu
90 days notice Immigration Pathumtani.
I have been coming to Immigration in Pathumtani for 9 years and as always it was done in a few minutes..
Only passport and TM 47 form, never needed any other copies. I was duly informed that my visa expires March 5 and a stamp was put on the yellow 90-day form as a reminder.
I will report my experience with the extension of the retirement visa as soon as this is over.
Immigration Chiang Rai: passport and TM47 required. Usually a separate counter for the 90-day notification, and in that case no - or at most a short - waiting time.
Chumphon Immigration:
90-day notification: separate desk, no queuing. TM47 already completed at home and, as always, a copy of the original visa, last year extension and that's it. Hand over the passport, remove the previous paper from the 90d notification, take a look at the documents and then put a staple in it and put it on the notification pile of the predecessors. Put in new paper and khop khun khap and off you go. Faster outside than inside because I smoke a cigarette before entering.