JackGats

I'm wondering about this "photo in business attire". Do they want me to have a photo taken of myself and send it to them? I first thought they'd take a photo there and then when they issue the visa.

You can never be moraly wrong about not having kids. Given the unspeakable sufferings to which living beings are exposed, reproducing can only be an act of utter selfishness.

What will also change is that prostitution rates increase threefold and that many girls will refrain because the paperwork is too much for the few weeks they want to work in bars.

Legal eg in Germany but regulated by German law (not by EU regulations). For example in Germany, no prostitution is allowed on the streets, only in clubs. German law says something like "prostitution cannot be banned everywhere by city council in towns of more than 80k souls". In other words, towns of more than 80k inhabitants must tolerate some prostitution in some places if operators want to open some clubs. Police in Germany are now increasingly raiding clubs on grounds of tax evasion. In the long term, this could mean the end of affordable prostitution in Germany. Prostitution is legal in France for women to prostitutes but illegal for male customers to seek prostitutes. See the problem? Legalisation can get twisted so that at the end of the day prostitution becomes as good as banned. Prostitution is legal in Belgium for both women and male customers, but city councils and police have wide-ranging powers to forbid. As a result, some cities and areas are prostitution deserts. And so on for different EU countries. In each case, national law is what decides and not EU regulations. If it were up to EU regulations, I guess we would have a blanket ban. Note that despite liberal policies in some countries, visa and work permit policies can dry up supply of sex workers. My hunch is that a country is only allowed into the EU once it is clear its women will not massively come and trade sex for money in member countries. Sexual economics is the hidden agenda that makes the world go round.

Puzzling. I thought the LTR was a visa so designed as to make agencies irrelevant. Now they're bringing back agencies through the back door.

Double-edged, at least from our manly point of view. Banned yet widely ignored and tolerated is often better than legal and heavy-handedly controlled. Legalisation will come with tons of new requirements. Then the crack-downs for non-observance of said requirements will know no bounds. See many EU countries.

Congratulations, you just conflated 3 different communities of the manosphere: red pillers, male supremacists, PUAs.

One-night stands, all too common with some lucky blokes, all too rare with me except for money, boohoo!

Sure enough, but suppose you lost your ATM card or your passbook and you went to the bank to get a new one. Wouldn't they want to compare your passport with the one they had a copy of in the computer? As soon as you get a new passport: 1) notify the bank (and your broker if you have one) 2) notify AIS/True/Dtac.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/4537874/Ecstasy-no-more-dangerous-than-horse-riding.html

Xstasy? If it was genuine xstasy the victim would still be alive. There's the war on drugs for you. A war on people.

I don't want to be disrespectful, but are so many readers of this forum US citizens? If that is the case, I retire with eggs on my face. Otherwise the trials and tribulations of a has-been called Trump are of no interest. Our respective home countries all have their own Trump-like, scandal-prone politicians and ex-politicians. Just imagine what a cacophony this forum would be if German, Italian, French etc. members in this forum posted stories daily about Habeck, Berlusconi, Le Pen etc. Trump? Trump who?

I am not pro-life, but it's good for the wymmyns for a change to have a taste of their own medecine and know what it feels like to have their own rights curtailed. In the US a man gets jail if he walks up to a woman and says "let me give you some money so that we can go to a hotel together and have some fun".

"They couln't ban the thing, so in a last-dich attempt, they tried to ban the smell".

What is Bualuang Exclusive service? Something to do with Bualuang Securities?

Luckily, most hotels address this simply by making an ashtray available on the balcony.

Yeah, sometimes you can no longer smell the ubiquitous gagging stench of drains because of the weed smell.

Was today at Bangkok Bank in order to register my new passport number. Was told I'd have to come back in about one week for a face pic relating to transfers over 50k. For most payments 50k is a high enough limit. All the same, I do transfers to my broker's (Bualuang) over that limit on a regular basis. No idea whether the bank's own affiliated broker as a payee would be exempt from the face ID requirement.

In most countries you can for a certain number of months, after which you must fall back on a local driving licence or get one. In some countries (Germany, France) a certified translation of the Thai driving licence is required, unless you also carry the international driving licence. In other countries (Belgium, apparently the UK), the English in the Thai driving licence suffices. The problem that can arise I think is if you cannot satisfy the police that you live in Thailand and not in the UK.

That's good news! I think I read somewhere that for the Elite visa it had to be done at the issuing office. Another plus of the LTR compared to the Elite then.

For the LTR, if money in the bank, then 100k USD, not 800k Baht. Either 100k USD in a Thai or foreign bank OR a health insurance explicitly mentioning 50k USD coverage.

Doesn't it work that way only if you previous visa was issued in Bangkok? A visa can only be cancelled by the IO that issued it. That makes cancelling & issueing on the same day unfeasable if the IO is not Bangkok's.

From what I've read about the LTR visa, the 800k in a Thai bank become irrelevant. Note however that you need to get your non-O cancelled beforehand with the IO that issued it. A spiteful IO could challenge you on your 800k (savings book) and give you 3 days to leave the country instead of giving you time to get your passport stamped with the LTR.

In many countries that would be true. But maybe not in Thailand where "decriminalised" could mean no problem for Thais but still arrestable for foreigners.

P.S. I just got my passports back with all stamps transfered. 1) It worked without an embassy letter. My embassy was one of the embassies who stopped issueing the precious "embassy letter". 2) Credit must be given where credit is due. I did this through Yaivisa Pass (photocopy shop next to Chonburi IO). I shall probably not apply for renewals in Pattaya (nor through agencies) any more, but if I did I'd opt for this agency. You see no cardboard boxes full of passports here, but I think when it comes to passports, there's no safety in numbers. Besides, the agency is a stone's throw from IO. Less risk of a drunken bike driver landing into a ditch with a consignment of passports.