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I have Australian passport (thus eligible for 90 day visa-exempt entry). On 28 January, the 90th day, of my first entry (31 October), I caught komuter train to Padang Besar, walked 2km from rail station to Malaysia Immigration. I asked for further 90 days, was told to stamp in to Thailand then stamp out. Half an hour to do this, then walked back to Malaysian Immigration, was given further 90 days. No requirements for insurance, proof of funds etc. Immigration officers in both countries were very polite. I had a photocopy of Xray of orthopaedic surgery performed six month previously, possibly this promoted some sympathy from officials of both countries.

Herein is a link to a downloadableThai/Eng rental agreement, just what the doctor ordered: http://slice-of-thai.com/rental/

Cheers, AA

HHin office out-to-lunch 1230-1330 each day.

Copy of rental agreement, photocopy of house owner's Thai ID card (signed by owner, with telephone number), to help with address change.

Lately HHin has told a few people living in A.M. PKK 'come back tomorrow' - maybe make contingency plan in case you have to confront reclacitrants. AA

Easy for you, just report online 15-7 days before your 90 days is up using the link below (practice when you have free time):

https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn90online/online/tm47/TM47Action.do

Thx for prompt advice, AA

Hello all,

my non-O visa on the basis of retirement (Australian passport) expires in late August.

I don't wish to extend for another year, maybe just 30-90 days (I have withdrawn my finances from Thailand).

Is it possible to 'extend the extension' in the 30 days prior to visa expiry, by paying 1,900 baht + showing departure ticket?

Mant thanks, AA

Disable any adblock, FFox and IE will work, the tricky one is tha nationality(eg. moi is 'Australian' not 'Australia.

I submitted first online report at midday on a Sunday, it was approved 2.5hr later. AA

I just dealt with this issue for a fellow australyian. Required a call to the embassy 02-3446300, then follow press-buttons to get a real person.

The embassy is no longer (as of last year) issuing the letter to which UJoe refers to in the above post.

The embassy informed Thai Immigration of this, but that message did not trickle-down to DanSingKon Immigration.

The embassy official to whom I spoke said to call the embassy, if you have a prob. doing the transfer,

while you are in the Immi office - the official can explain (in Thai) the revised procedure.

Hope this helps, cheers AA

A friend just messaged me that ThungWuaLaen 'locals' are doing 'reports and extensions' (90 day reports, annual extensions) at the office on Highway 4, not certain about other extensions

I have been outside Chumphon for ~ 2 years, Ranong Immi used to provide a mobile service at the Tesco building in Chumphon on Tuesdays.

Here's a thread http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/648080-visas-in-chumphon/

Off-topic, the DanSingKon office (Prachuap province) no longer doing annual extensions, we have to go to HuaHin.

UJoe, an office opened ~ 2 years ago near the intersection of Highway 4 and road 327 ie, about 10km from the centre of town. Has this closed down?

Just in case people coming throught the GH here need the info. Cheers, AA

Thanks for this info - we are getting there. AA

This will only be of interest to those of use that sometimes help management with IT.

Maggie's Homestay, Prachuap, was visited by HuaHin Immi. officials yesterday,

I was out so missed all the action.

Guest House is now required to (daily) report new arrivals online.

I can't find the page (at www.immigration.co.th) where the GH initially registers,

then can report daily. Can any Thai lingo literati please post the direct link.

Cheers, AA

Thanks, this is a very interesting report. AA

crictime.com works OK (in Australia), using windows or ubuntu and FFox, sometimes Chrome has a problem. AA

You'll need ~ 8gb of free space to install Ub, I usually free up 20Gb. Ubuntu can see everything you have in windoze.

Agree with phazey, but maybe first perform disk cleanup,(C drive - tools - disk cleanup) then defrag. AA

If you want to try zorin, formerly the .iso file had to be downloaded using firefox (not sure now). But that is OK 'coz you can add the downthemall extension to it and watch your downloads sizzle. Making a live usb using unetbootin was easy with zorin, too.

I would be very careful about removing any package (program) from a linux installation, coz there's a chance the action might also rip out some co-dependencies. I used to think that I would never need those email/bloat packages that came with the ubuntu family, better to just let them there and ignore. They don't take up so much space...

If you still want to have a play with the dozer, the latest build of windows 10 is out and it's free I found it to be better than 97, 98...7 (never touched 8). There are recent links on thaivisa.com to obtain a legal copy and install. Happy twiddling, AA

Good tip, Lop 3. You can google/youtube instructions how to refill your old cartridge. You can buy ink for some brands of printers/copiers at Tesco-Lotus and advice.co.th outlets, or order even cheaper from China on ebay.

The only drawback is that your sotware may tell you that the cartridge is empty after you refill it. AA

New terminal is fine. I had a 14hr overnight layover in November, plenty of reasonably-priced food outlets, I even found a stall selling Royal Danish stout cans for RM5.20.

A few places to lie down and get shut-eye without being hassled by airport security, outside a hamburger stall.

I didn't bother checking, but assume the budget eating area outside the terminal, near the bus stands for the city, is still open.

But as Siam 2007, you might be pressed for time if <2hr turnaround between flights. AA

Looks like Promax has strong connections with Halliburton - you might be able to contact Dick Chaney (boo...) and Condy (yeah!).

It is possibly a .tar.gz (or similar) archive, rather than an .archive file (whatever that may be, as Gumballl suggests).

I dunno about red hat, but with debian/ubuntu derivatives, there is a standard tool that deals with archives,

Also, an archive can be deconstructed using the command line.

Maybe you could let us know where it came from - the www, or a comp using a different operating system.

If it is not confidential and not too big, maybe you could email it to one of us and we could play with it.

Cheers, AA

Gotta say thanks everyone that contributed here, most entertaining thread of 2014/2557 on thaivisa.

Some of the big hitters - UJoe, Mario (where was Lop3?) made contributions.

Makes me feel a lot better - gave 43,000B to GF to buy a motorbike and she shot through 555!

I am sure our friend's situation will be resolved amicably - just don't ask me for 20,000B 555!

Happy New Year, AA

Also try installing a few other (free) media players, and get the latest updates.

VLC for android: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-android.html

Cheers, AA

Hate to say it, but, if you wanna setup a 24hr convenience shop, set it up right next to a big hospital.

All the coffin-sellers know this. No curfew on selling grog. Cheers, AA