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open from 6am to 1pm  <deleted> is the use of that? Welcome to Thailand 0.4

So the Governor is attempting to make sure the small part of the worlds population who did not now the appellation will now know it?

Who dialed the phone for him?

OCD?

Nuremberg?

Dangerously Unstable People?

What has this Mr Tax Returns (odd names you Americans have) supposed to have done anyway?

I've been using Transferwise for 18 Months now, UK bank debit card 14:00 UTC to Transferwise who convert to Baht then to Bangkok Bank always arrives 14:00 Thai following day. Obviously not weekends or bank holidays. Rate very good and fee £1.50 + 0.9%.

Good news for me  12°33'12.20"N  99°53'56.41"E  is a kilometer as the crow flies 2 or 3 km by road, when I was first in Hua Hin it was a 100 km each way to Dan Sing Khon

These clowns have had to take down Government websites because of hacking cf the 90 Day Reporting. And the use of sites requiring Internet Explorer. Piss up in a brewery comes to mind.

Yes the 28th floor is mentioned but it is not clear how to get there that is my point.

A WORD OF WARNING ABOUT VFS ACCESS for UK and Australia business

Did my application yesterday, with interview scheduled at 11:45 got to Trendy at 11:30 but spent the next 15 minutes getting the British section on floor 28. My first visit to this building

Took a car and driver from Hua Hin drove into car park on the 5th Floor, as directed , not clear how to enter office building finally find entrance (at the far end from were your vehicle enters) and walk in there are two sets of wallclimber lifts some distance away, the further set has a small notice go to Eighth floor for VFS. Interminable wait for lift on the 8th there is a sign for VFS, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland nothing about England ask the security Guard 'Angkrit' dumb look walk into the Scandinavian office find a guy in a shirt who speaks English go to floor 28. He  tells me these is a sign, show him the only sign no UK mention (nor Australia also on 28).

Wait for lift also interminable, again. transpires there is only one lift that goes to the 28th.

Go thru security.

Guard tries to wave me into the visa section. I find to get to the passport section you need to  report to a desk labeled UKVI. (obviously)

Get numbered ticket immediately called to passport section.

Quite flustered by this time whilst I gave the right documents I gave the wrong photos, then the correct ones, she was suspicious that they were over a month old, and that I looked too much like my 2007 passport. What matters of course  is if they look my me now, which they did. (and the Oil painting in the loft is working).

Anyway concluded passport supposed to be six weeks.

I'm a long time Thailand Resident and in the past worked for four years in Bangkok, so am used to poor or non existent signage and rotten lifts. but this is something else.

There is nothing on the VFS website about these arrangements. When you book and appointment you a note telling you about the documents you need to bring, it also asks you not to arrive more than 15 minutes before your appointment. But gives no detail about this daft access arrangement.

No doubt those of you who walk through the front door on the ground have it easier, do you?

In other words banks agree to supply details to enable hacking.

AS is well known the UK has had a foolproof method of promoting rain for a few centuries now. Briefly:- find a grass flat well mown field, assemble two wickets (consisting of three vertical and two horizontal pieces of wood) exactly 22 yards apart, find two teams of 11 and dress in white send them out to the field and throw one leather ball - works every time.

Actually the daily mail can be accessed here in Thailand.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/index.html

However the content is usually nonsense, as in this case.

Boris Johnson is a multiple liar, adulterer and man of very mutable principles, who will believe a word of this?

On the VFS Thailand Website I can see no page about passport applications just Visas, can somebody please give me the URL of the necessary page?

Thanks

Thanks for the PDF.

Most of this information is already collected, so a waste of everybodies time.

Also very badly designed try writing any province longer than Surin in the province field, and I really don't know how I can fit Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor in the mothers name field.

Foreign National Information Modified.pdf

It would be good to have a readable image of this form, please Thaivisa or anybody visiting Phuket immigration.

To me this seems perverse and simply arse about face to suppress crime find those who do not register with immigration, a number that will likely increase with the introduction of this form.

BTW dear General can you show us the secure storage for this information?

Barking.

Looking at the site it is secured by muppets, It is not secure i.e. HTTP rather than HTTPS so transmitted data can be read by intermediates. Also no certificate so easy to set up a lookalike site with nearly similar name.

Also using a www. suffix is so 20th century.

In reply to the post asking about 90 day reporting there are good discussions elsewhere on the forum - and yes it worked for me.

Good picture of David Cameron.

Got the approval a few moments ago. Had applied 30/06/15 checked 03/07/15 and the site was down , but found it had new URL and other changes and got the approval.

(New address without a forwarding link is dumb, could have done it by changing DNS records or leaving server at old URL and a link.)

Would prefer that the security for HTTPS was properly addressed - but as the paper records are handled insecurely - copies of TM47 on the back of somebodies passport identity page for example - it hardly matters.

New version seems even more intolerant of any browser except the Zombie IE but IEtab does it for Chrome.

My passport was issued 2007 and I last entered Thailand June 2014 - my office Hua Hin.

Glad not to waste time and money going to office.

All in all I would rate the website as quite good for 1995. The implementation as some decades before that.

Trivia:

The bus was to judge by its UK registration plate YWC 684F first registered in Essex UK between August 1967 and July 1968. http://regarchive.com/plate/YWC684F

Stoneyboy

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