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I gave them the 2 passports and the letter, didn't even look at the letter, just handed it straight back. My passport runs out next year, think I will renew in UK and come back on a new visa.

A lot depends on if you have online banking. The regulations are tighter than with just an account and banks are supposed to monitor your visa status.

Not entirely true. Your passport can "end" before an extension if it becomes full up. My last passport ended with 7 years validity remaining.

Mine, Non O marriage, took 3 days. Delay would have been down to having to supply additional document. Can't fault the service.

It would be best to try and find local door company to come and have a look. I recently had a problem with my kitchen door and couldnt see any way to deal with it. It opened in and out and the closure mechanism was worn. My wife asked around and found someone to come and deal with it. They came along and I watched what they did, removed a piece of trim by cutting round the edge with a knife to expose the fixing screws, just stuck it back on with silicone sealant when finished. If yours is something similar you could be scratching your head for long enough without getting anywhere. Good luck.

And what exactly is "inexcusable" about government statistics, doesn't every country in the world have them. But then not every country has such a large number of disgruntled expats.

I have a Microlife blood pressure monitor and that has arrhythmia detection on the pulse measurement. I don't pay much attention as already on anticoagulant. You should be able to get one at any decent medical store, possibly Fascino. https://www.microlife-thailand.com/bp-b3-afib-advanced/

Not "talking", just whinging. It wouldn't matter what the numbers were, or if the bars were packed, or the streets gridlocked, the whingers will whinge.

A single entry visa has an "Enter Before" date of 3 months from date of issue and a multi entry visa has an "Enter Before" date of 12 months. As said you will get a new 90 day permission each time you leave and return.

An interesting duet.

It would have been 1957 when i was about ten that I went to see Love me Tender at the local flea pit. Quite terrific, saw them all after that until they became a bit of a muchness mid 60s, but unfortunately he came to a premature and sad end. Favourite clip is from Jailhouse Rock.

May be an office thing or possibly timing. I have been doing the online since it started and have always done it on a Monday, can't remember ever waiting more than 24 hours. There may also be something in the suggestion that some cases are automated, mine was so quick this time it may well have been the case. Fingers crossed.

Money gets wasted on delusional schemes even before the corruption gets a look in. Nearly £900,000 of taxpayers’ money was spent on a study commissioned by Boris Johnson that found it would be too expensive to build a bridge or tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/20/research-into-johnsons-planned-irish-sea-bridge-cost-taxpayers-900000

Did you get an email from them? I got one immediately saying the information had been submitted successfully, and then approval shortly after.

You should have said Chonburi city or Muang Chonburi, unlikely anyone is going to recognise the district name, I didn't and been here 15 years. You are wrong to say no one speaks English, several do, you just didn't come across one. A few years back, before they rebuilt it, I was in the queue waiting for the doors to open after lunch. A guy in front of me was going for an IDP and as soon as the doors opened he shot up the stairs. My queue hadn't moved and 10 minutes later he was back down again. I asked if he had run into problems, No he said very easy, flashed his brand new IDP and disappeared. The driving licence bureaucracy increased after the rebuild and looks like the IDP has as well.

Took 58 minutes to be approved, nothing to complain about.

Neither have I in 15 years, so how can it be described as harassment. I came back in Aug on new E-visa, wanted to change renewal date, did extension in Nov and a few minutes ago did first 90 days since returning. First time since they revamped the online, not a problem and a bit easier than before.

To certain extent, but a bit more involved than that. I have just done a Laos e-visa and that was very easy but Laos only do a tourist e-visa for 30 days, no other e-visa. It is a couple of years since I did the one for Vietnam but think that was the same. Thailand has a variety of visas available on the e-visa platform which has resulted in the tourist visas picking up some of the steps used in the other types, but you do get a visa for a much longer period.

That is not quite true, the word "only" should have been "normally". A UK national living and working in France can quite legitimately obtain an E-visa for Thailand from the London Embassy. If you have permission to remain in a foreign country for 6 months you can apply to your own embassy.

Nothing more than media hype, ITV trying to take the heat away from the UK, you don't need covid there to die. When most people hear that phrase “humanitarian crisis”, they think “abroad”, “somewhere far away”, and certainly not in Britain. But how else to describe the tens of thousands of bodies avoidably piling up in the nation’s mortuaries? One funeral home worker says that they’ve run out of spaces for the deceased and “are having to keep some encoffined in office rooms”; another hospital porter reports that the mortuary has been near capacity for two weeks. This national issue should be splashed on every front page and leading every bulletin. It isn’t: why? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/15/britain-excess-death-rate-covid-nhs-cost-of-living

So with all that time in hotels you think you were never tracked or traced, your words? "Heaven thanks I was never harassed with this track and trace in Khon Kaen over the years."

Quite, why I went for the TP Link MR600.

You mean first personal submission, unless of course you mean in all the domestic travel you never stayed in a hotel. I lived here for the first 6 years on ME non O. In 2014 following a short trip to KL I submitted my passport for renewal but unfortunately the UK in it's wisdom had just moved passports from FCO to HO. After a couple of months when permission to stay was getting close to end I had to apply for extension to get further 30 days, passport came back 3 days before that ran out. Following year I changed to retirement extension and TM30 came up, had the same one in passport since.

Friend of mine had the Austin Healy frog eye sprout.

The TM30 in my passport is dated 2015, been out of the country more times than I can remember. A lot depends on the office.