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Thanks for the responses, most helpful. I’ll take out an international licence before returning & then renew my expired Thai licence.

My 5 year driving licence expires on 1st January 2024. I’ll be leaving Thailand end of March & returning shortly after my licence expires next year. Question - can I renew my licence within a timespan after it expires? I assume I can’t renew this far ahead of expiry. Thanks for any informed input.

Is that NativeBob or NativeBoris?

I cannot believe the vitriol aimed at this woman on here. If you look at the photo she swung round the corner and the poor man seems to be in her blind spot (right hand drive), he was virtually lying on the ground <deleted>! People on here are basically calling her a psychopath. The fact of her continuing to drive afterwards is somewhat academic - the damage had been done.

I would have thought your chances of getting a work permit for this are somewhere south of zero - but happy to be corrected.

Staying for 90 days on a non O imm. so no interaction with Immigration anticipated. Previous 4 month stays have been with non O + border hop.

Iranian authorities hoping public executions will rescue its ailing entertainment industry!

We have rented various houses for periods upto 4 months for several consecutive years. We have never registered a TM30 at IM essentially because all the landlords were farangs with Thai wife and living in their native countries. I’m assuming this arrangement will continue. What are the potential consequences of this?

A fair level of IT know how is needed to complete the online application. For example to be able to resize files to less than 3mb. But to be fair to the London Embassy, in my application the file for my bank statement wasn’t acceptable as it needed to show both my name & address, they emailed me asking me to resubmit by email, which I did and the visa was approved within a couple of days.

I believe Air Asia are restarting HH to KL flights which we used pre-covid. Cost manageable as we enjoy our mini-holiday in KL. However, haven’t been able to find any flights as yet. Re: land border, is the Kanchanaburi border open now? Otherwise is the plan viable? Thanks for your response doc.

We are planning to stay in Thailand for 3 months next year, with the permission to stay for visa exempt entry recently extended to 45 days until 31st March. I would be grateful if the usual suspects could do a sense check on the following. Arrive BKK from UK early January, enter visa exempt. Stay in Hua Hin for 44 days then fly HH to KL, stay for 2 or 3 days then return to HH, again entering on visa exempt. 44 days later (early April) fly back to UK. Assuming Air Asia still fly to KL are there any pitfalls with this plan? Cheers.

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I’m only looking to stay for 3 months. If I travel with a 60 day tourist visa, (intending to obtain a 30 days extension) would the fact that my return flight is after 89 days affect my ability to enter Thailand?

Non o based on retirement. Thanks for the responses. If I apply for the tourist visa can I extend at any Immigration Office, and is the extension automatic? i.e. are there any grounds on which it can be refused? I’m rightly sceptical of Thai bureaucracy. I’ll be based in Hua Hin.

Hi. Im looking to apply for non-Imm o visa for 3 month stay next January. However, going onto the Thai Embassy London webpage they are still requiring covid insurance of US$ 100,000. I thought this had been scrapped. Can anyone clarify?

Sadly, because European visitors sometimes look the “wrong way” when crossing roads in Thailand, these accidents happen frequently and sometimes with devastating effect. Maybe one of the few benefits of being a Brit in Thailand is that we both drive on the left side of the road.

I’m sure he’ll enjoy a very comfortable retirement.

What they are talking about is no quick fix. It’s a generational & cultural shift within the entire Thai society and educational system. Does this align with the best interests of the Thai elite? Not in the the short or medium term were mushroom management (keep them in the dark and feed them sh!t) maintains the status quo. In the long term they’re shooting themselves in the foot but of course by then they’ll not be of this world. At every level Thailand is in the category of “special needs”. Basically it’s a basket case and the world is simply going to move on without them.

Predictable reaction from the posters on here but as someone staying here during the first 4 months of 2020 I thought the Thai governments initial response in comparison to Europe & US was exemplary - mandated mask wearing, early club & bars shutdown, temperature taking at shops and on the highways, stopping incoming flights etc. However I have to accept that the pandemic management from 2021 to date has been an absolute clusterf##k. What can you say - TIT!

This is exploitation pure and simple. Just consider the record of middle-eastern countries within regard to cheap expat labour. Withheld passports, excessive working hours, lousy work & living conditions, withheld payment, etc. Do you need reminding of the Asian workers building the infrastructure for this years Qatar World Cup? Are you seriously suggesting that Prayuts trip to KSA was for the benefit of ordinary Thai people!

Can’t believe the outrage on here. Who hasn’t dropped a kid in the road when pi$$ed out of your box?

Ditto

Yea, come on. We want a full list - names & addresses of all 4,369 please.

Can’t share your optimism about future mutual benefit. Reading other reports it appears the main discussion was, surprise surprise, around the supply of cheap Thai labour. Saudi Arabia is a despicable regime which has no interest in the concept of “mutual benefit” and to suggest that the Thai people will benefit is frankly laughable. A few Hi-So’s maybe, but to think this will cascade down is naive. Regarding my original post. I’ve met a few Saudi tourists(which is what I was appertaining to) in Bangkok over the years and believe me, in most cases my comment was far from irrelevant. I don’t normally generalise but they really are vile men.

So in your view corruption is an irrelevance.. Happily I don’t share your moral compass.