Kalasin Jo

Exactly. At both exit and entry they are not interested in 90 day reports. Which incidentally clearly states that it is not an extension of stay. They want to see a visa or extensions granted from it that haven't expired at the date of departure.

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So have the regulations changed...again or is this rogue offices? Bummer if this is now across all offices. I've not had this with mine, Kalasin. Last time I did in person was 2022 entering with a new visa after Covid border closures ended. So both TM 47 & TM 30 had to be done. The IO told me TM47 in person not necessary next time when returning from outside Thailand. Provided I am at same address here, I haven't changed my passport or it's number, I re entered on a valid re entry permit and my permission to stay still valid (or renewed) at the 90 day point I can use the online report putting in the the re entry date using the re entry permit. Admittedly the last time I left the country was May 2023 and then returned in August 2023. I hope they are not going to extend this to the TM30 notification of address too. Anything I can do myself is OK, if tiresome. It's not OK when the obligation to report falls on someone else who is uncooperative or incapacitated.

Seems to be the norm now with BB. I went in to a branch, not my local one, because I wanted the Bangkok Bank app to work on a second device and register a second savings account for the app. Very helpful lady. To get the app to register me on my second device a photo is now needed and was taken. To register the second account a completed form was needed. Copies of my passport ID page and page with my extension of permission to stay to accompany, with my signature of course on everything. Once downloaded registering the app on a device now takes you through several steps, including for ID verification facial recognition looking in to the device's camera, once that was accepted you had to complete two actions, looking left and then right in my case. Success! But as I wear glasses and was required to remove them for this reading the on-screen instructions was tricky and involved a certain amount of guesswork on my part. Still no sign of my second account using the app but she said this would take several days and I would receive an SMS confirming availability.

Yes. Call your local bureau office. After several successful notifications approved within days, I had my last but one just sit there unactioned for 2 weeks. The day after the due date I rang my local bureau office to ask why nothing had been done. The officer I spoke to said hold on whilst we check. I could hear him talking to a colleague and the rattling of keyboard keys. Then he said all done. Go check your email. Sure enough the approval was there with the notice of the next due date. On that following occasion my online notice was actioned within 3 days of submission. If there is a problem expect them to ask you to attend in person.

Basically just substitute prawns for meat. But in detail: 1. Buy a packet or sachet of Thai holy basil stir-fry sauce / paste. Around 20 baht. 2. Buy (or gather if growing in you garden if you have one) a a good sized bunch of holy basil in your local market. 5 or 10 baht. 3. buy about half kilo of raw prawns ( about 250grms per person depending on their size, obviously not too large!) or precooked ones ( 200 grms if cooked and peeled). 4. Back home peel and slice / chop thinly several cloves of garlic, split lengthways 2 or 3 red chillies and deseed, chop about half quite small, the rest slice Julienne thin lengthways for decorating the finished dish. Throw the chopped chillis in a wok along with the chopped garlic and a tablespoon or so of cooking oil. Don't fire up yet! 5. Remove the basil leaves from the stalks and put a couple of leafy sprigs to one side for decorating the finished dish. Throw away the stalks 5. Wash, de-head, peel and de-tail too if you wish the prawns, discard or put these to one side and boil them up separately to make a stock. 6 Now fire up the wok. Stir fry the garlic and chillis you threw in just enough to give the oil flavour then add to taste the paste/ sauce you bought and stir vigorously for a short time. Chuck in your prawns now if raw and stir fry until pink, chuck in your pile of picked basil leaves and cooked prawns then if using, add a dash of unfermented fish sauce to taste, stir vigorously for a few minutes perhaps adding just a dash of water, preferably the boiled prawn head water, to help it along. Turn off the cooking ring and serve in to a suitably sized bowl for sharing or over plated cooked rice for individual serves. Decorate with the julienned chilli strips and a sprig or two of basil. Voilà! Many like to top off the dish, meat or prawn, with a fried egg, crispy round the edges but still runny yolk. You can fry these in the wok and put to one side before everything else. I find ordinary Thai basil leaves also from your market work fine too. Greener, bigger leaf, slightly different flavour which ( sacrilegious!) I think I prefer!

Pad krapow. You can use prawns instead of meat if you wish. I cook many other Thai style dishes here too. European rarely now.

Those things are an utter nightmare. Round this way between 7 pm and 8.30ish at this season here. Most damp evenings they come in their thousands attracted by our lights. Can't have a beer on the terrace and we must shut up tight inside or they are in and everywhere. After a short time they shed their gossamer wings and turn in to little black crawlers or just die. Sweeping up in the morning is another nightmare, the crawlers are gone but their wings lie everywhere floating up at the slightest turbulence. Hate them almost as much as the house geckos which are around all year pooping, always in the same corners and places, one always directly in front of our bathroom door another just outside our front door on to the terrace

Many years ago now whilst a summer night sailing in the English Channel from The Solent to Plymouth with calm sea, sailing downwind on a gentle steady breeze, clear sky, stars in abundance. Silence apart from the whisper of the sea against the hull. That was joyous enough. Just me on the wheel and a crew member on watch in the cockpit. He quietly said look behind you. What I saw was magical, our wake streaming behind us filled with phosphoresence. We looked over the sides and so was our bow wave. A very special few hours until it all faded with a pre dawn drop in the wind and then the sun rose slowly behind us for a beautiful day.

No glowworms seen in our garden. Loads of fireflies careering about lights flashing. Great to see.

Visited venues and interacted with tourists. I wonder what the interaction involved?

The up to date regulations on this are absolutely clear. It is not necessary if you are returning to the previous TM 30 registered address. The absence can be a night or several months, elsewhere in Thailand or out of Thailand, as long as that TM30 is for your original entry visa and subsequent unexpired extensions from it plus if returning from outside Thailand a valid re entry permit (which bears the same expiry date as the visa/ extension). A renewal of passport will also likely require a new TM30 unless the new passport has the same number as the old one. That said...as we all know some Immigration Offices, even officers within the same Office, make their own rules including insisting on a new TM30 for every absence from the same address of which they are aware or become aware, refusing any service until done. Showing the regulations to them will make no difference because highlighting that they are out of date = loss of face for them. Also as others have correctly noted the law obliges the " housemaster", for which I read the blue house book holder, to make the TM30 report and provide his/ her details and house book within 24 hours. The absurdity, unfairness and hassle this can generate by Immigration requiring the alien, ie: non Thai, guest to ensure this is done and to hold the guest responsible if it is not even where the " housemaster" absolutely refuses to do so is lost on them. Back in the day businesses providing accomodation for tourists did the TM30s, without us even being aware, private individuals providing accomodation did not and this did not seem to be a problem.

Yes.

A new friend, the Thai tax man.

The premiums for the over 70s are astronomic, then there are the exclusions and/or outright refusal of cover. Failure to disclose complete medical history will result in refusal to pay up and cancellation of the policy with no refund of premium. With some insurers a dormant or apparently cured condition a moratorium of months or years is applied to that condition and any related complications that may arise. Insurers will fight hard to argue an event is a related complication justifying non payment. Shouting in to the wind and rain I know but as Thailand now proposes we are tax resident if here more than 179 days in their fiscal year (which is the calendar year here) it should offer access to its state healthcare system, I suggest with contributions on an annual means tested basis. This is how France approaches foreign resident retired/ not in work healthcare. The contributions I had to pay were not unreasonable, nothing if on a very low income. After the first year the system was straightforward, taking your income from your previous year's tax assessment. However French state healthcare only covers in the region of 70%, 100% if life threatening, of the cost AND this is where it gets complicated there the state sets tariffs for medical " interventions", consultations etc but professionals, clinics and hospitals are not bound by these tariffs and can charge more, sometimes much more. Still overall it's an acceptable system for most. So to say it would be an unreasonable burden on Thailand to include us is a very arguable point, especially if the starting point is that it is reasonable to treat us as taxable.

Definition of 3rd world country please

And if self employed as I was, you are doomed to skyrocketing premiums

I agree sanitary standards here are often way below, or non existent, to those enforced in Europe. Yet I've been living here 12 years, in the sticks in Isaan for 8 and been to Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Krabi, many islands, many times. Eaten in the simplest to the classy places as well as alot of home cooking, and local market village cooked " takeaways". Very rare for me to have even a small 24 hour gut problem here. May be I've just been lucky. I do adhere to the maxim never say never. I get far more problems back in Europe and suspect dairy produce and wheat products as there I consume far more of these, cheeses especially unpasteurised, cream and milk, bread, pasta, cakes. Never previous to living here given thought to possibility of wheat or dairy allergies. Thought the whole allergy thing was for self centred pansies. Not anymore, but it doesn't stop me when I'm back there!

I agree sanitary standards here are often way below, or non existent, to those enforced in Europe. Yet I've been living here 12 years, in the sticks in Isaan for 8 and been to Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Krabi, many islands, many times. Eaten in the simplest to the classy places as well as alot of home cooking, and local market village cooked " takeaways". Very rare for me to have even a small 24 hour gut problem here. May be I've just been lucky. I do adhere to the maxim never say never. I get far more problems back in Europe and suspect dairy produce and wheat products as there I consume far more of these, cheeses especially unpasteurised, cream and milk, bread, pasta, cakes. Never previous to living here given thought to possibility of wheat or dairy allergies. Thought the whole allergy thing was for self centred pansies. Not anymore, but it doesn't stop me when I'm back there!

I agree sanitary standards here are often way below, or non existent, to those enforced in Europe. Yet I've been living here 12 years, in the sticks in Isaan for 8 and been to Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Krabi, many islands, many times. Eaten in the simplest to the classy places as well as alot of home cooking, and local market village cooked " takeaways". Very rare for me to have even a small 24 hour gut problem here. May be I've just been lucky. I do adhere to the maxim never say never. I get far more problems back in Europe and suspect dairy produce and wheat products as there I consume far more of these, cheeses especially unpasteurised, cream and milk, bread, pasta, cakes.

I agree sanitary standards here are often way below, or non existent, to those enforced in Europe. Yet I've been living here 12 years, in the sticks in Isaan for 8 and been to Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Krabi, many islands, many times. Eaten in the simplest to the classy of places as well as alot of home cooking, and local market cooked " takeaways". Very rare for me to have even a small 24 hour gut problem here. May be I've just been lucky. I do adhere to the maxim never say never. I get far more problems back in Europe and suspect dairy produce and wheat products as there I consume far more of these, cheeses especially unpasteurised, cream and milk, bread, pasta, cakes.

I agree sanitary standards here are often way below, or non existent, to those enforced in Europe. Yet I've been living here 12 years, in the sticks in Isaan for 8 and been to Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Krabi, many islands, many times. Eaten in the simplest to the classy of places as well as alot of home cooking, and local market cooked " takeaways". Very rare for me to have even a small 24 hour gut problem here. May be I've just been lucky. I do adhere to the maxim never say never. I get far more problems back in Europe and suspect dairy produce and wheat products as there I consume far more of these, cheeses especially unpasteurised, cream and milk, bread, pasta, cakes.

Been living here 12 years, in the sticks in Isaan for 8 and been to Bangkok, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Krabi, many islands, many times. Eaten in the simplest to the classy as well as alot of home cooking, and local market " takeaways". Very rare for me to have even a small 24 hour gut problem here. May be I've just been lucky. I do adhere to the maxim never say never. I get far more problems back in Europe and suspect dairy produce and wheat products as there I consume far more. I love cheeses. Especially unpasteurised.

Seriously? You don't know? You could look it up on Google

Wondering the same thing. 😆