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NO NO, they all walked down the stairs level 9 to level 1 to get a medical check up... All healthy so they then took another lift level 1 to level 9 to resume their purpose. Just common sense.

Enough silly comments, she should be at the white House attending to the many items the first lady should look at / focus on / create benefits for the underprivileged etc.

Read more. I don't buy your negative comments. What's behind your negatives: race? She's also very successfully given many invited law lectures at several highly acclaimed universities.

... and let's not forget she has achieved a Ph.D. I have a Ph.D. and I've joined several Ph.D. committees. Many would consider law to be the hardest subject to battle and achieve a Ph.D.

Are you a little paranoid? If you're an Aussie pensioner the Oz gov't know your outside of Oz (or inside oz) through their 24/7 online access to immigration records (continuous automatic scrutiny of arrivals and departure passport numbers). If your passport number is spotted (out or in) the details are automatically added to your CLink file.

If no reply suggest you email to Division1 Immigration division1.immigration(at)gmail.com Plenty of good English available, usually respond with clear answers within 2 to 4 days.

And in any case I strongly doubt that any government would 'reduce' benefits in any way.

should always have a plan where to hide all cash, cards, documents, valuables. If no 'secret place' can be spotted in the guest room then deposit it at the lobby. Be pragmatic, if the 'player' needs to wait a day they so be it, plenty of girls available in bars where records are kept, so why engage anonymous girls from the beach. Yeah heard it before 'save 300Baht'. Grow up guys think more before you act.

Re the last paragraph, the tot money spent in Thailand by Israels (and many other nationalities) is very very tiny compared to the Thai economy.

Fly first class, make it memorable.

Thanks for sharing.

Sorry, one more point. Is it true that renewal of Oz passport for 10 years is now approx. 16,000Baht? I've very doubtful I will ever travel out of Thailand again. Can I request a limited page passport on renewal or is the Australian passport one standard 72 page size? (I'm aware that older folks can renew for 5 years but prefer to stay with the 10 year issue.)

Very interesting and thanks for sharing. I'm 80 years old, PR of Thailand for 28 years. I've renewed my Oz passport 3 time before but then I lived in Bkk. Need to renew it again mid February 2026, now full-time permanent resident in CNX, live in the Don Chan area, close to Big C Don Chan. Any specific items to be careful of re renewal when resident in CNX? Do I start with the online process regardless of where I'm resident in Thailand? I've renewed my Australian birth certificate to the current format. Previously included a copy of the original birth certificate issued 80 years ago (1945). (For a different purpose I shared a copy of the 1945 issued original certificate but it was not accepted, apparently a mistake was made when the 1945 records were entered into the electronic database some 30? years ago.) Should I now submit my new birth certificate issued in Sydney about 5 years? Any advise much appreciated. Thanks.

True of course. The next chapter could go in many directions and it won't surprise if 'the powers' squash anything which looks like a victory, regardless of location.

Agree.

Except to say it's unethical and immoral.

Strange assumption...

Does Barron have a US passport?

This relates to Khon Kaen. Maybe Khun Pita and and his party now believe they will have more success by focusing first on regional seats then move to the national scenario? Hope they have success.

You have no credibility or authority to inform anybody about anything. Crawl back under your rock and stay there.

That's not really true, plenty of Europeans and US Americans lack basic manners, politeness, and common sense.

You think too much.

When my employer posted to Thailand I took some quite incorrect advice "cannot buy shampoo, shaving cream or throw away shavers in Thailand", and more. So I brought big supplies with me. Within 24 hrs of being here I discovered I could buy everything I wanted for a happy contended life including food / groceries, etc.

Or a prude? Many Americans ae prudes. years back I went to an isolated big lake in Australia with family / friends to swim and for water skiing. Several of the men / boys wore speedos. Several were surf life savers who always (for good reasons) wear speedos. An American woman sitting nearby sent a note with a kid to ask the men to wear clothes or she would have someone call the police. She was ignored but with maybe 20 minutes she had become very loud and convinced her Australian hosts to pack up and leave. What a prude.

I wrote a response but somehow I've lost it, so start again: Hi Nifty, looks like you're doing OK, best of luck. Following are some points that I learned from my own OAP application and approval. - Contrary to what some folks believe; OAP applications are NOT processed by local CLink offices, and applicants cannot request that their local CLink office and / or a specific CLink officer process their OAP application. - All OAP applications go, electronically, to the CLink HO computer in Canberra and are processed by computer. A very large % of the applications are 100% processed by computer. Where there is any confusion to the application questions the application automatically goes to a CLink officer in Canberra. That officer promptly takes whatever action is needed to resolves the situation and get a clear answer and this goes into the Clink processing computer. Automatic computer processing resumes, until all questions have a clear answer and a decision is made by the computer. My understanding is that for every OAP application, the processing data and the computer decision goes to a senior CLink officer to confirm / dispute the decision of the computer. All confirmed the OAP applicant is quickly advised of the decision by phone and letter and the next steps proceed to quickly lodge any back payment into the bank account of the applicant (back paid to the date the OAP application was lodged). And the applicant is advised full details of future payments*and the date of the first full payment into the applicant's bank account (the 2 weekly payment cycle). (* this will of course change every 6 months because of cost of living adjustments. NOTE: OA Pensioners living abroad using their portability* entitlement receive the full OAP supplement amount . (* Portability means - can receive their full pension and supplement amount paid automatically into a savings account abroad by 4 weekly <2 fortnights> international bank transfer. This is for life, doesn't need any further contact with CLink. The pensioners savings bank account in Thailand (any country) can be a joint savings account <Mine is self and Thai adult son, either party can sign. CLink don't want any details about who can sign etc.), just tell CLink the bank name, bank address (suburb only), account name (joint names) and account number.) To get this started ask CLink for the international transfer banking document. They will send this to your e.mail address. Take this form to your Thai savings bank with your passport and your bank book and if it's a joint savings account take the other person with ID. Taking the other joint account owner to the Thai bank is NOT a CLink requirement, some Thai banks use this process, some don't. Your Thai bank will complete the form (takes about 1 minute), a senior bank officer then signs and stamps the document. The document should include the landline number of the bank, NOT the mobile phone number of a bank officer. CLink will give you an e.mail address of a Services Australia banking department for you to return the completed banking form. On receipt of your email Service Australia will then call you and slowly / carefully confirm that the bank account number is correct and tell you a date to expect your first 4 weekly payment. NOTE: For every deposit into my K Bank savings joint account I very quickly receive 2 advices from K Bank: a. An SMS from K Bank with basic details including the amount of Thai Baht just deposited to my joint savings account. b. An Email from K bank with same expanded details. From the information in the email I can see that the money just received has been deposited in Australia for International transfer perhaps 3 or 4 hours before it's in my K bank account. Good luck and take care.