Thalueng

You cannot compare Thailand with Western countries for many reasons. When a country is not well developed, most people are poor, most jobs are simple, and education is basic or poor too, then most people have problems which makes them ignore "lesser" things like safety, environmental protection, and yes any kind of laws. For many a motorcycle is the only affordable family vehicle, and renting a taxi with seat belts simply out of question. Not unique to Thailand, and as long as the standard of living (for the poor people) does not improve these things will not and cannot change.

You should teach them how to do it. Of course for this you first need to learn how to speak, read, write, and think Thai. After that you probably cannot find the problem anymore.

This has been asked and answered several times in this forum. If you live in Hua Hin please note that the immigration office here requires you to do 90 days reporting no matter if and when you leave and return to the country (implemented when the TM6 arrival form was abolished). However, I don't report online as the IO is a few minutes from my house, but I can confirm this based on clear instructions received just a few days ago.

Misspelled names unfortunately are a big issue here, for several reasons. There are names different by just one letter, first or family names, problems with fake identities, etc. 1500 is a really small price to resolve your issue.

Not in HH anyway. You apply 45 days before expiry of the extension, from that day the 30 days under consideration start counting, you don't get a one month extension but directly a 12 month extension starting from the previous expiration date. And yes, good observation, I should have said 'you pick up your passport with the new extension and the reentry permit', you don't leave the passport at the IO, thought this is obvious as no country or official is authorised to keep your passport except the country who issued the passport.

In HH I would go to immigration 45 days before expiry of my current extension, which is the earliest you can do here, then pick up passport after 30 days (still 15 days before expiry) and do the reentry permit at the same time. You would have your passport back way before your travel date, even if in Kalasin you could renew 30 days before expiry only as it appears to be in some provinces.

The easiest way I found is go to immigration, at the welcome desk tell them what you are here for. They will give you the required documents to fill out and check other documents such as photo or house book for completeness. Then head over to the copying machine service (every IO has it) where there is someone who makes the copies for you. This someone knows exactly what needs to be copied for which application, and the copies are really not expensive (2 Baht per page in HH). Then pass by the welcome desk again, get a queue number and wait for your turn. Same procedure for reentry permit, extension of stay, 90 days, etc.

Really? The TM6 registers your address which goes into the same database as the address registered with TM30.

Are you sure about this? The 90 days after entry was valid when you reported your address through TM6. TM6 is no more, that's why immigration in Hua Hin (and other provinces I believe) require you now to do a TM30 after arrival instead, not after 90 days. By all means, this seems more logical to me than after entry you have no confirmed address for the first 90 days.

Every country requires verification before issuing a visa, Thailand is no exception to this. Since the vast majority of tourists can enter without visa for 30 days or even 45 (from Oct 1) this is hardly the reason.

That's probably the most reasonable explanation. Do you have any idea how many illegal immigrant workers from other Asian countries stay here? And what explanations they come up with when entering the country?

Your work permit must list the type of work you do, not necessarily the location. A work permit as teacher for example does not allow you to help in your wife's business, unless your wife's business is teaching. If your friend's work permit includes construction supervision he should be good to go.

It starts much earlier than this. Thai people do not recognise dangerous situations, nor do they teach this to their children. It's not just the 14 year old who ride without helmet, it's everyone. It's Easy Rider times, just that this was 52 years ago in our countries. Way to go Thailand, don't blame it all to the police.

In Hua Hin you are required to submit TM30 after having returned to Thailand. This replaces the TM6. Not doing this will be treated the same as if you forgot the 90 days reporting on time.

In Hua Hin you need a witness who confirms you really are married and staying at declared address for every extension, but no home visit after the initial application. You can renew as early as 45 days before expiry, then you are asked to come back after 30 days to get the extension stamp.

There are a few thoughts which come to my mind. Do the 90 days online or at IO with original passport or copied pages of details, last entry stamp, and TM6 if you have one. Explain your case to the officer. After having received the new passport you need to go back to immigration in any case to get the visa and extension transferred to the new passport (fee 500 Baht). Why does she travel on a German passport? You asked for a UK passport renewal question, so these seem to be 2 different issues.

You could enter the country on a 90 day visa, deposit 400k Baht in a bank account on your name, and then do an extension of stay based on marriage. Your wife would need to be with you, but you would not need to leave the country for the entire duration. If you wish to travel get a multiple re-entry permit here.

Have you're friends all returned within the last 2 months since TM6 (arrival card) has been abolished? I'm sure you and you're friends have reported with TM30 90 days after arriving from abroad, and not when the old TM30 expired, I would assume that's because you reported your address with TM6 before. Upon entry 90 days reporting was always reset.

What is the correct rules then? You might be more knowledgeable than me but it appears to me that you are required to report your address (TM30) every 90 days no matter whether you change your address or not. Once you leave the country and return you are required to do so no matter whether you return to the same address, and the 90 days started counting from when you entered, because you reported your address with the entry form (TM6). Since TM6 has been abolished your address is not reported upon entry, for tourists this is not an issue as hotels and other paid places to stay do this automatically, but for us residents it now seems required to report your address, either online or at the IO. Seems logical to me. This is also confirmed by immigration in Hua Hin who require you to fill out the TM30 within 7 days after returning to Thailand. You might get away with it at other IOs if your previous TM30 is still valid, claiming you did not know. I would certainly not taking chances here and do the reporting rather than running the risk of a 2000 Baht penalty.

Not true. Thailand sent the biggest non-western troop contingent in the Korean war to help South Korea, which fostered a deep friendship between the 2 countries until today.

I use a fixed ip address with 3bb, other companies like NT (former TOT) and True do not offer this other than in their business offerings, AIS I don't know. Internet down- and upload speed depend on various factors. Do a traceroute to understand the nodes your data travels through, then you might find the bottleneck. It's usually not Thailand but Europe or in between, and ... connecting through the US in most cases gives you better results as the infrastructure through the Atlantic, Pacific and the US is superior. The only downside is that the latency increases (packet response time which is indicated by ping), in most cases you won't notice. Make a WhatsApp call to Europe and you will notice the latency. Going from 1000 to 2000 will not give you any benefit when accessing servers in Europe as those servers and most nodes are not capable of handling such speeds. You could even reduce your contract to 500 or 300, your data travels through the same infrastructure. The peak demand for international data transfer may be after 7pm, but certainly not from Thailand to Europe. All major streaming services run or use servers in Asia (mostly Singapore relevant for Thailand). For the reference to the "London server" do a traceroute to find the culprit.

If you have access to Internet use the ISPs solution, 3BB, True, AIS, NT (replaced TOT) all have a free solution with or without set top box. You could also use a generic service like u play for a small fee, where you would install their app on a TV running AndroidTV or an Android box. Don't mind me saying but terrestrial or satellite are a thing from the past, quality and reliability cannot compare.

Just to be clear, you must do this on day 1 for the first time since TM6 got abolished.

To be more precise, if you're carrying a passport from a member state of the Schengen area.

I had a wrong date stamped once, got corrected at IO the next time I went there. For free I should add. In this context it's maybe worthwhile to mention that everybody not staying at a hotel including people on a visa coming back with reentry permit are supposed to report their address at IO after arrival in the country since TM6 has been abolished. TM6 took care of this for the first 90 days before. If you're missing an entry stamp I'm sure the IO will fix this at the same time.