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Why is the Bangkok IB so incompetent when other IB's in Hua Hin, Pattaya, and Phuket are getting glowing reports from foreigners?

23 hours ago, gunderhill said:

The  hotels  association if they have one should  be  all  over this as they cant report either.

The hotel association doesn't care because its the foreigner that gets fined and inconvenienced.

The Immigration Bureau is an embarrassment to Thailand.

Online 90-day reporting doesn't work and mail-in 90-day reporting doesn't work. A number of posters have reported not receiving their receipt for reporting by mail > 7 days after the required reporting date. I am still waiting for my report-by-mail receipt.

20210323 11:05 90-day online reporting still not working.

IB fortune-teller has been sent back to training.

3 minutes ago, Yorkie said:

 

A few years ago we had an enterprising IO at the Surin (Kab Cheong) Office who arranged to be available at a Surin town restaurant one evening per week for Farangs to report their 90 days. She charged ฿ 100.00 each for this. Unfortunately, the greedy <deleted> who owned the restaurant stipulated that she receive 50% of the monies so it was soon discontinued.

Despite the fact it was helpful, it is corrupt on the grounds that money was charged and on the grounds that it was performed outside the premises of the IB.

9 minutes ago, jsnuk said:

They still have until 23:59:59 on Monday to keep their word ????

No they don't.

When a commitment is made to have something available by a particular date it usually means from the opening of business on that date.

Anybody who believes IB personnel are working after 16:30 is delusional.

Liberate the IB shills from their bondage.

20210322 09:11 90-day reporting online still not working.

The IB fortune-teller got it wrong again.

11 hours ago, Seeall said:

I think u are getting too exotic here....   they cant think that much...

I am certainly not accusing the IB of 'thinking'.

26 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Immigrations extranet has been done for over a month now. I has not been down that long for a long time.

Immigration has posted a notice it will be back on Monday the 22nd.

 

That's a 2-day slippage from the last guess of 20210320. So if we get a 2-day slippage every 4 hours we face a diverging mathematical result. Divergence is the IB's finest quality.

3 hours ago, jsnuk said:

The explanation may be even more straight-forward (and asinine).  The Thai Immigration extranet website had a security certificate that was valid for 90 days, from 23 November 2020 to 21 February 2021.  That totally free security certificate appears to have been allowed to lapse and was not renewed by Thai Immigration -- an exercise that would require at least one conscious human being with a functional brain.  Of course, this doesn't exclude the possibility that this was all foreseen as part of a planned server upgrade.  In which case, it would have been nice if our friends had the courtesy to inform their beloved farang guests -- in advance or at least on the day the server went down -- that the online "service" would be unavailable for a month.   By the way:  I think quite a few enterprises have figured out how to build up a new server offline and then activate it seamlessly, with little or no interruption in service?  [End of logical farang rant, which no one from Thai Immigration will ever read and/or care about.]    As for the system suddenly being available again on Monday morning, 22 March -- like flicking on a light switch -- I will believe it when I see it.  In the extremely likely event that it doesn't come to pass, I'm steeling myself for a 500 km round trip to Bangkok to visit my dear friends at Muang Thon Thani to partake once again in this joyful ritual. 

Logic and rationality can't be applied to the actions of the IB.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

Immigration posted a notice a few days ago stating it will be the 22nd.

It was posted in another topic.

The last prediction of IB's fortune-teller failed. Is this a new fortune-teller?

6 hours ago, gunderhill said:

Ok Been to  Hua  Hin immigration today, asked them there, they are saying 20th March online site  should  be working. However they did  my 90 day whilst I was there, no forms  no papers  just stuck one  in my passport, great service as usual from HH  office, so  glad I don't have  all that nonsense as Bangkok do.

The IB fortune-teller has issued another prediction?

20210319 90-Day online reporting still not working. It is impossible that "maintenance" of the website is the cause of it being down for 4+ weeks.

1 hour ago, JetsetBkk said:

No. It cost me 2,000 baht in 2002.  ????

I repeat: I was not doing 90-day reports in 2003-2004. I was not aware it was a requirement and I was not penalized in any way.

Who can provide a rational reason for the 90-day reporting requirement?

The appearance of this requirement in an act of parliament in 1979 [2522] is not a rational reason. For a long time it was not enforced. I was in Thailand 1984-85 and it was not compelled at that time. During my recent tenure I was not reporting in years 2003-2004. It appears to have been reinstated around 2005.

1 hour ago, gunderhill said:

And they have no idea when either absolutely none.

I would request they be drug tested if they claimed they knew anything.

43 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

The temporary office has been open since July of last year.

 

I was at CW in September 2020 for annual visa extension and people were still doing 90-day reporting in-person there.

21 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

I think that whole complex at MTT is destined to be a new RTP "campus". Not just Immigration.

 

The movement of some services from CW to MTT seemed to be prompted mostly by Covid, and the need for social distancing.

 

We report our address via a TM6, TM28, TM30, TM7, TM8, and of course via a TM47. Could be every TM form for all I know?

 

The TM47 is really just a by-product of the law, which required 90-day reporting as of what, 1979? Doubt anyone now knows why that was a thing? Maybe when they had a few thousand bag-packers it seemed like a god idea?

 

That they let 3rd parties report for us just illustrates how little they are concerened about fraud, and just go along with the bureaucratic trudge.

 

Even at the height to the TM30 kerfuffle, senior immigration officals seemed aghast when someone questioned the need to 90-day reporting (and enforcement of the TM30 regulations). The senior-most chap was flummoxed and sputtered that "it was the law".

If the IB was really concerned about Covid19 they would make sure the 90-day online reporting works.

The need for 90-day reporting is unjustifiable. The only excuse they now have is that they would have to fire a bunch of people if they canceled 90-day reporting.

12 hours ago, Meat Pie 47 said:

No today's rate is 28.83 to 1 AUD

What are you smoking? Or is a money changer ripping you off on changing Baht to AUD? ????

16 hours ago, Rinrada said:

FIO.....Today in 1997......

1997 British Pound Sterling = 85.101 Thailand Baht
1997 US Dollar = 61.346 Thailand Baht.......Chai...
 

1997 was a special case because that was when the Asian financial crisis of that time occurred affecting many Asian countries.

The British rupee currently has downward mobility as Brexit unravels.

20210317 90-day online reporting still not working.

it is evidently a ploy by the IB to deliberately prevent online reporting. Otherwise why would they set up a temporary 90-day reporting office at MTT at the same time the online reporting was not working?

3 hours ago, Chivas said:

 Dollar/Baht wasn't bouncing around 30 at that time !!  When Sterling/Baht was around 75 Dollar/Baht was bouncing around 40/41

Two currency pairings make up the number crunch. There is no "direct" exchange rate between Sterling/Baht. Movement in either pairing affects the bottom line

Hopefully Sterling/Dollar will increase towards $1.50 over the coming two to three years which will help us nicely

The Brexit unraveling will dash those hopes as far as GBP is concerned.

On 3/15/2021 at 2:55 AM, daveAustin said:

Yep. GBP also doing alright, though a bit under early noughties 75.

They'll need it to do something to the downside if they want exports make up shortfall on tourism at least!

The British rupee? GBP 1 = 42.49 THB a long way from 75.

There is no possibility of a resurgence of the British rupee. The opposite is more likely as Brexit unravels further.