Caldera

He should be locked up in a mental health facility instead of running (and ruining) a country.

I'd say it's pretty much a complete non-issue in Thailand.

You'd need to tell us which immigration office you use, maybe someone knows. They all make up their own rules. At Suvarnabhumi Airport, the printed fillable form was accepted.

Wreck

Did you check your entry stamp, to ensure you weren't accidentally given a visa exempt entry? I'm a bit baffled that you didn't hand over your eVisa printout with your passport right away. I'm saying this because the limit only applies to visa exempt entries, which an IO would know.

If your permission to stay expires while you're out of country, it's not possible to extend it. You'll need to start over fresh.

Now after the Covid break is over, I cannot help but notice more foreigners in Bangkok overdoing the wai thing in situations they really shouldn't. Especially with wait staff in restaurants and the likes.

It has been a ridiculous tourist trap right from the start. But at least they seem to have solved the problem of overcrowding. 555

Ah, those naughty Arabs and their KY.

It might. There have been plans to extend it, but that hasn't happened, at least not yet.

Exit immigration at DMK is fast, even if it looks very crowded. With your schedule, I'd be more concerned about a delay of your domestic flight than about slow immigration.

What, no PromptPay QR code payment option? That would surprise me.

Yes, and I question their judgment, as it seems premature to me. They should be open to all possibilities until more is known.

I honestly don't see how this police farce could be reformed, it's rotten through and through. You'd have to completely rebuild it from scratch, but who will ever do that!?

I don't really get the reporting on this one. A teenager dies from an unexplained head injury, and it's not being treated as a suspicious death? Why not? RIP in any case, this is saddening news no matter what happened.

I'll reserve judgment until I've seen the terms and conditions of the insurance package we'll be getting. ????

The pent up demand due to Covid is drying up, so low season will be just that again. Staff shortage and higher prices also don't help. I wouldn't be surprised if quite a number of visitors left somewhat underwhelmed by their experience.

He's probably wanted in his home country, so Thailand wants to give them a chance to send over police officers to pick him up instead of merely deporting him.

The catch is you really need to be 50 years old first before you can do that.

Never done it at Don Mueang Airport myself, but chances are it's the same there. Hopefully someone with actual experience can weigh in.

No problem to do the transfer at Suvarnabhumi Airport as a tourist on visa exempt. You queue up as per normal, they'll send you to a special desk where you're stamped out in your new passport while some stamps from your old passport are transferred to your new passport for reference. They also link your passports in their system. If you get your new passport before you extend your visa exempt entry at immigration, you need to do the transfer there and then, as they won't put an extension stamp in an invalidated passport.

With APIS, information is collected at check-in time. I've flown into Thailand (which requires APIS) many times and I've never had to provide my passport details before check-in (online or at the airport). So collecting that information at booking time certainly isn't a requirement imposed by APIS.

That sounds like a massive downgrade from what was originally alleged these officers did. Will they get away with a slap on the wrist?

There's no Covid insurance requirement for any Thai visa or extension any longer.

I don't think there's a way. You can only look up who has been reported at the property you manage, but you cannot see if they have been reported elsewhere in the meantime.