Told that Pink I.D card is compulsory for next extension.

[Thaiwrath 36,815]

Firstly, I don't need any advice of the pros and cons of a Pink I.D. card for a foreigner, but interested if any other member has been told the same.

 

On Tuesday I went to get my annual renewal of my extension of stay at Khon Kaen immigration, and had the same documents I have provided every year since I became eligible in 2010, Passport, TM7, Bank Letter showing adequate funds, copy of bankbook, Condo rental contract and all necessary photocopies of passport information.

 

As I am single, do not own property, and have my passport and Government hospital registration card as bone fide Identification documents, I have never bothered to apply for the Pink I.D. card, and never in my 15 years here been asked to produce one. However, the officer at the first desk kept on asking me for my Pink colored I.D. card, and as I repeatedly explained that I did not have one, and have extended every time with all the necessary documents requested, he then told me that next year I will not be granted the extension without such a card ! 

 

I don't really want to bother my landlord to go through the process of applying for the card, and with having 2 totally legitimate I.D. documents, one which I carry everywhere, I fail to see why he insists on me getting a card, apart from his typical "I am in charge and you will do as I say" attitude.

 

I know I will get the "get a pink I.D. card" comments from the usual suspects here, which I will ignore, but I am asking for confirmation that this is not needed according to the written law here. 

 

   

Edited January 28 by blackcab
Title Amended

[Moonlover 7,130]

' Wait and see' is probably the best advice here. I very much doubt if there's a shred of truth in this.

[ubonjoe 48,640]

Getting yellow house book and then a pink ID card is not mandatory. It is certainly not required for any extension application.

It seems to be a case of an officer giving out false info.

[sandyf 6,619]

It is a 2 stage process, firstly you have to get a yellow book which would involve the landlord, once you have the yellow book getting the card is very straightforward.

Not every Amphur will issue yellow books or can be problematic. Immigration cannot insist on the ID card until the ability to get a yellow book becomes more rationalised and the appropriate legal text is amended for both cases.

Personally, immigration have only ever been interested in my yellow book, never mentioned ID card.

[Moonlover 7,130]

2 minutes ago, sandyf said:

It is a 2 stage process, firstly you have to get a yellow book which would involve the landlord, once you have the yellow book getting the card is very straightforward.

Not every Amphur will issue yellow books or can be problematic. Immigration cannot insist on the ID card until the ability to get a yellow book becomes more rationalised and the appropriate legal text is amended for both cases.

Personally, immigration have only ever been interested in my yellow book, never mentioned ID card.

I have both yellow house book and pink ID. Immigration have never requested either.

[Captain Monday 1,875]

3 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I have both yellow house book and pink ID. Immigration have never requested either.

Are you in Khon Kaen?

[jackdd 8,814]

The house book and pink ID card have nothing to do with immigration, either you understood something wrong or the IO just told you something wrong.

[CharlieH 29,756]

Seems someone wanted to flex his muscles and impose his authority with no basis in fact or requirement.

Gotta love how these individual offices/officers behave sometimes.

 

 

[Pilotman 19,381]

A Thai DL seems to do everything that I pink card can do , so I don't see the point in it.  TM30 receipt in your passport  is as good as yellow book.  No point in either in my view. . 

[Thaiwrath 36,815]

6 minutes ago, jackdd said:

The house book and pink ID card have nothing to do with immigration, either you understood something wrong or the IO just told you something wrong.

I agree with you 100% on the first point, but the applicant before me was a German with his Thai wife, and the officer actually produced the paperwork they submitted, and showed me a copy of his Thai I.D. with his application and categorically stated "Next year, if you not have same, you not get extension" !

CharlieH's comment is spot on.

[tonray 13,825]

The IO may have gotten confused with the fact that almost all migrant laborers have the pink ID card as a prerequisite to their employment registration process.

[ChakaKhan 3,475]

KK was the easiest extension Ive ever done...Im a single dude as well and never was i asked for this......maybe she was new on the job, or tried to see if you had a brown envelope!

[WineOh 5,145]

52 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

It seems to be a case of an officer giving out false info.

Not like them to do that, is it?  

[foreverlomsak 842]

Was stopped in the street by 3 armed Immigration Officers, who were just coming out of a hotel presumably from an inspection of guests particulars, and I guess they thought I was going in to the hotel and not just walking by.

Was requested to produce my passport, as it was at home I produced a copy of it (face page & latest stamp with TM6 no included), my pink card and my Thai driving license.

The latter two were handed back with the comment that they mean nothing to us.

The copy of the passport was examined and I was informed that I should carry my passport at all times, as copies  cannot be accepted as proof of who I am.

With that comment, and after answering a few questions about where I live, where I was going, etc., the copy was handed back and I was allowed to go.

[Orton Rd 16,608]

40 minutes ago, jackdd said:

The house book and pink ID card have nothing to do with immigration, either you understood something wrong or the IO just told you something wrong.

That would not be a first, years ago I was told by an irate IO that they did not really do extensions there and to go to Suan Phlu immigration office office in Bkk, where I did not even live at the time!

Edited January 28 by Orton Rd