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I've found it again! I don't know the original source of the above image, but eons ago it was in a post on ThaiVisa, I saved it on my computer and ten years ago I attached it to a post of mine. It confirms that digits 2–3 represent the province, digits 4–5 the district.

I know that digits 2–5 of the ID card number are the district (amphoe) and I wonder whether digits 2–3 represent the province (changwat) and digits 4–5 the district within that province. Postcodes were introduced in Thailand long after ID cards. Therefore, if there is a relationship between the two, the postcode system copied the ID system, not vice versa. In my case, digits 1–4 of the postcode are identical to digits 2–5 of the ID card. Is there a publicly available list of the province numbers as used in government databases?

That's right. I got that wrong. This makes me wonder now. When a foreigner with a pink card as temporary resident later becomes a permanent resident, does the entire ID numer change or only the first digit?

There is nothing in the pink ID card number to identify the card holders nationality. I am a Swiss national and the sequence 1189 is not in the ID number of my card.

For the pink card we are talkng about in this topic, the first digit of the ID number is always 6. Digits 2–6 identify the district office where the card was issued.

Format of the Thai ID card number: Source: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-format-of-Thai-national-identification-number_fig7_324219426

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I would not give the original documents to a translation agency for translation, only photocopies. Regarding the cost of translation, you can ask around at other agencies to get an idea of the going price for this service..

Neeranam is right. I now remember reading a post of a member, some years ago, perhaps in the topic Story Of My Thai Citizenship Application, saying that after he acquired Thai nationality his local immigration office willingly adjusted their records to show that he was no longer in Thailand as a Permanent Resident and also took care of getting his Alien Registration Book cancelled. Perhaps that post was even made by Neeranam. The OP, now back in Thailand after the wild goose chase to Laos on which his immigration office sent him, does indeed not have to do anything at all. Although he is now a Thai National, immigration still has him on their books as a Philippine national, but this irregularity is of their own doing because they refused to follow the correct procedure which obviously does exist but of which this particular official does not seem to be aware. Also his local police station continues to have him on record as an alien resident. The Alien Resident Book required him, when he was still a Permanent Resident, to report to the police every five years and get a stamp in the book and if they come looking for him when the next report would have been due he can show them his identity card or, if he wishes to do them a favour, he can can go to the station one of these days and return the book to them.

Good thinking. Make that step 4 in the procedure I outlined.

With a land border, it should have worked this way: 1. Leaving Thailand, give the Philippine passport to Thai immigration. 2. Entering Laos, give the Philippine passport to Laotian immigration. 3. Leaving Laos, give the Philippine passport to Laotian immigration. 4. Entering Thailand, give the Thai passport to Thai immigration. At this point, Thai immigration would have asked him for the passport with the Lotion exit stamp, he should then have explained his situation and insisted on his right under the Thai constitution to be allowed to enter Thailand unconditionally with his Thai passport. I remember reading about a case like this some years ago, an Australian woman with newly acquired Thai nationality, and it took her a long time arguing with Thai immigration until she was stamped in on her Thai passport. All things considered, the best advice still is to swap passports travelling by air using the procedure explained earlier in this topic to avoid all the hassle.

Size numbers mean different things in different countries and with different brands. Waist circumference in inches or centimetres, on the other hand, are specific and meaningful.

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Haven't seen a denied entry stamp for years. Could you post that one, too, for my collection? The latest one I have on file is from June 2014 for a section 12 (2) (3) refusal (a double whammy)

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Happy birthday, Joe. Your dedication is very much appreciated.

I see no list of countries on the form to which you linked. Anyway, you should use the form of the Thai consulate in Ho Chi Minh City: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J6r4bUy8rXqIBSk6mP8RZi27hIIUtPDA/view?usp=share_link To get to this link, 1. load the web page https://hochiminh.thaiembassy.org/en/page/cate-7425-announcement-|-thông-báo-mới-nhất-về-thị-thực?menu=5d80ab3215e39c2fe800a722 2. Click on APPLICATION FORM DOWNLOAD 3. Double-click on Visa applicaation form.pdf

That's good, and as you already posted, you have a confirmed onward flight to Vietnam in March. I remember a news article quoting an immigration commander saying that proof of funds does not have to be in cash. If the IO wants to refuse you entry, he will have to play another card, for example suspicion that you would work illegally in Thailand. That would be section 12(3) but I have read about this one being pulled only once or twice in the 14 years I have been reading this forum. Wishing you good luck.

Strictly speaking, an IO has no right to insist on CASH as proof of funds for a traveller's living expenses but some IOs like to act dumb sometimes. Do you have your bank book with you? If not, do you have the bank's e-banking app on your phone so that, after landing in Bangkok, you can call up the statement of the balance onto your screen?

Let's get Big Joke onto this, or Chuwit.

Are you talking about this first page when creating a new e-Visa application?