The Exemplary Service Thread

[Thormaturge]

^^
I went in with a broken nose once and didn't have any problems with diagnosis at all.

[Marmite the Dog]

^^ So sue me.

[AntRobertson]

^ I might just do that then!












If I can find a decent lawyer.

[Thormaturge]

^
Just break his nose - Samitivej are good with those.

[Texpat]

I applied for my 1-year visa today at the Nong Khai Immigration office.

With great trepidation, my wife and I assembled all documents for my non-O (marriage) one year renewal. We had lunch on the River and spoke little, each knowing what a wreck I become while listening to government officials spout absolute bullshit, and having to sit silently with my pie-hole in the grin position.

We parked in the lot and walked into a room with a medium sized crowd and suprisingly few groaning-shrieking sounds. Just as I started feeling good, a slight bounce to my step, I reached for the next number - 66.

Great I thought 2/3rds of satan's sign.

To my amazement and absolute joy Khun Oruajan (sp?) the biggest bunny in all of Thai immigration DIDN't call my number. Instead Khun something-pimay (sp?) called me up. Of course my wife was taking a shit and left me to my own devices. Why do they always have to go make a phone call or piss when the rubber hits the road?

Long story short. Senior Sergeant Major Deputy Master Assistant Inspector Pimay was patient, thorough, even smiled once.

To be fair to the thread, I witrnessed Oruchan berate two visa applicants while I was there, throwing one of them out emphatically (A lady trying to secure an work visa [teaching english] for her male Filipino friend, who was either too afraid or couldn't speak english.)

In the end, I still don't have my yearly visa because the Very Senior Exhaulted Sergeant Honorable Major Deputy More-Master-than-you-can-imagine Inspector is the highest ranking professional in the office and cannot grant a farang who's been here two years with his Thai wife a crappy 1 year visa.

It goes to Bangkok, come back again next month to see if you're quality enough type person to grace our nation.

But I can't get over how efficiently Kuhn something-Pimay handled my 86 individual pieces of paper. A true professional. I know you're wondering why a simple 1-year visa requires 86 pieces of paper. And being the quality TD poster, I'm prepared to show you.

* Registration Form --2
*Passport -- 5 -- face page and every interim visa granted after that entry including the three 3-month jobs on my initial 1-year visa and last year's annual.
*Marriage certificate -- 1
*Wife's ID card -- 1
*Family register -- 1
*My Embassy proof of pension -- 1
*Photo -- 1

Since moving to our new house, wife and I changed banks (same retarded Thai drill you've heard before -- same bank, different town, stiff charges apply, so we changed. Ever heard of the internet)?

Old bank -- 8 pages.
New Bank -- 8 pages.

Total 28 pages.
As it's going to Bangkok, the local chop shop needs their identical copy = 48 pages.

And of course, must show all originals = 84 pages.

And the coup de grace, two crisp, clean 1,000 baht notes.

86 sheets of paper, one annual visa extension.

Oh, the exemplary service? Her smile of course.

[AntRobertson]

^ Mmm, not exactly in the spirit of the thread. But it'll do.