sandyf

If both accounts in the UK then it would be a domestic transfer and UK banks do not normally charge for domestic transfers.

I have been using HSBC to transfer for over 20 years. The fee used to be £25 when done in the branch or £17 online, aboyt a decade ago it was reduced to £4 for onlne and became about the cheapest option available, now up to £5. When Wise came on the scene for some months every time I did a transfer I made a comparison with Wise and there was nothing in it so stuck with HSBC. That was based on transferring GDP although HSBC would prefer you bought THB to transfer. I do use my Wise account quite a bit for other things. I have never seen any indication of an intermediary other than on my statements it used to say "via EXIM", Export Import Bank of Thailand, but that has now changed to international transfer. Last week I did a transfer about 5pm local time and funds in my account 11.18 following morning, good enough for me. Having no control of the HSBC account it may be worth looking into having the pension paid into a Wise account if you are in a position to open one.

Not around here, it gets hotter during the spring and then cooler in the summer months once the rain arrives.

Even a blind man could see in December that we were heading for warmer than normal weather in the run up to Songkran. In over 20 years of Thai winters this has been the warmest I have ever known, almost non existant. Of course it is par for the course to rubbish anything the Thais say, even when they are stating the obvious.

Depends what you are referring to. Some years ago I was coming up the ramp towards immigration with my wife and we were about to split for passport control. The officer controlling the queue asked if we were married, my wife said yes and we were told we could go to Thai passports. Once I turned 70 it became a moot point. In many other circumstances it is a bit irrelevant if you are married or not, although an isolated situation the covid travel regulations into Thailand did favour those that were married.

Obviously some are finding the OP question a bit difficult, the answer however is "Yes" or "No".

Indeed I saved quite a bit going from Fascino, even with discount card, to hospital pharmacy at Bang Saen but depends what you are buying for your blood pressure. I take anapril and amlopidine for blood pressure, 3 months supply would be about 200 baht at the hospital pharmacy. Statins for cholesterol about 1 baht each. I also take apixaban for AF, different ball game, tablets about 60 baht each.

The question is about a Non O health insurance requirement, its a yes or no answer. If the law says you need car insurance, you need car insurance, end of story. I will treat your last words with the contempt they deserve.

Thanks for that, having seen the photo think I may have seen them in showrooms. The OP referenced a particular range of pump and was confused by a reference to a bladder. It is a type of pump that I have been fairly familiar with for some years and have only ever seen them with the air control assy but I wouldn't have assumed there had never been one with a bladder hence the way I put the comment. The type of pump in question is an "on demand" pump and as such controlled by a pressure switch. I would suggest that no pressure controlled device could be seen to be open so the term "open pressure vessel" that you used is a bit misleading. What would have been more helpful is something along the lines that the type of pump in question did not have a bladder.

Quite. My friend had said if anything major happened he would pull the plug, didn't see any point in living here as an insolvent, possibly incapacitated.

This is the thread title "Health Insurance is now required ?" not what kind of policy is required.

Depends on who is in the ambulance. In the absence of anything else Thais will normally be taken to the nearest government hospital and foreigners to a private hospital. Friend of mine had a heart attack and his wife called the ambulance, he came round in the ambulance and told the driver to take him home. The driver did what he was told and friend died a few days later.

I have only been in hospital once, back in 2003 I had 2 days in pattaya memorial following a fall which resulted in broken ribs. They took my passport on admission for admin but although I had insurance they weren't interested and I had to pay in cash before getting passport back.

Pressure vessels that are "open" are no longer pressure vessels. On the basis you haven't explained it very well I will take your word for it. In the tech manual the item is referred to as the air control assembly and it was my understanding the bladder did something similar with air in the tank. I have a multitude of pumps but never come across one with a bladder, but going by the rhetoric on here they must be very common.

I was a self employed IT consultant for the last 10 years of my working life and don't need any lectures from you. Bottom line is your statement was misleading in the way it was put, but historically you are never prepared to accept being in the wrong.

Of course it is relevant, the thread title is nothing short of scaremongering, The OP also implied it is a recent change whereas the issue in Australia has been ongoing since covid. Australian problems are not everyone's problems and should be in their own forum.

There is no bladder in the tank anymore. The function has been replaced by a control unit, funny looking item near the pressure switch( Item 16 on the drawing". Had to replace that on a Mitsu pump.

One can only assume you are new to air travel. When you are in the middle of 3 x A380s discharging passengers into a narrow passageway you may understand what "horrendous queue" actually means.

The requirement for insurance on a Non O visa was lifted on 1st July 2022. The fact that offices in Australia do not want to follow the revised requirements does not make it "forced insurance" per se. I have had 2 Non O e-visas since 1st July 2022, the second just a couple of months ago and no insurance required for either.

Of course you are free to believe what you want but the only thing that is central is the domain " thaievisa.go.th" which hosts a website made up of various webpages for each country. There is a lot of garbage around evisas and saying something is the same when it is not doesn't help matters. The e-visa was rolled out in China and then the UK, do you really think things were the same for the UK as for China, same URL.

I think it is more a matter of convenience for the IO. When I gave her mine she read it about 3 times before keying the number into her machine.

When I did mine they asked for parents names but not any evidence of their names. I didn't provide any legalised/translated documents, only a copy of passport and photo. Only thing unusal was I had to wait 6 weeks to get the yellow book, said a police background check required.

A bit of a misleading statement. The website is central but webpages, what you see on the screen, are country specific. Applications are directed to the local embassy for processing.

Accepted at the pearly gates then?

I got my yellow book in 2010 on an ME visa and then the pink card when the second phase started a few years later. Both have been extremely useful over the years, in particular during the pandemic. Benefits are a bit like beauty, in the eye of the beholder.