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11 hours ago, wilkie111 said:

She was only in dublin for 2 & 1/2 hours transiting so not going through customs

Didn't India have a similar rule about needing a visa even for transit?

Take this trip as an opportunity to downsize your possessions. 

23 minutes ago, Agent Sumo said:

 

Might have a lot to do with the hard core of criminals and undesirables pitching tents in Thailand. 

 

Maybe other countries don't have these requirements because there aren't as many of these types of "expats" living in there.

 

Let's see how long it takes Cambodia to introduce tighter criteria once all the losers who marvel at the lax immigration rules there start getting up to the tricks they used to get away with here

More hard core criminals go to Europe and the UK where they practise real crime. The crims who come to Thailand don't do much real crime at all. They relax ' party and holiday. 

hoon?

21 hours ago, jadee said:

I'm from the UK and have similar feelings to those described by 'chiang mai'; my excitement about going home wears thin after a few days. The UK 'seems' better while I'm in Thailand but there's very little I miss. I sometimes miss fish and chips but when I go back and try them, that's that for another visit. I find myself missing the fresh food, the convenience and the weather of Thailand.
My only question to the OP would be, why break ties? Enjoy the best of both worlds. 

The  best fish and chips I found are in the tiny stall in LK Meto. The corner near Soi Buakao.

On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5:49 AM, innocenthai said:

No thank you, no interest to have anything official with Thai. If I could I would have a yacht to live on and avoid this land. I am not interested by the people and their world, I just want cheap food and hot weather. I also don't want to give a deposit to rent anything anywhere, I just want to pay for a land monthly and leave whenever I want anywhere I want, so do you think that it can be possible to put a tiny house or bungalow on wheels ?

In case these people still do not understand the chance they have to have foreigners spending their money here I will move somewhere else with my house on wheels.

You are in the wrong place for so many reasons! Go back to where you came from.

7 hours ago, chiang mai said:

Interesting that many Brits are heading back home, many having now made a profit on their Baht assets as a result of Brexit. Have to wonder what their original objective was, a cheap lifestyle perhaps.

They are not-many have not-Brexit is not an issue-You have listed incorrect observations from which you have extrapolated erroneous conclusions to confirm your own confirmation bias.

On Monday, August 15, 2016 at 6:31 AM, mcfish said:

on nut? meh the whole point of moving to thailand is to bump your lifestle up not down. 30k is still cheapest to get in upmarket areas or at least heavy expat areas lower suk

I have over 100 Sq metre for 20k a month in a very nice area.

6 hours ago, Scotwight said:

Bets, that nothing negative has happened to you as a result of the new government.  I could be wrong and you are not just another whinging pom.  I'm interested really since nothing negative has happened to me outside of reading Thai Visa in the past two years.  Since it takes many straws to break a camels back it should be easy for you to list ten things the new government has done to you on a daily basis that made life untenable for you.

Er I think you mean whining Ossie!

Play dirty. Assert that the wife was/is a prostitute and your child will be groomed to be a prostitute. Get immigration to check on the legal status of the others girls -Drugs? Prostitution- gambling- partying - drinking- immigrant status etc etc. The lesson for the rest of men marrying Thais -Don't take them back home- keep them trained and obedient on a short leash!

Small house geckos are thought to be good luck the giant monitor lizard is the insult that sounds like Hiya! And should never be used by a foreigner.

As the experts have mentioned replacing departure card not big problem. I personally have started taking a cell snap each time I fly into los. I realize that will not serve as a departure card but I think it has info (number) that helps immigration to replace. Not sure about that

I too photo important docs including bank cards but in this instance as I didn't I am inclined to think I left it at the Passport desk or lost it in the airport. I'm not going to immigration to get one. I always carry spares to fill out on the plane but the spare will not have the immigration stamp and date on, which is however, of course stamped in my passport.

Am I the only one who's noticed that the immigration officers at the airport don't staple the departure card to the passport's relevant page anymore?

At least that's what has happened at my last two arrivals in Suwa. I've almost lost the arrival card once, so now I staple it myself (last time I asked a counter clerk to do it for me at my bank when exchanging my euros).

Is this a cost-saving measure?

I think that is how I lost my arrival/departure card

Last time I departed Thailand at the Aran/Poi Pet border I never had a departure card,I filled one out at the immigration counter.

Although my previous one wasn't lost it was retained by immigration a Suvarnabhumi airport as I was denied departing the country.

You were denied departing the country - could you clarify? You mean you were detained?

I have a spare one which I can fill i here with me to submit at the airport as I will be leaving before my 90 day renewal. I would hope not to have a problem but I was trying to rationalise where it had gone and wondered if my new status/visa did not require the departure card and thus it had been retained at PP control.

I'm on an extension based on retirement. I left Thailand for 12 days during the Songkran period. When I returned the passport/immigration officer took ages to process me. Now I have noticed although I filled in and submitted an arrival card I cant find the depart side of it. Is it possible it was not returned to me? My passport was stamped with my new arrival date. Because this is the first time I had arrived with my new non o visa and and retirement status I am unclear if I need the departure card. If I do, and I don't have it, is it a major problem? Its the first time in over 30 visits that I have lost my departure slip. Any insights, advice or suggestion would be gratefully accepted.

Probably a male bee - a drone. Yes they sting. They need to be professionally dealt with using smoke to send them to sleep in their nest and then releasing them in a humane way in the countryside.

It was worse than LHR or Tripoli or Riyadh PCDG or Tunis. That is my point. There must have been an accountable duty officer monitoring the chaos on Thursday. He or she has a name, a job description and defined duties. One of which is to implement the timely processing off arriving passengers. This did not happen because only 40%of the PP control booths were staffed. The rest were empty. Lazy incompetent management caused the problem and in doing so made their country look bad.

On a slightly different tangent when I arrived the conditions in the passport control area were third world. Hundreds odlf people snaking around ped barriers . I waited over an hour from join the queue to being processed. The reason ? Only 40 % of the passport control booths were staffed. It was worse than Riyadh or India 20 years ago. What a dreadful first impression to new visitors. And for an old hand like me a reminder of how much better Thailand was before then c**p. Who was the duty officer in charge of passport control on Thursday? He or she should be sacked for arranging sufficient staff. In 49 years of travelling around the third world this was the worst? Incompetent, unprofessional processing of passengers ihave veer witnessed. It took so long our bags were removed from the carousel. 1 hour 15 minutes in all.

You mean you were not offered the 500b VIP lane ??

Theres a reason its understaffed.. If its not painful, why pay to upgrade ??

A cretinous response: there is no relationship between the the IO/passport control line manager on duty and the various airlines that land at the airport. As for a 500 baht VIP line I was not offered it and never have been in 40 visits to Thailand. If the the thousand passengers waiting in line on Thursday and had been offered it and accepted there would not have been sufficient staff. The only times I have used the VIP lane is when flying business or first class. This is not the first time the immigration area have been flooded with passengers waiting to have their passports stamped. It is a combination of incompetence and inhumanity - in other words service reflecting a third world country. I find your response specious and shallow. You tried to be clever but it did not work.

On a slightly different tangent when I arrived the conditions in the passport control area were third world. Hundreds odlf people snaking around ped barriers . I waited over an hour from join the queue to being processed. The reason ? Only 40 % of the passport control booths were staffed. It was worse than Riyadh or India 20 years ago. What a dreadful first impression to new visitors. And for an old hand like me a reminder of how much better Thailand was before then c**p. Who was the duty officer in charge of passport control on Thursday? He or she should be sacked for arranging sufficient staff. In 49 years of travelling around the third world this was the worst? Incompetent, unprofessional processing of passengers ihave veer witnessed. It took so long our bags were removed from the carousel. 1 hour 15 minutes in all.

I have been in and out of the country over thirty times on rotational leaves etc. I now have a retirement extension and multi re-entry visa. However, the immigration/passport guy took ages to process me last night when I returned from a holiday in vietna - As though he could not find my visa. Anyway after 15 minutes with no explanation he stamped me through.

But I have a question. I got my extension of stay based on retirement in January- it last till 2017. But my first 90 day reporting date is 29th May. My question is do I still have to report on the 29th May? Or has my 12 day holiday outside of the country changed the date by 12 days. My other question is - what documents do I need to take for my first 90 day report? After which I hope to do it automatically or online. Any advice would be appreciated

Could you have reported on line?