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On 8/15/2023 at 1:01 PM, TallGuyJohninBKK said:
I also filed my online report last Tues on Aug. 8, receiving a filing confirmation email back from them within 24 hours, and as of today/Tuesday (1 pm) still have not had any action on my filing to BKK CW.
As with you, the last couple times I've filed online, the turnaround time has always been 3 business days to approval. That normally would have meant last Friday, but then yesterday/Monday was a government holiday.
So I'm hoping, but not optimistic, for something later today. Though I too am getting their server being down now / in the early afternoon.
I received approval 20230816 at 8 pm. I didn't see it until next day20230817. I did complain 3+ times by email.
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My 90-day report lodged 20230807 was finally approved 20230816 overnight.
It appears they are working beyond normal business hours because the published time of approval was after 8:00 PM.
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The web site for 90-day reporting was down for only one day and the fact that officials are able to register 90-day reports at CW on their computer terminals points to something other than a computer or network failure.
The IB has a pattern of disturbances to their operations over the years that have disrupted the online reporting process.
This current disruption appears to be a human disruption to the online reporting process.
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1 hour ago, Mutt Daeng said:
The website seems to available again. Just logged in2 minutes ago.
I confirm that. I was able to log in and see status. However, no movement on approvals. It is still pending.
The 90-day report process is a disgrace ever since it was implemented.
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1 hour ago, RupertIII said:
According to site below it's been down for over a week although I don't know how accurate that is. I logged in to submit on 7/08 , 8 days ago.
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tm47.immigration.go.th.html
I submitted a report on 20230807 and checked it daily on subsequent days until 20230815 when online 90-day reporting site stopped working.
So, its only been offline for a day.
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The Thai Immigration Bureau continues to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
It can't keep the 90-day online reporting system operating successfully for more than 12 months at a time.
The poor souls that have to read and check these reports must be bored to death of their jobs.
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I submitted a 90-day report online 0n 7 August 2023 and received acknowledgment of receipt of the application on the same day. However I have still not received approval by 20230815. In the past it had been approved in 1-3 days.
Something is wrong again with Thai Immigration.
Also, the 90-day reporting website is not working today.
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9 hours ago, radiochaser said:
Back in late 1972 I met a 14 year old American teenager outside of Udon Thani. He traveled to Thailand with his parents on vacation. At the end of the vacation his parents went back to America and left their son there, because he wanted to stay longer. They would send money to him as he needed it. When I met him he had just traveled from Vientiane. He was living out of a backpack.
Perhaps his parents were hoping he wouldn't find his way back to his US home.
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When this new 90-day online reporting process first started it had an automatic email message system that alerted the user 15 days before the due report date. However this now appears to have ended and I did not receive an email alert before the last due date.
I also do not understand why it takes two days to get the report approved when it is approved in one minute for reporting in person. Why does online need to be slower? Is it just to create an annoyance for the user?
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Could this be slavery or a new state of mind, Singburi Syndrome?
Could other farangs become enraptured and captured by trash talk?
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It is not credible that he was not informed.
The victim was lucky he didn't have the surgery in Austria.
In Austria a surgeon cut the wrong leg off and the lawsuit was settled for a pittance.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/02/health/austria-surgeon-fine-amputation-scli-intl
QuoteSurgeon fined $3,000 for amputating patient’s wrong leg
By Allegra Goodwin and Jack Guy, CNNPublished 12:30 PM EST, Thu December 2, 2021The wrong leg of a patient was amputated at the Freistadt Clinic, in Austria, earlier this year.From Klinikum Freistadt/Facebook
CNN —An Austrian court has fined a surgeon 2,700 euros ($3,050) for mistakenly amputating the wrong leg of a patient.
The 43-year-old surgeon was fined at the Linz Regional Court on Wednesday, with half of the amount suspended, “for committing grossly negligent bodily harm,” Walter Eichinger, the court’s vice president, told CNN.
On May 18 the surgeon, who was working at a clinic in Freistadt, “carried out an inadequate clarification with the existing medical records and the photo documentation before the operation for the planned amputation of the left thigh and thus marked the right leg for the surgical intervention,” said Eichinger on Thursday.
The right thigh was then “amputated without any medical indication,” added Eichinger.
The court awarded $5,666 in damages to the widow of the patient, who died before the court date, for reasons unrelated to the amputation, according to Eichinger.
Both the accused and the prosecutor have until 12 p.m. on December 6 to appeal the decision. If they do not, the court’s judgment will be final from 7 December.
In May, the hospital released a statement following the incident, which it called a “tragic mistake, caused by human error.”
Following the mistake, the man needed to have the correct leg removed above the knee as well.
“We would also like to affirm that we will be doing everything to unravel the case, to investigate all internal processes and critically analyze them. Any necessary steps will immediately be taken,” the hospital said at the time.
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On 11/3/2022 at 6:32 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:
Course you can, get to the back of the queue at the food bank and get some more , as much as you like .
Thanks for holding a place for me at the back of the queue.
The queue is full of UK people. Everybody knows that in the UK queues have no end because of the love of Englishmen for queuing.
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Brexit is a time machine that only moves backward.
Next stop Dickensian poor houses.
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Immigration knows passport details of passengers checked into flights. Pre-clearance could be done before they land which means less time by the officer at the airport arrival counter.
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On 20190809 it went as low as 37.03.
The UK economy is still in the wilderness seeking rescue.
Is the UK economy now vulnerable to an attack on the GBP like the one by George Soros in 1992.
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On 10/2/2022 at 10:03 AM, Mac Mickmanus said:
Advocate posted some out of date incorrect info and I replied with the correct up date info , so, not "whataboutary" at all
Your information was not correct. It referred to monthly information for June 2022 which is not "correct up to date" for October 2022, whereas my information referred to annual trade balance.
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49 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:I was working for the NHS in London during the Blair years and with two huge majority election successes he could have done wonderful things for Britain, but he blew it entirely with his unconditional support for GW Bush in the Iraq war.
I felt quite sad that the British public was so ill served when it could have been brilliant instead.
Of course, things were not helped by Gordon wasting 6 billion quid by giving it to the NHS, apparently without oversight to ensure it was spent to improve the service.
It was evident towards the end of Blair's tenure as Prime Minister that his aspiration was to fill his pockets with domestic and foreign money as fast as he could lay his hands on it.
Whatever principles he started with were long abandoned in his greed for money.
The alignment with Bush earned Blair free money from US donors with lavish lucrative sponsoring of all his activities after he left office.
All of Blair's deeds and words were self-serving means of self-enrichment.
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Fear not McTavish. Truss is coming to your rescue.
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On 9/29/2022 at 6:02 PM, BritManToo said:
Name a western country that produces more than it consumes?
Germany has a positive trade balance of ~$274 billion. There are many non-Western countries with positive trade balance.
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On 9/29/2022 at 3:55 PM, Mac Mickmanus said:
The Pound exchange rate doesn't effect people living in the U.K, doesn't matter if its 10 $ to the Pound or 1 cent
Yes it does, especially in the UK which consumes more than it produces.
It affects the price of imported goods and energy in particular.
Boris Johnson led Brexiteers into the wilderness and third world status.
Real earnings growth has been mostly negative since Brexit.
“The problem isn’t that the U.K. budget was inflationary,” wrote Dario Perkins, a managing director at TS Lombard, a research firm, on Twitter. “It’s that it was moronic.”
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1 hour ago, Seppius said:Blame Brexit lol, never miss a chance do they?.
Do you think it's just the UK to having a problem? Germany to fall into recession as global economic outlooks darkens, OECD predicts
"The study paints a bleak picture of the world economy: business confidence, disposable incomes and household expenditure all plummet while the costs of fuels, food and transportation surge"
The UK has always been in a different cycle to the EU.
"The PMI surveys signal that the euro area is entering recession earlier than we previously thought, led by its largest economy Germany, and we now see the euro area 'enjoying' a longer, three quarter recession," said Peter Schaffrik at the Royal Bank of Canada.
Let's see what happens when the currency traders turn their attention to the Euro, at least the UK has been pro-active in trying to find a solution
Out of the frying pan into the fire is not a solution.
The UK has three main problems which are exacerbated by Brexit:
1. It is not united:
2. Ireland; and
3. Scotland
That's without other drains on its economy and issues of morals and hypocrisy like the Falklands and Gibraltar.
The directional heading of the UK is toward third world status and probably becoming a recipient of donations from India and other third world countries.
Is it now time for Australia to be sending tins of lard to the UK as was done during WW2.
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Brexit has exposed the weakness of the UK economy.
The GBP has long been over-valued.
Financial experts have been quoted as saying the UK produces less than it consumes and pays for that by borrowing from foreigners.
Last century the GBP was worth as much as 5 x USD. Now its a paltry 1 x and falling.
The UK economy is devasted since Brexit and the GBP has been declining since the end of the North Sea oil and gas boom.
Being designated the "worst performing economy in the OECD" doesn't help.
"To Mr. Goldin, the pound’s journey indicates a decline in economic and political influence that accelerated when Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016. In many respects, Britain already has the worst performing economy, aside from Russia, of the 38-member Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/28/business/economy/uk-pound-history.html
“It’s just a question of time before it falls out of the top 10 economies in the world,” Mr. Goldin said. Britain ranks sixth, having been surpassed by India.
Eswar Prasad, an economist at Cornell University, said this latest plunge had delivered a bracing blow to Britain’s standing. A series of “self-inflicted wounds,” including Brexit and the government’s latest spending plan, have accelerated the pound’s slide and further endangered London’s status as a global financial center. "
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1 hour ago, Advocate said:Brits should suck it up and face reality.
Why is John Bull's oil and gas under Scottish waters?
The GBP has had a downward trajectory since the end of WW2 interrupted only by a brief period during the North Sea oil boom (Scottish oil) from the 70s to the 80s which produced not only piles of oil money, but which boosted British industry. Smart Brits emigrated in the 1950s and 1960s.
Boris Johnson and Brexit is a disaster.
Smile, things could be worse.
The GBP is worth 25% of its 1940 value against the USD. It is still falling.
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1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:
You have a consistent habit of under estimating the amount of damage done here, and over estimating the capability of the leadership here.
I would suspect 80% in the tourism sector would disagree with you.
Thailand was facing horrendous tourism issues long before Covid came along. Numbers were up, yet revenue was way, way down. The lower to lower middle income earners from China, India and Malaysia was never going to be a solution. Simply a bandaid applied by inept and incapable men.
And even with the tourism break, no effort is being made on any level to address the pre-Covid issues. None. Nunca. Nada. Zero.
One might have hoped the authorities would gain some humility and perspective from all this. It appears they are a very inferior human subset, and are not capable of learning adapting or improving.
Woe is Thailand.
There is so much ignorance and anti-Thai bias in this forum.
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/thailand/tourism-revenue
Tourism revenue chart:
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Thai immigration online 90 day reporting system
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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Submitted 20230807. Yes, CW.