JackGats

If it's a woman being beaten I should intervene as any white-knight worthy of the name should. If it's a man being beaten it's all right. It only matters when it happens to a woman.

How many times have I read catchy articles warning about some "dangerous new drug", only to find it's about the same old controlled substance in slightly different packaging. Powdered Xstasy = molly. It's just more or less pure MDMA that hasn't been compounded into an e-tablet. I suspect some people want law-enforcement to come hard on xstasy since their business is chiefly meth.

OK. They mean I cannot go on using cancelled and new for ever. Makes sense.

I meant flying back to Thailand. Flying back to Thailand with old (cancelled) and new. There's no place I can have the visa transferred outside Thailand. No time left to do the transfer in TH before I fly out of TH.

If you get a new passport abroad and the extension is on the old cancelled one, what's the deal at Suvarnabumi when flying back? 30-day stamp on the new passport and visa dead? Or you show the old passport, then what?

Beating the dead horse of Covid again. Next thing will be a requirement for a Covid insurance. This time it might be good business and not a disaster like it was last time.

Make sure they will honour your booking of two seats next to one another then, otherwise you'll be paying for another passenger's comfort. For all I know they might even realocate your doppelganger seat.

No transfer letter required any more, makes things cheaper and simpler, that cannot be, they will surely require something instead. I know what: a certificate of residence!

Business class of late is no longer what it was. In the past business class tickets were 100% refundable and flexible. Now they cost an arm and a leg to cancel and/or reschedule unless you buy business class premium which is 5 to 6 times the price of economy! The trick is they sell you a ticket they say can be rebooked for cheap PROVIDED there are vacancies in the same class coding as the original ticket. Unsurprisingly, when you try to rebook there are seldom such vacancies. In the future, I have a good mind to downgrade myself to economy flexible. If I take one zolpidem two hours after take off and redose when it wears out, a 12-hour flight reduces to 4-hour. With the money I thus save I can pay one-month hotel bills.

Will not merging 12 PDF files create a document 12 times bigger? It remains to be seen if that turns out easier "swallow" for the LTR website. If there's a bandwith problem it might prove more difficult and the merged file may take for ever to upload. Still, thanks for the tip. P.S. I see it is also possible to use online "PDF compressors" to purge the files of some of their fat. Makes a file half as big.

Seems the LTR website is of the same ilk as the then Thailand Pass website. Do I stand a chance when I need to upload, among other thinks, 12 statements of accounts + their Thai translations? That's 24 PDF files!

The woke brigade is at it again. Not the first time: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/21/1158347261/roald-dahl-books-changed-offensive-words

I do not fully understand what's possible with Wise. If I manage to open and fund a Wise account in Thailand, can I use it to send money to Colombia? Let's assume the Colombian side is ok (I have a bank account in Colombia where Wise remittances are enabled).

What if you were out of Thailand when you got the LRT approval, then entered Thailand (on a 30-day permit) to receive your LRT? Would they require 90-day reports you got months or years ago, whatever the last time was you stayed in Thailand more than 3 months in a row? Most people would detach and throw away their 90-day reports as soon as they leave Thailand for more than a few days.

Would this mean it's better to give an address abroad (outside Thailand) when applying? Supposing you are applying from abroad to come and pick up the visa in TH once approved/issued.

Regarding the LTR, could somebody tell me if the "endorsement letter" (or was it "letter of endorsement"?) comes in electronic form or is sent to the applicant postel address by snail-mail?

This is crazy.

I think this is with brute force (running thousands of passwords every second until the good one hits home). Bank accounts and other applications only allow a handful or trials before the system locks though.

Yes, that's what my embassy on the phone hinted at. There would still be time until May 2nd for a normal passport (after I reschedule my flight which is set at April 30th). If that is possible it's the best solution. I value a normal passport more than I value retaining my extension. However some consulates/embassy have a backlog of several weeks for nomal passports from what I've heard.

I heard they were only 6 months valid. So I shall need a normal passport to travel back anyway (6-month rule, enforceable by airlines if not by Thailand). The question is whether a visa stamp transferred on the emergency passport is any good when I come back. If not I get 30 days and take it from there. Or better still, do the LTR, for which I qualify. Do the LTR online from Europe and come to collect it in October, that would be ideal.

I once rode to Immigration from an agency to have my picture taken. The agency paid for the motorbike taxi. The motorbike taxi I rode with carried a bunch of passports under the seat for delivery to immigration. No Courrier or Thai Post for these passports, only มอเตอร์ไซค์รับจ้าง.

Ok guys, long story short, the agency called me this morning to tell me "immigration lost your passport". I have an appointment at my embassy on monday morning. Agency is paying the costs and said they want to get the renewal on the emergency passport before the deadline runs out. Funny some of you guys question whether I keep copies of my passport. I'd be a fool not to do that with the kind of life we lead here. Not only that, I upload all the pages of it on my Google drive, adding new pages as soon as they get some stamp on it.

I thought of doing that, but what if I get controlled by police during the 90 days? Would be bad luck but I would no longer be an "alien surrendering to police". That's why it would be great to know (get a print-out from the Immigration computer?) whether the new extension was stamped in the missing passport. But this is apparently not a service agencies are willing or able to provide, in spite of begin well-connected with Immigration.

I had it. It's scary. I remember swimming with my face in the water and not feeling the other half. There's a rule in medical books that it starts getting better at day "X". In my case it did exactly that. 5 days is too soon to notice an improvement I think. I read that herpes could be the culprit. Herpes is a nerve virus remember. In my case it probably was, for I started having outbreaks of herpes (labialis) about 1 year after the Bell's Palsy incident. You may want to do a test for herpes after your symtoms are over.

I was factoring in the time needed for my embassy to provide me with a new passport in case mine doesn't surface, and the availability of flights if I must reschedule. So if I am optimistic and wait until the last day, I'll be in overstay by the time I have a passport and a new flight. My flight is on the 30th of April.