cormanr7

I arrived a few weeks ago at 08.00 on a full Emirates flight. Long que for the west-side immigration, they send people with a non-Thai passport to the east-side immigration (the 'Thai airways side') and was thru in 10 min. Then a long walk to the baggage belt, which was the one on the extreme west side! I often go to the east side without prompting, at this time passengers from Thai Aw arrivals from Europe have gone and it always seems faster than the west side In general, even though lines often look horrific they tend to move quite fast and there are normally a lot of immigration booths in operation (they have recently also gotten a new look).

In my experience of the last two years-for what it is worth- processing of on-line report at CW takes 2-3 business days. Submitted one last Wednesday ca 7 am, was approved Friday ca 4 pm. In the past I have had problems with not filling in first name (as it was not marked with an asterisk) and not entering a room number if you are in an apartment or the like. Before I submit I do make a screenshot, handy if the 'memory function' does not work prpperly.

I my case this is 100 MB not 10 for a 24h package of 300 MB,.

A few weeks ago I flew AMS-BKK with EVA in Economy. I was lucky to have one of the older B777-300ER's with 3-3-3 seating (for some time they used the 787-10 on this route but it did not have premium economy). Service was fine, I noticed they now have a sheet with pics of the meal choices as you find for instance on Japanese airlines. However, there are only 3 flights/weeks and these are usually very full as many tour operators use EVA rather than KLM. EVA has recently introduced new flights to two European destinations (Milan and Munich) but these go non-stop from Taipei.

I have never been asked for a TM.30, I believe this is more likely with marriage extensions and/or if you have a house. In my case I have been at the same rented apartment for all my five or so extensions

Earlier this week went for extension of NON-O retirement at CW (800K+ bank method), had booked on-line. After getting bank statement and copies of various things (see below) I arrived about one hour before appointment time at the L-counters. Very busy, no seats. Stood in front of L1-32 (look for the tiny A4 poster) with my printed appointment clearly visible. One of the senior IO's walks over, looks at the print and says something to the IO (same lady as last year) at L1-32. The latter comes out, shouts 'on-line' and then beckons me to sit down. After minutely examining my paper work and conversing in Thai, she stamps the extension in my passport (always a relief to get to this point), makes a pic, collects 1,900 Baht and someone disappears with passport/bankbook to have it signed off by a senior person. Twenty min later got it back and walked out before the scheduled time of my appointment, took about 40 min in total. As last year, they appear to do only about 10 on-line appointments/day and some apparently had not turned up/were late. All in all went pretty well. Handed in were: -TM.7 with one pic ( if required can make some at the copy shop downstairs for 100B) -Passport plus copies of selected pages -Bankbook (updated the same morning and 100 B withdrawal) with copies of front page and last 13 months of transactions -Bank letter (which included a separate statement of previous 3 months) -Various forms you get when collecting a TM.7 at the front desk with all the horrible things that await you if you break the rules -Hand drawn map of apartment location - Last 90-day report (note: this is not on the official list of requirements but they will check it and print it out themselves if you do not have it)

About a year ago I did an on-line report without room number (CW). It was approved but there was an accompanying note: 'next time pls. add room number'. I now just add this behind the apartment address as (room xxx), no problems so far