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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.

Which brings up the question: What do boys learn from attending scout activities? I recall a brit guy who had 2 boys attending primary at an international school in Chiang Mai. On the days for scout activities the 2 boys had to wear full scout uniform (checked thoroughly for compliance) and for several hours sit on the grass in rows and talk to each other and allowed to surf the internet / use social media. One teacher was on hand to ensure the boys remained seated in rows and weren't too noisy, there was no lesson.

Perhaps the gov't is trying to instigate a deep throat situation.

Suggest you listen to / observe some US Americans arriving at airports in: Thailand, Singapore, Djakarta, Hong Kong, Narita Shanghai. - 'Where's the special line for American citizens'. - 'If you think I'm standing in any line think again, I'm an American citizen I don't put up with this, show me some respect'. - and more,,, '

You say informal then you say arrogant? Confusing, what do you mean by arrogant.

True, have to travel to an immigration office, but in my experience (at CW and Chiang Mai immigration) all done in 10 - 20 minutes.

Plenty of men shave or use a delap cream to remove all pubic and under arm hair every few days. Delap cream takes 5 minutes, all done. Why not. (delap - delipatory, available in pharmacies world wide, Veet, Nair.)

I returned to Australia from active service in Vietnam on a C130. Landed in Darwin then Adelaide. Very long flights. C130s had no sound proofing, the noise during flight was beyond belief, making it totally impossible to conduct any conversation with anybody let alone the person you were jammed against. However while braking the noise was even much louder. No ear plugs issued. Landed at Adelaide airport at about 2:30 am, then bus to Army HQ in the city in Adelaide to be greeted by severe foul abuse by a mid aged fat civilian woman who complained that she and her staff (about 5 or 6) had to get out of bed early to come to the office process our arrival documents. 'Why didn't you take a flight in daytime hours?' One of the boys asked if he could use the coffee facilities to make a cup of coffee. Another abusing civilian woman responded 'Did you put your money in the coffee jar this month? Of course not, so no coffee'.

Good idea of course but not available at airports for PR holders, have to visit an Immigration office.

Or any of dozens of public swimming / exercise venues.

Nobody has proved they are gay, just an unproven silly assumption by a poster.