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It was in Lyon. Second and only choice is the embassy in Paris, but it seems like the directives flow down from Paris to Lyon so I would expect the same answer.

Flying straight to Penang would not be my favorite option because my flight to Bkk is already booked.

So according to your posts so far I understand I'd better fly out after ~29 days, try to get a visa, and if declined go back with another 30 days (+ 30 days extension). Right ?

Is Penang the most obvious destination ? should I stay 2 or 3 nights there or is it ok to just go in/out ?

Hello,

French national, 29 y/o.

Passport history :

1 entry on visa exemption in 2013

5 entries on Tourist Visa in 2014 / 2015 / 2016, 2 to 3 months per stay including Extensions.

Never did a visa run or such thing.

Today I applied for a Tourist Visa at Thai consulate in France.

They declined because I'm out of Thailand since only 1 month, and they require 3 months out of Thailand.

They used to be more indulgent (see this thread) but said the French-Thai relationship is in bad shape, and Thais urge the France based consulate to be more and more strict.

I plan to stay from 28/01 to 26/04 (89 days), and I mostly stay in Samui.

Considering I can't easily postbone my trip, what would be my best option now ?

I'm aware I can get 30 days on arrival, and extend for 30 more days. And that I should produce a flight ticket out of Thailand within the first 30 days so the airline let's me get on board.

Now I'm wondering what's the most secure way to reach 90 days of stay with minimal risk ?

Like is it a better strategy to try to get a tourist Visa from, say, Malaysia, instead of applying for an extension of stay ?

Or rather use the 30 days on arrival + 30 days extension, then do a border run and get another 30 days on arrival ? would this look supsicious ?

I'm a little bit lost here

Never had a problem with it.
I even mix it with water in flight, nobody ever cared.
The package was opened by the way as you can guess.


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Went to the consulate today.

3 people before me didn't bring all the required files and were refused. Tensed atmosphere. Bad words spoken.

I seat with my perfectly complete and sorted files.

After a 30 seconds hesitation, staring at my last departure stamp and obviously aware of the 3 month delay not yet reached, the consul looks at me and asks "you are going there for what ?" _ "to practice the language. It's my hobby"

I got a "Bon voyage Monsieur" and my precious Visa.

I might have been lucky and other French people reading this thread should consider the possibility of being less lucky ! Please post your experiences about it

Hi

I, as a UE company, am about to buy services from a Thai company (no physical product exchanged ; I'll give them Web access to some of my excel sheets, they sort out and clean data from it and send the cleaned files back, wich saves me a load of time)

Is the Thai company supposed to include VAT on the invoice ?

Thanks

edit : I guess the anwser was all over Google.

Section 80/1 Zero rate shall be used in value added tax calculation for the following businesses:

1. export of goods which is not exempt from value added tax under Section 81(3);
2. provision of services performed in Thailand and used in a foreign country in accordance with the type, rule, procedure and condition prescribed by the Director- 2 General, provision of services performed in Thailand and used in a foreign country shall include provision of services performed in Thailand for the production of goods in Customs free zone for the purpose of exportation and the provision of services performed in such zone for the production of goods for the export purpose;

http://www.thailandlawonline.com/revenue-code/value-added-tax-vat-law#IV

We French mostly suck at languages, ok. But hey, blame schools, not people. Schools in France in my experience focus on grammar and not enough on actually listening, speaking the language.

Many French can't speak a word of English but could correct some TV members using "there" instead of "their", etc.

That amazes me

In my opinion most French people actually skilled in English learned on their own (nowadays having access to downloading TV series is a big help) and while traveling (not everyone has that luck)

And if you expect every French people to speak to you in English, should we except everybody to talk in French to us in your home country ?

A quite recent study expects French to become the most spoken language in the next decades. I already hear you laughing but you should take account of the impressive demographics moves to come in Africa (did the study say). I actually really don't care about it, please don't see any pride or patriotism in it. Just curious !

Cheers

Thanks

I double checked and this is indeed the first time this clause appears in the documents I got from the consulate (previous documents were 5 months ago). Doesn't mean it's new, but could mean its being enforced more than previously.

I will stay in Samui so now my plan would be :

_ reach Samui 30 april (30 days exemption)

_ go to Kuala Lumpur on 22 may (6000 baht with Bkk Airways)

_ back to Samui the next day (30 days exemption, again)

_ ask for a ~20 days extension at samui immigration, and back to France on 10 July

Looks correct ? any better idea ?

Is it OK to stay just 1 day / 1 night in KL or should I stay like 2 or 3 days ?

Could Bkk Airways deny to let me fly from KL to Samui since my outgoing ticket to France will be more than 30 days after ? (I guess they technically could but should I actually worry about it too ?)

Hi,

I was in LoS december/january/february with tourist visa + 30 days extension.

Got the tourist visa at consulate in France (Lyon)

Going back to Thailand 29 April to 10 July, so I send the usual email to get the latest official forms from the consulate, for tourist visa request.

I notice this scary sentence in the middle of the email from the consulate : (in French) " the tourist visa can be delivered only after expiry of a 3 month delay out of Thailand ".

Geez, did I miss something or is it a new condition ?

Is it only in France ? Is it enforced ?

Thanks

Not sure that helps but here's my experience :

1 year ago, android phone : I had Line with french SIM. When I landed in Thailand and put Thai SIM, I had to re create a line account and lost my contacts.

This year, with iPhone : switching from french SIM to Thai SIM doesn't make any difference.

Guess : on iPhone they rely on apple's authentification and not on the SIM.

If this is to some email service, many limit around 10MB. You can use Google Docs or WeTransfer (all free) as a workaround

Or

Split your file in smaller part with Winrar by example

Uploading from what to what ?

Hypocrites. That is a famous painting that's on clear public display in the Musée d’Orsay which is across the Seine River not far from the Louvre.

Are the French also going to take it down from the museum?

Facebook blocked this frenchman's account for posting this piece of art ;

France now sues Facebook to defend the frenchman's right to post it.

France is the one fighting censorship here.

Either I misunderstood your post, either you misunderstood the article.

I was in Samui (Lamai) for the last 3 months and the only team of cops I've seen in this lap of time was drinking in a bar late at night (with guns obviously).

Oh, Thailand.

Guess we can split it in 2 categories :

1) for fun

2) in order to teach younger men the use of 'khrap'

...

3) please keep this interesting topic alive

Tip, if the character test is client side (usually it's the case when you get a warning popup without the page 'refreshing'), there might be a workaround.

You can use several tools including HTTP Tampers on Firefox (not sure of the spelling) that will allow you to edit the data sent before the leave your computer.

If the verification is ever side, that won't help.

Sorry if this is too technical for the average TV member but for the geeks out there this can be helpful.

I have been using this for many buggy forms - especially when my email address was surprisingly considered "incorrect"

I asked a 24y/o girl this morning, "You just said Khrap didn't you ?

_ yes

_ why ?

_ because I want

_ fou say khrap with everybody or just friends ?

_ friends

_ why ?

_ I don't know, because I want"

I've heard this story before. Amazes me just how terrified foreigners are of Thais.

ie: Thai men are all bionic muay Thai fighters who can destroy you over the slightest odd look.

ie: Thai women can do whatever they want and we are powerless to stop them (physically or otherwise) because this is their country and we are powerless.

Ok but how do you avoid this : http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/771455-thai-girl-accidentally-injured-by-french-boyfriend/

Pick up the name of a nice hotel, restaurant .. etc around your house.

Get a 50 THB Sim Card at 7/11

Get ready to lock the door

Send her a message with your brand new sim card, in Thai : "ONLY TODAY in [that place], the 10 first girls who get in the lobby, get FREE iPhone 6 !!!!"

Lock the door

I just remembered -and verified on this FB post- that ปะ alone can also mean "Let's go !". Probably a shortened ไป.

I hear it quite often. "ปะ ๆๆๆๆ !"

I feel like it can convey both meanings at the same time, like "Either you give me a reason not to go now, either you/we go right now."

What do you think ?

I didn't notice the redundancy of the tone marker and you are right. I guess it is inherited from the word it shortens.

A google search on "เข้าใจป่ะ" returns 179 000 results ; "เข้าใจปะ" 'only' 59 000, looks like the incorrect one is more popular.

Maybe it also helps to differentiate with the other meanings of ปะ wich can mean "repair".

You hit my curiosity so I was going to investigate this 'Ba', when I suddenly realized :

Aren't we actually talking about ป่ะ, 'bPa', wich is the shortened version of ป่าว 'bPaao', wich is shortened/colloquial version of รึเปล่า 'reu bPlaao', wich is the colloquial version of หรือ 'reuu bPlaao'

Makes sense to you รึเปล่า ?

Who said this language is not interesting or fun ?

According to http://www.thai-language.com/id/150789 it's used mostly by women. Myself I remember hearing mostly girls using it ; but maybe do I spend too much time with thai girls and not so much with thai men

Well once "logged" to my reservation, the only option displayed for "change booking" brought me to a page asking me to phone call ba. That phone call gave me a 600€ total fee offer ^^ which I declined.

I guess the page you found doesn't apply to my specific tickets.

I hope you guys are right about that was a good deal for them to let me change for free. I'm still surprised that I wasn't given the opportunity to validate that choice (and no email confirmation or anything).

Did anyone ever make such a booking change (by phone with BA) and when was the money debited ? Did you receive a mail confirmation ?

Hi,

Something weird happened, I have called BA like 2 weeks ago to know the price for postponing my return flight date.

The price asked was too high so I gave up.

Today I log on their website to choose my seat for my return flight, tomorrow. Surprise, the date had been postponed !

Either I'm lucky and got this for free due to some human error

Either I'm not so lucky and they will want to make me pay for this change that I didn't ask.

Do you know if such booking modifications are supposed to be paid immediately after you call BA ? Aren't they supposed to keep some proof that your are willing to pay for a change ? (Sound record or something)

I double checked my bank account and they didn't take anything, and that's 2 weeks already.

Cheers