Udon Thani Immigration Office

i have to do a re entry permit next week. anybody got any advise please where to go. nong khai or to the office in udon thats not open. thanks malc

You could go to Vientiane before your reporting due date and have lunch.

Stop at the border and stock up on booze or whatever on your way back into Thailand.

Enter back into Thailand with a new 90 day period starting which hopefully will be sufficient for things to get straightened out in Udonthani before you have to report again.

If you are a gambleras well as an adventurer, you could check out of Thailand at Nong Khai and not actually cross into Laos (Do not pay $35 USD for Lao Visa) and try to enter back into Thailand. I'm not sure this would work out though.

The first suggestion will work - I've done essentially the same thing by going back to the USA. Be sure that you have a Re-Entry Permit before leaving Thailand or your life will become much more complicated.

Good Luck

Jackspratt - I have sent you a PM on this matter

Allen

Allen A Hale wrote: you could check out of Thailand at Nong Khai and not actually cross into Laos (Do not pay $35 USD for Lao Visa) and try to enter back into Thailand. I'm not sure this would work out though.

The first thing they look for in ur passport is the exit stamp from Lao.

I tried to swicth to to a new passport and they wont accept it, as it hasnt got the Lao stamp.

Not worth even trying,

This sounds like a job for the North East Expat club to chase up on and advise.

Or does anyone know anyone in high places that can advise accordingly, with a pict of an opened office in Udon, to confirm it.

MALC wrote:i have to do a re entry permit next week. anybody got any advise please where to go. nong khai or to the office in udon thats not open. thanks malc

malc,if the office in Udon is not open yet there seems little point in going there unless you want to form part of a queue Wimbledon style.
Go to Nong Khai....its only 30 minutes from Udon....in the unlikely event you were referred back to Udon to queue for a few weeks you could still sample the Indo China market and Beer Belly Billys in Nong Khai before attempting the arduos trip back to Udon !!

I had a friend who went to Nong Khai on Wednesday, they seem to be aware that the office is not open in Udon, however they did say that it should be open on the 18th of this month.
it seems one hand does not know what the opther is doing.
We wait with bated breath and strained fingers holding onto to a morsel of info thrown to us mere farngs by the mandarins at the Immigration dept.

I DON'T THINK

It doesn't effect me as I live in NK,but I can't help but wonder what does one do if their extension and grace period run out before the Udon office opens?Has anybody asked at NK what will be the consequences?

UdonExpat wrote:A friend from Udon has reported that he went to Nong Khai immigration yesterday and was told that he could not use that office any more as the Udon Thani office, at the police station, is now open.

This sentence is ambiguous to say the least. It is not clear that the "friend from Udon" was successful with his business in Nong Khai or not. Did they send him away without attending to his business at hand? This has never been addressed. I am now assuming he did his business as usual and was told next time to go to the new immigration office in Udon.

We know that last part "Udon Thani office, at the police station, is now open" is not correct. Udon Thani does not yet have an office that is "open". So, it is business as usual in Nong Khai.

Yes agreed, the default here for the time being at least, must be to go to Nong Khai.

arjay wrote:Yes agreed, the default here for the time being at least, must be to go to Nong Khai.

Yes ,one would assume,but it is not yet clear whether NK is handling them until Udon office is open!

I was once in the queue behind someone who had not got a Laos exit stamp (something which is VERY easy to do) they refused them entry & told them to go back over on the bus & get the stamp!!!

That is exactly what happened to my wife once.

This probably won't make me many friends here...however:
I'm gonna miss going up to Nong Khai.
Every 80-90 days, me and my wife drive up to Nong Khai. I drop her at the bridge, she goes for duty free shopping. I go to immigration, check in, then go into town to buy a loaf of good bread and have a coffee & a sweet roll at Rudy's German Bakery.
By the time I'm finished with my coffee, my wife is finished with her shopping, I go back to the bridge and pick her up and we go have a nice riverside lunch .

If it wasn't for those 90 day check-ins, I might never get out of Udon .