Doesn't realy matter. That's what you will have to pay if you want your item.

@Mike ******

ok. I used the other one and it worked fine.

Are you using official immigration site or tm30.io?

@Luc ***********

not sure.

@Luc ***********

use your phone as a hot spot. I am with AIS fir 300 baht a month and it does everything I want including streaming movies. What's more, unlike a router, I can take it with me. Often much better than hotel wi fi.

Choose your agent carefully. I would advise using one that takes you to immigration so you see the stamp put in and sign all the documents. I used an agent first off and they opened a bank account, put in the money and got my 90 day and 12 month all at the same time. Cost was around baht. It does make some things back home difficult with local immigration. They would not put my extension stamp into my new passport so I had to fly to Bangkok. Residence certs are required for a lot of things and they are complicated to get if your stamp is not local.

To transfer to doing it yourself as I did you will need 0 baht in a thai bank account for 12 months but some offices might be different. Having done that it was not difficult to obtain my stamp myself for 1900 baht.

Looking back I would choose to do it myself from day one if it was possible. For me, during covid, it was not. Get a list if requirements from your LOCAL office and see what you can work out. Good luck.

You came to Thailand and tried to make it the way you wanted. You failed as everyone knew you would. Go and try it somewhere else. If you ever decide to teach English anywhere else you realy should improve your skills somewhat first if your comments on this thread are anything to go by.

@Michael *******

and to buy a car etc you have to go through exactly the same process to get a certificate of residence even though your tm30 is upto date.

No point in getting rabies shot unless you are going to spend long periods of time in the jungle. If you get bitten you have to go to hospital anyway and the vaccine only gives you more time to get there.

@Graeme ******

me the same so do a phone top up while at the bank then get bank book updated along with statements.