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A strange article here as the older generation provided the third largest number of troops into South Vietnam, following behind the US and S.Korea. Unless someone has forgotten, North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet (Russian) Union, China, and N. Korea. As Vietnam faded away among most folks, many of the farang visitors to Vietnam were reportedly surprised that the Vietnamese people, most young ones like western visitors more than they did the communists countries. They at least recognize the Russians for what they really are and it is not "friends". But, then I remember where I am living right now so no surprise at all. TIT for sure.

When I kept trying, I finally got into the system but then after filling out the form again (last time it was already filled for me when I login'd - so when I submitted, I got a note that mine report wasn't due yet and that I was current. Guess I'll try again tomorrow. ThanksI h I have noticed that when I had to re-do the form, I could not write in most of the required info as they have it set up so that if you put in the initial letter, it gives you choices (i.e. location, address, city, district, etc. for dates, usually has a choice for you too. at first I couldn't get my address straight - their system had changed that which I put into Thai - I read Thai easily and saw that it was correct, but finally after deleting that address and re-writing it in English, it allowed me to submit successfully. Weird. I note that on the form that the imm sent back to me did not include the arrival card # nor several other blanks but I just ignored those and got my next 90-day (actually 75 days since my long stay is due 75 days away) report to print. This is much easier than it used to be!

I have been doing 90-day reports for many years and they always gave me 90-days from the time that I did the report. I have been doing the report by mail 2 weeks prior to deadline and recently since they began this new online report, I also did it 15 days prior to deadline and I always "lost" 15 days in the process. But, since it is online it is so easy that 90 or 75 days makes no difference as it only takes ten minutes or so unless one makes a mistake - which I did this past week, thinking my report was due 15 Mar. My wrong as I couldn't get my report accepted. Then on Saturday I got an email from immigration saying that my 90-day report was due 17 Mar. Did the report Sunday, and got the acceptance, then got an email with attached form giving the next due date. But starting last year, for the 90-day reports that would be past my 1-year anniversary extension of longstay, instead of a full 90 days I only got 45 last year and 75 this year with the deadline for renewal of the 90-day report being on the last day of my previous extension. No real problem though. Things are a lot easier than it use to be.

these land deals seem to get senior folks in a lot of trouble, ie Thaksin for approving his wife's land purchase if I am not mistaken.

Yeah understand entirely! I have been doing my reports for almost 20 years. Since 2015 I(or the year when embassy letter was stopped) I have gone to the monthly deposit method and after the first year when they kept asking for additional documentation, I began providing them with a book each year, including yearly letter from my retirement office stating what I get each month, etc, a copy of the deposit from that office into my stateside bank acct, a monthly report of deposit of said funds into my stateside acct, my wire transfer request for each month, my Thai bank monthly report of transfer of funds from overseas, the two yearly reports fm my Thai bank showing the 12 monthly reports as well as the acct being mine only, plus a copy of every page of my local bank book updated on the day I go to immigration. When I gave that "book" to the IO, he laughed and said "wow very many documents!" I laughed too and requested he advise me if he needed more. He just laughed and 20 minutes later I was out the door waiting for the next year. I print all these on my printer so cost is minimal especially since there is no hassle from the IO.

I go to the website but all it wants to do is apply again for a new password. When I did get in once, all it wanted to do was say that my previous report had been approved. Nothing like the first time, when the tm47 appeared filled in, then I accepted that it was correct and submitted and within a very short time, there was an approval which I printed and kept in my PP. Now it is 15 days until the next one is due so I am trying to get it done. I decided to play the game, was refilling the information and it refuses to accept that my address is correct. No matter how I try to change it, it always comes back up the same but the system continues to circle that in read as incomplete info. Any suggestions?

yesterday and today when I go to "//https://tm47.immigration.go.th/TM47/#/login" all I get is that the system is down for 3-6 hours for maintenance. If I try the immigration online for 90-day report, all I get is the apply website, not the login. Is anyone else having this problem (today of course is April 1 so no jokes) thanks in advance for any info

If you want to see double pricing of colleges, go to USA private/or state colleges - for in state are fairly payable but when you do 10 times that amount for someone from another state or from international even though you or your child may be a US citizen, they pay the higher prices. All the colleges usually put a clause that they will work with anyone to get a lowering of the tuition but room and board is an extra 10-20 thousand, books, labs, etc. Costs are unbelievable and can see now why so many stupid people listened to Obama and Co. going for those liberal arts degrees and now no jobs other than Mickey D's available to pay back those hundreds of thousand dollar loans! last report I saw when the Democrats wanted to forgive $50K of those loans was this debt itself is over a trillion USD! and most likely will never be paid back!