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A couple of the legal service offices can help u open a savings account. Including near Asok junction. For a fee, that is..

New passport.. outside of Thailand is best. Or else when getting the current visa transferred or stamping out at the airport.. a note is made in the new book re previous stamps. Get the new book elsewhere.. fly to Laos .. get new visa.. enter. Good to go for another 15 months or so...

Christ, that was one tough Somchai. Blasts 'imself in the chest then one in the head for good measure. The Japanese seppuku crowd would be proud I think. The poor guy must have been very depressed and stressed out. He is in a better place now.

You could try sending your laundry list of suggested protocol changes to immigration or somewhere. This is just my opinion : someone may or may not read it; if they do read it - level of caring - ZERO. They may even just put it straight into the trash or paper shredder.

He had a visit with Hun Sen not long ago. Why not on the way back from this trip stop in for a bit of banter with Mr. Jong-un?

They could do much more to make the fresh meat section more hygenic. So often I have seen customers putting chicken into a plastic bag that is sitting on the chicken pile itself then putting that bag straight into their cart with other items. 

Another lesson in different cultures.. if this happened in Vietnam the neighbors would likely have helped him eat the pooch.

This is one of those funny things. People talk about visa agents or ppl that can help with info and business/visa issues but in the end unless the contact came to you thru a trusted friend, it is indeed very hard to find these people. I would recommend staying away from the ones who regularly post their contact details online/FB etc. Good luck.

Looks like a hard lesson has been learned and the boys in brown aren't about to stand for any more nonsense. This should be the last time any premises owner dares to stay open past 2am anywhere in Pattaya area. The law is the law. I feel safer.

The woman didnt bother exchanging for some baht in the airport and maybe she was confused. And no SuperRich nearby. Maybe she felt ok because the same distance as Suvarnabhumi to Pinklao would be more than $70 in a taxi in Norway anyway..  So maybe she thought what the heck it's the Land of Smiles , I'll give my driver some extra baht. Not what I would have done but to each their own. Half that amount would be enough to Pinklao including tip. Feel good story all around. :) ..and she got there without being robbed or losing luggage

You can never be very sure of anything you try to do at the embassy in KL. It is not one of the friendly Thai embassies. And that combined with that it has a small uncomfortable little waiting room where people might constantly be climbing over you or brushing past as you wait your hour to be called back to the window and told to bring back extra documents you weren't aware of needing. It is a dice roll at best.

Nothing will happen. 

Not flying in isn't a bad idea. Really doubt the same would have happened if you entered at Ban Laem. But extra energy spent going by land isn't what some people want. 

They have a lot in common. 

Never heard of that consulate asking for flights out. I had to submit a copy of a flight out in Penang before. 

You will get another SETV nearby, for example - Penang, Vientiane, Yangon, Ho Chi Minh City, etc - - provided there is no warning remark on any of your visas in the current passport. Depending where, they may even give the visa if a warning remark is present so long as it is not from them. The rules are so fuzzy these days. Bear in mind each of the above embassies/consulates have different rules about what they want you to show them before they issue you the SETV. Penang or Vientiane may be good choices to try it! 

12 minutes ago, jeab1980 said:

Checked on other forum origional poster gone missing however guy up there yesterday put his application in on Thursday picked up 60 day TV yesterday,  states no change for 60 day  TV. 

He had to show no funds or ticket out or accomadation.

Seems the FB page which OP states is incorrect.

I am only quoting what I read today. I hope it is indeed incorrect. Didn't intend to put up a scare post, just asking if it's true or not and did anyone else have it happen to them. Sorry if what I posted seemed like something other than that.

There was a post went up today on a FB visa advice page from a person who said himself and at least 3 others were asked to show bank statements at the Vientiane consulate when applying for 60 day tourist visas this week. Anyone else heard anything about this? The person did mention that what happened to him, and maybe the others, seemed to be because he was applying for his 2nd SETV in a row.

Alcohol advert ban. Baby formula ban. What next? No advertising bottled water?

5 hours ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

When I went to Kuala Lumpur I found just about everything cheaper than Bangkok. Also, Malaysia issues 30 day "visa" exemption.

Malaysia offers 90 day visa exemption to some nationalities although if a person decided to live there thru 3 or 4 of those 90 day stamps in a row then I wonder if immigration would start to ask them more in depth about what they are doing there. But for week long visits the limit seems to be endless unlike in Thailand where once some people have a few of the exempt stamps in their passport, they start getting pressured a little upon entry.

It's actually not so "cheap" here anymore. 

Seems credit and debit cards not accepted. Some people have been unlucky to know about this strange little rule in advance of travelling. You probably won't be asked to show the 20000 baht but if you are it can be in baht or any other "readily exchangable" currency. So I would think notes like £,  €,  Yen , USD , and a few others would satisfy what's needed.

If you wanted to be very technical, it would probably be good to have a few thousand baht more than the equivalent of 20k baht in foreign currency, just so that they don't try to use a lower baht rate and say you are a few hundred baht under. If you can get what I mean. $600 USD was not long ago the equivalent of 20k baht but I always kept $700-800 with me to avoid any potential debate about the amount.

Lots of people have reported that travellers checks are ok too.

10 minutes ago, Maestro said:

 

I don't see why an immigration official would need to update an arriving traveller's flight number.

Each time you enter and exit the country, if it is by air, the flight number is included in the line of data, along with visa length, time of day passed thru immigration, birthday and nationality etc. The IO updating the flight details is something I am 100% sure they do as I have seen it.

9 minutes ago, Dave67 said:

I find it hard to believe they didn't stay and press charges? I mean why would you leave ???????

Hmm.. leave on their next day flight or march angrily into the nearest police station (most Thai cops speak great English) and demand something be done about the €100 that was taken. 

Would not be surprised at all if this type of stuff had something to do with Air Asia travellers or those on other discount carriers. The IO can see the airline the person flew in on when they update the person's flight number.