yumyai
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At Thai taxpayer expense? It seems to suggest it was all paid for by British taxpayers
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There is no appeal from the Supreme Court, other than a request for a royal pardon, as far as I know
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Perhaps an alternative way to look at this is at face value - that Thailand like many countries faces challenges from illegal immigration, corruption, tax evasion and online scams. (Yes, a foreigner who uses visa agents to fake the required visa documents is just as much an illegal immigrant…). As for the 1984 style surveillance theories, does anyone seriously believe the Thai government has a computer system (or even the cross-department communication) necessary to collect, store, analyse and weaponise all this data for every single person in the country? We’ll all be long gone before anything like that is possible. Even elderly Thai vendors have mastered the QR code procedures and like the fact they no longer have to carry and bank physical cash, for security and convenience reasons. Are we foreign immigrants really too incompetent to do the same?
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HM passport office has an online form for enquiries or complaints. I can’t seem to post the link here though. Try searching HM passport office advice and complaints Better to ask them direct than rely on opinions here
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The commonly used British English word for a foreigner who comes to live in Britain is immigrant, not the rather upmarket word “expat”. Shouldn’t we use that for foreigners here too? Especially for these low quality badly behaved foreign residents instead of making them sound important? As a Brit I’d be more than happy to see the violent drunks, racists and criminals prosecuted and, if convicted, sent back to Britain immediately
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Great in theory but…. If they delete the biometric data after 48 hours, doesn’t that mean we’ll need to re-register every time we fly? If so, this will make check in queues slower, simply transferring the problem to a different part of the process? Also if the law requires deletion of data, does that also apply to the requirement to be photographed every time we arrive or leave? In which case it’s a useless requirement
