Best Time to Go to the Immigration Office

Chaeng Watthana hands out walk-in queue tickets from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM, and the time you turn up decides whether you’re out by lunch or there all day. Here’s when to go, and which trips you can skip entirely by going online.

Immigration offices in Thailand are notorious for their long queues, especially for tourist visas, education visas, and business visas. It can easily take you the whole day for a simple tourist visa extension. This is one of the main reasons many people decide to use a visa agency: to simply reduce the queuing time.