Funny I am in a mess with my retirement extension....

Passport was due to expire 09 Oct and had ret.ext. before to 25 Nov,but was given to 09 Oct. with re-entry permit same same. That's normal procedure.

Got a new passport in June, transferred extension in Bangkok, stamped ret.ext to 25 Nov but re-entry to 09 Oct...

Went to Laos last week and stopped at Nong Khai imm, our dear friend threw my old passport meters away, that worthless piece of paper, and said "you can NOT go to Laos"
"you can not return from Laos" and "you don't understand me"

Fair enough, I smiled and went to Laos.

On my return I was stamped authorised to stay until 09 Oct indeed, have to leave the country BEFORE my ret. ext. expires...

Anyway, as I told our friend at NK imm, I have a plane ticket to Europe leaving 21 Sept, coming back 20 Oct, AFTER the re-entry permit expiration day. So unless I had a valid re-entry permit up to 25 Nov I could not return on my ret. ext.

Someone told me Bangkok should have issued me a new re-entry permit until 25 Nov, which they did not.

The other guy at NK, Morakot, told me to get a non-imm O visa in Europe and start the process all over again on my return. I planned to do that in Bangkok, seems now I will be forced to visit my friend at NK again.

He did ask silly questions to my gf: how we met and if all farangs liked dark skinned (Issan) women. A friend who does not qualify for retirement and who sold his business to live on and does keep his money outside Thailand was asked how much millions he had abroad...etc etc..

Don't you just feel that hospitable respect as a guest in the LOS