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Indeed a delicate matter when none of your Naval personnel have Sonar training...........

As the unelected continue to reign..................

Training the Thai Navy to detect submarines using sonar from surface ships. Hope there is subsea sonar training available somewhere for their submariner ambitions, can't see it happening for many years, boosting confidence doesn't cut it...........

Well, when the majority of the population have no idea whats happening outside their country, it takes a while see the bigger picture here that began in late October 2022......

If you are talking about 'legitimacy' you will pay an agent 35k for the 1 year extension on your Non O without 800k in a Thai bank, not legit........

Yeah I see that now, 35k a little steep then I reckon even without the funds in Thailand, thats where the 'catch cost' is when not keeping a chunk of change in a Thai bank.......

Sounds about right for Bangkok, 35k for the Non O plus the 12 months retirement ( 15 months ) without having the 800k in Thailand. Get your money over here for the next time and do it yourself for 1900 baht.

Correct, I had 2 small hiccups last week during the paperwork process, 1900 baht all good see u next year........

Unfortunately the IO's prefer the illegal route..........????, and quite often the legal route can be trying at times........money in their wallet or money in your Thai bank !!

Correct, I believe they get 90 days on entry.

Russian man at Phuket Immigration a few days ago with 5 passports in his hand trying to get things done in the long stay office area, stressy times.....

Full blown PA announcements in Russian language at Phuket International can be heard...........

"I need you to find 11,780 votes, thats one more than what we have, we won the state"

Never fails, soon as the plane hits altitude from Gulf countries 'seat belts off' aluminates, time to put on their Levi's, ball caps, Nike shoes.......lets get wild !!...........

Good guys out, bad guys in.............

Hang tough wait and see, its quite possible more than 12 jurors will 'see and hear' evidence, place a few TV cameras around and 300 million Americans can have a good listen from their sofas..........

I've never had an immigration address visit and first time asked for a photo at residence. Young IO inside, I wish he had a look at my hand drawn very detailed road map from my place to his office that I had tucked away ready for his request............ bring everything you can possibly think of to your next extension, others there were missing papers or copies and dealing with different IO requests from previous years as well.....

It was slightly different this year, a couple hiccups, my address on their computor was showing Bangkok I don't know why I just did a 90 day report in person last week, the IO that does the paper work pre-checks outside the office told me to walk over to the drive thru 90 day reporting to update - done. IO also wanted to see a copy of the 90 day Non O e visa from home country that I arrived with in June 2022 - had that with me luckily. IO wanted copies of all pages of bank passbook ( I had 12 month bank statement with me ) - never asked last year, went to copy shop nearby - done. IO did not want to see a rental agreement or TM30 that I had with me. Once inside the office IO wanted a photo of myself with house number - had that on my phone but wanted a paper copy, back to copy shop - done. Two hours later all done - 1900 baht, pick up passport tomorrow with a new 90 day slip affixed. I sense they are clamping down harder. Geeeeesh, see you next year !!

Possibly Mr. Pence's ( Vise P ) testimony IF he takes the stand during trial will bury Trump.......

The uproars will intensify if it's not televised............!

I had a brief chat with an IO a while back doing my extension, she said OX is obtainable in Thailand but you need to show your 3 million baht has been in a Thai bank for one year at application date plus the other prerequisites etc........but of course it was only a verbal from one IO.....

What I witnessed 3 weeks ago at Karon beach, people in the water quite a distance out, stormy seas, where red flags were staked on the beach, a man screaming for help but it was his female partner that was in trouble who was slightly further out from him, anyway 3 lifeguards start running, don't know why he was wasting energy screaming, should have put it to good use trying to help her........

A lifeguard on Karon Beach told me people ignore their verbal warnings or instructions and the ever visible red flags staked every 20 meters, possibly a communication language issue ? Know what to do out there during 'rip' season or come at other months, enjoy your holiday !

Ruskies are infiltrating your Island...........take care of that first, then power ahead with your Pillars Plan.....

It happened to me years ago, 1st retirement/1st agent, renting in Bangkok, went with agent to CW, got it all done, back at home looking more closely at the stamp and permission to stay - said Chacheangsao Immigration ( 90 kms southeast of Bangkok )