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It is an absolute disaster/craziness/you name it to read how Thai health officials create new ideas every day and endanger the health and lives of their citizens. Just this week
- boosters under the skin instead of in the muscles to save vaccines...- human trial with 100'000 STUDENTS in BKK, using the Chinese stuff instead of a real vaccine (Pfizer was promised for all students just days before)
- only one mRNA shot for students due to some fear of myocarditis which was never expressed anywhere in the world, leaving the students at risk
- mixture of vaccines that NOBODY ELSE in the world is trying to do/ accepting
- opening the country, when they are definitely not ready for it. The risk for the country is of course coming from within and NOT from the tourists, as those would mostly come fully vaccinated.
To me, it looks like everybody wearing a white coat or a khaki uniform is now qualified to utter his opinion as "fact" in order to get his 5 minutes of fame (and later shame), but not a single one of these <deleted myself> ever listens to what the WORLD as a whole has already experienced.
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The "under consideration" stamp is just another extension to your Visa, nothing to worry about. Just go back to the immigration office on the day printed on the stamp. Happens to me every year, as the extension based on family also comes with a 30-day "under consideration" stamp. You can even get a re-entry stamp with this stamp, as I needed 2y ago
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1) it is not a "exit/return form from my local immigration office", it is a re-entry stamp in your passport
2) You have to go through the full COE process, no matter how long you stay outside of the country.
3) You have two option for the quarantine: a Sandbox (currently only Phuket available) quarantine or a ASQ quarantine.
4) Both options require the same paperwork, except the vaccination certificate that you only need for the sandbox. Yellow book, Pink ID card are completely irrelevant.
As Sheryl said: read the website of the Thai Embassy, where you will apply for the COE to find out, what you need. You can apply for the COE (and even complete the COE) while you are still in Thailand. That is what I did, and since you only want to stay outside for one week, I strongly suggest to start the process in advance to be sure you get the COE in time. I had all the necessary papers (flight reservations, ASQ reservation, health insurance, passport copies including re-entry stamp) and applied and received the COE even before I left Thailand. The only thing I had to do abroad was organize the Covid PCR test
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24 minutes ago, champers said:I am partial to a nurse or schoolgirl uniform .... but have trouble finding ones in my size.????
Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/plus-size-school-girl-costume/s?k=plus+size+school+girl+costume
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This statistic is so full of complete BS...
OF COURSE, a much higher number of COVID sufferers who were NOT vaccinated die ... BECAUSE IN THAILAND ALMOST NO ONE IS VACCINATED... thank you, government, for NOT taking care of your people.
Every other discussion you people had above - including being vaccer or antivaccer etc, is fully irrelevant.
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1 hour ago, HeijoshinCool said:
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Yep, Fit-2-Fly certificate....
That's what I'm asking about.
Fit-2-Fly is not required anymore, this was discontinued I believe on 1 April. I entered Thailand on 1 August and nobody asked for it.
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When you work in Thailand, you need a work permit. That said... the so called "digital nomads" who work online from within Thailand BUT ONLY for companies OUTSIDE Thailand do normally not bother about work permits, it is a grey zone really, and as long as you don't brag about it, nobody will really find out or care.
Don't let your employers from outside Thailand send your salary directly to your Thai bank account, route it through a bank or financial institution outside Thailand. Many people use Wise for that.-
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I guess that the upcoming elections are a bigger concern for the ambassador than the few expats that might or might not get sick when travelling to BKK... he might be out of job, if the German government changes...
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Once again: As long as the whole "punishment" is a few weeks of paper shuffling (called "inactive duty"), nothing will change. The ONLY solution is firing all those incompetent cops who are unwilling or incompetent to do their job. Just imagine the hundreds of million of salaries that could be saved...
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This has to do with the new eService tax law that Thailand introduced this year (or is about to introduce, not sure about that). They want to charge VAT for online services. I have been bombarded by Microsoft and other SW companies with the same request to either enter tax residency or tax ID, if I am a business.
The US government will now collect even more information from their citizens abroad in order to tax them...
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They should press charges against the incompetent (self-deleted expressions) who were responsible for designing, developing, testing and approving the Go-Live of that database/application.
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37 minutes ago, CHEYENNE5668 said:
So does that mean if you roll the dice on non refundable flight tics and your COE gets denied you have to eat the cost?
That would be correct, yes. HOWEVER: most airlines in this time offer free - and sometimes unlimited - postponement of flights, so you could still use the flight at a later stage, once you sorted the COE problem.
Also, there is no waiting period for the COE process. Once you know the reason for the rejection, remediate the problem and start again, if you started early (see my previous post), your flight will probably still be valid. -
@glegolo18, @ubonjoe: According to a document on the website of the Thai Embassy in Bern (where I did get my COE), there are NO minimum or maximum days when you can apply for the COE before the flight. However, two things must be kept in mind:
1. The COE validity according to this document is 30 days.
2. The number of processing days depends on the Embassy (workload, staffing), Bern took 28 hours from when I started until they issued the COE. Of course, I had all documents ready and was able to upload everything within minutes of getting to the next stage.
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3 minutes ago, Neeranam said:
Thanks for the detailed answer to my questions!
I'm a little wary of the land office, as they have the reputation for being the most corrupt in the kingdom.
Well, I don't know about the corruption part. What I can tell you:
- an AGENT would normally be used by the seller to promote and sell his land, so the seller would have to pay any commission to the agent, not you as the buyer
- engaging your own LAWYER is what I would do. Not only can he do the due diligence for you prior to even signing the contract (like checking the land marks, chanote etc), but he will be the one actually talking with the land office staff while the sale is completed. AND your lawyer will be cheaper than the 3% that an agent might want.-
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4 minutes ago, kwonitoy said:
Same, Cashier's cheque, once the name is transferred cheque and keys change hands.
Don't forget the land transfer fee, payable to the Land Office, usually split between buyer and seller 50/50. Ours by agreement was cash by both parties.
That is what I love about company transfers. The fee at the DBD is absolutely minimal (few thousand Baht to change the directors and shareholders of the company), and the seller is responsible to pay any tax for the profit from the company sale. If the chanote is in the company name, there is no need to go to the land office.
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This case gets stranger and stranger every day...
But as long as "rewards" in such staggering amounts are handed over in Thailand, the chance of getting wrongfully arrested, processed and convicted by the BIB are pretty high, and the incentive to "help" your suspect to plead guilty by all means necessary is just to high for all involved.
And of course, corruption is the brother (or sister?) of those "rewards". Knowing how much money the cop can make will of course just make me offering him 20% more for looking away...-
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3 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:
Its usually a cashiers check or bank transfer etc, done at the land office "as" your name gets put on the chanote.
There isn't usually any huge amounts of money being handed over, outside of the land office transaction. If the sale doesn't go through, you dont hand over any money.
You can literally take a suitcase full of money to the land office, when your name is put on the chanote, you hand over the suitcase.
Cash is the standard in land offices, if somebody takes a loan and the land title is the collateral for the loan. I have done that also in the past (gives you a nice interest and you as foreigner are allowed to give out personal loans), and they have a cash counter in the land office (at least in Pattaya). People who take loans against their properties normally need cash pretty fast and can / don't want to wait of a check to clear.
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It is called a Cashier's check. It tells the recipient of the check, that the amount mentioned on the check has been debited from your account (your details are on the check), and that he can cash it at any bank he wishes.
You go to the land office / DBD and show the check to the seller, then the documents for the sale get signed, handled to the government employee for processing, and when they come back signed and stamped, THEN you hand over the check and get the house documents (tabien baan, chanote etc.). Make sure that EVERYTHING is in order before you hand over the check (including handing over house and keys), because once you hand over the check, there is nothing that can stop the seller from cashing it, disappearing and ghosting you in the future.Been there, done it. Easy peasy. We met at the house, checked everything (inventory, working appliances etc.), he handed over the keys to me, we went to the DBD to sign over the company, he got the check, I got all documents (checked by MY lawyer), then drove to the house and changed all locks as my first task in taking over the house.
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Just another authoritarian health official muttering something for his 5 minutes of fame. Until confirmed, I would say this is fake news, OR it is already decided that from 1 October, there will be no more "dark red zones".
Too many times, such statements get reversed next day, and this one is not even from Anutin himself
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Just another authoritarian health official muttering something for his 5 minutes of fame. Until confirmed, I would say the newspaper that can not be named is publishing fake news, OR it is already decided that from 1 October, there will be no more "dark red zones".
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Just another authoritarian health official muttering something for his 5 minutes of fame. Until confirmed, I would say the newspaper that can not be named is publishing fake news, OR it is already decided that from 1 October, there will be no more "dark red zones".
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Never had problems with Dell and HP, but always with Lenovo
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A...X or α...ω should keep everybody happy... even hetero people and eunuchs could feel included ????
Every First Jab Will Be Sinovac Vaccine in October
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It is an absolute disaster/craziness/you name it to read how Thai health officials create new ideas every day and endanger the health and lives of their citizens. Just this week
- boosters under the skin instead of in the muscles to save vaccines...
- human trial with 100'000 STUDENTS in BKK, using the Chinese stuff instead of a real vaccine (Pfizer was promised for all students just days before)
- only one mRNA shot for students due to some fear of myocarditis which was never expressed anywhere in the world, leaving the students at risk
- mixture of vaccines that NOBODY ELSE in the world is trying to do/ accepting
- opening the country, when they are definitely not ready for it. The risk for the country is of course coming from within and NOT from the tourists, as those would mostly come fully vaccinated.
To me, it looks like everybody wearing a white coat or a khaki uniform is now qualified to utter his opinion as "fact" in order to get his 5 minutes of fame (and later shame), but not a single one of these <deleted myself> ever listens to what the WORLD as a whole has already experienced.