swissbie

If he still has his Indian citizenship he can be stripped of his Thai citizen ship.

Car dealers get a provision from the lender. Go and try to get a discount when buying a new car with cash.

It would be very unusual to get a discount if paying cash. Dealers prefer purchase on installments as they can make additional profits.

There's not much left to sanction. The trade volume between Russia and the US is about 0.15% of the total Russian trade volume. But yes, Trump could impose a 1000% tax on the Russian uranium they're still buying..

You're right and the interesting thing is that many Malaysian drivers here act like racing pilots same as many Thai drivers do. They know that they can do it here, so they do it. But, at least, much less Malaysians are drunk drivers..

No need to change the adress in the car book or change number plates. You'll have to change the adress on your driving license though. Normally you would do that at the next renewal, but when you're afraid of unpaid speeding fines you can do it immediately.

I don't know about travel insurances, but if the OP is living in Thailand then he won't have a problem with local insurers. My insurance has full coverage, but if you think about terror attacks i don't know. But, the chance to get anyhow involved in such a situation is so insignificant, that it would be a waste of time to give it any thoughts.

I live there. Maybe a bit different than your "government's travel advice", but much nearer to real life. Go visit the deep south and see the difference between reality and what's told from outsiders.

Yes, it's not, but can easily be done. I remember, that i had to make tax clearances in the 80ies when staying in Thailand more than 180 days a year. This was enforced and you would have gotten troubles leaving the country without a tax clearance.

The three deep south provinces are not more dangerous to bike than everywhere else in Thailand, that's a common miss understanding. But, traveling down the east coast (southern Thailand and Malaysia) in November would be a bad choice. Raining all the time and floods here and there, that would be no fun.

Most likely yes, they just told me that they will come visit every year, but they never came. Would be interesting to hear from others..

Sounds interesting. I only got one home visit (on retirement extensions), 6 years ago, after moving here from BKK. They called me a day before and it was no problem at all. If they came now, well; my wife is in BKK for two months and, we don't have neighbours..

Missed you by a few hours.. i went this morning, doing my 90-days report (they finally use a barcode now) and a re-entry. Took about 20 minutes and i left very satisfied.

I hope, you will be luckier this year. Last year went very well for me, 30min. for extension and 90-days-report, this year they also accepted everything, but it took them about 90 minutes from the time of the appointment (I didn't ask why..). I always insist on a manual update for the bank letter with the actual date and check for stamp and signature. They made me run extra rounds too many times because of such little details. Good luck for your next extension.

Not my experience. Over the years we had transactions in several provinces and nowhere had the officers of the "grom tee din" any interest in the amount of money beeing exchanged between seller and buyer. Their only interest had been on the amount of taxes they had calculated. Not speaking about hidden envelopes, that's another story..

You can't get a Cerfificate of Residence in Bangkok when you are living and extending your visa in Pattaya, but you can use the one form Pattaya IO to open a bank account in Bangkok.

I did it last week at a KrungSri branch in Hat Yai. There was some confusion and they admitted, that they aren't used to this system yet, but finally no problem. They used the passport instead of an ID and didn't say a word about different rules for foreigners.

To be on the safe side he should better take a plane, exit with the EU-passport and reenter with the Thai passport. A return flight to Kuala Lumpur doesn't take long and isn't expensive.

Yes, everything back to normal. Made my extension last week; much nicer to wait inside. Interesting was, that all visitors had masks on, but not the Immigration Officers..

In 2011 we had no meter reading for almost 3 months. No problem, they never cut the power off. The first bill after the floods we had to pay at the PEA office in person (they were quiet busy..).

Have you tried it? 10 years ago, i changed a passport and went to the bank. There they had some problems, because 20 years ago, i forgot to inform them about the change. They still had the passport number from 30 years ago - i never had a problem with any bank transactions or the bank information for the immigration..

No need to change bankbooks. None of the big banks have linked the account number to the passport number. The driving licenses can be changed with the next renewal (the number of the old passport is in the transfer stamps of the new one.

It's ASEAN NOW, where you are posting, not ASEAN Times.. And it has no connection at all to Bangkok Post, it's part of The Nation now. Maybe you are a bit delusional..

I'd rather say, that most customs officers will tolerate reasonable amounts of meat/cheese and other food for personal use. Last time I reentered TH I had to open my bag in Hat Yai, because the officer thought, the salt sticks could be some sort of explosives. She had seen all my meat and cheese products and didn't say a word, but was relieved (and even smiled), that no explosives were found..

Paying tax would be a good idea, especially as this government is in terrible need of money. But, as it is Thailand, i rather doubt, that this would give any quality assurance or use of pesticides or other chemicals.