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Have you ever tried to email a Thai Embassy? Well I am not saying a Thai Embassy is worse then anyone else I tried the English Embassy as well and they are bad. But now this blog is about Thailand so let’s stick with the Thai Embassy. I will send an email to all Thai Embassies around the world and I will list the time for them to answer me and if they even bothered to send me a reply. Look out for the test next week I think should be fun to see what country have the best “internet” Thai Embassy.

My friend just got affected by the new visa rules for Thailand. If you look in your passport there will be a Yellow line and if you have 3 yellow lines then you are out. Yes even if you have an apartment in Thailand and all that they will not let you in. Singapore have even stop giving you 2 month visa, they will only give you 1 time and then they will not let you do it anymore. My friend went to Singapore they refused to do anything so he tried to get back in but they said no and he had to wait in the airport for a new plane to Laos.

Laos will give you a new visa after 1 day and they have no problem you coming back and asking for another turn well not yet anyway. We keep you posted on what’s going on with the visa rules.

The Thai immigration Bureaus new 1111 number a Total Failure

I seen the number at the immigration office and I seen it again on the news the big launch for the new to call for information on visa to Thailand.

But the same problem accurse as when you go down the immigration office, they do not know anything. They put some students or such to answers for some life important questions. I had several of my friends call them and none of them could not get a straight answer or they could get more information checking the internet within 5 min. This was not complicated issues just normal standard questions but none of them could be answered.

They gave me 3 different persons to talk to and none of them could answer anything they gave me another number to the “real” immigration 02-2873101 – 10 but they just hang up or disconnected you as soon as the phone start ringing and know actually know they would. If you go to the immigration bureaus office you can see them hanging up the phone all the time or they just let it ring.

They should hire some good English educated staff and I am sure people will actually pay for the information if it just correct and fast and legal. The information you get from lawyers are not anything near that.

I lost my 90 days notification of stay notification document. If you stay longer then 90 days in Thailand you need to go there and report that you are in Thailand and where you are staying. This will not give you a visa or anything like that but if you do not do it they will fine 5000 THB. You also get fined for being late. I knew I was not late but I hoped they did not want me to pay 5000 THB for losing a document.

I went down to the Immigration in Bangkok in the middle of the week because I though there should be less people there and gee I was wrong I never seen so many people in my life there. I guess the high season and the rules make more people come to the immigration.

I went to the information counter or should I say number counter a place where the staff should speak English but cant.
I told her what I wanted and she had no clue but pointed me to counter number 3 and gave me a number. I filled in the form and went to the counter and they told me if I lost the form I need to go to the Police station next door and fill in a missing form application, take that back and then go to room 206 and then go back to them. There was no way I am going to waste my day on a grumpy Thai Police so I went up to room 206 direct with no police report and that turned out to be a good move.

In room 206 four happy ladies with little English but with big smiles tried to figure out what I wanted and then told me to help to look trough all papers they was given in the 14/11-2006. So there I sat helping the immigration finding my form and what struck me was how many Chinese people live in the same apartment. Maybe 20 or more have the same address and I guess some one gave them in for them and the Thai immigration did not care less if 100 people stayed there.

Finally a student that was working there found it for me and she went to copy it and I asked if I had to go to the Police now and they no just go down counter number 3. The girl in counter number 3 got lecture from her boss in a joking kind of way because I had no Police report but they really did not seem to mind. I guess they thought the girls in 206 wanted it for something I do not know.

I had some other questions about my visa and they told me to go to room 203 but they had a party so they told me to go down to counter number 1 and I told them they do not speak English but she was busy eating and just pointed me to the door.

Overall they are pretty nice but the problem is when you want to ask something there is not really anyone there that you can talk to unless you take someone that speak English with you. And the problem then is they just start chit chatting and you get half the information you should get.

The Thai immigration has a new number 1111 I not called it yet but I will and I let you know if it works.