Are immigration offices in Thailand open this week as usual?

@Benjamin *****

Yes. Thank you. This time it will be a first COVID-19 extension, again. As I re-entered Thailand on a new TR-60 Tourist Visa after a summer break in Europe. I am hoping Chiang Mai immigration won’t insist on me getting a regular 30-day extension first / before any covid extension. After all the price is the same, so why waste 1,900 baht on 30 days, when 60 days would come at the same price. Early this year they gave me a covid extension straight away. But I have heard people say they were asked to get that regular extension first, recently.

@Frank-Steven **********

What extension of stay are you acquiring. If you're getting your FIRST 60 day extension of stay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19, it'll begin on the date you apply. If you're getting a SECOND 60 day extension of tay based on unable to travel due to COVID-19, or any other extension of stays, it'll be added to your existing "admitted to" stamp

@Michael *******

Thank you. So I am left with either going early, this Thursday, December 30 (potentially losing a few paid permitted days) or going risky on Wednesday, January 5 (the very day my current stamp ends). Either way, I have a bad feeling Chiang Mai immigration may be packed because of the holidays.