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  1. Hello I live in Bangkok and I get debilitating migraines. Does anyone know of a pharmacy that carries oral Sumitriptan or Eletriptan (Relpax®). Thank you
  2. Thanks all for the great information!! I have more confidence about getting this done (sometimes I get unduly stressed out) and I really need a license because I have to go back to the US and rent a truck to move a bunch of stuff out of my storage. So this helps a lot. ????
  3. Thanks Tall Guy, Very helpful about the practical tests. I passed them all before in 2019 when I got my 2 year temporary (now expired) but it's a nice refresher knowing ahead what they are.
  4. Thanks Polar Bear! That is one of my concerns on the practical test is not understanding what they want me to do. I guess I'll try watching what others do. Do you know are the practical tests the same at Chatuchak and Onnut? I'm an excellent driver too with about 40 years of driving and only one accident my fault when I crashed the Drivers Ed car in high school because instead of using reverse in backing out from a parking space I had it in drive and gassed it crashing into the store window. ????
  5. Thanks Dr Jack, for all the great information! Very helpful. I am on a Non-Imm OA visa.
  6. Hi everyone, I am in Bangkok and need to get a Thai Drivers License. I see a few websites online that offer assistance with the forms and they also accompany you to the Dept of Land Transportation to get it. If anyone has used any of these services I would be interested to hear of your experience with them. Two services that I saw online are Fatboys Thai License Service and also Thai Drivers License Service Point - TDLS. If you have any feedback on these or others I would really appreciate to hear before i dive in with one. I had a USA DL but it expired and I also had a Temporary Thai Drivers License but then got locked out of Thailand because of Covid and it expired so I guess i have to start over. Thanks All I really appreciate any information about doing this.
  7. Wrong answer. There is a separate time for negotiating the budget. Now is the time to pay bills that were passed into law by Congress. They're two different processes but of course the GOP likes to pull this stunt everytime there is a Democrat president. If need be and rightwingers don't come to their senses Biden should invoke the 14th.
  8. Last Thursday, prior to Biden's and McCarthy's meeting, Durbin provided Newsweek the following answer when asked whether Biden should consider using his constitutional authority to raise the debt ceiling: "I'm open to suggestions about how to end the suicide pact on the debt limit." Perfect answer to our self-inflicted hostage crisis. If need be invoke the 14th.
  9. Anyone want to venture a guess on what this will do to the exchange rate if it's not raised? I've been loading up on THB for the past few months just in case. Like others on here I think there is a strong argument made for invoking the 14th amendment as discussed by Lawrence Tribe, Harvard Professor on Constitutional Law. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/opinion/debt-limit.html The thing is if you cave to the GOP and it gets kicked down the road a year what will they ask for next time like 'we want all the the seditionists freed' or some other nonsense.
  10. It is so archaic and backward that in this day and age we have to resort to these measures to try and get a letter back to the SSA. We have secure online accounts called My Social Security so why can't they just use that for us to submit these forms. Or have a normal street address instead of a PO Box. Just ridiculous and maddening that we have to resort to this stuff. I wish all Expats in the world would somehow be able to band together on this and submit a group complaint/petition to Congress to call SSA on the carpet about this. Or at least we should each write all our Congressmen and let them know about this fiasco. It should make everyone mad as hell that SSA is so out of touch that they screw with our earned benefits like this.
  11. I am having difficulty with this form (SSA 7162). The system is broken so I emailed my Senator (copied below) please feel free to copy and email your Senator and keep our fingers crossed. Subj: Problem: SSAs Archaic System for Form 7162 Dear Senator Rosen, I am a Nevada absentee voter temporarily living overseas. I am 70 years old and on Social Security. The SSA mails out a form to those overseas receiving benefits which must be returned to them or their benefits are jeopardized. The problem is they only allow returning it to their PO Box so that rules out using tracking services such as FedEx or DHL. I sent mine on Nov 23rd via EMS mail but that tracking stopped after it left Thailand and was not picked up by USPS. This is an important form to get returned or they cut you off. Why can't SSA have a normal street address to return these forms instead of a PO Box? Also we have no way of knowing if it was received. So as backup I have also sent another 7162 to them by regular airmail from Thailand. Why can't they send us a secure message in 'My Social Security' letting us know that it was recveived. I called the SSA office in Reno (where I applied for benefits) and the Rep did not even know what that form was. The Rep gave me another number in Wilkes Barre PA (where the form goes) but I called there and they said it was the wrong office. Please help us with this nightmare bureaucracy. Thank you
  12. I'm not complaining just trying to figure out if I'm getting ripped off. I've learned a lot just from this thread that there are a lot of variances.
  13. I'm not complaining just trying to figure out if I'm getting ripped off. I've learned a lot just from this thread that there are a lot of variances.
  14. Thanks for the info. I wish I could pay directly to the MEA. The front living room is surrounded on 2 sides by big windows that open. So maybe it's not energy efficient too.
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