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At 16:20 still not approved. I don't understand why they have to be approved anyway. If the information was correct enough to be accepted by the system approval should be automatic.

20211130 Online 90-day reporting finally worked for me after not working for 15 months. I did complain to the Immigration officer at my last visa extension about Online 90-day reporting not working. Now I just have to hope it progresses beyond 'pending'. I did also file a complaint against the Ombudsman not having done anything to cause The IB to fix this problem after 15 months of regular complaints to the Ombudsman and the IB. So I don't know if either, both, or none of these actions caused the problem to be fixed.

I have zero confidence in the Immigration Bureau. In my case it worked initially, then it stopped working, then they fixed it once, then it broke again and they have not fixed it. It has nothing to do with anything in ones' passport and is evidently negligence, incompetence, and ignorance by the IB.

It is incompetence. I have been complaining to the Ombudsman for over 12 months and it is still not fixed. I do not believe the fix requires any action during the visa renewal because such action can be done any time. It is just keystrokes on a computer. There is no doubt it is incompetence. I will be submitting about my tenth complaint with the Ombudsman who does not appear to do anything.

90-day online reporting is still defective on 31 August 2021 and 1 September 2021. The management of the 90-day online reporting service are an embarrassment to Thailand. It is not rocket science. It is relatively simple database programming.

There is so much ignorance and anti-Thai bias in this forum. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/thailand/tourism-revenue Tourism revenue chart:

There you go changing the scope of the argument again "not one of them relies on just the UK pension".

Have you appointed yourself SpiderMike's spokesperson? Is there any evidence that SpiderMike's signature line is true, or that it is even relevant to the matters under debate? This debate is about the fall of the Baht and where it is headed. Most of the people complaining about the GBP/Baht rate are UK expats living on GBP pension payments while the Baht appreciated considerably against the GBP over the period 2005-2019 falling from 75 to 40 Baht/GBP in that period.

SpiderMike and his ilk are captives of the British pension system and they keep dreaming that some magic event or process will rescue them by making the GBP soar against other currencies. Unfortunately for SpiderMike history suggests that the GBP will not rise because there is no evident reason for it to do so. The reason the Thai Baht has fallen is because the Thai government and business leaders wants it to fall. The GBP has been consistently and continuously falling against the Thai Baht since 1995 and UK productivity growth has flatlined since 2005. Nothing that is happening in the UK is likely to change that. In fact, the UK has probably lost many multiples more of GDP from tourism than Thailand has. Perhaps the UK needs its army of dreamers in Thailand to return and fix the UK.

Brits on pensions are dreaming of a false dawn of the decline of the Baht. They will wake up eventually as the tired old British Peso gets battered by Brexit realities. The current decrease in the value of the Baht is temporary and could be arrested extremely quickly by a huge rise in exports. Both balance of trade and balance of payments are strongly positive and increasing. Thailand has been under pressure from the US for several years for currency manipulation in not allowing the Baht to rise to reflect the strength of Thailand's financial position. Exports are surging. "Exports from Thailand jumped 43.82 percent year-on-year to USD 23.70 billion in June 2021, beating above market expectations of a 38.98 percent growth and after a 41.59 percent gain a month earlier." https://tradingeconomics.com/thailand/exports