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It is not really a bridge, it is a road that runs offshore from one side of Chonburi to the other. Some parts, as the one mentioned have stopping points with refreshments and adequate facilities for rubbish. The inland side of the road in that area is mangroves and the amount of rubbish in the roots is unbelieveable. Wouldn't surprise me if at some point they make it so stopping is not allowed.

The quickest one I have ever had was last April, took about 2 minutes, so fast it had to have been automated. Had hoped they were testing a new feature but the next one was back to the usual couple of hours.

Apologies, you are quite right. I should have said "definitive statements made on this forum are very rarely valid." As you well know the majority of issues that arise have so many variables that brevity is often the result leading to statements that may only be true under certain circumstances. People seem to for get that words like, normally, should , maybe etc, would be more appropriate. The bottom line here is some attempt to justify your misleading comment.

You haven't said whereabout in Chonburi. There are 2 offices in the province and if you go to the catchment area for the other office it may be seen in the same way as leaving the province. There have been several adverse reports regarding Jomtien and difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. If you had been using the other office there certainly wouldn't be any problem. I had to do a 90 day yesterday in person and no issue with my 9 year old TM30.

You are mistaken, Immigration cannot transfer a vignette nor can they change the passport number on an e-visa. Years ago you could take your pasport to the consulate in Hull and they would put a visa stamp in your new passport, but that stopped when vignettes were introduced. I came back on a new visa last Oct and did the 12 month extension in Dec. Yesterday I went to do the first 90 day in person and had to give them a copy of a visa that had been expired 10 months. Maybe one day they will get the act together and update visa and passport details across immigration on entry.

I think you are making more of it than the reality, how many times a year do you plan to leave the country or go to immigration. You never said when you passport is due for renewal, if shortly, surely it would have been better to renew it before the visa. My last 2 visas have been e-visas and last year after a couple of days in Laos I came back across the bridge at Nong Khai on a re-entry permit. The IO asked to see my visa, I just said I have a copy on the phone, he glared at me, stamped the passport and handed it back. I would suggest all you need is a copy of the old passport and visa document on your phone. If that makes you nervous then you can fall back on the physical documents.

Brevity and context do not go together, you should be well aware that definitive statements are very rarely valid.

A couple of years ago I did it by train. Took the Hat Yai shuttle in the morning to PB and came back on the afternoon one, no problem. Both Thai and Malaysia immigration are on the platform and a bit more straightforward than the road border. They only open when a train is due. You can walk across the road from the station to the market area.

I would agree with you, the number of lanterns being released has reduced quite significantly in recent years. I think people in general have come to realise how dangerous they can be. I saw a family with some on the beach one year at New Year. The father had lit it and stepped back allowing 2 young girls to hold on to it. They let it go but it only went up a few feet and came down again. Girls didn't move and father had a panic to get them out of the way. It just burst into flames on touching the ground.

Exactly. The visa is granted from an assessment based on the information provided and the perception will vary quite significantly with circumstances. Wife vs GF, young vs old, newly married or long term, assets or not, employed or not, etc etc. One thing you can be sure of, errors and omissions are extremely risky.

Employment is a reflection on character and will always have some relevance. In the case of a spouse visa, quitting could be seen as a natural progression and have little bearing on the matter. In the case of a visitor visa, employment is a significant plus in respect of reason to return. Quitting during application could be taken the wong way and rather inadviseable.

This was the point in question, which cannot be assumed to be the case. "If Bangkok is submerged by the sea, then every island in Thailand would have also been at least partially submerged by then as well. " There was no link to any goalposts, only hearsay. At the end of the day it makes little difference to Bangkok if the water goes up or the ground goes down, same outcome. Both are underway and can only be mitigated.

You should remember the point was about a shortage of skills, not about all skills. It is government classification, not mine, maybe I was a bit brief in just referring to apprenticeships which had one of the greatest impacts. If you look at the Skilled Worker Visa categories, not that many of them require a formal university education. More to do with vocational achievements.

As far as the government is concerned "skilled" workers do not come from universities, and in particular Cambridge. The lack of skilled workers comes from goverment mishandling of apprenticeships.

Fairly obvious he meant "visa extension" rather a visa, which would have expired on entry. Implied text appears to be an alien concept.

Where do you get "7 day clock" from? Poster said expiry date of visa, which could be months away.

The airport is quite higher than Bangkok, if that gets flooded Bangkok will be well on the way to becoming the Venice of Asia.

Garbage. Bangkok is sinking approx 3cm per year and currently the average height above sea level is around 5 feet. Irrespective of any change in sea levels, Bangkok could be at sea level within 50 years, without any island ever being affected.

Indeed. When the African nations were fighting among themselves the EU failed to agree on a unified approach, now deperately trying to shut the stable door. The UK were quite delusional thinking the problem would go away with brexit. On a global basis there is a fundamental problem in the fact that the UN is about as useful as a chocolate fireguard. They should have done a great deal more years ago to deal with displaced persons resulting from conflict. It is not like there is insufficient room in North Africa for refugee encampments, it was an apathetic approach that resulted in camps on the French coast.

The numbers vary between 8 and 15 depending on what source you look at. With your 10, it tells me 1 died for every 3 miles, China's HSR is in the order of 28,000 miles. Their HSR is very complex in places, I remember one part going through the mountains where we must have travelled 60 - 70 miles of continuous tunnels and viaducts. However overall, Chinese high speed rail has an exemplary safety record[135]: 70  and according to The New York Times, the Chinese high-speed rail network is "one of the world’s safest transportation systems."[136] As of at least 2024, the Wenzhou crash remains the only serious accident in the massive Chinese HSR network.[135]: 70  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#:~:text=However overall%2C Chinese high speed,the massive Chinese HSR network.

Quite. Condos and houses are chalk and cheese and profit is not the only horse in the race, quality of life should be the odds on favourite. I was 62 when I decided to build my own house in 2009, on my wife's land so effectively gifted. Cost just under 1M to build and have probably spent about 300K on maintenance. After nearly 15 years, if I peg it tomorrow it hasn't really cost me much, about 7K/month. How would that compare to the rent on a 100 sq mtr, 2 bed detached bungalow. A real bonus of having your own place is a built in hobby.

About a dozen died constructing the channel tunnel(about 30 miles), but you are free to believe that deaths per mile are greatest in China.

McCarthy may have died but the legacy lives on.

May well be the Nigerian lager. ‘Black is beautiful’: Why Nigerians think their Guinness is better than Ireland’s https://edition.cnn.com/travel/nigerian-guinness-foreign-extra-import/index.html

However overall, Chinese high speed rail has an exemplary safety record[135]: 70  and according to The New York Times, the Chinese high-speed rail network is "one of the world’s safest transportation systems."[136] As of at least 2024, the Wenzhou crash remains the only serious accident in the massive Chinese HSR network.[135]: 70  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China#:~:text=However overall%2C Chinese high speed,the massive Chinese HSR network.