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When the amounts were raised in 2003, the grandfathering was for those who'd been on extensions since 1998.

Had a similar experience there transferring pp stamps and then getting a re-entry permit earlier in the month. Only one person waiting in L section, quick and efficient, but 60 people ahead of me in the re-entry permit queue, took the whole rest of the afternoon.

Looks like you booked direct with Etihad. When you checked in (assuming you've already travelled), were you asked to show the credit or debit card used to make the booking?

Although you'd be on overstay at that point and subject to any penalties and blacklist if applicable, I don't think Elite membership is cancelled.

It's a Buddhist country, the Good Lord only speaks for 1.2% of the electorate.

Is this a one time only check for the 20 year upgrades (and new 20 year plans)? Or are similar checks done at the 5 year intervals when new approval is required?

Did this at CW a couple of days ago. The girl on the information desk told me to copy every page, but it didn't feel necessary so I asked again in L section and they said just arrival stamp, non o visa page, and latest extension. When I went to the copy place downstairs turned out she was very familiar with knowing what was required and at locating these pages in the old passport for stamp transfer.

Is this also true for mailed in reports after a new passport? I'd been doing these for about 7 or 8 years, though always using the same passport. I never remember doing an in person visit to immigration for the 90 day, I'm sure I just started mailing them in.

After getting a new passport (stamps already been transferred at CW) is it required to make the next 90 day report in person? Previously reports have been done by mail and then online.

The dialogue was unclear in the video, but it's likely that some of the following phrases were used: "Want some do ya?" "Reckon yourself mate?" "Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough." "You're going to get your f***ing head kicked in." "Leave it Bri, he's not worth it..."

It'd be very inconvenient - aside from anything else, you'd have to change your username to JimTripod...

When it comes down to the line, a carving knife and a meat hammer is always going to trounce a scalpel and some surgical tweezers.

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