Just received my new passport.
How do I cut my old one?
Just received my new passport.
How do I cut my old one?
I thought that just clipping off an inch or so of the top right hand corner did the job...
I received mine today too, here is how my old passport was sent back
thanks guys
I didn't think you needed to send your old one if you are based in Thailand?Originally Posted by Satonic
Not really necessary to mutilate expired passports....
I've had a tradition of sending off my retired passports to one of my [older] daughters in French Polynesia - she collects them.
Let's see.....I believe I'm currently on number 18 or 19 now.
If you put a rubber band around the pair of them it delivers a more hefty slap to pestering immigration officials.
You're either, the oldest man on this planet or, you suffer from a serious form of jet lag!Originally Posted by Rural Surin
Do you sell em on or just fill and reapply
I keep all my old ones too. From 1952 when I first went abroad at age 3, until today - a colorful collection of diplomatic, official, and tourist. With some great stamps. including one from Madras, India certifying me as an alcoholic (When I got to the hotel, after riding the third class train, plus the ferry from Sri Lanka to India, from Colombo, Sri Lanka, I was informed that Tamil Nadu State was dry. The only way to beat this was to go to a nearby government office and register as an alcoholic, which then entitled you to purchase up to four quarts of beer a day. Sounded like a plan, so off I went. It was all going well until, to my horror, he picked up my passport and stamped a full page alkie chop in a passport that had 4 years left on it. Turned out to be an interesting conversation piece at a number of points of entry.....worldwide.
^ In Pakistan they gave you a slip of paper that was inserted in the passport
more civilised
^I remenber passing through the Paki airport a number of times. They had a log at the bar into which you had to register yourself as an alcoholic to get a beer. Amazing how frequently Jimmy Carter signed in.....
Just been told that you require a letter from your embassy to transfer the visa
damn wasted journey to immigration
and the charge from the British Embassy plus 2 visits!!!!
That's a new one. I've done it before with no worries - just took the old passport along.Originally Posted by good2bhappy
Last January the bastard embassy told me that I might have to get a letter from them when transferring stamps from my old PP to my new one, as immigration may ask to see the letter. But it was a 'case by case' situation.
I was very pushed for time because my new PP arrived 2 days before my stamp was due to expire and I decided just to go to Chaengwattana immigration, transfer the stamps and then shoot off up to Mae Sot for a border run.
Immigration told me that I would have to get a letter from the embassy because "the new passport was issued OUTSIDE of Thailand". Yeah, fine, great, thanks alot Brit Embassy. Bastards!! You should've known this important piece of information to pass onto me. You knew that in my 'case', I had a new bastard Passport issued from the UK.
Immigration told me to go to the embassy and get the letter and then go to Mae Sot and transfer the stamps at the immigration there, and that there was no need to go back to Chaengwattana.
Taking no chances, I jumped into a bastard taxi to the embassy and was told that they only issue the letters in the mornings. It was already afternoon and I couldn't return the following day because it would mean then that I would have to get an overnight bus to Mae Sot and once the clock struck midnight, I'd then be on overstay and would have border patrols checking my passports.
I explained to the girl at the gate that I needed to set off on my border run that very day and that I couldn't return the next day. Eventually, I was allowed into the embassy and got my bastard letter (free of charge), shot off to Mae Sot, had my PP and stamps checked by the Border Patrol on route, got to the crossing and handed in both PPs. The bastard immigration didn't even ask to see the bastard letter.
That was last January so I don't know if anything has changed since then.
I transferred my visa in June, no mention of a letter from the embassy. The new passport was couriered from the UK.
I can't remember the requirements regarding obtaining a new visa on a passport that will expire within the time frame of the visa. I have a US passport that will expire in early November 2016. My retirement visa must be renewed in late November and it will outlast the time left on my passport. Do I need to get a new passport before the expiration date that will be valid through the end of the visa period? In other words will Thai Immigration issue me a new retirement visa with slightly less than a year left on my passport?
As I understand they will only give you an extension to match the life of your passport.
^That's what they did with mine. When I got the new one, they changed everything into it and gave me the remaining days I'd lost.
Perfect!Originally Posted by mykthemin
Usually the embassy will cut the corner or punch holes in the first few pages an stamp CANCELLED across the info page ( us) in hte old one
as u need it if u have a current visa thta has not expired.
If ur passport is not valid for a full year the new extension will only be valid till the expiration date of the old one
than u need get a new extension, so better get a new one before u do the extension to save money
Since the passport expiration date is only a couple weeks short of the visa expiration date I think I will just apply for the visa extension early and then get a new passport next year before the visa expires and then apply for the visa using the new passport.Originally Posted by Phuketrichard
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