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cool story bro
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Go to Ban Pakkad instead, it's ~100km from Poi Pet and you can do an in-and-out if you have a multiple entry visa. I did it last month. They might ask for an extra payment on the Cambodian side for getting stamped out immediately. Just make it clear that you already have a visa for Thailand.
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12 minutes ago, steve187 said:
come to Thailand to learn English, makes sense
I had multiple reasons to come to Thailand but thank you for your valuable input. As you can see, I have learned English successfully. I might study Chinese next.
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1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:
The immigration act clearly states a report of staying longer than 90 consecutive days in the country requires a report to be done.
A extension of stay application does not count as doing a 90 day report unless it is the first one.
It does not matter whether you getting 90 day extensions or one year a report is needed.
It could be a case of Samui immigration making up their own rules again.
I guess you are right. I just called 1178 hotline and Surat Thani immigration office (not Samui). They told me that I (and you) are correct and I indeed have to do the 90 day report right now and since I'm late I will have to pay a 2000 baht fine.
So I went back to Samui Immigration. They were super confused and told me that no one with this visa does 90 day report, and with 90 day extensions I shouldn't do the report. I told them what they told me when I called Surat and the hotline. Then "the boss" said the same thing and asked why I don't believe them, at this point I didn't want to argue so I thanked and left. I even pointed to the extension stamp where it clearly says that 90 day report is required. They didn't care. ????I wouldn't care too, but I will be moving out of Koh Samui soon and I'm wondering whether I will have any problems because of this if my passport gets checked at some checkpoint, or when I visit an Immigration office outside of Samui.
1 hour ago, EricTh said:Which school are you learning Thai at?
I'm studying English. I don't think the name of the school is relevant in this case.
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Hi, I'm currently in Thailand based on Non-imm ED visa (initially for 3 months), arrived in June 2019. Every 3 months I get a new extension of stay, an agent (the school) does it for me and I just pick up the passport at Immigration.
I have never done the 90 day report (TM-47), I don't have any receipt for it in my passport. The school told me that it's not required because I'm getting 90-day extensions, and don't have a 1 year visa. However, everything I read on thaivisa, immigration page, various blogs etc. states clearly that I should do the 90 day report if I stay in Thailand over 90 days and it doesn't matter whether I have 1 year or 3 month visa.
So I went to the Immigration office with a filled out TM-47 to find out whether I should do it or not, since I've read that I can get a pretty big fine if I get caught by the police and they detain me for not doing the 90 day report. But at the Immigration office they wouldn't take my filled out form and clearly said that I don't need to do the 90 day report unless I have a 1 year visa.
Does that sound correct? This is all at Koh Samui Immigration. Do they have different rules than other immigration offices? -
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Places like this have been raided by Immigration officers in the past, simply because they were confused and thought that the foreigners in there are working for Thai companies or doing business with Thais. They were detained and once it was explained to the officers that they are doing remote work for foreign businesses, they were all let go without an issue. No one arrested, no one deported, no one fined. Thai immigration has stated in the past that they don't care if you work remotely on a tourist visa, unless you do business with Thai people/companies.
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Recent studies have strengthened the evidence that respirators afford greater protection against respirable particles than medical masks. Studies comparing the filtering efficacy of medical masks and certified N95 respirators have found consistently high filtering capacity of N95 respirators and a wide range of filtering performance by medical masks (Qian et al., 1998; Oberg and Brosseau, 2008; Rengasamy et al., 2008, 2009). N95 respirators are tested as part of the NIOSH certification process to determine if they meet the criteria to filter out at least 95 percent of particles that are 0.3 μm in size (42 CFR Part 84). Studies by Lee and colleagues (2008) and Balazy and colleagues (2006) used aerosols of similar particle size range to bacteria and viruses (0.04–1.3 μm) and found that while some N95 respirators allowed slightly greater than 5 percent particle penetration, they had protection factors that were 8 to 12 times greater than those of medical masks. A recent study of nine types of medical masks by Oberg and Brosseau (2008) found wide variations in particle penetration (4 percent to 90 percent) through medical mask filters. The study also found that the majority of the medical masks failed the qualitative fit tests and all failed the quantitative fit tests. At the workshop, discussion focused on filtration principles that show that the aerodynamic behavior of an aerosol particle is based on its size, density, and shape (i.e., a 0.3 μm latex sphere behaves in a similar manner to a particle of the same size, density, and shape that may carry a virus).
Using particles less than 1 μm, a study of total leakage through medical masks worn by 25 subjects found that the contribution to total leakage into the medical mask was 5 percent to 8 percent from filter leakage and 25 to 38 percent from faceseal leakage (Grinshpun et al., 2009). In that study, N95 respirator contribution to total leakage was less than 1 percent from filter leakage and 3 to 5 percent from faceseal leakage.
Source: https://www.nap.edu/read/12748/chapter/2
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The best thing to use is a mask with NIOSH N95 or FFP3 certification.
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To anyone who's interested in this - I tried to get a visa exempt 30 day stamp at Wang Prachan today. I asked about it before I got the actual exit stamp out of Thailand and I basically had to talk to four different officers about whether they would give me the 30-day stamp if I came back on the same day or not. The senior official who was making the final decision seemed very angry, especially when he looked at my passport, he really wanted to know when will I go back to Europe finally.. At the end they said that they will not give me the stamp unless I stay "at least a couple of nights (more than 1) in Malaysia. Didn't want any tea money either. He said it's so bad that I stay in Thailand so long and I have to go back to my own country or get visa in Penang. One of the younger officials was about to let me through, but the senior one quickly scolded him by saying "look at his passport, look how many entries" (mostly tourist visas) and that was the end of it.
btw. I have used this border in the past to get a 30-day stamp last year, but that was with an agency who was "friendly" with the officers there. 2000 baht per person for visa exempt stamps friendly to be exact
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In Koh Samui they asked for a copy of the passport, 500 baht and your address written on a piece of paper. That's it. I was on a tourist visa, due to leave the country 3 days after I got the residency certificate.
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Refused exit with multiple entry with non O
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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I've had it happen to me twice, both at Ban Laem and at Ban Pakkard. Both times it was because the IO failed to notice that I have a MULTIPLE entry visa. Each time, after they finally realized it, they let me through. The Cambodian side also needed a lot of pointing out that I still have a valid multiple entry visa.