lost passport

[mpm]

Came out of the castra gym on kow talo yeturday and must of droped my passport as five minutes later driving home I realized it was gone, went straight back spoke to the girls on the desk no good, as I'm looking on the road between the doors and wear the car was parked a Thai man who is working in a garage across the street came over and said he saw a bike taxi with a red waist coat only a couple of minutes before pull up and pick something up off the street...So I go to all the cab stands with red jackets in the area asking and offering a 5000฿ reward and left a contact number with many of them but no joy...my mrs went to some local Thai radio station and they are putting it on the air today...What a stupid fucker I am....Today I'll go and report it at Banglamung police station and get paper work off them.....Will I have to go to uk embassy in Bangkok to apply for a new one? And will immigration transfer my retirement visa to the new one or will I have to reapply for a new retirement visa? ...I know what a plonker

[david555]

that is why i made a complete copy one ,laminated ((last stamps updated) and copy departure card also, to carry around....., ONLY take real passport for official uses like to bank going or buying big things shops

 

Someone longtime Thailand should know better ...

 

hope you'r lucky to get it back .....hassle ahead if not

 

PS; second solution ;Thai drivers liscence can be used as accepted id by BIB

Edited August 31, 2012 by david555

[Gone with the wind]

Don't be too hard on yourself mate. Accidents happen.

It seems a hassle getting everything sorted though.

Good luck.

[brutox]

... can say nothing about where you have to go to get a re-issued UK passport ... but, your retirement visa will transfer to the new passport, no problem ... mine was, when I replaced my near-expired passport with a new one.

 

... many here will wonder why you are out and about Thailand with your passport in the first place ... yeah, yeah, "it's the Thai law" (a real idiot came up with this one) ... most everyone I know keeps their passport locked up at home ... I keep in my wallet a copy only.

 

... I've really only been asked by Thai cops to show it 1-2 times in 12+ years ... only one cop asked to see the original (thought I was a tourist target), to which I explained my original is at the China Embassy getting a visa ... cops are apparently untrained to ask for the receipt issued by embassies for the passports submitted for their visa processing.

 

... even the bank where I am known excepts my passport copy ... (they don't like it, but they do it anyway).

 

... think about keeping that thing locked up at home ... Thailand is an internationally recognized "hub" for fake passports, so an original UK passport is valuable ... probably worth more than THB 5,000 to the bad guys.

Edited August 31, 2012 by brutox

[Highlander]

Came out of the castra gym on kow talo yeturday and must of droped my passport as five minutes later driving home I realized it was gone, went straight back spoke to the girls on the desk no good, as I'm looking on the road between the doors and wear the car was parked a Thai man who is working in a garage across the street came over and said he saw a bike taxi with a red waist coat only a couple of minutes before pull up and pick something up off the street...So I go to all the cab stands with red jackets in the area asking and offering a 5000฿ reward and left a contact number with many of them but no joy...my mrs went to some local Thai radio station and they are putting it on the air today...What a stupid fucker I am....Today I'll go and report it at Banglamung police station and get paper work off them.....Will I have to go to uk embassy in Bangkok to apply for a new one? And will immigration transfer my retirement visa to the new one or will I have to reapply for a new retirement visa? ...I know what a plonker

 

I did the same thing myself, but I lost it between swampy and Pattaya.

 

you can start the ball rolling at the British consulate in Jomptien so when you go to bangkok you can do it in one day as it will also involve a trip to the Thai immigration department as well.

 

They can organise it to be sent to the consulate in Pattaya for you but in my experience it took 4 days to get from BKK to Patts even although it was allegedly express couriered so better if you pick it up yourself IMHO.

 

Go to the consulate before it opens as there will be ques out the door with expats renewing their visa's etc.

 

When i lost mine, it was just after the chips had been added to passports so it had to get made in the UK then and as it was over Christmas and New Year it took 3 fucking weeks to get to me.

Edited August 31, 2012 by Highlander

[kansuwan]

Step 1: Report passport loss to the police; obtain their oficial Loss Report form.

Step 2: Make a copy of this and show it to/lodge it at Consular Section at the Embassy (who can issue a single journey- only emergency passport if you need one).

Step 3: Re-apply for new passport, noting that they're issued in Hong Kong these days ( http://ukinhongkong.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/passports/how-to-apply/thailand/)

Step 4: Keep the original Loss Report at home; make a further copy and keep it with you at all times until your new passport arrives.

Step 5: When your new passport arrives, take it and the original Loss report to Immigration so that your new passport can be appropriately stamped.

[jerry]

but, your retirement visa will transfer to the new passport, no problem ... mine was, when I replaced my near-expired passport with a new one .

 

Won't be to shore about that in case of a lost pasport .

[Ohyesuare]

Won't be to shore about that in case of a lost pasport .

 

That is what I was thinking as well, I think you have to reapply for all visa's with lost or stolen passports. As others have said get the police report and go to your embassy in Bangkok to apply for a new one and a temporary one as well if you need it. I am not surprised nobody has turned it in a passport is worth a lot more then 5000 baht on the black market.

[mpm]

I've been to Banglamung police station today and have the report..nice foreign volunteer cop rang around different stations for me with no joy...he also called Barry Kennyon for me at soi 5 jomtien, who said don't come hear go to the Embassy on Monday...so.thats what I'll be doing..thanks for the tip about copying the report...

[mpm]

 

 

That is what I was thinking as well, I think you have to reapply for all visa's with lost or stolen passports. As others have said get the police report and go to your embassy in Bangkok to apply for a new one and a temporary one as well if you need it. I am not surprised nobody has turned it in a passport is worth a lot more then 5000 baht on the black market.

. They told me today no problem with the visa, as your in the system they will just transfer the visa to your new passport...

[brutox]

but, your retirement visa will transfer to the new passport, no problem ... mine was, when I replaced my near-expired passport with a new one .

 

Won't be to shore about that in case of a lost pasport .

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... the causal observer would assume that your retirement visa is digitally recorded by the Royal Thai Immigration Ministry somewhere, with all the appearances of a computerized information system they put on ... but ... this is a nation where brain-addled cops sit in an air-conditioned concrete box at every intersection, flicking a THB 100 switch to their THB 2.0m traffic light ... "stop" ... "go" ... "stop" ... "go."

 

... (appearances to Thais is more important than reality ... another of those Thai cultural values).

 

... I am actually interested to learn if these guys do anything with the information they supposedly scan into their computer system with each pass through immigration ... or, is all that technology merely an appearance of modernity behind a THB 100 switch ... "stop" ... "go" ... "stop" ... "go."

 

... mpm, let us know if the Royal Immigration Ministry even knows you have an approved retirement visa ... anyone else know if our visa status is digitally recorded? ... blacklisted? ... Thai arrest warrants? ... Interpol arrest warrants? ... anything? ... I mean, c'mon, is Thailand a totally safe haven for the world's criminals?

 

... it would seem ashamed for you to have to go through all that mess of re-applying for a retirement visa ... or, for a fucking pedophile to gain easy re-entry to Thailand after buying his way out.

[Ohyesuare]

. They told me today no problem with the visa, as your in the system they will just transfer the visa to your new passport...

 

I hope you are right, I read a few stories on Thai Visa of people who lost their passport and had to reapply for a visa but maybe the exact circumstances were different.

[M.C.H.]

mpm

You will have to go to the Immigration Office that issued your visa you will be in their system & I guess you will have to pay again as I did on transferring my visa to a new passport