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Thanks, Joe.

The URL I used before to make an online appointment at CW for extension of stay doesn't work anymore. Is there a new URL?

It's long been evident that the case numbers don't accurately reflect the actual number of infections. In any event, attention given to case numbers is more or less pointless. Hospitalization numbers and death numbers are both more accurate and much more important at this stage of the pandemic.

Don't know about France, but on the inside of U.S. passports there's a statement that the passport doesn't belong to the person it's issued to; it belongs to the U.S. government. If it's the same for France, you may want to tell the agent that unless they return it immediately or admit to you they lost it, you're reporting to the French government that they are illegally holding French government property and the French embassy will be dealing with them. (The last bit may not be true, but it may help motivate the agent....).

One of the major reasons I do all my immigration myself rather than by an agent is because I would never hand my passport over to someone I did not know extremely well and trust 100%. It amazes me that folks hire agents they know do dodgy things and never imagine that the agents are by definition dodgy themselves.

Nonsense. He has the right to remain unvaccinated. He just doesn't have the right to ignore host country immigration rules if he chooses to exercise his right to remain unvaccinated.

Without pointing fingers at anyone -- this really is all novel and evolving -- it seems likely Thailand's tourism industry won't be restarting up again in any real sense until Covid settles down to being truly endemic. 2024 is not an unreasonable guess.

The new U.S. entry requirements and my flight times mean I need a really rapid turn-around. Any recommendations?

It's about time these were banned on flights. They have been banned in many major U.S. hospitals for some time now. The issue is that those valves are one-way. They filter the air coming in, but not going out. So someone infected can inhale "clean" air but still exhale virus-laden air.

This may be a bit convoluted, but I'd appreciate help. I have an OA-based extension and multiple reentry permit, both valid through the end of June 2022. I went to the US in August of this year, and to return to Thailand I got the US$100K Covid insurance required at that time, which is valid also through the end of June 2022. This is in addition to the previous 400K/40K baht health cover I got for my OA-based extension (also valid through the end of June 2022). I want to go to the US for three weeks in May 2022. My question is: will the insurance cover I have described above be sufficient? I'm concered because the US$100K cover I got the last time I came back (which is still valid) appears to cover only Covid. Does the US$50K cover that is now required need to cover all health problems, or only Covid?

After doing my 90-day reports online for years, this last time I tried I couldn't get beyond the first page of the web site and the phone app told me (incorrectly) I was on overstay. Don't worry. It's the app, and Thai Immigration knows about the problem. You'll just need to do the 90-day report in person. A pain in the butt, but not the end of the world.

Depends on what the actual contract says. Many lease contracts say that either party can end the lease at any time as long as they give two months notice. If that's the case with your contract, you don't have much choice, legally. If your description of the landlord is correct, though, I'd expect he may try to cheat you out of any security deposit you paid. If it were me, I'd consider not paying the final two months rent and tell the landlord to just keep the security deposit in lieu of that rent.

Not on arrival. To even get the COE on my last reentry, yes, they insisted that my covid policy be valid until the end of my extension of permission to stay. I'm assuming the same will be true of the Thailand pass.

No need to sugar coat it. Tell us how you really feel. ????

OK, great. Thanks. Yes, it's the 90 day report I'm wanting to do.

I just saw again the Ricky Gervais special where he talks about old people saying how much better things were when they were young. He says something like, "Of course they were better. YOU WERE YOUNG. Everything's better when you're young!" Anyway, people and their situations are all different. If I decide tomorrow I'm no longer enjoying Thailand and I'm going back to my home country, it's because I've decided that's best for me, not for anyone else. Not everyone is in the same shoes.

IMM eSerivce On the first page it says IMMIGRATION eServices for Foreigner v.1.0.20 On the Apple Store, it says the developer is Royal Thai Police I'm pretty sure it's the official TI app

On the first page of the app registration (for iPhone), this is the screen shot. The bottom two items are partially blocked out by the drop-down menus. The first menu, when you click on it, is "Nation selection" and I assume means nationality. No problem. The second menu, when you click on it, is "country selection". My question is: do they mean the country you come from originally or the country where you are living now? Thanks.

If it involves a credit card transaction, I don't trust any business that doesn't have a website and a physical address and a telephone number. I simply don't need anything being sold online by someone who doesn't have all of those.

For what it's worth, I just called 1178 and talked to a very nice young lady who told me that the system is not working. "They are still fixing it." She said they have no idea when it will be working again. Oh, well.....

Yeah, I just tried it for the first time since returning from a trip to the US. I entered all the information correctly on the first page but got that message to contact my local immigration office. Tried different browsers, etc. I had been been doing it before many times, with no problem. Now.... nothing. What is the name of the phone app for iPhone?

Like you and some others here I got the 400K/40K insurance from Pacific Cross when that rule kicked in a couple of years ago. I'm hoping I don't need the US$100K insurance until my OA-based extension in 2023 (my next one will be before the 30 Sept. 2022 date folks are talking about for extensions). I've looked at the PC "visa friendly" policy, which meets the US$100K requirements, and annual premiums in my age range are over 110,000 baht. So, the upshot is that living in Thailand will become around US$4,000 per year more expensive than I had originally thought. That's doable for the moment, but since the Thai authorities are making it ever more clear that the only retirees they want settling in Thailand are the really well-to-do, there's no telling when they'll price Thailand out of reach.

No doubt it's true that bad roads contribute to the outrageous death toll of motorcyclists, but by far the major causes are speed and reckless driving. In Bangkok, a three-lane road actually has seven "lanes". There are three official ones that cars drive in, and an additional four that motorcycles also use whenever they can, weaving in and out at high speed with no signals or other warning.

Thanks for that. I got US$100K covid insurance when I returned to Thailand this past August on O-A extension and reentry permit. It's valid through the end of my current permission to stay. So as long as I do my next extension before 30/09/22, immigration won't require me to renew the covid insurance? I'll only need to renew the 400K/40k cover I also have?

I won't go into details, because as Sheryl has rightly pointed out, tinnitus can have a number of causes and treatment depends on a correct diagnosis of the particular causes for the particular patient. In my wife's case, the rapid onset of tinnitus was associated with rapid onset of severe hearing loss in one ear together with dizziness. Her tinnitus, hearing loss and dizziness have improved a good deal, but it is almost certain the hearing will not recover 100%. From what I've learned as a bystander, it is completely pointless to try to find out from internet websites or online forums what to do about tinnitus without a correct diagnosis of the causes. While a "cure" may not be possible, improvements are possible, but it is definitely NOT a one-size-fits-all condition.