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You apply for the visa at your local Thai embassy or consulate. There is no 800K baht requirement for a visa, that is the requirement for a visa extension done in Thailand. The fact you have used the £ symbol would indicate you are in the UK, as far as I am aware it was £10K for the one year ME Non O retirement and £1000 for the 90 day visa. A friend of mine does retirement and he just shows them his pension letter and whatever is in his current account at the time. The UK uses the online e-visa system and fairly sure the ME version is still unavailable.

This statement would indicate you are not yet in Thailand. If you plan to come to Thailand long term it would be best to arrive with a Non O visa. This can then be used to open an account, an ME visa would be better but they are more difficult to obtain these days.

A visa is obtained outside of Thailand and you do not need a Thai bank account to do that. It can be challenging if you enter the country visa exempt and try to convert to Non O status inside Thailand. There would be more chance of success on the bank front if entry had been made on an appropriate visa.

I don't know where phones come into it. I just got "permission denied" from the Tesco website. I was just saying I had a problem with Chrome, which was resolved using a VPN. Maybe I wouldn't need the the VPN if I used Brave, but not going to go there. Good that you got a solution.

I have gone to Pedang Besar on the morning Hat Yai shuttle and come back on the afternoon one.

I can't access my Tesco account from my laptop here in Thailand unless using the VPN. I use Win 10 and Chrome browser. I can't think of any other sites where I have the same problem. I don't have the app so don't know about that.

When I followed up on the email I had received the bank manager, who spoke very good English, said other banks and even branches may do things differently. Appeared to be a culture where banks chose to do things as they saw fit, wouldn't be a surprise to see some move towards uniformity. When TMB was taken over by TTB they also dropped internet banking leaving only the app. Bit of a pain as I had to get another phone for the required android version. With fingers like cows tits I do as little as possible on any phone app. Fortunately with banking it is mainly numeric and the numeric keypad is a reasonable size. Modern technology can be a pain but since I went onto internet banking in 2009 I have only ever had to go inside a bank on the odd occasion.

Not sure what you are trying to say. If on ME visa they are not required as the normal entry is 90 days. I have been on extension last few years but done a few trips out of the country. Even if they are required, no big deal, only a few minutes online.

He is either lying or pays an agent to do any reporting... Not even past the first page and the sceptics come out of the woodwork. I spent my first 6 years living here in my own home and never knew where the immigration office was. It wasn't until I got caught up in the UK 2014 passport fiasco I had to go to immigration and get an extension to avoid overstaying. Dec 2019 I went back on ME visa but sod's law, covid came along, couldn't leave the country and had to go back on extension. When people think one place is better than another they tend to exaggerate the reasons for their perception. Been to Cambodia, seen it and wouldn't go back. If someone thinks that the following is good reason to live there it is up to them, doesn't make it valid for others. No reports? - I haven't done a 90 day for 16 months. No TM30s? - I haven't done a TM30 since 2015 No fees for reentry? - are we to believe the Cambodian visa is free? No contact at all with an immigration drone? - illegal entry to Cambodia?

Inappropriate response. The poster should have said in the first line "Valid visa status", and visa exempt is a valid visa status. At my hospital registration can be by ID card or passport. I am registered with ID card and during the covid crisis was treated differently to other foreigners that were registered with passport, emergency treatment is a different scenario. Same with the banks, some services may require a certain visa status.

My account was opened in 2000 and in 2014 received the following.

Of course it was, and now claiming "enforced" not in your OP. Obviously since I came in 1999 I haven't frequented the same shops, restaurants or bars as Thaksin. It is not a matter of fact that you could not/cannot buy alcohol outside the so called hours, even during the Thaksin era. At the end of the day you cannot have partial enforcement.

Bit of a generalised statement. It is a law that has been selectively enforced so cannot be attributed to any one person. Shops, restaurants and bars have all been treated differently. The OP specifically referred to restaurants which have probably had less problem selling alcohol during the day than any other venue. A great deal depends on where you live rather than the law.

Indeed, but damage control is another issue. Personally I think ambitious targets are being used to help push the changes through, without any real expectation of being met in the immediate future. Passenger numbers and tourists are not one and the same, if alternative GDP revenue can be generated the latter becomes less significant. I had a walk round the new station at Bang Sue a few days ago, quite impressive and so large it looked deserted. Even signs up for the HSR but that area blocked off, nothing wrong with a bit of forward thinking.

Would you be a "passenger" passing through airports, or not.

Are you trying to say the coalition was created under PR? Your words "Yes, they have said it for years, but they had their chance and decided to jump into bed with Cameron instead. " With the word "it" referring to PR then the implication is the "chance" was a result of PR.

I fail to understand why people feel compelled to start some sort of analysis on everything that gets said. It is all very simple, there is either adequate capacity at the airports or there isn't. If people feel the existing capacity is more than adequate, just say so, the numbers are quite irrelevant. It may come as a surprise to some but passengers do not arrive uniformly, the key is being able to deal with a fluctuating flow. When they created the Eurostar facility at St Pancras in London, future capacity was grossly under estimated and departure is now a horrendous experience. Obviously many would like to see Thailand take a leaf out of the Eurostar planning manual, would certainly provide future capacity for whinging.

You would have to remind me, when did the Lib Dems get a chance under PR? Like everyone else they learned not to trust a Tory, and I would think the Fartage.

Nobody would agree more with you than the Liberal Democrats, been on about PR for decades. Only yesterday ED was saying how this time around they campaigned to suit the existing electoral system, Reform should take note. Very unlikely there will be another referendum on PR, in fact, following the brexit farce I doubt there will ever be another national referendum held in the UK.

Where in the thread title does it say tourists? Are you saying only tourists are entitled to improvements, not passengers. People whinge about airport queues and delays, then whinge about improvements, unbelievable.

Why do some nations believe they have the right to tell other nations how to run their country. How realistic is it that the contest for the world's top job is between a geriatric and the mentally challenged?

Spot on, maybe some see beans on toast as a dessert.

Far too generalised to get a sensible answer, would need to be more specific on the "foreigner" you are referring to. Western foreigners will have a completely different perspective compared to Asian foreigners.

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Nothing whatsoever to do with it, spelling variations still have the same meaning whereas "bold" and "bald" in a certain context are in fact opposites, strong detail or lacking detail. Suggestion about non native speakers more likely.