What should I do if Thai immigration is wasting pages in my passport with stamps?

You can't tell Immigration officers what to do, Not here Not anywhere in the world. Also No please No Thank you. What do you expect?

Lack of planning on your part shouldnt constitute an emergency on their part. Come with at least 6 months and pages on your passport

First world problems.

At a time when millions are displaced or otherwise impacted by war, millions more facing winter with heating prices up 10X, severe food shortages, violent weather and flooding everywhere, and a nuclear power credibly threatening to unleash their arsenal on the rest of us.

Really?

They always try to fuck up as many pages as they can

They are fuckers. Because Thai immigration had skipped a page in my passport during the 3 years I lived there, when I returned to Europe I had only 2 full blank pages left in my passport but not consecutively. Because of this I couldn't get the visa I needed to move to Romania. I needed to get a new passport first. The whole process took about 2 months even though I paid £200 for the ultra fast track service. I also paid probably around £400 in train, bus and plane fares to and from London. When I got my new passport I took it straight to get my Romanian visa and the jokers turned to roughly the middle page of a completely empty 50 page passport and banged it right in the middle 🤷🏽‍♂️ I just think it's a prerequisite that your either a clown, a nihilist or a cunt if you work in immigration regardless of the country

In the usa .it happened

I did same.....and he stamp ON THE VISA .....i was ...omg ..why.....????

But it was not a problem😅😅

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You're surprised they didn't like you trying to tell them how to do their job?

By doing that you almost forced them to do it! Been here long?

1000 baht goes a long way

Try the next time this little word "please",🤷🏻‍♂️

Two years ago the employee of the Thai Consulate of Genova put the Non-O Visa on my new passport on page 12, leaving five empty pages, but it doesn't matter, now I have stopped going around the world for work; everyone of us is responsible for their documents, but the bureaucrats do what they want all over the world.

Like they could read that. Why didnt you have someone write in thai?

They were going to have to remove those in case you were hiding something under there you didn't want them to see. So, you gave them extra work.

should have written it in thai...

I have 4 passports and have travelled to about 40 different countries. I travel for my work continuously. I know when I hand that passport over to an immigration officer it will get stamped where they choose. That’s the way it is

You know why they do it? Because they can. Way ng ker s

When I did my visa for Thailand this year I did a electronic one and there is no stamp involved

Just go to your embassy and get pages added to your passport

Well they did exactly what I would have done if I had a bad day 😆 . They went back into earlier parts of my passport to stamp thankfully

There’s very few terms in Thai that are more derogatory than calling someone a “monkey”. Probably on a par with comparing someone’s intelligence with a buffalo (Kwai). You’ll seriously not get far over here doing that to officials. Aside the assumption that it could be deemed racist as hell.

An insult to monkeys really 🤡🌶🙏🌙

That were monkeys in cameo, dressed up like humanns?

Anyway, a passport has become expensive and there should be no waste of space in it. Even with an extended passport (48 instead of 36 pages) my passport never lasts the full 10 years.

Stop calling the thai monkeys you cunt and maybe you get what you want ! It's one page lmfao

FFS, at least you could have got someone to write it in Thai for you. You are evidently the monkey in this fable

Not as bad as Dubai. They put a large stamp to enter right in the middle of a new page and a large stamp to exit right in the middle of another new page about five hours later when I was on a short layover. Deliberate. Malicious. Knowing. And I have a 48-page passport and travel frequently around Asia where I live so need every page. I’ve found Thailand’s stamps to be quite reasonable. Apart from one period when I did exactly what you did and tried to reserve some blank pages with post-it notes. I got turned away at BKK and had to relent.

Is it legal to do that?

Who's the monkey in this story? 🤷‍♂️

1. You can't reserve pages. QED 2. You can't tell immigration officers how to do their job. 3. The level of pompous disrespect you show, I would have denied your extension, taken your 1900 baht, and given you 7 days to leave.

'Monkeys' Seriously? If you'd written a polite note, in Thai, then you'd have stood a better chance of getting what you wanted. I don't feel your imperious attitude would have gone down too well in any country to be honest.

Monkeys is very flattering.

None of them have ever left Thailand so they have no clue that a passport is used internationally. They treat them like they treat their own livers.

Meanwhile I went to Japan, Korea and Hong Kong and all of those stamps were put on the same page, as to not waste space.

Next time add a ฿1000 note, say please,and don't call them monkeys. Or you could just show a little respect. Or you could just not travel to a country where you have contempt for people doing their job. Or you could just visit your consulate and get a new passport when the old one gets full. So many options, I guess it's easier to degrade and complain. 🤷🏼‍♂️

They 100% did that on purpose

Maybe if you had asked politely and explained why, U may have got a better result.

I assume your country offers the option of a passport with a large number of extra pages?

Next renewal, get one. Trying to change Thai Immigration’s stamping procedure strikes me as an extravagant waste of your time.

Not only that, but Thai immigration officials are known to get grouchy. Trying to micromanage the way they do their job is likely to lead to unexpected negative consequences. Remember that individual officers have extremely broad personal discretion in granting visas and extensions. Your hissy fit over a stamp could easily result in a denial with no recourse of a visa, extension, or re-entry permit. Seriously.

You must be one of those woke entitled bores.. ''It's my passport.''

I have verbally asked them before when I had this situation, and they were very considerate, squeezing stamps in very tight in some places so I could keep a couple of pages blank. I get it's more difficult to do this with an extension though if the person actually stamping isn't doing it right in front of you.

Yeah you aren't allowed to do that....

What makes you think they can or need to read English regarding your passport ?

It's what you get for considering them monkeys.

Did you write it in english and thai ?

I don’t think they are monkey, but some one else.

I feel you. Not only do these far to frequently needed extension stamps take up way to much valuable passport page space, the (relatively small) entry stamps are also way to often than not placed in a manner with the most possible space wasted. But what can we do. I give you points for creativity here - even if it did not work.

I don’t think they’re the monkey here

There's a stamp above blurred out. Is that related to the new stamp? They like to put related stamps together, makes life easier

I think it might work better to encourage someone to do something, than to ask them not to do something. You cold put your boarding pass where you want the visa stamped and point at the space for the stamp, and smile.

To be fair, if I was an immigration officer and I saw that then I'd make a point of stamping that page too.

Fella every Immigration officer are the same?? Very sad Travel n Holiday never

You’re lucky they didn’t reject your passport entirely for being defaced. Well within their remit to do so.