Why is the cost of the Resident Certificate in Chiang Mai now 1000 THB?

They have been playing games for years .

I hear CM is the worst.

Bkk comes in and cleans up Res. Cert scam.

Lasts a few weeks then "business" as usual.

“Sight” and “sleazy”....

No David.

This was the

IMMIGRATION OFFICE on the second floor to the right.

When$ got involved she took down the hall,

past the escalators and behind a post.

As stated

Very sleazy.

@Jim ******

ok maybe that is the difference

@Phil *****

. No.

@J**

didn't you download and prefill the document and then take it to be processed?

Phil Beer . Mine cost 200 in Bangkok,and took 2 weeks to arrive by mail..!

The "paid" service for residency certificates is tea money.

Is attorney works for free if he does not charge then cheap

Yeah and Immigration own G4T ...

it's the same company, same people

How silly for you to assume all Thais are poor and all Westerners are automatically richer than them.

This isn't about a discount blockhead. Reread the thread or see your way out.

You came here with nothing to add and still add nothing.

You guys make ten times THE amount of money then Some Thai Guy Or woman i bet you all asking for discount in a poor mans country

Mr Fat Cat Big Spender Moneybags over here

Because it’s literally a piece of paper with a stamp and a photo you provide. That’s otherwise free. And it’s a rather stupid piece of paper to have to possess to satisfy some bureaucratic bullshit.

If 26 euro means nothing to you. Please send it to me!

I’ll make you a certificate, send you the pdf and you can print it out certifying whatever you want.

Thin end of a wedge.

Happy to hear it’s a week. I was told and was repeating 2-3weeks minimum.

In the past I always paid the 500฿ for the Express service, but I can wait a week. Especially when people get too greedy for their own good.

Yea I got mine for free lol Idk

What visa are you on? It's my understanding tourist visa holders are 1000 and others 500.

I took my Thai daughter and partner and still 1000. I am on a SETV. This was a topic of discussion in Korat expat group and others commented that tourist visas holders are 1000 and other visas holders are 500 or even free if you go to police station.

My reasons were to obtain a Thai driver licence and I was successful doing that last week. Now I am fully covered by insurance in the event of a accident. Well worth the 1000baht in the long run.

Was only 205baht for drivers licence. No extra charges there.

@Ivan ***********

I had to choose my words carefully :)

Arrangements

@Ivan ***********

Tian was 500 also, they are the ones that increased the price to 1000. I think they had to do it due to their arrangements.

The new one is called Tian. G4T used be 500 but Tian put up the prices for everything.

2nd floor agency and guy on first floor empty room are the same thing..

@Andrew ******

there was one on the second floor in promenada that was 500 I thought :/ It's where the old G4T agency was just as you go up the escalator.

okay, now we sussed out it's that b/s agency that's still getting them for people and that if you go thru the correct channels it takes a week but is free (y)

David Broadfoot exactly. The guys on the second floor denied me all the time.

Always cited tourists visa not allowed to have.

Unless I have a six month visa or more.

I have no yellow book

It's always been free or aleast the law says it's free just never got a free one always had to pay the 300 THB and now this

I am on Tourist Exempt visa.

And the staff said I have to be on a longer term visa to get it FOC

Read the above comment about their processes.

@Tan ***********

you don't need a certificate of residence anywhere if you have a work permit!

They demanded it's free only if I have a work permit. Personally I had never been able to convinced them to do it for free for me even though I am willing to wait .

But I do heard some got it for free.

Takes a lot of persistence and determination to talk it out in the second floor office.

Imdeed

@Aaron *******

got stung.

Originally two months ago the new head guy said said that they would do it overnight for free. About a month later must have missed the "bonuses", so they went to a free version in two weeks or 1000 baht for the overnight one.