CMBob

48 minutes ago, paddyfield7 said:

I will leave for Europe in a few weeks, and my agent just confirmed last week that when you are living in the province of Chiang Mai, you still need to do a new TM30 each time you return from abroad, even if you return to the same address as previously reported. My address is unchanged for almost 7 years now, and I still do a TM30 each and every time I return from outside Thailand. This may not apply any more to many or most other Thai provinces, but for CNX it does.

Your agent may have told you that but I believe that is incorrect information. I returned 6+ months ago from abroad to the same address in Chiangmai and I neither did a new TM30 nor was I required to do so.  I've obtained an annual extension, handled the 90-day address notices, and transferred stamps to a new passport and there's been no request for a new TM30 (nor did they disturb the existing TM30 "Receipt of Notification" which I moved and stapled into the new passport). 

1 hour ago, rumak said:

how do you make an appointment?   online or in person?     thanks in advance

Go here........Chiangmai Immigration:  https://www.immigration.go.th/?page_id=19958 

Only international flight out of CNX is the Scoot Airline flight to Singapore.  The re-entry desk at CNX might be open for those flights but I wouldn't risk my extension or visa on it.  Best, as noted by Ubonjoe, to get one at Immigration (that's relatively easy). 

If you are first flying domestically to Bangkok, you couldn't get a re-entry permit at CNX anyway (but you could at the airport in Bangkok where you're taking your international flight).

3 hours ago, NancyL said:

I certainly don't use wheelchair service when I'm just going on a trip within Thailand, but on long trips, I book business class and do ask for a wheelchair, esp. if traveling by myself, because by the end of the long trip, my ankles will be swollen and my brain jet-lagged.....  

As noted, no problem using the service if there is a physical need to do so as you mention. 

My comment (objection) to the discussion was based on your saying you "definitely suggest wheelchair service even if your friend is fit" and the implication by another that paying for a business or first-class ticket somehow entitled one to use wheelchair service more than somebody who actually had an actual need to do so.

9 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

.....Some people have found that though the insurance implicitly covered COVID to a much higher degree of cover than is required they still needed to get another policy that explicitly covered the minimum COVID cover.

Rather than another policy, the insurance companies understand that some countries required an explicit reference to covid coverage and will often quickly provide a side letter that says exactly that (people have used that under the prior Certificate of Entry and there's no reason to believe that it won't be accepted now).

38 minutes ago, JimGant said:

If he pre books a wheelchair, he's putting no one out -- surfeit of wheelchairs and coolies to push. Nancy got me thinking -- after going business class these last few years, due to old age and arthritis, being pushed to the business class lounge, then to the airplane -- makes complete sense when you weight the cost of that ticket. Cheers, Nancy.

If you have a real need to use the wheelchair service, go for it as it certainly would be appropriate.  But, in my  opinion, either advocating that fit people with no real need use the service or a person actually using the wheelchair service who has no real need raises questions (ethics, common sense, etc.) in my mind.

And I'm still trying to wrap my head around the notion that paying more for an airline ticket somehow alters when it's appropriate to use the wheelchair service.  

Back to the OP's question, I had the same issue - obtaining my first booster (Moderna) which was done under the then-existing passport (US) number, obtaining a new US passport, and then getting my second booster (again, Moderna) under the new passport number.  When I got the second booster, I did tell them that I got a new passport in the interim but I have no idea how they dealt with that.

Would note that (1) the Mor Prom app vaccination record shows both boosters without reference to any passport numbers and (2) I successfully applied for the International Certificate via the Mor Prom app and I'm supposed to be getting that within 3 days or so of the 29th of this month.

I'd also note, for what it's worth, that my CDC (US) card reflects both the initial two Pfizer shots I got early last year and both booster shots (because I asked the nurses to write in the relevant booster info on lines 3 and 4 of my CDC card.

You might want to ask the condo desk if they filed (or will file) the TM30 for you; if so, ask for a screenshot so you have proof when you hit Immigration.

If you have any doubt about the legitimacy of the sender (sounds fishy to me), call the bank (make sure you are calling the bank and not some number some fishy email gave you) and ask them what's going on.  

2 hours ago, novacova said:

Lanna hospital, off the 11 super highway in Chang phueak left on the first drive on south side of the hospital and the first entrance on the right and go upstairs to 2nd floor check in and be sure to ask for the rapid test. 2500฿ a few weeks ago, 3500฿ now I think.
 

When I flew into the US a few weeks ago, no one asked for a RT-PCR document from departure of CNX to the US.

 

When I returned last week the same. No one asked for a PCR test document from the US to CNX. 

When you checked in for your first international flight out of Bangkok, they didn't ask you anything about a covid test???

Would also note that Lanna Hospital charges (according to their website) 1,000 baht for the antigen test with results within an hour.

My app - IQ Air - currently (12:30AM) shows 163 which is an average of many monitors in and very near Chiangmai.  Here's a partial screen shot of just some of those monitoring stations:

Flew last week Vietjet to and from CNX and BKK and nothing was required.  Flew Bangkok Air to and from Trat and I was requested to show my vaccination card (CDC card from US) when checking in for the flight to Trat.  Answer to OP's question seems to be "maybe" so wise to take your proof of vaccination along. 

7 hours ago, Barley said:

OT question: Did VJ weigh your carry on? I think they allow 7 kg and they have been getting pretty strict about it, right?

No, my carry-on was pretty light. But also didn't notice anybody else' carry-on being weighed or checked (although admittedly I wasn't paying much attention to anything but my own items).   I was charged 422.65 baht for the 20kg of check-in luggage (one suitcase) but still remain amazed at how cheap some of the airline tickets are between here and Bangkok. 

Rained pretty hard on the west end with some minor street flooding.  Nice and cool out, like December as one poster mentioned.

But the shocker to me is the air quality (maybe never saw it this low in CM but definitely not in April).....

Just flew on VJ to BKK last Sunday and then on VJ back to CNX yesterday.  No questions about anything.

I continued to Trat (ultimately Koh Chang) last Sunday and returned yesterday to BKK on Bangkok Air.  While checking

in with BA for the flight to Trat, the check-in gal asked to see proof of vaccination (showed her my CDC card and Thai certificate).

[I have no clue about what rules (if any) apply to your Turkish Airlines, rules of any transit country, or rules of Germany...but you need to check them all]. 

As the OP mentions why he's thinking of doing this ( "Simply put I just want him to be the (sole) heir to my worldly-stuff-on-Thai-soil") and a Thai Will, as mentioned by everyone above, is the easier way to do this (and, if needed, to "undo" this).   

And, as noted by the OP, his plan only involves his Thai assets; yet, if the OP has  assets back in the US, an adoption would trigger rights to his partner in any "non-automatic-beneficiary" assets he may still still have there (or in other countries outside of Thailand). 

1 hour ago, khunjeff said:

https://www.singaporeair.com/en_UK/sg/media-centre/news-alert/?id=kataac8r

Every testing requirement I've seen so far has counted the time period before the first flight in the itinerary, regardless of whether it's a domestic connecting flight or an international departure. 

For example only, the Thai Consulate in Chicago made it very clear to me that the time period related only to the first international flight out of the US (and not my two domestic flights to San Francisco).

If you determine the debtor is clearly collectible, go ahead and pursue it [being aware that the best you'll do is what's owed less the cost (and stress) to get there]; however, if the debtor isn't collectible, pursuing it legally is pure folly.

7 hours ago, EricTh said:

It is a flight from Chiang Mai to Bangkok first, then from Bangkok to another country using a different airline. Is that considered a transit?

From a definitional standpoint, I'd guess one could call the switch in BKK a "transit"; however, any covid testing requirement time periods are from the departure time of one's first international flight and not from the time you depart on a domestic-to-domestic flight.  There are no testing requirements for a flight from CNX to BKK.

1 hour ago, jcmj said:

Well it can be difficult if flying to the US which requires a RT PCR test done within 24 hours of your flight so if you have a 6 am flight your going to have to go to Chonburi to get the test that will give you results within 4 hours and a bit pricey. What can you do. 

The US only requires an antigen test within the 24-hour time period.  Much less expensive and results often available within an hour or less.

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

.......... truth is that I hold 2 Ph.Ds. For the last decade of my working life I taught executive MBA programs and coached Ph.D. candidates and graded their disertations across 4 countries. .

With all those impressive education credentials, perhaps you could google and find out that Grab is a company (like Uber, Bolt, Tuk, etc.) that offers transport, food delivery, and other services via a mobile app.