Kalasin Jo

They have a good working relationship?!????

Didn't know about the over 70 category. I'm in that category now. Thanks! Really good to know. I wonder if other airports I use offer this to septuagenarians? : London Heathrow and Gatwick, Paris CdG, Schiphol, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Curious,about the last category listed on the board in the photo. Mice???

Nice one this week Rooster! The last few seemed somewhat, dare I say it?, curmudgeonly to me!

Oh dear, just when the fun had started. Seems as of today the " herb" ( love that) cannot be advertised or sold online. This article is nevertheless accompanied by an advert on my screen! A shame but sales online would defeat the objective. I welcome the prohibition of sale to those under 20, students ( although presumably some students are aged 20+), pregnant and lactating ladies and by vending machines. Licensing of vendors is a good idea. For it stop people growing at home for personal consumption. Round these parts it's still rare, unlike the totally illegal yabba which is everywhere.

I wondered why the plastic bottle collectors, weren't coming round anymore. So I should just chuck them in with the rest of the rubbish now? I wanted to read the article but it's behind a paywall for me.

Yes, I saw this. So not everywhere then.

It's crazy isn't it? Looking the other day for a one way flight London- Bangkok on or around 5 January, the cheapest economy was just shy of £700. Most were over £1,000 some nearly £2,000. I could fly business pre Covid for the upper end economy price now ..... return included. Is this how it's going to be from now on? I guess so if people are willing to pay this and flights are well booked. Yes, I know a one way ticket is always more expensive for the same journey than booking outward with a return. But even so this is crazy. Perhaps packaged with hotel makes the overall price attractive for tourists?

Not if you specify the transfer is for long stay which you need to do if you want it to appear on your Thai bank statement as an international transfer in to Thailand. Otherwise yes usually in seconds more recently and at any hour but sometimes not on the week end and Thai holidays. This will appear on your Thai bank statement as from another bank. I believe Wise use Bangkok Bank as it has a London branch for the long stay specified transfers and Dee money for all others at the moment.

Photo taken and posted today on fb showed huge queues at Swampy Immigration booths. Looked very pre pandemic.

Why would they want either of these? Because they can make it up as they go. But so do the equivalent administrators in many other countries. My Ampur wanted a BE stamped copy and translation of the ID page of my passport. Never got round to that! What the OP might try is to get his Thai marriage certificate legalised by the British Embassy which gets that Embassy's stamp and a Consul's signature on it. To do that the OP needs to get the certificate legalised by the Thai MoFA with their Thai stamp and a signature. This certifies that the document is genuine. Then take it to the British Embassy and request that they legalise those stamps and signatures. Note, the BE will not certify that the marriage is legal as the OP (and I) discovered but they should be willing to legalise it as a document, not specifically a Marriage certificate, once the OP has the MoFA stamps and signature on it. The Embassy is not certifying that the marriage is legal but it IS certifying that the MoFA signatures and stamps are genuine whilst MoFA have certified that the document is genuine and not a forgery. I'm not saying this will work but it might fool the Ampur I went through this in order to get to be able to get EU family member visas for my wife to enter France ( when I was still an EU citizen and living in France ) with me. The French Embassy insisted on a BE stamped Certificate and a translation ( English was ok). BE said we don't certify a Thai marriage certificates, nor even a translation of it. True. They don't and were very unhelpful about what I could do. But the French insisted that was baloney, they had seen BE stamps on them. After much research I learned about notarisation and legalisation of documents from one country for use in another....and succeeded. I had nearly given up. Good luck! As others have said it's probably not worth the hassle and cost for the limited value of possessing a yellow book.

Where would that go? The use of bold type for once seems appropriate and correct too ????

Interesting question. First I think we have to define marriage as if not married when living together whether Thai/Thai or Foreigner/ Thai it is cohabitation. In Thailand you can be married in a Buddhist ceremony and most Thais certainly set alot of store by this and spend vasts sums of money on lavish betrothal and the marriage celebration itself plus probably the sin sot, the pre nuptially negotiated dowry paid by the groom to his betrothed's family. Guests at the wedding give money, sometimes very large sums, to the bride and groom. But either party can walk away from this at any time and often do even if children are involved. It has no legal standing in Thai law courts. A Thai would not consider this cohabitation. They are married in the eyes of the Buddha. For the foreigner? Probably only as long as all is sweet knowing they can walk away. As a foreigner I'd say this is defacto cohabitation. There is then the State civil ceremony and registration of the marriage at an Ampur. It does not require a grand and expensive ceremony, just 2 witnesses and for the foreigner perhaps a translator. Pay the fee to the Registrar. It takes, about 15 minutes. This is a legal marriage legally recognised in Thailand and many other countries, although in other countries the marriage certificate and perhaps also the registration document will have to be translated from Thai and legalised by MoFA and then the foreigner's Embassy. Legal recognition is needed for many things, including marriage visas here for the foreigner and in other countries for the Thai. Unless there is no dispute between the parties over custody of children, money, maintenance and property divorce in a Thai registered marriage requires a reference to the Thai courts.

As long as you click on last option in the drop down menu- for long stay - in the Wise transfer app the transfer will appear on your bank account as a foreign transfer in. Wise send this one using Bangkok Bank which has a London branch. It takes a bit longer, about 24 hrs in my experience. Choosing other options is normally instantaneous but appears as a transfer from other bank. I recently read Wise are now using Dee Money for these.

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Imho Soi Cowboy was dying well before Covid the bars on Soi 22 all demolished. Nana far better for that sort of entertainment.

Indeed. The perky, plucky, playful Jack Russell has that trigger inbred too. Some friends had a Border Collie and a Jack Russell. Never a problem together until one day they left the dogs home alone for a few hours as they had done many times before. This time they returned to find a bloodbath. The Collie dead, the Jack Russell breathing it's last. For reasons unknown they had fought to the death. I don't for a moment doubt the Jack Russell started it and would not stop. I've seen mother and daughter dogs of indeterminate breed suddenly start tearing each other apart neither willing to let go of the other. Human intervention then a very high risk business too.

Yes. Unnecessary because vehicles must be registered and plated by DLT in the province where the purchaser lives. Which I now understand will involve a buyer first deregistering a vehicle previously owned and registered in a different province. This would be avoided with a national, centralised system even if processing is still done at provincial level. But then the number plate and tax payed sticker would not immediately by an external visual check tell anyone interested, especially the police carrying out roadside checks, whether vehicle and owner were local or a visitor. But this is not sufficient justification imho. France used to have Departmental registration ( there is no annual road tax there) but went digital and national a few years ago. The police there seem to have no problem instantly accessing the full details with their mobile phones. In fact, at least before brexit may be not now, they could instantly call up full details of UK registered vehicles too. But Thailand is not sufficiently advanced and joined up yet for that it seems. Keeps more people in jobs, sod the inconvenience to the consumer.

Don't think he was in a rational state of mind to consider the consequences of his actions. Enraged. Why? The article doesn't say

And the puppies are being dumped often at the village temple because Thais, especially in the poorer villages, will not get dogs speyed. Too expensive. Some more responsible people may instead buy pills or injected birth control but this does long term damage to the bitch and even in Thailand most vets will not supply them leaving this market to shops selling who knows what. So round here it's is a 24/7 free for all for the males with any bitch on heat as the males are not neutered and run free. In due course an unwanted litter of several puppies arrives and if they survive dumping them is the solution.

Thank you for your 3 helpful posts. Wish I knew how to keep them handy! I've bought and sold here but always through dealers who produced all the necessary paperwork for me to sign and dealt with the DLT. My current car was previously registered in a different province and although the registration in my name, the new number plate and new tax certificate was dealt with in this province it seemed to take a very long time. The dealer was happy to release the car to me on payment which was about 3 weeks before I had to take the car to our DLT for verification the book related to the car. Engine and chassis numbers were checked. Then a few more days until everything was finalised. Presumably due to the existing out of province registration element. I was asked if I wanted registration in my name in this province. As it is my province of residence I said yes. If I'd said no I presumed the car would have been registered in my name in the province where it was already registered. But then I would have had to re register it here as both I and car reside here. Isn't that so?

Thanks Ubonjoe

Go on then do tell us which IO this is please

Or even in one

Can I just ask this please? Due to slight cock up and as I've never had to do this before in 10 years as I always left before the 90 days were up. The 90 day reporting regs allow reporting up to 15 days before the due date and up to 7 days after. My first ever report due date is 16 December and I'm flying out on 19th at 00.35 hrs. so will have gone through immigration control around 2300 on 18th. If I don't do the report which as the first one I believe must be done in person at my local IO will there be any consequences on my return at my next due date which will then be 90 days from re entering? If I do it does this make any difference to when I will next have to report. I think not. It will still be 90 days from date of my return. Thanks to anyone who replies

Flight only ticket prices look sky high atm compared to pre Covid days. At least double even treble. Perhaps it's different if you book a package with hotel or travel on a tour? I looked at few packaged deals for 10 day stay in Bangkok, obviously depends on the hotel classification but these too seemed alot more expensive than before which must be the flight ticket price.