CNX has way more annoying requirements than Chang Wattana already.

@Bettina **********

Aha! Thanks. That would explain your relatively quick time at Immigration. If you'd had to wait in the "re-entry permit" queue, you'd have been there til it closed!! I prefer just getting a multi-entry "re-entry permit" and then that's one less thing to deal with at the airport. Thus I guess I'm gonna be arriving early at Chang Wattana after all. Sigh. However, I don't plan to get there quite as early as our fearless TVA leader

@Tod ********

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Whatever you want to call it. I'm just saying it takes a looooong time to sit around til these people shuffle the passport from one cubicle to another and finally deign to return the correctly stamped passport with the multi-entry stamp. I just wondered if Bettina got one or not.

@Bettina **********

It's a multiple entry visa. After you get your retirement extension in one part of the huge office, then you have to go downstairs, photocopy the new retirement extension and come up and hand in the passport and wait FOREVER to get either a single entry or multiple entry visa. I think Tod said ther visas were finished by 08:50 but they didn't get through the ME visa section til after 10 am. I always get them both simultaneously because who wants to schlepp up to that place any more often than one has to?!

Wow. I've been meaning to put up a post asking about going in the afternoon. Did you get an ME visa too or just the extension?

@Tod ********

kinda like in India.And what an administrative mess that place is. So do you think the Thais have farm of data entry personnel actually recording all this stuff for perpetuity and cross referencing???

@Tod ********

Ouch! I sure hope they didn't dare "hammer" you!! And I'm still serious about my question about pens vs. pencils, colors etc. It's so easy to be told to go back and do it all again.

@Tod ********

They probably want people to practice waiting skills for those long lines in the Immigration queues at airports!

You should include that photo of you and those cops arm in arm outside your house! I could include sunsets from my bathroom window!

All I care about is drawing it with the CORRECT colored pen so it doesn't get rejected. While you're there today, please ask for specifics. Can we do it in colored pencil so I can draw the Chao Phraya in blue and the trees under my window in green? It'll be interesting to see how the parameters have changed after a couple of days under this new "artistic capabilities" regimen. THANKS as always!