Phuket Immigration Office

The Phuket Immigration Office most people mean is the provincial office at 482 Phuket Road in Talat Yai, on the southern edge of Phuket Town near Saphan Hin. Its own history page says immigration opened here in 1928, in a wooden building beside the mangroves, and the office still stands on the same site. It handles every service the province offers, from a tourist's 30-day extension to retirement and marriage extensions, residence certificates and TM.30 for landlords.

It opens at 08:30, Monday to Friday, closes for lunch from 12:00 to 13:00 and stops at 16:30. With Blue Tree closed, the superintendent told The Phuket News that visitor numbers at Service Counter 101 have roughly doubled and the office is extremely overcrowded, so I'd be there before opening.

The Patong office is on Thaweewong Road, Patong's beach road, in Kathu district. It keeps shorter hours than Phuket Road, 10:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 15:00 on weekdays, and runs with two officers, although the superintendent says it sees three to four times the visitors Blue Tree did.

It takes 90-day reports and address notifications, and Phuket Immigration sent drive-through users to it when that service closed. The volunteer desk lists Patong for tourist extensions too, and a March 2026 visitor's account says first 30-day extensions were being done there, but other visitors report being told to go to Phuket Town instead. Re-entry permits and medical extensions are main-office work on the volunteers' list. Call 076 340 477 before you rely on Patong for an extension.

Phuket Immigration's Blue Tree service point, on the 3rd floor of the Lifestyle Village at Blue Tree Phuket in Choeng Thale, closed on Monday, 19 October 2026. Blue Tree first announced it as a temporary closure for renovation, and Phuket Immigration's superintendent then told The Phuket News that two of its officers had retired and one had left for police training, that its staff had moved to the main office, and that it would reopen only if more officers were sent to Phuket. No date has been set.

Blue Tree had opened in May 2021 for people living in Thalang, Bang Tao and Laguna, on weekdays from 10:00 to 15:00. Until it reopens, everything it did goes to Phuket Road, and residence certificates are collected at Room 101.

A visa exemption stamp or a 60-day tourist visa can be extended once, by up to 30 days, for ฿1,900, at the officer's discretion. In Phuket you apply at Room 101 on Phuket Road, or at Patong if it's taking extensions the day you go. The 30 days are added from the end of your current stamp, not from the day you apply, so going a week early costs you nothing.

The Immigration Bureau's handbook for a tourism extension lists your passport and one copy, a TM.7 with a photo attached, a form acknowledging the penalties for overstaying, and the fee, and it counts about 40 minutes of counter work once your documents are complete. The wait for your number comes on top.

A re-entry permit keeps an extension or a long-stay permission valid while you leave Thailand and come back. It costs ฿1,000 for a single re-entry or ฿3,800 for multiple re-entries, and the fee isn't refunded if the application is refused. You need a TM.8 with one 4×6 cm photo, your passport and copies of its photo page, visa or extension and latest entry stamp.

In Phuket it's done at Room 101, and the online booking page has a 20-minute re-entry slot. I'd get one in town before the day you fly rather than count on a counter at the airport.

TM.30 is the notice that whoever houses a foreigner files with immigration within 24 hours of the guest moving in. A hotel files it for you. In a condo, villa or house rental the owner or landlord is responsible, in person at Room 101 or Patong, by post or online through the Immigration Bureau's system. Filing it yourself in person takes the proof of residence form, copies of your passport pages, a signed copy of the owner's ID and house book, the rental agreement, and a power of attorney with a ฿10 stamp if the owner doesn't come, according to the volunteer desk.

A residence certificate, the letter that confirms your address for a Thai driver's license, is collected at Room 101 now that Blue Tree is closed. Phuket Immigration told The Phuket News in 2021 that it's issued free.

Long-stay extensions are main-office work. The online booking page has slots for retirement, Thai family, teacher, three kinds of study and business extensions, each ฿1,900, plus an Other Long-term Extension slot where you state the reason. It has no DTV category, so DTV holders should ask on 076 221 905 which slot to take. The requirements for each visa are on my visa requirements guide.

Phuket International Airport has its own immigration checkpoint for arrivals and departures, listed on Google as Phuket Airport Immigration Office in Thalang. It's passport control, not an extension office, and I found no official page offering tourist extensions there.

Arriving, you clear passport control with your Thailand Digital Arrival Card, which you file free online within three days before you land. Immigration lines at Phuket are longest from December to February, so file it before you fly and have your onward ticket and hotel address ready.

Every Phuket immigration office works Monday to Friday only. Phuket Road opens at 08:30 and closes at 16:30, Patong opens at 10:00 and closes at 15:00, and both break for lunch from 12:00 to 13:00. They close on Thai public holidays and substitution days, and over New Year the main office has closed from 31 December to 4 January.

The office is under more pressure than usual. The superintendent says the cut in the visa exemption to 30 days has sent new arrivals to the counter alongside people still on the old 60 days, and Blue Tree's visitors now come to Phuket Road too. I'd go mid-week at opening time, book the tourism slot if one is free, and never leave an extension to the last working day before a long weekend.

Most pages about Phuket immigration still send people to Blue Tree, some with hours of 10:00 to 16:00. The counter has been closed since 19 October 2026. A Blue Tree search snippet saying it's open daily from 10 a.m. comes from a currency exchange booth on the same page. Guides and forum posts also describe the drive-through 90-day window at Phuket Road, which closed in February 2026 and has been scrapped for good.

You'll find closing times of 16:00 and starts of 09:00 for the main office; its own contact page gives 08:30 to 16:30. Pages written before 15 September 2026 describe extending a 60-day exemption, and the exemption is now 30 days. Some guides tie the 90-day report to your arrival card, but the report is its own TM.47 filing.