I arrived in BKK with a re-entry permit & non-O visa, but the officer just stamped a 30days visa exemption stamp on my passport. I was too drunk to notice it. Discovered the error after a week, when I wanted to transfer stamps to my new passport.
I do not live in Bangkok. My local immigration office did not help me to correct the stamp, and gave me two advices, 1. Go out / Come in the country or 2. Fix it in Bangkok.
Ok, sure enough, Bangkok it is. But where? I searched online and finally saw the “Counter K -> Correct Arrival Stamp” information. Btw, now the counter K is at IT Square Laksi 3rd floor.
Got there in the morning, lined in the queue for a few minutes. When it’s my turn, I had to explain why my 30 days stamp was incorrect, finally got a form to fill in to apply for “Correct visa stamp”. Had to leave the queue and fill in the information, then queue again. (Don’t forget to copy all the related passport pages, as usual) Got a ticket number, went into the office. They asked me many times “Why your \[xxxx\] immigration office not fix it for you?” “They should have fixed it.”… Well, hope I had the answer to it.
Anyway, after some talking, they refused to fix it for me as well. “Go to the airport” was their advise.
Now I am in the airport. Again, but where?? I didn’t see any immigration office in the airport, at least not on the guide-map. So I went to the closest one… the tourist police.
Got to explain to them why the 30 days stamp was incorrect and they were kind enough to call the immigration for me using their internal line. I could talk with the immigration on phone, explaining my situation. Then an immigration officer came to the police counter to meet with me. I pointed at the 30days stamp and my re-entry permit, the officer quickly understood and took my passport to have the stamps corrected. They just used a pen to write something on the 30 days stamp, stroke the 30 days and changed it to non-re. Also wrote “Used” on my re-entry stamp.
My local immigration was happy to transfer the stamps to my new passport.
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Just write to have a record somewhere online. If you have the wrong stamp like me, better just go to the airport to save yourself from some hassles.
Maybe someone could tell if the stamp could really be fixed in your local immigration office, or where to find the immigration office in BKK outside of the restricted area.
