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Holy Moly! My submission from Aug 7 has just been "approved'- the timestamp on the immigration website was 2023-08-22 07:21:18 (UTC +7), less than 2 hours ago. I had given up and made an appointment to do it at CW this afternoon- 14:25, to be exact. I just left the original submission as is- no cancel and resubmit- and somebody finally got around to dealing with it. Now I can cancel that appointment. Whew! 16 days from hitting the submit button on the website to receiving "approval". (Well, maybe 15.) Tomorrow is the last day of the "grace period" for doing the report in person. Now, what's going to happen NEXT time, which is set as Nov. 5? Aiyaa! No more optimism from me, just fingers crossed. Good luck, everyone! Following the email link to the booking, it seems there is no way, certainly no link, to cancel a booking, only "reschedule" which is making a NEW booking. So, I guess I will just let it go. Oh, well...

I submitted mine Monday last week, Aug 7. The deadline is tomorrow, Aug 17. It is still "Pending". The pop up about the 90-day procedures, etc. on the main immigration site says there will be a response within 3 working days. Ha! Now I have to decide whether to try canceling and resubmitting, or just wait, and plan on a trek out to CW next week before the 7 days grace period is up. Sheesh!

Now it's my turn, I guess. My 90-day report, the third in a row in the new system, has been rejected. I'm not surprised as I did my retirement extension in early May with a new passport, and I guess the database has, as in the past, not been updated. I seem to remember one member in another thread saying that he just kept on submitting until perhaps somebody took notice and checked the database, and finally got approval. I've just sent off a second submission to see what happens. Other than arranging for an in-person submission at CW, does anybody have any ideas, suggestions, or experiences that might be worthwhile considering? The report due date is July 3, so I have just shy of 2 weeks to try the system before giving up and going out to CW. Sigh!

I have a similar concern. For vets, mainly in BKK and vicinity, but also in Thailand, in general, is it usual to present the client with a proper itemized bill, or just a lump sum for treatment? The vet I use seems to treat the animals very well, which is the main reason I have been tolerant of his billing method (no itemization), but I feel that things have been spiraling out of control in the last 2-3 years but mainly this year. The tension between the vet and me has risen quite a bit this year, but especially in the last 3-4 months. Would it be reasonable for me to start demanding an itemized bill? That's why I would like to know others' experiences with vets here.

Just to add my rant to the topic- I have just tried to do my 90-day report online, which I have managed to do successfully several times in recent years, and can not...again, the 2nd time since my extension back in May. I tried the app first and it showed clearly (in the error message which shows my passport #, visa expiration date for May THIS year, not next year as is correct, and states that I am on 136 days overstay ) that the database for CW has STILL not been updated 5 months after the fact, and 3 months after the previous report done in-person by my agent. (I'm in no mood to trek out to MTT or CW or wherever it is they are doing this these days, so I pay for the convenience.) Grrr... So, my agent will pick up my passport on Thursday. Thailand 0.4 wins again. Sigh!

I just KNEW ubonjoe would know exactly the info we needed! Thank you maak-maaak, naa. But I didn't realize a subsequent covid extension could be applied for well in advance of a current covid extention expiry. It sounds like that would work wonderfully. Is there a specific number of days in advance that a new covid extension can be applied for, ubonjoe?

A friend of mine from an ASEAN country who has recently graduated from university here wants to extend his stay for a while using the Covid19 extension- the actual graduation ceremony will be sometime around mid-December. The process for this is not the problem- friends of his have recently done exactly the same. My question is of the timing of the cancellation and then covid extension. The university office is saying they have to cancel the student visa extension 15 days before the actual expiry date, and that's what his friends have done. I wonder if that is a special rule for student visas, or it's just maybe the way the university office has always operated. The university is in Rangsit so this is for the Pathumthani Imm office. When I switched from a Non-Imm B (work) extension to a Retirement extension (at CW) I did it only 2 or 3 days before the expiry date, and the whole process was done on the same day. The idea is that my friend wants to stay as late into December as possible, just in case they finally stop giving out covid extensions after Nov 26. The covid extension at Pathumthani Imm is dated from the date the student visa is canceled, not from the "admitted until" date. Is there any reason to assume he can not do the cancellation-extension process within, say, 4-5 days ahead of the expiry date for his student visa (which is in late October). Or, is the only way to be sure to go to the imm office and ask in the next few days? Can anyone shed any light on this?