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9 November 2012
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the last migration? hua hin immigration to move into purpose built official offices next year
hua hin, THAILAND The long running saga of the location of the immigration office in the town appears to be drawing to a close, with the news this week that the current location on the Canal Road next to the Three Girls restaurant is to close, and relocate to a new official building in the centre of town. However the rumours that this relocation is to happen this year appear to be unfounded, as an officer at the current office informed AWOL that the move will happen next year. The Hua Hin Immigration office is actually a satellite office of the Dan Singkhon Immigration near Prachuap Kiri Khan, and it has had several locations in the town since it first opened as an office within the police station in 2005. The first move was in 2007 to a house on a new development on Soi 102, but after two years there the office moved to Soi 23, just behind the Index Shopping mall, and then in October 2010, to the current location. It does appear as though this next move will be the final one for several years, as well as being part of a bigger plan of moving towards Hua Hin becoming the provincial capital of a brand new province, something that has been mooted for some time. If this does happen eventually, then the immigration office here would finally become their own masters, and working expats are also likely to have the convenience of an office of the Labour Department in the same building, who are responsible for the approval and issuing of work permits - currently this involves a trip to Prachuap Kiri Khan. These are all additional signs of the current and future growth of Hua Hin, on top of the numerous and very obvious large and small projects that are underway or planned, such as the Bluport and Venezia retail developments.
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