Once again I fount myself with no empty pages left in my Passport which meant I needed to renew my passport for future travel.
This is how to renew your British passport in Bangkok if you ever face the same problem.
Visit the British Embassy located on Wireless Road. There you will get searched and will need to leave any electronic devices at the counter before making your way over to the consular section (it feels more like entering a prison than an embassy!). Grab yourself a ticket from the machine and a C1 form. Fill the form out and make sure you have two passport sized photos. When your number is called, give the form, photos, existing passport and fee to the staff. The fee’s are as follows:
32 page passport – 6,188
48 page passport – 7,488
Child’s passport – 3,952
Wait 10 days.
When collecting your new passport, head to the same building where you are asked to check to make sure the details on your new passport are correct. You will also be given your old passport back with the corners clipped off so you can transfer your visa across to your new passport.
Next step is to go over to the Immigration department on Soi Suan Pho, off Sathorn Road, to transfer the visa. I hate this place with a passion, it’s so unorganized but you don’t have any other choice.
Opposite the immigration department there are photocopy shops which you’ll need to make copied of the following:
The photo page of both passports
Your visa, entry card and stamp from your old passport
Your previous visa stamps (if any) in/out of Thailand
Que up at the counter near the entrance and inform the lady you need to transfer your visa across to your new passport. She’ll give you a form to fill out. Return once the form has been filled out and she’ll either give you 2 tickets: If you have a business visa, you’ll need to go into hand your document with your photo copies and passports so they can check everything is how is should be. Once this is returned to you, or if you are on a tourist visa, you go to the counter near the entrance and get another ticket to lost passports. This is where they’ll actually transfer the visa over.
I’m curious, you are self-employed (I think) so how do yo get your visa?
I have a limited company with staff.
So i need to get my first adult british passport. my old child’s one ran out last september, and i have been useing my australian passport. so is there extra fee or waiting time.
if you don’t know, no worries, but it would be nice to know before i make the trek to bangkok.
I was dismayed to see that you had to transfer all yr visas To the new passport.
I was under the impression that one merely kept the two passports together, with a rubber band, and the immigration people would be comprehensive???
I am going up this Thursday from Phuket and I was counting on the Embassy posting my new passport back to me in Phuket TEN DAYS LATER?
Thanks Chris, this blog has been very helpful.
I am in Thailand at the moment and have a flight out in 6 days. Will be going to Embassy on Monday when they open again to get new passport as mine was stolen. Does it always take 10 days????
Hi James – If you explain your situation, they may speed up the process. I’m sure this happens a lot and they have a system in place.
Let me know how you get on so I can update the post!
Good luck!
Thanks Chris, very helpful…will Thai immigration also transfer re-entry visa to new passport do you think?
So, let me get this straight as I understand it they transfer all the Thai stamps to the new passport therefore filling up the new passport. Can I just get a flight out of the country somewhere and come back in and start again? Less stamps. Less full pages.
Or is it just the last stamp which for me would be the immigration stamp to give me 30 days after the Cambodia one runs out?
I live in Laos and have no pages left in UK passport for a new Lao visa. The british Embassy in BKK says on phone I need to go to Hong Kong (not BKK) and apply for a new passport. This will take much time and much money — is it true?!
If it was me, I’d go with the Embassy’s advice – although it sounds strange. Maybe call back in the hopes you’ll speak to someone with more knowledge.