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The MRT does not go to either airport. Airport Rail Link (ARL) goes to Suvarnabhumi, and the SRT Red Line goes to Don Mueang.

This is the same nonsense that they dragged out during Covid. Immigration can see perfectly well whether a foreigner was booked on a flight that was cancelled or postponed due to the ongoing hostilities - the person's embassy adds absolutely no additional information that Thai authorities don't already have.

My friends were supposed to fly back from Bangkok to Boston on Sunday night, but then got a message from their airline extending their Thai holiday by two days. They were fine with that 😺

I just received this email today "confirming" my attendance at the LTR Community Day...which is odd, because not only did I not say I would attend, but I wasn't even invited 🤷 Perhaps this was triggered by sending in the survey form? I don't know, but unfortunately I'll be out of town on the 19th and won't be able to go. I do look forward to hearing reports from those who end up participating, though.

These lists come out regularly, and consistently fail to mention that Vietnam does not have a retirement visa. If someone wants to be forced to exit the country every 90 days for the rest of their life - with no guarantee that they will be allowed to reenter - then sure, go for it. That doesn't seem like a very relaxing retirement to me, though.

That would only be true if the bodies doing the scrutinizing were actually independent.

I applied in October 2022 - the second month of the program - but I didn't receive the invitation 🤷

As noted by @John207 , the visa number is 010/66. The long alphanumeric string is the number of your BoI approval/endorsement letter.

Her quotation says "price after discount code", and yours doesn't. Anyone can get the discount codes on the Shopee app, regardless of nationality. A few times a month there will be a code giving a 2-3k price cut on items selling for 20k and up.

I know this is an old thread by this time, but I just wanted to clarify that none of your documents are physically sent to the US. The information needed to print your new passport - including the photo - is transmitted electronically, and your old passport never leaves the embassy building until it's returned to you with the new book.

NATO headquarters is in Brussels, but sure, whatever 🙄

I seem to recall that the whole complex had a total of close to 5000 rooms, so yeah, at least seven years.

That's a rather strange denial, considering that the warning from Cambodian embassies doesn't mention "immigration officers" at all. In fact, they seem to imply that the alleged harassment was undertaken by security officers of some kind.

So has he just "requested" these flights, or have they actually been scheduled? And how can he force airlines to offer discounts? And why are he and CAAT involved in this at all?

I heard the suspect also slept on bedsheets and ate chicken, so we should outlaw bed linens and poultry...which would make exactly as much sense as suspending the DV program. And ironically, the suspect is a western European, and the program was originally launched by Ted Kennedy with the intent of helping Irish immigrate to the US 🤷

Thanks a lot - very useful to get feedback from a real user!

May I ask which brand and model you're using, @Crossy?

"Thai Airports Tighten Bag Checks Before Holiday Travel" They're not "tighten[ing] bag checks", they're just calibrating luggage scales. And this isn't taking place at "Thai airports" writ large, but only at those run by the Department of Airports - which are the smallest and least busy airports in the country. AOT, which operates all of the major airports, does not appear to have any part in this project.

Yes, the report uses terms in such a vague way that it's difficult to tell what is being said. Are prices actually falling (deflation), or has inflation fallen (prices still rising, but less sharply)? That seems totally unbelievable, but the Thai government seems to consistently post questionably low figures for inflation, just as it does for unemployment.

And yet strangely enough, most airports in the region - even in countries with much higher wages - have not seen the need to increase charges to this extent. The new rate of 1120 baht will put Thailand's fee just 100 baht or so behind Singapore, and even the biggest Thai apologists won't be able to claim with a straight face that any airport here is remotely comparable in service and convenience to Changi. I also have to wonder why this inflation that you cite has magically affected only the international terminals at Thai airports, and not the domestic ones? From what I understand, the APD is an excise tax, with revenues going to government coffers. What's being discussed in Thailand is an increase to the Passenger Service Charge (PSC), a fee for airport operations which goes to AOT - a state-owned for-profit publicly listed company - not to the government.

You're right - so why was this dude making these vague statements about "in time for New Year's" less than 24 hours ago? Did no one tell him that the change would take effect today?

Should, will this, make a difference ? Possibly - banks have instituted stricter policies for accounts held by the over-70 crowd, on the basis that they're more vulnerable to financial scammers.

It's hard for me to see why Hat Yai would make any sense for them as a long-haul destination, but what do I know...

Agree - this "clarifies" absolutely nothing. In fact, I'm probably even more confused about this then I was before...

He explained multiple times that he did not accept DCC and did not actually pay the additional charges - he just noted how high they were and was expressing his disgust at their existence.