The corona extension is a 15 day stamp x2 ! My experience today at CW

[Jackcwba]

So the extension I paid 1900 baht in March ran out today, I obtained that letter from the uk embassy to hand in aswell. Didn’t even ask me any questions just the typical sign X amount of pieces of paper which does absolutely nothing, how many times do they need ones signature. hand over the 1900 baht and away I was.

 

walked through the door at 10:25, got my ticket queue number at 10:38 and my estimated wait time was 70 minutes, it turned out to be 4 hours exactly and that’s including their 1 hour lunch break that they announce and kick everybody out the building all at once ( Talk about self distancing ) 

 

WHAT THEY FAILED THE MENTION IS...

 

They sre only stamping us for 15 day’s... so she said I have to come

back in 15 day’s to get another stamp for a further 15 day’s ( no extra charge ) so in total it is the 30, but it just seems pointless.. why are they creating more foot traffic at this office than needs to be? 
 

this goes to show this place has no plans on closing down for anyone who’s overstaying
 

Ive attached a picture below of what they have done with the seats as if this is going to make a difference,

 

the chairs are in a row of 4 and only 1 chair is available the other 3 are taped off... I mean seriously, the chairs behind or in front are no further apart and they think this is going to make a difference ? 
 

 

Also I saw a man with 1 leg and a walking stick hopping around the fact that they still expected him to go to the immigration office says it all.

 

so yeah.. pretty much hand over your 1900 baht for a 15 day stamp, and then go back in 15 days to get the other 15.

 

 

[Maestro]

The 15 days "under consideration" is for a higher ranking official to be available and have the time to approve your application.

[audaciousnomad]

 

10 hours ago, Maestro said:

The 15 days "under consideration" is for a higher ranking official to be available and have the time to approve your application.

 

Is that the real reason? There isn't any other motive behind this change in process? My question is rhetorical, but I've learned to question things because in life what you see is not always what you get.

[baansgr]

There was a report last week Krabi was doing the same. 

[jadee]

Hi, to avoid another 4 hour wait - go early. The place opens at 8, I believe, and you can queue up before - then less wait time. Just space out in the queue to social distance. 
As for the social distancing - the immigration is doing the right thing. It doesn't need to shut down, just space people apart. 

[Toany]

2 hours ago, jadee said:

Hi, to avoid another 4 hour wait - go early. The place opens at 8, I believe, and you can queue up before - then less wait time. Just space out in the queue to social distance. 
As for the social distancing - the immigration is doing the right thing. It doesn't need to shut down, just space people apart. 

But it is forcing everybody to go to immigration twice on public transport.  This means a lot more people on public transport and more chance of infection.  They are clueless

[Kalasin Jo]

Definitely an excellent way to stop Covid in its tracks. And in another thread I read 9 separate documents needed and shuffled through several pairs of hands to help keep the virus moving. It's not just bonkers its life threatening to all, IOs included.

 

National security? Come on Thailand, your people are dying too

So make it easy, stop the spread.

 

And why is a more senior officer not available to sign off the 30 days if they can't delegate this function even in an emergency?

[stephen tracy]

3 hours ago, jadee said:

Hi, to avoid another 4 hour wait - go early. The place opens at 8, I believe, and you can queue up before - then less wait time. Just space out in the queue to social distance. 
As for the social distancing - the immigration is doing the right thing. It doesn't need to shut down, just space people apart. 

The immigration is "doing the right thing"? There is a global pandemic that many people have died from and they are corralling thousands of people all over the country into enclosed places where the touching of doors, chairs, pens, documents, photos, lavatory faucets, money etc is ongoing and by multiple people. These places are now biological time bombs. If the government thinks this is safe, I'd like to see Prayuth down at Muang Thong Thani every day handing out free water in his tailored face mask. 

[mjtusa]

Question for the OP: you state "the extension I paid 1900 baht in March ran out today," When you applied in March did you have an expiring visitation stamp or had you already been granted a visa extension?

[JayBird]

This will increase the probability of getting corona.  This increases the chances of dying from corona.  This increases the percentage of foreign people in Thailand who have corona.

 

Now can claim it's foreigners fault, and havenumbers to back it up.

 

Yes, just being cynical.  I'm bored and can't go out.

 

 

[jacob29]

15 minutes ago, JayBird said:

This will increase the probability of getting corona.  This increases the chances of dying from corona.  This increases the percentage of foreign people in Thailand who have corona.

Are they starting to take contact tracing seriously? If your job is to contact trace, and you get a case who was at CW immigration, that task becomes almost impossible.

[ANDREW999]

I got 8+22 on my 2nd extension

 

[fondue zoo]

So to confirm the forms needed at CW for the "Covid - Just Go Home Whitey" Extension

 

Forms

TM7 Form

Acknowledgement of Overstay Penalty Form

 

Documents

Passport

Embassy Letter

Marriage Certificate

Blue Book (Tabien Baan)

WIfe's ID Card

2x Passport photos

 

2x Photocopies of:

Passport pages

TM6 Card

Marriage Certificate

Blue Book (Tabien Baan) pages

Wife's ID

Embassy Letter

 

 

 

 

Edited April 3, 2020 by fondue zoo
typo & missing form

[stephen tracy]

3 minutes ago, fondue zoo said:

So to confirm the forms needed at CW for the "Covid - Just Go Home Whitey" Extension

 

Forms

TM7 Form

Acknowledgement of Overstay Penalty Form

 

Documents

Passport

Marriage Certificate

Blue Book (Tabien Baan)

WIfe's ID Card

2x Passport photos

 

2x Photocopies of:

Passport pages

TM6 Card

Marriage Certificate

Blue Book (Tabien Baan) pages

Wife's ID

 

 

 

 

Don't you need a map of your house/flat/hotel now? And pics of you outside it?

[thecyclist]

Here in Vietnam all immigration offices closed down from April 1 to 15:If your visa expires during that period, you will not to be penalized. Probably a better way to halt the spread of the virus. But Thais love their paperwork. Old habits die hard, even when lives are at stake. 

[samsensam]

6 minutes ago, thecyclist said:

Here in Vietnam all immigration offices closed down from April 1 to 15:If your visa expires during that period, you will not to be penalized. Probably a better way to halt the spread of the virus. But Thais love their paperwork. Old habits die hard, even when lives are at stake. 

 

yes thais love paperwork, signatures and stamps, they have a hierarchical culture that permeates throughout society, if you want to live here then you need to understand and accept this, manage your expectations accordingly and not try to fight against the system.

 

in all honesty getting a few documents together and copying them isn't an onerous task.

 

yes they need to apply a little more common sense to reducing the number of people visiting immigration offices and to practical, not superficial, social distancing.