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February, 2024 was floated by "an official" yesterday.

The recent trend (based on posts here and on FB) at CW is that approvals come very close to, or on or a few days after, the Next Report Date. Hopefully they'll get things sorted and get back to the previous range of 3 - 6 business days. From the User's Guide, https://tm47.immigration.go.th/manual/IndexForeign.html Apply process 1. Login to the system. 2. Click the NEW APPLICATION (TM 47) button. 3. Fill in the information in english for notification of residence for more than 90 days and accept the conditions. (space marked with * are required) 4. Click Submit button and the system will display the form for submission of notification for over 90 days. (Then wait for the immigration officer to check and approve for about 3 days.) ( *** In case the TM47 application is not approved, you will receive an email with the message "Please contact the nearest Immigration Office in person as soon as possible." )

I do not believe that the "whole government" is on the same flight. In addition to the PM I think there is the Deputy PM and MoFA Minister, the rest are staff, servants, hangers-on, family. The rest of the government remains in Thailand. The PM spent many years attending college/university on the U.S.A. so he will not need need any translators, for English anyway.

A dirty cop is a dirty cop. Any role which a very Senior Police plays in wrong-doing is NOT minor. It is criminal. Having such a person now in charge of the education system is a MAJOR crime against the nation and people. If he had a gram of integrity (left) he would resign, in shame.

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WWW World Wide Weed on LINE I think the CBD dominant strains list a single percentage figure, so assume minimal THC. One has 4% THC. Many more shops have CBD flower, that's just the first one I found.

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Thailand, where BOTH the military and the RTP provide security, is a reliable trans-shipment point for drugs (Meth) manufactured in Myanmar/Laos to ports in Thailand where they are moved on to other countries. A lot of seizures are destined for Australia. Further, Thailand is a reliable trans-shipment point for precursors heading to the manufacturing zones. Up until fairly recently there were busts of 1 ~ 5 million meth tabs nearly weekly. But a lot of this meth is also for the local market, where usage has sky-rocketed as prices have dropped. Reports in the press indicate prices as low as 2 baht/tab. Ten baht might be more accurate based on small volume purchases. Possessing more than one tab of meth is now a significant criminal charge. It used to be 15 for that limit. Crystal meth is also a big problem, but that is a bit more expensive. There are ~ 200,000 incarcerated for drugs, the bulk are for meth. I'm not sure what the PM thinks a committee can accomplish given military rule for nearly 15 years (out of the last 23) has only seen a dramatic increase in the problem?

My guess is that this is a diplomatic charter flight. RTAF have a A340-600 (HS-TYV from TG) which is used for VIP flights, mostly to/from Germany mostly MUC). But maybe this aircraft is unavailable. Technically it could fly (and has flown) direct, non-stop, but suspect a 777 will be used, with a stop. Srettha's trip is scheduled for eight days (18 - 26 Sep) so not sure if the aircraft parks, or returns to Thailand. only to be dispatched later for the return segment? I'd say the group can't fly commercial so what choice is there? No ROP miles for a charter flight. Suspect the hotel and F&B bills will also be quite large. IMO, the new government might have been better served with a smaller delegation, with Srettha remaining in Thailand during this critical juncture of his government.

Just one bad apple, and an isolated incident. This should be wrapped up soon. Everything is fine.

I would search on Thai-language forums, either the help of a Thai (if you are not fluent) or as a start, Google Translate. example: 7-11 franchise site: pantip.com right-click to translate Note that CP/All is part of one of the largest corporations here, and defamation laws are quite severe, so any potential negative aspects may be self-censored?

Singapore struggles with this issue as well... They have a bunch of incentives: cash payouts, tax benefits, free fertility/health care, extended paid maternity/paternity leave, education subsidies (for the children), housing supplements.

Swift implementation, quick win, 100 days. For a Doctor this chap seems unusually clueless. How do you "push fertility" to the forefront? Have a mandatory five shagging sessions per each Lakorn episode? Less talking, more doing. Take care of the people you already have. Work to keep the children you already have alive (drownings, road deaths) in the short-, medium term. Improve access to basic preventative health care. Address income inequality, the economy, education all of which might have more impact on the birth rate than whatever the minister will come up with.

If they're admitting to 50, it's more like 100. Things have gone south before when a Thai PM from the TRT/PTP clan was at the U.N.

Form a committee? On the drug problem? Seriously? What's next, order more plastic bags for the Police? He should go back to his day job. At least this faux PM will be out of the country for the next eight days, so we don't have to suffer his foolish comments. Yes, the honeymoon, such as it was, was brief and the groom is already staying with the mia noi most nights. IMO MFP should be grateful that the powers-that-be staged a self-coup (judicial/legislative), and they were well clear of this dumpster fire.

As there is already a ban on e-cigarettes this sort of activity seems to be focused on both maintaining the current status quo, and also asking for additional controls, and more aggressive enforcement of the ban. Anti-smoking groups, which are also anti-vaping, here are always pushing for more aggressive controls. They've even proposed limiting foreign visitors to one pack (vs. 10 now) as a duty-free allowance. A few politicians have been pushing for normalization of vaping products here. And even Chuwit is pro-vaping. SO this push is to counteract those efforts. I understand the need to protect those under 18, but allowing adults to make reasonable lifestyle choices, which do not impact others, is something I would favor. I am neither a smoker nor a vaper, but I'm not going to try and control or influence others. And banning something really only encourages those under 18 to dabble.

My guess, based on past performance, is that they'll want us all to self-migrate to the new system. I mean they're not going to migrate old records to the new system for us, nor will they want to search two systems to find one person of interest. But I think/hope they'll cut some slack perhaps on the first extension or other procedure requiring a TM.30, maybe with a warning/recommendation to do so ASAP.

And do you send the ~ 4,000 people who were released from prison back to prison who were convicted of cannabis related crimes? And do you reimburse the thousands of people who invested in the cannabis business? And do you burden the already overwhelmed police force with enforcing what is now, again, a crime? There are many, many more serious public health challenges, and many, many more serious drug problems (Meth) and crime to be focused on.

‘Mafia-style’ former MP released after guns charges https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30316547 In some videos he looks like a tweaker. It is pretty surprising that this chap has been tabbed with finding all the mafia.

And the error with the mandatory (red asterisk) name field being the First Name. Pretty sure they mean the Last Name is required. What do we use for check out date? Our current permission to stay date? 31/12/2039?

This is somewhat vague right now. AFAIK, there is no enforcement. You're supposed to register via the Plook Ganja app. The CCA (draft legislation) said "no more than 15 plants" (and 5 rai of hemp). Obviously if you are a registered commercial grower then you can probably grow as many plants as you want.

Incorrect. There is no "legislation" (yet). Cannabis Flower (and Hemp, and Kratom) were removed from the Narcotics Lists 9 June 2022, where it was classified as a Category 5 Narcotic, by written order of the Minister of Public Health, Anutin. Extracts of Cannabis with greater than 0.2% THC are "said to be" ILLEGAL, but this is a loophole because Extracts are NOT on the Narcotics list. Certain restrictions were placed on the sales, use at the time, and were subsequently modified. Sales channels need to be licensed. So you cannot sell to under 20 YO, pregnant women, advertise, sell via vending machines or "electronic means", consume in public where is causes others to feel uncomfortable. So Cannabis Flower is no longer illegal to grow, sell and consume recreationally. The PM could add Cannabis Flower back on the Narcotics List with a written order, if he wanted. Since he hasn't, nor asked his Minister of Public Health to do so, one assume that the PM is just kicking the can down the road. I think the plan is to continue reading the Cannabis Control Act in Parliament, where it passed a first reading last year with 373 MPs voted in support of the bill, with 7 against. 23 MPs abstained. The Cannabis Control act creates a Cannabis Control Board which will over see all laws, rules, procedures re: Cannabis. The Cannabis Control Board, like the Alcohol Control Board, would likely place additional restrictions on recreational use, but not eliminate it. I would expect DTAM (traditional medicine inside MoPH) to control medicinal applications. Currently there are very few authorized treatments for medicinal cannabis (four I think, epileptic seizures, end of life/palliative, two others).

I inferred, perhaps mistakenly, that they had a an existing permission to stay issued at CW last September (2022) via the monthly qualifying foreign transfer method. CW has strict requirements re: acceptable documentation showing the twelve (12) monthly qualifying foreign transfers (passbook copies, shows as FTT, credit advice receipts/summary letter, etc.). So if they had those for CW I assume they used the same for this process at Phrae Imm? Maybe the OP needs to clarify the exact details?

I think there are a few offices which, were you to relocate to their serving area, refuse to issue a new permission to stay for retirement/income on an existing visa/permission to stay, on the 65,000 monthly foreign-sourced remittance. They only allow the 800,000 method. I think Samut Prakan is one such "picky" office? One needs to do a lot research before moving IMO. In hindsight the OP would have been better served had they renewed their permission to stay at CW (their previous serving office) just before moving to a new province. Then you have nearly a year to sort out the new office's requirements. I also think the OP had a permission to stay until 26 Sep 2023, so I am unclear why they were forced to leave prior to that date? (I think the new stamp was made by the initial IO, payment made, then a senior officer rejected the application and that stamp was red-lined and the 1,900 baht returned.) I might have pursued some other options, including the agent recommendation rather than giving up and leaving? I think the OP now needs to top up their account to 800,000, return on 30-day Tourist Visa Exemption, transition to a 90-day Non-O, then begin extending that "new" visa.

He is expressing his feelings. If he wanted to reverse the current policy that is well within his power. Since he has not we can only assume that he doesn't really feel that strongly about normalization.