I went to the new Immigration Office in Jomtien yesterday.



Coming from Jomtien Beach Road, the two storey building is situated all the way along on the right, some 200 yards from the end of Soi 5.
It has a reasonably sized courtyard for parking, but predictably the majority of space is taken up by staff vehicles. The raised flagpole stuck in the middle makes it interesting for manoeuvring around the haphazardly parked vehicles, but parking is currently not an issue as there is plenty of space to park in Soi 5.



On the left as you enter the complex, there is a row of one storey shops. The first one takes up two units and is a café: one of the units is decked out with tables and chairs, the other used as a kitchen.
At the end of the row and nearest the entrance is a unit that provides copying and photo services.



You can only get a minimum of two photos made at a cost of 100 Baht for the pair. I jokingly but negatively commented to the hard-faced woman who clearly manages the place on the price, to which her reply was that they now had ‘digital’ and ‘same-same before anyway’. Photocopies are 3 baht per page.
The units in between are in the process of being outfitted for whatever.



The opening hours of the Immigration Office are the same as in Soi 8, i.e. from 8.30am to 4.30 pm.
I asked the officer ‘interviewing’ me as to whether 90 Day reporting could be done on-line. Her reply was: “I hope so.” I tried to get more of a definitive answer from her, but she would say no more on the subject probably because saying ‘I don’t know’ seldom comes easily to Thai in authority. Given that my visa extension was at her mercy, I chose not to push it and took it to mean ‘presently not the case’.
According to Khun Somsak, the portly affected officer who normally wears white and is in charge of Retirement Extensions (could not help but spot the calendar on his desk with the December ‘model’ being a posing bloke dressed in a feathered white tutu of sorts), it seems that on Wednesdays all the staff participate in some sort of athletic pursuit. That explained the fact that everyone was wearing matching track suits and me calling him by his name without him wearing a name badge was not the reason for him sweating.
When I asked ‘Khun Pu’ (her spelling) if she enjoyed keeping fit, her scowl suggested that this was a compulsory activity.
For those planning to get to the office by Bahtbus, motocy taxi etc or using their own transport from the Pattaya direction, the optimum access would be the first Soi on the left as you make the sharp right-hand turn at the Hanuman statue down to the beach on Thappraya Road. The Immigration Office is probably about a five minute walk from the main road.
Soi 5 is the first Soi on the right past the Area Revenue building.

Thanks for the information Noel.

It will make the visa extension process easier for me as Jomtien is closer and easier to reach from where I stay.

It will probably mean Jomtien will become busier as a consequence.