Originally Posted by
Missismiggins
Had to visit the immigration today, late for my 90 days penance. Due 6th October. I was sure I was going to get stiffed for 2K, so I put on a brave if sickly face. Normally, in chian mai, you get all the paperwork together, get to the window, and they usually have a couple of young girls that appear to be trainees, that give your paperwork the one over before taking it to GOD to sign. I went there today, and the whole place has been walled up, what was once outside is now inside with air-con and a ticket number system. I get the ticket and wait almost a "whole 5 minutes" yes it was that quick. When I get to the counter, there are no friendly helpful girls, ready to tell me I am late, only a fat brown toad of a police captain. I was wondering if I should apologise as i handed in the paperwork to see if it would get me some brownie points, but his manner made me think again. Then I couldn't beleive my luck, he ripped out the old 90 day receipt without even looking at it, as if he was going to just bin it! Again, normally they tell you to fuck off and wait somewhere else while GOD signs it, but this didn't happen, he was filling in the new form on his own and had even signed "pol capt" on the bottom, as he reached forward to pass me back my passport, I was almost about to cum, THEN the twat noticed something....yes, I was fucked, he saw the 6 October! That was it, LATE 2000 Baht, then he made me go and get another set of photocopies of everything, that is probably his sense of humour. So close! What I was curious to find out, is the 2000 baht a one off? like if I am 1 day late, is it 2000, what if I am 365 days late...is it still 2000? The way I see it, it is probably as cheap to just forget about it and pay the 2K once a year when you go for the visa. It costs me about 300 baht a trip in diesel, 4 trips per year is about 1200 baht. Photocopies are cheap, but the fuck around factor etc, has to be worth a bob or two - Time, I reckon it takes me at least three hours per visit, so there is another 12 hours I could be doing something else. none of this takes into account unnecesary wear and tear on the car, oil, tyres etc. It would to be honest seem just as economical to not bother going until you need to renew your visa. If for instance you were late a day or so each time, it's going to cost you 8000 baht, why fuck around, just be late 365 days instead of 1.