What are the current challenges with obtaining COVID-19 visa extensions at Samut Prakan Immigration office?

It looks like the 60 day extension of stays are quickly coming to an end. Remember, these are OPTIONAL stays, and the immigration officer has no right to give them out

same here. The officer told me that they only give covid visa to whom don't have airplane back home. Meanwhile people i konw got covid extend at bkk.

I went to Samut Prakan on Wednesday to see about my “mistake” in seasoning my cash. Saw something similar with a guy get refused an extension and told to get out.

What it seems to be IS if a person has another way to get a visa/extension (marriage, retirement, raising children etc) they are looking at people milking covid extensions with a critical eye, denying them a covid extension and telling them to get their shit sorted on the correct visa type they can qualify for.

Now is this a sign of things to come OR just an isolated office that is tired of handing out endless 60 day extensions? Who can tell.

I would say perhaps check into a bangkok hotel for a day and then go apply for a 60 day covid extension at the Bangkok immigration office (either Chaengwattana or Muang Thong Thani, depending on the entry stamp you came in on)

I have heard from friends too that Samut Prakan has practically stopped giving them out now.

Thank you for the update. People keep in mind this is at the Samut Prakan Immigration office (an office known to give people a hard time already)