I used to get my residence certificate on the Immigration Sisaket within 5 minutes.

@Steve *******

exactky: Thai Immigration calls it a "visa Extension" . . .. when ya look it up closely, Thai Immigration has only extended your stay permit . . . STEVE: you are STOOOOPID. sorry to say but you are utterly stooopid , can't help you , you have a deficit in your education

I am surprised that so many members of this group are struck stooopid. Maybe they want to be "real americans" . . . . ."we are the best, but we have no fucking idea about the World outside of the US" . .we are proud to be Stoooopid

Steve. Your are STOOOPID! The appliction to a "Permanent Residence" in Thailand is a totally different thing

look. In case you don't believe me. Ask the question in the "Thai visa advice" group. Thai visa "Guru" Tod Daniels will tell you EXACTLY the same as I am telling you. if you still insist in your STOOOPID reprisals, you should get whipped for imbecility, like the do in Singapore

@Steve *******

I am in close touch with the diplomatic team of my Embassy. Their stance is the same I am telling here. The Thai Immigration talks ass out of the mouth. They DON't extend visa. They only extend stay permits

@Steve *******

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 "can't grasp terminology" . . . . Dude, ya gotta get real. You must have missed something during your education.

@Steve *******

English is my second mother language, I shook hands with Bobby Kennedy and you are the "arse" who is speaking 😂 🤣 😂 poor puppy. My sponsor was a highly decorated 1-star General of the US Army . . what kinda gutter kid are you?

@Teresa **********

you don't "renew a retirement visa". . . all you do is renewing your yearly "1-year extended stay permit". You discontinued to hold a visa 7 years ago

@Andy *******

when you are on an extension of stay you have received "out of a former Non-O visa", Immigration will only move the "extension stamp" to your new passport. They were never allowed to move a "visa sticker" or nowadays Visa stamp. Immigration can only move their OWN stamps, which are the entry stamps and the extension stamps. Immigration does NEVER extend a visa, this is technically not possible - regardless they call an extension of a stay permit a " visa extension". Immigration is unfamiliar with the fact that a visa and a stay permit are TWO different technical terminations of a different situation. You ENTER a country with a VISA, and you will receive a stamp which is a STAY PERMIT ("admitted until" and in the upper right corner there will be a small stamp of a hand written entry about the visa-type the stay permit is based upon!) and from the date of entry on - if you entered with a single entry visa - you are in Thailand on a stay permit and NOT on a visa. Only if you entered with a multi entry type visa, the visa remains valid until its expiry . . HOPE YOU FINALLY UNDERSTOOD because I am sick of discussing the matter with people who act like stubborn bricks