Soi 102 Immigration moving to Prachuap

Post by **norm** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 3:23 pm

My experience with HH immigration has been if you treat them with respect they will treat you with respect. I have no complaints at all in deal with them.

The drive out there on Soi102 was something to bitch about, thankfully we will not have to do that anymore.

Post by **Huahinian** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:57 pm

I used the new office on Soi 23 today. It is fully operational. Only two farangs there so I guess a lot of people still don't know that the office has been re-located.

Post by **hhfarang** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:57 pm

Huahinian,

Was the staff and service level the same as at the old office?

Post by **Huahinian** » Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:08 pm

HHFarang - there seemed to be more staff and the service and attitude could not be faulted.

Post by **interested** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 11:48 am

I am sorry but I for one would not part with one baht particularly to those thieving corrupt bastards in Immigration call it cutting your nose to spite your face but..........

Post by **Wanderlust** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:33 pm

interested,
You have got me interested - how do you know that they are 'thieving corrupt bastards in Immigration'? Because someone else told you so? Or because you have had a bad experience? If it is the latter maybe you should share it with everyone to forewarn them; if the former then you have no idea - too many of this sort of story is told without any actual experience of the accusation being made, just continuing what someone else said. There are plenty on this thread who are speaking very highly of the immigration department because of their own experiences, so what is your experience to cause such a foul mouthed tirade?

Post by **MrPlum** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:45 pm

Agreed, WL. Have never had a problem and always been given prompt attention with nothing underhand offered or suggested.

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 2:53 pm

bored as i am with saying it typing it and posting it on this forum i will concur with Mr P HHfarang and the majority on this forum I have never had anything but curteous prompt helpful service from immigration
I think naye i am sure the op hmself is the problem

Post by **nanyang** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:22 pm

interested wrote:I am sorry but I for one would not part with one baht particularly to those thieving corrupt bastards in Immigration call it cutting your nose to spite your face but..........

I wonder if he's referring to, for one, the individual who can afford to send his child to a 'kindergarten'.

Post by **bozzman101** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:07 am

or the one who took 12 k from me to sort out my visa!!!!!!

Post by **nanyang** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:04 am

bozzman101 wrote:or the one who took 12 k from me to sort out my visa!!!!!!

Welcome to the minority.

Post by **Wanderlust** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:00 am

bozzman,
Genuine question - what were the circumstances of your experience? Have you posted them on here before? If you had the proper documentation and had not transgressed in any way then why did you pay, and why did you not ask to see someone more senior? I have had dealings with immigration here and in other places and there has never, ever been any suggestion that I pay anything other than the normal fee, even when I have actually not had the right papers or had a problem outside of the norm.

Post by **bozzman101** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 3:42 pm

wanderlust
i have not posted my experiance as quoteing craig dunn hope no one from immo dept are looking at posts
i can confirm i was ripped off but wanting a visa i was in a quandry to start a problem or loose money to gain a visa
oh i had all the right papers i was thrown into a state of confusion between broken english and my smattering of thai which led to can make all good!!!!!!! 12k
i would like to post what actually happen to me but if the immo dept monotor this forum guess i cold be fingered out

Post by **Wanderlust** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:31 pm

bozzman,
Without wanting to be pedantic, you don't get visas from Immigration, you get them from Embassies or Consulates outside Thailand. If they did do a visa for you for only 12k then that was a bargain, not a rip off! However I suspect you mean an extension to a visa you already had? There are laid down and well known fees for these so I don't really understand how or why they would even try to ask for 12k, unless of course you had overstayed your visa, in which case again 12k is a bargain given that they can deport or force you to leave immediately. I am interested so PM me the details if you don't mind - I'm not a spy for them honest!

Post by **CraigDunn** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 10:49 pm

Hi Bozzman,

Without knowing the details of your circumstance, it's not possible to work out exactly what's happened, but it may be that the official you dealt with sorted out your needs and charged you an ammount similar to what a law office or agent would have charged you for that job. For the case officer to do that, rather than sending you away to correct your application, may be unethical from our point of view, but this IS Thailand after all, and our points of view seem often to be irrelevant and actually wrong from a Thai point of view. I think that Thais can be genuinely perplexed sometimes by our reactions.

Echoing several others' posts, Imm. have always been correct, courteous and cool by me.

cd.

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