Visa Extension

Visa Extension

In May 2019, I was bound for my Visa Extension.
Same as every year.

I was barely 6 months back in Thailand, still recovering from a life threatening surgery in Belgium.
Walking with a cane as I was still not fully able to walk normally.

Like every year, I had prepared all the required documents and stored them in a briefcase and early in the morning I went to the local Immigration Office in Nakhon Ratchasima.

At the main entry door, there was a young student sitting at his desk and checking that everybody would have the required documents ready. About 10 persons were in front of me at the entry door, and I joined the queue.

When I arrived at the desk, I was very tired from standing and could barely hold my briefcase while holding my walking cane in one hand. While I was trying to get the documents out of my briefcase, my briefcase dropped out of my hands and all the documents dropped on the floor.

I was wearing a medical belly-band and could not bend myself to pick-up all the documents. I was going to kneel down to scrounge together all the documents as I hear somebody behind me shouting at the boy sitting at his desk:
"What are you doing?"
"You can not see that this man is not well?"
"Get off your chair and help this man now."

I turned around to see who was shouting at the boy and saw that it was the head of the Immigration Office.
I excused myself for the incident, and the head of the Immigration Office asked me to follow her to her office. The Visa extension took altogether less than 5 minutes.

As I left the Immigration Office, I went to a shop nearby and bought a present for the Immigration team and their help.

I went back to the Immigration Office to give the head of the office the present and took a picture of this.

The shortest time ever to do a Visa Extension!!!!