I've been trying to find this information out via the forum/google, but have just ended up thoroughly confused.
Though my UK passport doesn't expire until 2015, I only have a few pages left.
There's a strong possibility that this time next year I will go country hopping for a little bit, and so I've realised it may be wise to get a new passport.
I'm heading back to the UK in December, before coming back to Bangkok to continue teaching until May 2013. I have a non-im B and Work Permit.
If I got a new passport while I was back in the UK, would my current passport then be invalid..?
What do I show when I return to Bangkok airport?
Would I have to transfer my visa and work permit to my new passport?
Could I just keep a hold of my new one and not use it until I go travelling in 2013?
Or.... I realise that sending/going to Hong Kong may be an option... but sounds to me as though they just send it back to the UK anyway???
Bahhhhhhhh.
I'm a figure of eight, I'm a pencil. I'm the side panel of a tractor...
Send it to HK. You don't need to send your old one and they will return it to anywhere you like. You pay the return DHS shipping costs, which I think are about 700 - 1000bht. Be aware that DHS cannot leave something like a passport in a mailbox and will probably need to actually be you who signs for it.
I did it through the embassy to save hassle. They checked I had all the right documents, put all the correct details on the DHS form and worked the cost out for me. I don't think they charged for it.
I also had it returned to the embassy as I was going to be needing it quite soon and I was afraid it would be more difficult to collect from DHS than it would be from the embassy.
When I did collect it they asked if I would mind tearing the corner from my old one. They didn't demand mind, so I assume I oculd have declined if I still had much time/pages left.
I let them cut off the corner, but next time I had to do a 90 day visa run (non-im B), I was able to take both passports and get the stamps transferred.
Seriously? The British Embassy in Bangkok gave you a service and didn't charge for it. I need to go for a lie down.Originally Posted by you_me_no_savy_talk_talk
The worst job in Thailand must be the man who has to sit down with a blue marker pen and mark a number two on the two-baht coins to stop people thinking they are one-baht coins.
Seems to me that you should just get the new passport back in the UK.
Then present both the old and new at Thai customs...let them do the transferring work.
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In a word...
yes.
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When I renewed my Australian passport I just tottered round the corner to soi Suan Plu and some nice civil servant transferred the visa from my old passport to my new one. At least that was the plan, they told me they couldn't do it there as the visa had been issued in Kanchanaburi
Common sense says the visa was issued in Australia and renewed at both soi Suan Plu and Kanchanaburi but I wasn't going to argue that one in case they told me to fuck off back to the Thai consul in Perth.
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I would imagine that being issued a new passport invalidates the old one.
I don't think it does. I know people working on rigs, for example, often have multiple passports so that 1 can be sent off to collect visas and another can be used to travel.
Also, they really didn't demand that I cut the corner of mine when I collected the new one, but just asked if I would mind.
thanks very much for the help.
so if I got it from HK, if I am correct, I could just take my passports to immigration and they would transfer the visa across for me? Or do you mean to the border for the 90 day run?
or - as I come back into BKK from England with my new passport, they would transfer them/sort it out at Suwannaboom? For sure?
Yes
not sure,,,, do it in England b4 u cum back
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never heard of that,,,, anyone else?
I-never-dun-a-ting-rong-in-me-life-m8
Yes, if you are in BKK then soi Suan Plu should be able to do it.
How long ago Jim lad?
Immi at Suan Plu moved to Chaeng Wattana Road
they opened Suan Plu again durin the floods las year
but,,, not sure it's still open
While ago now. I moved back to Aus before the floods.
a google search sort of confirms this, though the top search results are things like wiki and something-answer.com. I know they are not always so accurate, but seems like the vast majority of people are saying yes, you can have 2 passports for this reason. And also if you have business in both Israel and arab nations (as you can't enter one if you have a stamp from another).
I got my new UK passport in March. Print off and fill out the form from the UK embassy website and send it with payment (all in about 7/8,000 baht equivalent) and a photocopy of your old passport (no need for the original as you legally have to have it with you in Thailand) to Hong Kong (DHL). The new passport will be returned from the UK (DHL) within 2 to 3 weeks. Then, take new and old passports to Chaeng Wattana for them to fill up the first 3 pages. They even get a cute trainee to give you scissors for the ceremonial corner cutting (making your old one invalid except for transferring stamps). All easy.
Steps to renew your adult passport (for applicants over 16)
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Yes I've heard of it. Many people working in the civil service and foreign office etc - jobs that require frequent overseas travel - will have at least 2 passports - so they can attend overseas engagements using one passport while the other is being used to obtain the visa for the next foreign business meeting. Some people also have more than one passport so they can keep separate passports for business travel and personal travel.
(EDIT IN - And people with dual nationality also have 2 passports of course but those are from separate countries).
(EDIT in 2: There's a an interesting thread here about this 2 passport business and the issues it can give rise to, for those who are sufficiently interested in this aspect: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/archive/t-609734.html )
Last edited by TopCat; 11th June 2012 at 21:46.
Thanks all for the help. Just wish it didn't cost so much ruddy money.... or i could have pages stitched in like you Americans can. *sigh*
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oh, and i assume transferring visas costs too?
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