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There was a lot of free vaccination of animals going on in Chonburi prior to the pandemic with mobile units touring the area. There has been no sign of the mobile units since the pandemic but a few weeks back there was a static open vaccination day where you bring your animal, not quite as effective. Hopefully we will see the mobile units again shortly.

Media scaremongering. Probably due to people not seeking medical assistance rather than a lack of vaccine as implied. We live in Chonburi and have about 60 cats. my wife has been treated a few times for rabies as a result of wounds from the cats.

Conned the EU into membership. Highlights item 3.

She didn't renew her Thai 10 year passport. She renewed her Thai passport and got the new 10 year version.

When I renewed mine last time there was about 7 years remaining.

Indeed, the sad day was when overseas passports were transferred from the FCO to the Home Office. My passport is due next year and think I will go back and do it, but when it comes to a visa there is no option.

When I did mine, immigration never even looked at the letter, just handed it straight back.

Hospitals are like restaurants, each with a different menu.

I have been doing UK visas since 2009 in the VFS early days at Regent House. Over the years their main focus has been to increase the amount of paid services and the new additional visa centres are just another money maker for them. Making the process simpler is just not on the agenda, parasites endorsed by the UK government.

Not an uncommon condition and I would have thought sedatives was a last resort. Causes of formication include normal states such as onset of menopause (i.e. hormone withdrawal). Other causes are medical conditions such as pesticide exposure,[3] mercury poisoning, diabetic neuropathy, skin cancer, syphilis, Lyme disease, hypocalcaemia, or herpes zoster (shingles) and neurocysticercosis.[2] Formication can be a result of stimulant intoxication or withdrawal (methamphetamine, Datura, cocaine,[4] MDMA aka ecstasy[5]) or alcohol withdrawal in alcoholics (i.e. delirium tremens), and is often accompanied by visual hallucinations of insects (formicanopia).[2] It can also occur as a symptom of benzodiazepine withdrawal, withdrawal from medication such as SSRI/SNRI antidepressants and tramadol; and as a side effect of opioid analgesics.[citation neede https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formication

In 1970 I was stationed near Dubai and in the hot season quite a few people went sick with the feeling of something crawling on the skin. The MO said it was probably lack of salt and to make sure they took the salt tablets that were on the tables at meal times. Seemed to do the trick.

Nothing to do with "Now" Another thread that will bounce around because of variable circumstances. When I got a new passport in 2014 Sri Ratcha immigration recreated a swampy entry stamp in my new passport.

Are you sure you are reading the calendar correctly? It is not that straightforward, I have done it many times and still have to be careful. Click on an appointment that is not available and the outcome can be unpredictable. I have only ever done free appointments so not quite sure how the paid ones work. Good luck.

You could try this one, may still be valid although a couple of years since i had issues. ukvisaservicesaspac

That was my thought, salt. https://theisaanrecord.co/2019/09/21/potash-mining-saline-soils-risk/

Website was ok yesterday and still ok today. https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/thailand/renew/adult

Highlights your profound ability to think you know what has posted, rather than bother to read what gets said. A trait displayed by previous self appointed gurus.

Garbage. I was here during the 2006 coup, only army I saw was on the slip roads to the new airport, not a shot fired. Lived here since middle of 2008 and yes there have been problems in Bangkok from time to time but to say the people took to the streets against the military is gross exageration. Only a percentage of the population were involved in the protests with gatherings in Bangkok, perhaps you think Bangkok is Thailand.

There is no need for a replacement seat, you could have it recovered. My wife had the drivers seat on a Nissan pickup done, think it was 900 baht. Did it while we waited and you could choose the fabric. It is a fairly common practice so I am sure if you shop around you could find somewhere.

I depends what you are doing. Late last year I had problems with 3 BB and kicked them into touch. I bough a sim router and the same sim but it hasn't been a great success. I use Kodi and had to limit the link size to less than 1GB or it would start buffering. Same if I stream for more than a couple of hours. The savings have now paid for the router and sim so I will be going back to an ISP shortly. Speedtests are not that reliable, the proof of the pudding is in the watching.

The value is irrelevant, nothing more than a starting point. Facial recognition was used in the government We Travel Together scheme, only a question of time before it encroaches into everything.

Another classic deliberate misinterpretation. It doesn't really matter what you or anyone else thinks, entering Thailand visa exempt with the intention of staying long term is a deliberate circumvention of established visa conventions. Why the Thai government allows it to continue is anyone's guess, but if done away with there would be less whinging and no rogue offices.

Good distortion. Now tell us how many countries allow visa status conversion of visa exempt entry. If people want things in Thailand to be as good as their nanny state, shouldn't that also apply to visa policy. Of course hypocrites want everything to suit their own point of view.

Indeed. The bulk of applications to visit family in Thailand will be based on marriage and the preference of the Thai authorities is that you visit on a SE visa and then extend that visa. It is in the DNA of IOs around the world to be suspicious of marital relationships. Visiting a child wouldn't be seen in the same way.

For some time after the roll out of the E-visa in the UK the ME option for Non O visiting family was greyed out and not available. When I did one last Aug I noticed the ME option had become active, and it still is.