What are the new documentation requirements for retirement and marriage extensions at Chaengwattana Immigration Office?

No it has to be hand drawn all you do is draw it one time and photo copy it so you have for next time unless you move then you have to do again

And crankier Thai gov't employees.

CNX has way more annoying requirements than Chang Wattana already.

Yes mine is always done before plus it also saves a lot of time to have to do it there

@David ***********

Thanks David!

Always do mine in advance. I apply at Samut Prakan

555

That's perfect well done .. :-)

@Bettina **********

Aha! Thanks. That would explain your relatively quick time at Immigration. If you'd had to wait in the "re-entry permit" queue, you'd have been there til it closed!! I prefer just getting a multi-entry "re-entry permit" and then that's one less thing to deal with at the airport. Thus I guess I'm gonna be arriving early at Chang Wattana after all. Sigh. However, I don't plan to get there quite as early as our fearless TVA leader

@Tod ********

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@Jennifer ********

I didn't get a re-entry permit but was confused by the terminology as well 😅 last few times I got it right at the airport within a few minutes before heading out of Thailand

Whatever you want to call it. I'm just saying it takes a looooong time to sit around til these people shuffle the passport from one cubicle to another and finally deign to return the correctly stamped passport with the multi-entry stamp. I just wondered if Bettina got one or not.

@Jennifer ********

I think you mean 're-entry permit' !! If you have a retirement extension, you do not need a visa.

@Bettina **********

It's a multiple entry visa. After you get your retirement extension in one part of the huge office, then you have to go downstairs, photocopy the new retirement extension and come up and hand in the passport and wait FOREVER to get either a single entry or multiple entry visa. I think Tod said ther visas were finished by 08:50 but they didn't get through the ME visa section til after 10 am. I always get them both simultaneously because who wants to schlepp up to that place any more often than one has to?!

@Jennifer ********

what's an ME visa? I got an extension. But was surprised too that afternoon was quicker than the two previous years, when I went there even before it opened.

Wow. I've been meaning to put up a post asking about going in the afternoon. Did you get an ME visa too or just the extension?

One has to assume - it’s another way of checking on the individual or individuals, to see if they can accurately describe where they reside...... albeit ridiculous as you quite rightly, imo, point out. 🤗

Yes they require hand drawn.

@Tod ********

kinda like in India.And what an administrative mess that place is. So do you think the Thais have farm of data entry personnel actually recording all this stuff for perpetuity and cross referencing???

@David ***********

I had to give a map when i was on a marriage extension, but never since I switched to retirement extension.

Recently did mine there too except they wanted the map even though they said they would not come to the house.

A hand drawn map is already required for the extension based on marriage in Chiang Mai.

@Jennifer ********

it can be in pencil or pen

@Tod ********

Ouch! I sure hope they didn't dare "hammer" you!! And I'm still serious about my question about pens vs. pencils, colors etc. It's so easy to be told to go back and do it all again.

@Tod ********

ok understand

I thought this was always a requirement because my wife had done this every time we renewed my non O

@Alan ******

My kids were going to travel abroad alone and I prefered they get a re-entry permit before leaving. Not have to go get one after passing Immigration.

why bother with waiting for re-entry permits

I did mine on way out at Don Mueang. took 5 mins

@Tod ********

Oh yes it is... last time I wasted 6 hours with my kids

@Tod ********

my wife already knew about it . My wife is a Probation officer and she often has to make maps like you said. My had done it before we went to immigration

Have all the paperwork ready before you go it makes it so much faster

@Robert ******

I got there at 6:30 there was already 83 people in front of me

Francis, may I ask what time you arrived there this morning? Was it before or after the doors opened to get in the building. Just wondering as I am making a trip there soon also.

@Tod ********

They probably want people to practice waiting skills for those long lines in the Immigration queues at airports!

@Jennifer ********

and the 7.11 in green and orange

You should include that photo of you and those cops arm in arm outside your house! I could include sunsets from my bathroom window!

@Tod ********

google maps are not accepted only hand drawn like I said with Roi Et immigration.

Derek, check your pm.

Google map would take all the fun out for them!

I once used Google map at the Samut Prakan office. Even though it was exact they wouldn't accept it. Had to give them a hand drawn map.

It has to be hand drawn map, and Nonthaburi have been asking for that for a long time, I always thought it has been a requirement for a long time.

Korat Immigration sometimes ask for a hand drawn map from your house to the Immigration office. Easy if you live nearby not so easy if you live some distance away. They will not accept a Google map!