They don't give a rat’s bottom about farangs even if they are married to Thais and have cutesy and narak “look-krung” kids.

Ya think? Na.They know exactly what they’re doing. They want “kee-neeow” Chinese tourists living on Mama noodles and sharing ten to a 30-sq.mtr condo.

Yeah I’m just pissed I have to go though the whole process again because I wasn't prepared to lose 10 -12 months on my passport validity. Sigh.

Really stupid system. You should get a full 1-year Extension of Stay date contingent on you providing a new passport. It’s pretty obvious 99.9% of expats have to get a new passport anyway when the old one expires. Kerchink, kerchink.

@Steven **************

Ok many thanks. Bad news then. I’ll have to cancel the visa and start a new process for a Non Imm O. as I’ll be working in the UK on August 27th, even 45 days before that, too. Cheers anyway.

Ok, that‘s interesting. Thanks. So which date do you think they will put in my new passport seen in the scan? October 3rd or August 27th?

@Steven **************

If I’m understanding you correctly, this might be good news for me. I sent off my passport yesterday. (Well actually I made an online application for a new one which takes 10-14 days to arrive as it‘s biometric and I've already had one so am in their system.) That is just over two months before the passport expires so if I take the new passport down to CW, can I also transfer the remaining period left on my Extension of Stay plus the lost 6 weeks taken away because of the earlier expiry date of the passport? Any idea?

Immigration will transfer your visa from old to new passport free of charge or your Extension of Stay stamp? I ask because I have to do the latter soon.

@Michael *******

Yeah same here. Lots of changes in the country, some good, some bad. I wrote about some of them here:

@Michael *******

Fully agree about the property idea. I have 10 million THB tied up in property here. It’s fairly obvious they want access to huge sums as it more or less affords them extremely cheap access to (your) cash.