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In this case the question is why your passport office didn't cancel your old passport when you picked up the new one. That's what they are supposed to do, unless you qualify for having multiple passports for special reasons.

Udon Thani and Nakhon Phanom, aren't those flights more like bargirl shuttles instead of bringing in tourists?

That's a ridiculous idea. Unenforceable, impractical, doomed to fail miserably. Maybe some people need to remember that Thailand used to have a very successful HIV prevention campaign. Revive that instead of coming up with comical nonsense.

With a short-haul flight, you cannot escape the miserable monsoon season weather, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that this isn't a popular time for regional tourism.

He's clearly having a laugh. How about the scam compounds nearby the Vietnamese border then, Vietnam's fault? And the ones in Sihanoukville and nearby Phnom Penh? Oops. The one country all these have in common is Cambodia.

Pretty much every single time I buy something at 7-11, they ask me if I'm a member. As I clearly look foreign, I can only assume that they have foreign members, otherwise why would they bother to ask? I use the TrueMoney wallet, so I already get "coins" for 7-11 purchases. With a ridiculously low monthly cap that I've typically maxxed out around the 5th of each month. That doesn't amount to a lot in actual baht and I just cannot be bothered to check if becoming a "member" gives me significantly more benefits. The owners of CP need the money a lot more than I do, in any case. 555

That's quite a spin. Rather than calculating how much less that is compared with Trump's 49% opening bid, it is still 36% MORE compared with the pre-Trump tariffs.

A downloadable statement is fine, as long as it has the required details. What they don't accept are screenshots of an app or banking website, it does have to be a statement.

They mostly seem to post garbage.

Maybe I just misunderstand what you mean, but it sounds like you have that upside down. More difficult requirements means that MORE people use agents to circumvent those requirements.

Cambodia and Thailand, united they stand, at least when it comes to being at the receiving end of King Donald's fury.

I don't say this very often, but I'm with the Thai police on this one.

I can see how this will become a concern for people from repressive countries who know their country is keeping a watchful eye on them. I don't think Thailand will share this information with other countries voluntarily, but a data leak is a very real possibility considering the sad state of cyber security. Using the data obtained from such a breach to deduct a few social credit points (or worse) isn't exactly unthinkable.

In fairness, this is the "Thai Visas" forum and there's another one for other countries. What @BrandonJT wrote is certainly true for all Thai visas nowadays. You're right about other countries, obviously. Schengen visas routinely are issued to start on the exact date that the applicant wants to enter. Closer to Thailand, the Vietnamese eVisa comes to mind; you can choose when it will be "valid from". I remember that some (honorary) Thai consuls used to be "flexible" when they still issued handwritten visas. That's why I wasn't sure if you were referring to Thai visas years ago.

Thai visas? When was that?