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It can be time consuming but my experience was the opposite. To do my retirement visa extension I started with the help queue on the left. They gave me a list of what I needed. Once I had the paper work ready I went back to the help queue who checked the paperwork and then they gave me a card to see the immigration officer. The immigration officer pointed out a couple of errors I made on one of the forms which I corrected and then I was told to come back next day to pickup my passport.

While there is certainly a lot of red tape I actually I found the staff to be quite helpful despite having to sit there all day dealing with frustrated farang. 🤗

@Tod ********

really, is the same option available at the immigration offices?

@Anthony *****

they allowed me to enter on the retirement Visa after the senior officer intervened, fortunately common sense prevailed.

With Bangkok you can transfer up to 2m baht if you have face scan activated

@David ********

best to check with the immigration office your renewing your visa with. My advice from Jomtien.

I was told by immigration that it has to in and out on the same day. If you can't do a transfer you can always get a bank cheque.