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I am doing a 1-year extension of stay because of marriage next week at CM Immigration and I wondered if anyone knew if there is a preferred background color by Immigration on the 4x6 cm passport photos that go on the application? Someone told me the background should be white - and someone else told me it should be light blue. Or can it be any color without any problems? Thank you.

http://www.thaiwater.net/DATA/REPORT/php/rid_dam_1.php?lang=en

I don't know if this is correct, but it would seem the Bhumibol Dam is only at 47% capacity. Couldn't it have been higher? To help limit the flooding south of that dam - in the Central Plains.

I don't know much about this topic, which is why I am asking. Why can't the storage levels/water levels be brought up to 99% or so temporarily to limit floods? I know the levels cannot stay at 99% for half the year or more because it is smart to have some extra capacity for water storage in case of massive new rainfall. But to do this for a month or even two, would that be dangerous as well? And could a dam break just from keeping it at 99% - or even a 100%? Can a dam overflow or is it always possible to open the spillways to prevent it from overflowing every time - and thus prevent the dam from eventually breaking?

I think there is a real chance that a global population collapse is coming in the next 30-50 years, a die-off in which the population of the World will go from 10 billion (projected population in 2055) to 1 billion or 2 billion. That will NOT be fun for those that have to go through it. In 2050 I will be 80 years old, so I might be spared that experience, if I'm lucky.

What do I think is coming? A gradual complete breakdown of the global ecosystem combined with a global economic collapse followed by nuclear war. Throw in a global pandemic as icing on the cake.

Have a nice day!

Why does this upset you so? How does it possibly affect your stay in Thailand?

You're a little upset yourself, aren't you? Why else would you post? Why do you care?

90 does not = 89 !

Open the link and learn to count whilst recognising the "fencepost" problem !

http://betterexplained.com/articles/learning-how-to-count-avoiding-the-fencepost-problem/

Immigration has made a choice to count day number 90 twice - over and over again.

If you always make a new 90-day report on day 90, then it goes like this: 1-90, 90-179, 179-268, etc.

There is no reason Immigration could not have done it like this instead: 1-90, 91-180, 181-270, etc.

There are just as many "fenceposts" in each example.

But Immigration chose Option A, and that's the way it is, that's the way we have to count, kind of like 90 is 89, but not quite...

Correct.

Your latest day would have been Wednesday, Dec 9.

For your next visit

Thank you for your help, KhunBENQ! I learned something new today. 90=89=thai logic.

Aaaaaaarrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You ARE right, 89 days after last due date.

One of the quirks of immigration time schemes.

Only with using the grace period you can manage to make the year (365/366 days) with (only) four reports.

It can become an art of time planning to keep the one year extension in sync with the "90" day report , so that you can do report and extension on one visit.

To me the internet report works fine, so I don't care about it anymore. Be it five reports per year, who cares then.

I even use the grace period for internet report in advance (14 days before due date).

What was your exact due date for the report that you did today?

And likely they won't notice that missing report if you leave on March 1.

Its not checked at departure.

I arrived in Thailand on a flight from Europe on 5 SEP 2015. I think that makes my 'Exact Due Date' 3 DEC 2015, which is today, when I was at Immigration and made my 90-day report.

Today, the 3rd of December, I went in person to Immigration to make my 90-day report. I only stay in Thailand about 176-178 days a year and the rest of the time I stay in my home country in Europe. I'm leaving Thailand on the 1st of March 2016 to spend 6 months in Europe. Last week I checked to see which days I could make my 90-day Report so I would not have to do it again right before my departure on the 1st of March - and I found out I could do the report on either the 3rd or the 4th of December - and then my next report would be after I left Thailand, on the 2nd or 3rd of March, which would mean I wouldn't have to do it until 90 days after I came back again to Thailand, because the arrival card counts as a 90-day report.

But on the receit after I finished my 90-day report it said "1 MAR 2016". That is only 89 days from 3 DEC 2015, unless they count INCLUDING 3 DEC. Which means next time I use a date calculator on the Web I have to put in 2 DEC to 1 MAR when I want to calculate a 90 day report from 3 DEC to 1 MAR??

And this also means I have to make another 90 day report just before I leave on 1 MAR 2016?

Fun, fun, fun!

And yes, I know I can report by post on the 90 day report, but that was not my question.

So am I right that 90-day reports are really 89 day reports? Or did Immigration make a mistake today - and I can go back there and get the stamp changed to 2 MAR 2016 from 1 MAR 2016?

Help!