Russell17au

The answer to your question is "YES" at a road block on highway 2 just south of Udon Thani when the police would not accept my Thai drivers license as Identification and told me that my only true identification is my original passport and I have confirmed this with Thai Immigration at Khon Kaen

Look at it this way. Even a Thai citizen must produce their original Thai ID card on request. They cannot produce a copy. If anyone of authority request your ID documents (passport) then you must be able to show them the original document and not a copy, but saying that it is up to the person of authority if they will accept a photo copy or not. Many foreigners take the risk by copying their passport information page, plus their visa, extension, entry stamp, departure card and either laminate the copy or some of them even reduce the size down to a credit card size for ease of carrying. But at the end of the day it is up to the authority on what they will accept. It is up to you if you want to take the risk but everyone in Thailand including Thai citizens must carry their original ID documents.

My wife rents a shop in Khon Kaen and we were closed by the government last year for 3 months and through negotiations with the landlord we were able to get the rent reduced for the period we were closed but now the government has not closed the business it gives us no lever to negotiate with. My wife and I have talked over the last couple of days about closing the business and returning the shop to the landlord (we are not under any lease contract now) as the customer base has fallen off due to Covid . If we close, it will be the landlords loss as there are very few people looking for a shop to lease at this period of time, so the landlord will get no income from this property at all. Maybe you could try and negotiate with the landlord and tell them that unless they do a deal on the rent then you will close the shop and move out and that there will be no income from that shop for them and wish the landlord good luck in finding someone who will lease the shop off them with this virus around. There are no laws in place to help you except the laws that govern any contract you have with the landlord.

No, there has been many illegal people who have tried to enter countries with fake passports and with passports that have not got a departure country stamp in it that has spent many hours in the immigration offices trying to explain how they jump on the plain from the sky with out an exit stamp and then spent many hours in holding cells at the airport to be sent back to where they came from on the passport that has the exit stamp in.

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Be careful about using the 2 passports for the 1 trip. Remember that when you depart Thailand on a passport your exit stamp goes in that passport and when you arrive at your destination and produce a different passport that does not have your exit stamp from the country you have departed from there could be problems at your arriving country because your passport is supposed to be used for a single trip and not changed between departure of one country and arrival into another country. Also as things are with this Covid many countries are not receiving people from certain other countries. I know Australia is not receiving anyone from Thailand at the moment.

Yesterday I went to my local Makro and there were several items that were not available plus several items in short stock. Normally they have about 10 pallets of eggs but they only had 4 pallets yesterday and I mentioned this to my wife when I got home and she told me that many of the egg and chicken suppliers have closed due to Covid. So I went to have a look at the local Big C this morning and they would normally have 4 pallets and several shelves of eggs but they only had 1/2 a pallet of eggs and the shelves where they have the eggs were empty plus they had a limit of 1 x 30 tray of eggs per customer at a higher price. I used to pay 89baht for a tray and today the same tray was 109baht and there was very little in the way of chicken there. Walking through the store there were several items missing from the shelves but the fruit and veg was full. A lot of the imported stuff was missing from both Makro and Big C. It looks like it is a case of short supply from the manufacturers, short supply from the transport side and short supply from the closed factories.

Going by what the OP has written, it is a good possibility that this debt is his wife's. From what I can understand they lived in a condo for which his wife has signed a 12 month contract with True for a cable internet service, but before that contract was completed they moved to another condo where his wife has also signed for a True cable internet service. At this point his wife has 2 True cable internet services at the same time, but ceases to pay for the first service therefore accumulating this debt. Your wife has signed a contract for 12 months but did not pay for the full 12 months so this debt is hers. Why did you not transfer the cable service from one address to the other which would have saved a lot of this mess. It is quite common for many Thai's not to transfer the services but to just walk away without paying and then opening up another account. This does not only happen with True, it happens with all the internet and phone service providers. From experience my partner at the time signed up to 3BB for a cable service and when we split up I said to her to transfer the service to my new address but she refused to and when she got the bill from 3BB she tried to get me to pay it and I refused and I told her it was her problem because she refused to transfer the account to my new address.