Phillip9

Says the vegan Nope, I eat meat. I'm just not a hypocrite. I don't think I'm morally superior to the Japanese just because I only eat farm animals.

Report the passport as lost to the police in Mae Sot. Bring that report with him when he travels. Try to make an appointment with the Malaysian embassy to get the passport replaced. Print the appointment and bring it with him. Print and bring anything you can find about replacing a lost Malaysian passport. Those and and a little luck should get him past any check point.

None of us needs to eat any animals. We can get plenty of protein from plants.

He needs to: Get a passport Buy a ticket to his home country Bring 20,000 baht cash to the airport when he departs to pay his overstay fine. There will be no detention if he does that. If he really can't scrape together that much cash, he needs to contact his embassy and ask if they can help get him home. Some countries will provide emergency loans for repatriation. There is no reason to surrender.

The cheapest isn't usually the best or even the best value. Grab is the most reliable and has the best restaurants. I wouldn't even consider using the others just to save a few baht.

I doubt it. No one here has been able to site a single case of anyone with a tourist visa who has ever been denied entry. It seems like just a myth you guys made up because you are jealous of the hassle free DTV.

When was the last time we had a report here of someone denied entry with a tourist visa??? I can't ever remember reading such a report.

Likely to comply with a regulation in some country. It's a food storage product and some country probably has a law that the manufacturer has to give it some expiration date and test that it works for that long.

Immigration is not resposible for issuing any visas outside of Thailand. The embassys and consulates issue all visas outside of Thailand. So there is no difference in who issues a DTV, retirement visa, tourist visa, etc. It's a multiple entry visa.

Me too. For me the best part of the DTV is that you never have to visit immigration and deal with any of their nastyness if you simply leave the country twice per year.

Ridiculous. Who is they? Did you go to immigration yourself? It should be free to transfer your stamps.

King Trump will certainly not leave in 4 years. He will stay until he dies, and then King Barron will be our dear leader.

Just move. This is a prime example of why it's always better to rent a condo than to buy -- You never know when you will get a terrible neighbor, or the condo maintenance will drop.

There are speedboats available from Koh Lanta to Koh Lipe. From Lipe there is a ferry to Langkawi. You can find various options for booking with a google search.

With my suggestion you will leave by air and re-enter by land. That won't be a problem. Or just get those stamps transferred at immigration. As someone else mentioned, you don't need an embassy letter to do that.

You could fly to Vientiane, cross the border back into Thailand at the friendship bridge, and then fly back from Udon Thani to BKK. That's an easy safe way to do it.

yes, I check every time.

Banks these days don't want expat clients for regulatory reasons, and they are required by law to verify where you live when you open a new account. How much money you have in another account isn't going to make them circumvent their normal verification procedures and possibly break the law. Good point. I actually use a cellphone with a SIM card from my home country when doing online banking. It provides an IP address from my home country without the possible suspicion of a VPN address.

Unless you used a VPN, they know from your IP address that you were in Thailand when you applied. That is very likely why you were declined. Best to always use a VPN with an IP address of your home country when using any online banking there.

OK, but that still doesn't help him unless he can find another country to bounce out to. I doubt any of the neighboring countrys will allow him enter with less than 6 months remaining.

If you think the threatened tariffs will actually be implemented, you completely forgot about the first Trump term. It was Trump who negotiated and signed the current free trade deal with Canada. Trump always makes threats but then backs down.

Just to summarize: You paid 50k to an agent. You had a hole in your passport, but got your visa approved. The guy without an agent didn't get his approved.

Yah, I think you're right. The US gov is paranoid of everyone and everything abroad.

That is the special endorsements page, so they couldn't have actually used that page for the visa anyway. They were definitely just pushing him to use an agent.

But they allow people living in the USA to renew online without sending in their old passport. So invalidation of the old passport is not the reason. But people living abroad have to mail in their passport. Seems like it should be the opposite--People abroad should be able to keep their passport while waiting for renewal.