New Passport, visa transfer

[mb3house 0]

I'm getting a new UK passport soon and wonder if immigration in Jomtien are asking for a letter from the British Embassy to say you have been issued a new passport. This is supposedly a requirement, not sure if I need it for a single entry 6- day tourist visa though.

[Eneukman 1]

I need to do this next year so would be interested in the definitive answer also.

 

The last time I renewed my passport, my old one was returned to me so I was assuming that all I would have to do would be to take my old and new passport to Immigration and get them to transfer the stamps to my new passport.

 

I need to renew my retirement visa in August so if I remember, I'll ask them what they need.

 

Alan

Edited June 3, 2007 by Eneukman

[joekicker 53]

I need to do this next year so would be interested in the definitive answer also.

 

Well, generally:

Your embassy gives you the new and old passport. They also give you a letter. You take all of this to immigration, where a clerk hand-writes and stamps the details on the first page of your new passport.

 

But some countries seal/staple old and new passports together with official notice that the two documents are legally one. They claim that you then need not make the immigration visit, and I don't know the answer to that.

 

The definitive answer will be available at your own embassy, which knows the rules for you and other of its own nationals.

[jacko 8,813]

This was mentioned at an 'Expats Club' meeting some months ago. I woke up and heard part of the answer. There was a TIT overtone saying that things vary, but someone had been asked to produce a 'confirming' letter from the embassy that the new passport had been issued to replace the old one. Previously the receipt had sufficed. The entry stamp summarily transferred.

[Gary 4,118]

I got a new US passport and as Joe says, I got a letter to Thai immigration with the new passport. They punched a hole through the old passport. I went to immigration (then in Pattaya) and they transferred the stamps quickly and at no charge. If I remember correctly, the charge for the new passport was US $62. You have to go back to the embassy to pick up your new passport because the US embassy refuses to mail it to you. I thought that price was high enough, but I heard a Brit bitching about how much a British passport costs.

[BongoBill9999 0]

You will always receive back your old passport (with the corner chopped off).

 

You can download the appropriate form for transfer of visa here:- http://www.pattaya-immigration.org/download.php?lang=EN

 

For information, Gary, a Brit passport costs £66 (about $130) and that is applying by post - much more if you want it fast. But this is rip-off Britain which is why anyone with sense is bailing out!!

 

Bill

[Gonzo 419]

If I remember correctly, the charge for the new passport was US $62. You have to go back to the embassy to pick up your new passport because the US embassy refuses to mail it to you. I thought that price was high enough, but I heard a Brit bitching about how much a British passport costs.

Stop your bitching. I paid A$ 289 for my new Australian passport last April. It was a frequent traveller one, which means it has an extra 16 pages.

[Eneukman 1]

You will always receive back your old passport (with the corner chopped off).

 

You can download the appropriate form for transfer of visa here:- http://www.pattaya-immigration.org/download.php?lang=EN

 

For information, Gary, a Brit passport costs £66 (about $130) and that is applying by post - much more if you want it fast. But this is rip-off Britain which is why anyone with sense is bailing out!!

 

Bill

 

I believe it's closer to £90 or more if done in Thailand. And with the introduction of biometric passports, the bastards are only issuing 32 page passports, which for those of us based here is fucking useless. Can anyone explain in simple terms the difference between a 32 page and a 48 page (I think) passport apart from the obvious that one has 16 more pages than the other. Talk about failing to provide a service to British ex-pats living here!!!!

 

Alan

[lekatai 0]

You will always receive back your old passport (with the corner chopped off).

 

You can download the appropriate form for transfer of visa here:- http://www.pattaya-immigration.org/download.php?lang=EN

 

For information, Gary, a Brit passport costs £66 (about $130) and that is applying by post - much more if you want it fast. But this is rip-off Britain which is why anyone with sense is bailing out!!

 

Bill

It's true to say that you get your old passport back if you are getting a new one because your old one has expired or is about to expire,BUT,if you get a new(replacement) passport because your old one is damaged in some way,then you do NOT get the old one back,so if this is the case,you need to have paperwork to prove the existence of the visa in the old passport.