Its funny how different immigration offices can have different qualifications even the people in each office can differ. I just renewed for the first time a couple weeks ago. Thought I'd need a whole year bk stmt and the bank said i had to wait 5 days to get it. So i ran over to immigration and they said only need 2 months before retirement visa expires 🙄 so ran back to the bank got the 2 month statement for a 100 baht and the letter of guarantee for another 100 bahts and ran back (legs really tired now)😂 and she says good where's your old passport. Shes like your first time you have to have the new one and the old one if you came into the country and updated your passport... Soooo ran home grabbed it and ran back. Moral of the story wear a good pair of running shoes when going to immigration cause you never know😂

I use Skype and the best part is 800 numbers are free which is great when calling government or bank numbers and being put on the dreaded hold with elevator music in the background 😝

Before you give away a 1,000,000 bahts ask yourself are you okay with giving away that money with no return of any kind expected. If you are than let the greenbacks fly. As long as you realize that you may end up with nothing to show for it as a farang even with a strong written lease agreement. Bottom line never expect anything back when lending to friends and family 😃

What??? You didn't get your facebook lawyers degree yet. Sooo sad!!

Hey Paul good luck with your passport. I'm in khon kaen also and had to get my new U.S. passport not to long ago. I sent the application and everything Thai post to the embassy. They did a great job getting my new passport back to me. Took about 2 months to get back my new passport. After I just took my old and new passbook to khon kaen immigration and they transferred all the visa info from my old to my new passbook. I got my 1 yr extension renewal coming up in February fun fun 🙄lolll

I've always tried to put my change of address as soon as possible within a week with no issues and I've moved 3 times in 2024 all in the khon kaen area. Better safe than sorry is my Motto😃