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ASEAN Visa sounds like a good name for a forum...

A red handed swede sounds more like a turnip, or perhaps even a beetroot.

Sounds like he was upsetting his neighbour on a regular basis to the extent that the neighbour filed a complaint. Yes, if you're making noisy zoom calls at unsociable hours in a studio apartment with thin walls you're going to get in trouble. If he'd been discreet and not caused trouble for people around him he'd most certainly have been left alone like many others are. From an interview a few years ago with the Chiang Mai Work Permit Office: 4. A foreigner sits in his apartment in Chiang Mai and teaches Chinese students online via Skype. The verdict: " Officially, work, however it is not a main concern to our office now, so we allow the foreigner to do this without a work permit. " This verdict considers the scale of the work and the environment. https://www.chiangmailocator.com/wiki-can-digital-nomads-legally-work-in-thailand-p177

The current administration has set the goal of 80 million tourist arrivals by 2027, double the previous high.

There's no history of deportations of online workers here, immigration have admitted in the past that they have no interest in pursuing this. The exceptions that hit the news were people working out of organised call centres. Elite were actually pitching their product to digital nomads and remote workers last summer (including not needing to pay taxes), but this all fell flat when the new tax laws were announced in the Autumn. The DTV looks like it's been set up to capitalise on this same loophole. "My mate nate" was not a remote worker, he's always targeted Thais locally. He was in the news after he upset people with some ill-judged pranks and there was some kerfuffle regarding his work permit which he wound up sorting out.

It's sent by courier, you're given a track and trace number. Mine arrived in Birmingham about 3 days after my VFS appointment.

Not sure what country you're from, but as far as the pound is concerned the only two major resets in the past 20 years were after the global financial crash in 2008, and Brexit in 2016. Thai coups had nothing to do with it, and exchange rates were recovering significantly in the first couple of years after the last coup in 2014. If you're from the US you'll no doubt remember the lamentable exchange rates around 2011-13 when the USD regularly dipped below 30.

Looks likely that she was - the amount of a full state pension in 2000 (frozen 3 years after she retired) would have been £67.50pw / £292.50 per month.

The UK - Philippines reciprocal agreement was signed in 1989.

This was instigated by the Philippines government in the 1980's. https://www.sss.gov.ph/sss/appmanager/pages.jsp?page=SocSecAgreement

It always has been in the past when longer visa exempt entries are brought in for a temporary period.

Elite was too successful. Membership increased around fivefold over the past five years, hence the need to increase prices and reduce numbers. Interestingly one of main the target areas for the new packages they released last summer was tax advantages for digital nomads, just a few weeks before the tax changes were announced by the new government.

I guess "grey-zone" as it's the area that immigration have always admitted they have no interest in or capacity for policing.

They roll these out from time to time, usually for six months. Last time was the increase to 45 days visa exempt entry between October 2022 - March 2023.

These seem to be temporary stimulus measures - for instance, prior to the latest announcement India and Taiwan were put on the visa exempt entry list for six months expiring 24th May.

Visa on arrival is only applicable to the limited list of nationalities in the table above. These countries are not approved to receive a visa exempt entry.

This is incorrect, visa on arrival is not a visa purchased in advance from an embassy. VOA are typically non extendable and valid for just 15 days.

They were never going to get far with that misplaced apostrophe!

2023 - wine paeng paeng. 2024 - wine tuk tuk.

I just remembered that sketch Dave Allen did, where he observed his name was an anagram of Anal Delve 😂

He'd have been a very bad precedent.

Two significant developments since you opened the thread in May: 1) Existing Elite packages have been discontinued and cost is now between 50% (5 year) and 500% (20 year) higher than before if you applied after 15th September. 2) The government has announced that from 1st January 2024 it will tax monies brought into the country for all tax residents, meaning anyone here over 180 days per year.

Problem is the Asian hip to waist ratio is different. If you're used to medium in the west (33-35" waist, comfortable to sit down in), the equivalent correct waist size on a pair of local boxers from Big C or Lotus will be way too tight around the hips and buttocks. Same true of trousers here.

This respect and goodwill comes almost by default - it'd require some quite trashy behaviour to lose it.

There's no reciprocal agreement with Thailand. These treaties sometimes go back decades, the Philippines one was sought back in the 1980's by the Philippine government. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reciprocal-agreements/reciprocal-agreements