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In a steamy shower from behind he might pass for Shakira. The hips don't lie...

What you remember experiencing surely never happened, since it was neither a requirement back then nor at any time since. If you can pull a copy of said police order out of the same hat you keep talking out of there might be something to discuss, but for now it sounds more like defective memory than anything else. No idea why you were refused an account in 2014, but rules were certainly tightened around middle of the decade. Banks started asking for work permits, long stay visas, copy rental contracts or similar. Bangkok Bank head office in Silom told me that the rules on this became stricter in 2015, and they needed to see either a work permit or a letter of residence from the embassy after that.

The only 3 month requirement that existed when you applied for the Non O-A 9 years ago was that you had to show you had the money in your home country bank account 3 months before the application. Once arriving on the visa you were stamped in for 12 months (the A in O/A means annual), and if you re-entered before the visa expired you'd get a further 12 months, allowing up to two years stay on this visa. No monies were required to be deposited in Thailand at all unless deciding to go on to extensions, and this is exactly why immigration went after the O-A with the insurance requirements. You may have waved a police order at the bank clerk and they magically opened your account, but something must have got lost in translation. Prior to 2015 most banks were happy to open accounts for people on any kind of visa with nothing more needed than showing a passport..

Hope it's as successful as the the Pokémon Go campaign was a few years back.

You've got the whole thing completely muddled. There's never been a Non O-A requirement to have money in Thailand 3 months after arrival - presumably you're confusing it with the 3 months seasoning that used to be needed prior to making an extension. Much of the appeal of the Non O-A visa was that it never required money to be held in Thailand at all unless you wanted to switch to extensions - this was the rationale given for imposing the insurance, along with the hogwash about Non O-A holders skipping out on hospital bills. Once the insurance requirements were levied on the O-A (which quickly octupled from 400k to 3 million) most of the better informed folk left the country to kill off the visa and switch to a Non O, thus negating the need for insurance. Sounds like you missed the memo.

O/A requires no monies to be brought into Thailand. Until a few years ago it was easy to apply for one in your home country, use it for the maximum two years, then repeat the process based on just showing a home country bank statement, no seasoning was even required. The insurance requirements were bought in to take the shine off this visa and remove it's considerable advantage over those visa classes that require money to be held on deposit here (which at least could be drawn on for medical costs in an emergency).

To paraphrase Blackadder, he may have been a third rate surgeon, but he was a first rate second course.

AKA the "slasher visa"... Actually it's quite encouraging to note that this week's decapitation can't be linked to dodgy retirement extensions.

Probably watching too many Netflix documentaries - they give the impression that dismemberment is somehow a normal thing to do.

Fluids are mentioned more than once in this translation. Does grandfathering involve a sperm bank?

If it's just a case of bashing through the back door, cheap to fix with a trip to Thai Watsadu.

I wonder how many will do so? Scramble is definitely appropriate, with the short time window they've given.

Non ngoh

I tried one of the new Blue Riband biscuits, but it tasted like shoe leather.

That was the reaction he was hoping for on OnlyFans.

Maybe this is just policy at your local hospital - recent Pfizer and Moderna rollouts in Bangkok have been bivalent, available for Thais and foreigners.

Did mine for the first time recently, approval took 8 days. Given the late response I wound up submitting it to CW by mail like usual as well, which made the whole exercise seem a bit pointless.

SCB Easy Net service has been discontinued from this month, app only now. Similar situation with KTB recently too.

Does this mean need to allow one week between notifying bank of new passport details and going to immigration to transfer stamps? As they will require bank letter & proof of funds for the transfer.

I applied last Tuesday and still pending. Luckily I got a postal report off at the last minute... can't say I'm impressed with my first experience of the online system.

July 31 deadline pushed back to 2025: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deadline-for-voluntary-national-insurance-contributions-extended-to-april-2025

https://time.com/3674200/thailand-tourism-police-corruption-shakedown-extortion/

Holly was a poochai.

Never underestimate the importance of foreplay.