Covid visa extension, Phang-nga province

We went to Phang-nga immigration yesterday, Friday. Our Visa "history" - 60 days from arrival, 30 day extension, and just received our first covid extension. No problems, very friendly and professional staff, 60 days granted, no 15 days consideration time. 1900 baht per person. 👍🏽🤩

List of everything we needed -

Passport plus one photocopy

One passport photo

Arrival card from plane

Copy of - insurance, covid vaccines, original Visa from arrival, departure flight details, print-out from hotel*, that they have registered us as staying there. I think most accommodation places do this, that's the what previous guest house told us.

*make sure to have address, and contact telephone number for hotel, if you don't have your own Thai mobile number.

Took 2 hours for 4 people. Mostly because there are quite a few repetitive forms to fill in. ✍🏽✍🏽✍🏽💪🏽☺️

Photocopy shop right beside immigration, 2 baht per copy. Good idea to have all copies ready before you go in, and matched up in each person's passport. 👍🏽 Don't know if passport photo printing available.

And the essential - she asked us why we wanted to stay? We started with "we would like to stay longer...".

"No, cannot do." She needed to hear us say, "we can't go back to our country because of covid", which we'd luckily read about in this group. We'd been advised to have a couple of screenshots of the bad covid status in our home country ready (which isn't hard to get unfortunately/luckily!?!) Didn't matter if not in English. However we were not asked for this.

Last tip - our Visa was due to expire on Sunday. We went yesterday, Friday, as we didn't want overstay. She kindly told us that when the Visa expires on a "holiday", coming on Monday is fine. Suggested we came back again on Monday, which would have given us three more days. But we'd paid 1500 baht for the return taxi from Khao Lak, so while we were there... 😄

Our 60 day Covid visa therefore started yesterday, no 15 days consideration.

Hope this helps other people with the process. 🙏🏼 See you all within 60 days for advice on getting a second covid extension 😆🇹🇭🤪

Planning to do another COVID extension, soon. Looking for an immigration office that makes the least trouble, i.e.,

1) not charging more than the regular 1,900 baht,

2) no “under consideration” nonsense forcing me to come back to that same office and

3) giving an extension counting from the previous extensions end date and doing so up to 30 days before the end date of the current stamp.

Krabi, Phang-Nga and Phuket are locations I will be in the next two weeks. Nakhon SI Thammarat, Surat Thani or Koh Samui I could also arrange, if need be. Can I get group wisdom feedback on which of these immigration offices would be painless as described above? Thank you.

Hi everybody.

I'm a french citizen with a non b visa. Just recived the certificat from my embassy. I'm planning to apply for a 30 days extension at Phang-Nga immigration office.

Anybody knows which others documents will be asked in Phang-Nga? Anybody did it already ?

Thanks.