Is there not a guarantee that if you have a queue ticket, you will get dealt with on that day?

If he's never left Thailand, does he have a passport? If not, he can't have a visa. Tod Daniels will correct me if I'm wrong, but once he needs to leave the country, you take his Thai birth certificate with his passport to the airport and he will get an exit stamp and a note in his passport that he was born here. When/If he comes back he will need a visa. How long a non-Thai person, born in Thailand, can remain here without ever leaving, I have no idea.

Not in Bangkok, thankfully.

Registered guest houses and hotels do. They do it online.

@Glen ********

Their hotel does it, not the foreigner. It's not a requirement for tourists here on holiday.

I don't believe it's possible. But it should be.

Do you need to do anything? He's a Tourist.

It always amazes me that the alteration is done by hand, rather than a new "admitted to" date stamp.

Why will your passport renewal take longer than normal? renewing in Bangkok can usually be done in less than 3 weeks, sometimes it's as quick as 10 days. You keep your old passport while they're processing the new one so you can still get Extensions in country, although you're not supposed to be able to travel overseas on it.

Best to pick something other than Thai; my friend has an Ed visa for studying French.