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4 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Apparently they also allow walk inns so if they don't accept cell then will just obtain L # from from desk.

Oh good - I wanted to know this too. I have to go in the next couple of weeks and prefer to just do a walk in as usual. 

I have to apply for a Non O-A extension at Chaengwattana in about 2 weeks and just want to check when to go about things. Few questions:

1) Can I just show up at CW as in previous years, or is an appointment required now?

2) I'm using money in bank method for the first time, deposited in Krungsri MTD account 2 months ago, do I need to take anything in addition to my bank book? Can the book be updated at CW; is some sort of bank letter needed as well? 

3) For insurance I will use LMG with 200k deductible. I just filled out the form at their head office, but they were unsure which commencement date to use. Last day of my visa is 3rd November (Tuesday) but I will probably go to CW about one week before - what date should I start the policy?

7 hours ago, OJAS said:

Were you able to sign up for a mandatory TGIA-approved health insurance policy at the same time while you were in Thailand?

This was about 18 months ago before the mandatory insurance had been announced (and before the UK embassy had even gone online). 

On 10/2/2020 at 1:59 PM, Max69xl said:

Why would you use a doctor in Thailand when you can only obtain the O-A Visa in your home country and there's an official medical certificate form downloadable from every embassy website in the world? Please tell me! 

I got one from Thailand last year a few days before flying back to the UK and applying for a new Non O-A. Easier to obtain and cheaper over here. 

18 minutes ago, slipperx said:

Well I hope the original case never went to court as you cant charge someone twice on the same criminal charge!

It's been to court many times, but the defendant hasn't yet put in an appearance. 

On 9/13/2020 at 9:04 AM, rooster59 said:

Hapless Uncle Too

Hard to believe it's already six years since he released his first hit single "Returning Haplessness to the People"... 

17 hours ago, Eindhoven said:

If you were in the UK, 5000 baht equivalent would do

That's too bad - amazing price. In any event I'm strongly leaning towards a tablet now - more portability, no problem with cables, better front camera, mic and speaker than the entry level laptops. Aside from being well suited to zoom stuff, I could find many more uses for a tablet than a laptop right now. 

1 hour ago, Eindhoven said:

Yes. Very poor quality. They make the headlines specs look good. But the webcam is pitiful. Same quality as the webcam on my thirteen year old laptop. Which is ridiculous when you think about it. VGA and 0.3 MP are the same.

I guess I'd be unlikely to find anything much better than the 0.3 MP cameras at this price range. I tried making a video recently on my old iPad mini (1st gen) which also has a VGA front camera, and the quality is indeed poor. This has got me thinking however that a new full size iPad (or Android equivalent) might be a better solution. The entry level machines now come with around 1.2 MP, and there's also the portability and battery advantage, it might actually work much better for zoom.

45 minutes ago, Eindhoven said:

If it does not utilise a Solid State Drive for storage, but a Hard Disk Drive or eMMC storage, eliminate it.

Similarly if it does not have a Full HD screen.

 

Check the webcam; 0.3 MP is not acceptable. 1 MP upwards

Thanks. The Acer and the Lenovo are SSD 256GB, but built-in webcams are only 0.3 MP. 

What are the best of the entry level laptops on the market right now? Pricing around 10k, 14" screen, it would just be for zoom meetings and general Internet stuff (maybe use it to run kodi etc).

Options around this price in Powerbuy and other stores are the Acer Aspire A314, Lenovo Ideapad 3 14ADA etc, also HP models. 

Shouldn't option 2 have been:

"Hells no, it's a waste of money!"

I'd be very happy if she put me over her knee. 

8 hours ago, yeahbutif said:

Proberly from all the falang going from an o visa to a non o ... deposit 800.000 bhat

No such thing as an o visa. If anyone refers to their visa as an o, they're just abbreviating non o.

12 hours ago, Pottinger said:

Pity the poor chump at the Thai Dept of PR who thought it was a good idea to go head-to-head with the Rap Against Dictatorship song that has garnered 88 million views and 1.3m likes; he'll be enjoying a free, five-year, pencil-sharpening holiday in Nakhon Nowhere from tomorrow.

Government 0 Thai Youth 1

"Thailand 4.0" is still on there and has racked up an impressive 70k dislikes in the past couple of years. 

A cheap solution would be to implant an RFID chip in the large stockpile of prison shackles they have.

TAT could market it as "Thailand - safe and shackled"...

5 hours ago, smutcakes said:

If you have lived here for 20 years you could be a Thai citizen, like you wife a British one- but you have either been to lazy or to entitled to have bothered to follow the process.

This poster has a lifetime elite visa since many years already and has none of the yearly aggravation of applying for extensions. 

31 minutes ago, salsajapan said:

got his visa renewed

Do you know something everyone else doesn't? He's not updated any information on this. 

It's as safe as the moon, and currently about as accessible 

8 hours ago, rvaviator said:

Best curries you can get is in Leicester !  Much better than in India ???? .... 

Biggest problem in cheap places in India is the meat... scrawny chicken and mutton 'very tough like old boot'. The sauces and spices are generally very good as long as they don't overdo the oil and salt.

Top notch places there are truly world class, though Indian in the UK has also reached great heights and developed it's own unique dishes especially in the Midlands like you mention. Try ordering a Balti in most parts of the subcontinent and they'll bring you bucket. 

14 hours ago, holy cow cm said:

I will 3rd that opinion. TM30 was done by other gents. 

I think the Isaan lawyer guy has PR. Taking on the immigration chief on the major social media platforms while you're dependent on that same immigration office for your ongoing permission to stay is a devil-may-care move. 

14 hours ago, Hi Tea said:

Why did you alter the first three words of my quote? Please don't do that.

I put them in bold, since "Who is he?" is precisely what the immigration spokesman said about him in April. How does that alter the meaning of your quote? And do you have any idea what I'm referring to? 

50 minutes ago, mstevens said:

He posted the photo of that official more than 7 years ago. You'd think if there was going to be some comeback over that it would have happened well before now.

Sure, but it doesn't make it any less reckless. Obviously that episode is done and dusted now, but reasons for the current trouble could certainly be immigration related... ongoing resentment over last year's TM30 fallout, shaming them over covid-19 overcrowding in spring, leaking of amnesty plans ("Who is he? He is not the immigration bureau...")

It could also be about business - upsetting influential newspaper magnates, regional mayors, dual pricing profiteers.

Or again it could be political, with coverage of the student protests. recent disappearance of activists etc. There's really quite a long line of influential people who might have become upset with him in recent times.

1 hour ago, ericthai said:

That is not true, He said he goes home every year to get a new visa, not get an extension. However, last year he had to extend and had issues, then due to COVID this year he again has to extend his visa. 

This is what he said:

"In normal years, I would leave the country and come back with a tourist visa and start again. With the borders closed, my only option is to fly back to the UK. As I won’t have a Non-B visa, I cannot come back for months. Unfortunately, the family home in the UK is being sold.”

I don't interpret this as meaning it's what he usually does, rather it's what he would have done this year in the event of being denied an extension and assuming borders were still open as normal. It would make no sense with continuous employment to ditch his Non B/ WP and start from scratch every year.

Further, his tweet from a year ago suggests he routinely applies for extensions ("I've never had it like this before").