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Indeed so @IgboChief that is 1000 Baht single re-entry and 3800 multiple re-entry. What are your travel plans? Single re-entries may make more sense.

Excellent. So your desire to file a tax return is the wish "to keep legal". Thank you for answering that. I guess that means by implication your answer to the second question was not to file would have been illegal. Okay. (See suggestion 1 below) Would you consider, again if you have the time and inclination, the following two courses of action. They are either / or. 1. Don't file on the grounds that your taxable income in Thailand means you do not need to. However, do keep records to show if ever challenged. 2. File a 'zero income return' without asking the tax officials to do it for you. Perhaps you have a little bank interest but if your foreign income is exempt simply don't declare it. I hope you find these solutions helpful. Nobody wants a nightmare.

I assume he is referring to the fact that Savannakhet are no longer issuing multi-entry visas.

Thank you for your report. What was your incentive for wanting to file a tax return (particularly when it sounds you had nothing to declare)? And the same question but asked backwards. If you had not gone, what position would you have been in? If you have the time and inclination, would you mind answering these two questions.

Goodness me, this happens over 10 times a year with every election and Buddhist Day. Each time, the monger / alcoholic lot are up in arms. The reaction is farcical.

Is she still persona non grata on British Airways?

Only in a country without any real press freedom, would such a story with all the key details omitted be published. And that regarding an interview with the PM's father who is clearly acting as the PM. Fill in the blanks.

Quite possibly. Very mixed messages on that one at the moment but it is still early days. The early birds have only had their DTV's for just over 7 months. On the one hand, the DTV appeared on a video issued by Immigration. The video warned foreigners not to use visa exempts or tourist visas but to get a proper visa and then provided examples of a Non-Immigrant Visa and a DTV. So, the official Immigration video references the DTV as a proper visa. On the other hand, we know that denials of entry seem to appear when Immigration feel a situation is threatening their agent-derived income. At the moment there are no reliable reports of denial of entry.

If any more reasons were required, this is absolutely the nail in the coffin not to do a DTV permission-to-stay extension. Leave the country twice per year is obviously the route to take. You will need to leave once a year anyway because, as I understand it, you can only do one extension per entry. Why would anybody put themselves through these administrative hoops and take the chance of being forced to leave the country at very short notice with a negative stamp in the passport?

Two state solution is the answer.

I think you can be sure that they have been for years.

Two state solution is the answer but Israel are currently not interested.

Are you being paid a salary with the tourism company or are you simply receiving dividend payouts? It would be hard to see how a work permit could be issued without a salary given the minimum salary requirements.

Do not try to attend Immigration in Koh Sichang or Laem Chabang. These offices are not standard offices but only have very limited services primarily for seafarers and ship passengers. Please disregard this information. You will waste your time.

Indeed, prior to my whacky but potentially successful plan, I would give it a go at the DLT with the DTV to see if they would give me a 5-year licence. The sign in Sri Racha specifically states "Non-Imm Visa" but who knows.

I did my 90 day notification with a DTV at Jomtien. Very straightforward. Documents required 1. Completed TM47 2. Copy of entry stamp 3. Copy of passport details page 4. Copy of TM30 DTV eVisa not required. But take everything, you never know! At Jomtien, you will be told to return in 30 mins / 1 hour / 2 hours depending on how busy they are after handing in documents. Plenty of eateries around there.

Great advice above. I would add that Paksan (Pakxan) is a shorter bus ride than Savannakhet.

The BBC running with a story that the US seeking to tie Iran into a non-nuclear deal at the same time as this announcement on Gaza. The Gaza announcement gets the headlines and keeps Netanyahu happy because it keeps his rebellious ultra-Zionist coalition partners happy. At the same time, the Iran news which would send the ultra-Zionist into a fury has been buried.

As he was not charged, can you explain how he would have been remanded? Is this something new in the UK, remanded without being charged? Wasn't that called internment?

No, they were both brand new evisas from London. I got the Non-Imm O and then applied for the DTV a week later. Both were approved and issued. I actually believe that whichever I presented would have been accepted. I presented the DTV at Suwannaphum Airport and that was how I was stamped in.

Off topic I learnt whilst dealing with customers in the financial sector never to give an opinion on anyone else's earnings or expenditure as no matter how well-intentioned and harmless, it will set people off.

I remember in Sri Racha before the licence was actually printed, they wisely asked me to check all the details and sign they were correct from a printout. Fortunately as I could read Thai, I pointed to them that Iceland and the UK are different countries and I am not from Iceland. I got the response "Ireland?". I reiterated not Iceland, not Ireland but the UK. However, this is not important as it is only in their records but not on the Driving Licence itself.

The last time I entered Thailand I actually had 2 valid visas, a DTV and a Non-Imm O, both in e-visa format. I followed the large overhead instructions "Present 1. Passport, 2. Boarding Pass 3. E-visa if applicable" The E-visa I presented was the DTV. Nothing was said about the other visa. I was stamped in on the DTV. The Non-imm O which was only valid for entry for 3 months was never used and has now expired. Any idea why it would not work? Or what kind of issues I might run into?

So, what I might do is i) pick up a non-imm O when my 2-year DL is coming to an end. I visit the UK twice a year. ii) enter on that rather than my DTV which is good till 2029. iii) renew my 2-year DL and be given a 5-year DL. iv) do a border run and re-enter on my DTV evisa

The Office of the President of the United States has limited checks and balances. That is why it is important not to allow somebody woefully unsuitable into the Office. Unfortunately in the age of social media soundbites and hyperbole the system has failed. Let us hope the limited checks and balances are strong enough to hold the madman in check.