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It's the way Mr Bankman, a Stanford tax professor, got a nice villa from his son (paid in effect with customers' money). He is being sued now. Not everybody is willing to "believe" these shenanigans. It's all over the news https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/19/ftx-sues-sam-bankman-fried-parents

You should write "accepted by the law"

The standard way around this as practiced by many governments is too ask incoming travelers how much cash they carry. If the answer is not truthful, all the cash is forfeited.

In several of the usual hospitals your choice of male doctors is exactly 1 person. Correct. But just scroll through their interests, experiences, fellowships etc. and most of them (and their male colleagues, too) are really mainly interested in aesthetics. Thanks for this.

The word "only" was added by you, its not in coconuts and not in the original from the RD, which has been translated in this thread 3 times

No, different places. It made me think I might have had herpes first, and it really healed, and then I developed yeast (I had to take antibiotics for an unrelated condition, which is a risk factor for yeast)

They do PCR for herpes from the urine. The correct way would be to do it from a swab from a fresh lesion. I have yet to see anywhere in Bangkok where this is actually done.

Not required. Dead people can owe taxes, too.

If you are a tax resident of Thailand (and don't pay tax anywhere else) this would be the logical answer. Realistically, I don't think it will happen. But you may need a tax adviser in both countries, just to be safe

Then the whole regulation doesn't make a lot of sense. Thailand has a DTA with almost every country. I hope you are right, though

This has been written here many times. But it's not the full truth. You can't just say "hi, dear tax office, I am from Gambia, and as you know, we have a DTA with Thailand. Bye!" Dogmatix' post just above yours explains much more realistically the bureaucratic nightmare awaiting you. First of all, you will probably need a tax adviser in your country and one in Thailand.... Have fun!

Very good advice, I know. An urologist in Iran once suggested I should be circumcised, I was horrified. His reasoning was similar.

No, he wasn't available for a couple of days. I have seen him years ago and cannot complain.

I tried antifungal cream when it all started, it made things worse. I will start again. Its anothe cream. For the future. This was not a pleasant experience, and not for the first time.

Where do you get this idea from?

I thought I had genital herpes (2 clusters of tiny blisters on the glans, burning), so I took aciclovir. After 10 days, it became erosions, so I saw one of the skin doctors recommended here. One look: "Oh, it's herpes, it's healing. " It didn't heal. I went to Bumrungrad. One look: "Oh, it's yeast." I got the usual steroid-combination and an expensive Eucerin cream. The Eucerin helps, the steroids I didn't take. Instead I went to the Institute of Dermatology. "It looks like yeast, let's do a lab test" The test confirmed yeast, I got oral and local antifungals. I asked the lab technician whether they can do herpes PCR - no. All these private hospital dermatologist do anti-aging, Botox, Laser etc. Almost all are women. I don't think a female Botox specialist would be appropriate for me. I would have expected the private hospitals to do some tests, but no. Can anyone recommend a male dermatologist who is interested in skin diseases, not aesthetics, for the future?

Thanks for pointing out the coming problems with the banks. I asked Bangkok Bank, and the answer was: a Thai will have a certificate of the name change. Without such a certificate they don't know what to do. BTW I also called immigration hotline. They answer the phone, on a Sunday afternoon! They don't see any problem at all. Just enter with both passports, get a certificate from your embassy in Thailand, and then go to immigration to rectify your information and transfer the visa. Maybe it's really that easy?

Sounds like a good idea.

Why always so aggressive? And what is so mysterious? You want to delve into family law of some European country? Why is the reason for the name change important, anyway? Immigration might find a name change suspicious? Maybe that's a point. But name changes are pretty standard, especially in Thailand. It was my idea to ask here. His idea was to apply for a new visa. I always thought you can't have 2 visas at the same time so I thought the correct way should be more along the lines CMbob and RedPhoenix described first.

I didn't address these questions as they seemed quite unhelpful ("criminal" blablabla) The reason of the name change had nothing to do with Thailand, it was some family matter in his home country (family are all of the same nationality, no Thais involved). Absolutely legitimate. I think so, too. But this implies that Thai immigration IS aware that he is the same person as in the old passport, doesn't it? Which is the topic of the whole thread...

Udon

Exactly my thoughts, too. There is no reference to the name change in the new passport. The entity who issued the new passport - is 600km away - requires an online appointment anyway, months in advance - does not answer the phone - will most probably not understand what he wants, and once they understand it, they will probably give him the runaround. And once he obtains some kind of document, he will have to have it certified by the Thai embassy in his country. I still think, this would be the correct way (and he should have asked about all this when he got the new passport - problem is, you can't ask the bureaucrats issuing a passport, and you can't ask the Thai embassy, both are incomunicado, everything is online, no phone calls are answered). I completely agree. Do all immigration offices accept applications for a non-O visa after entering visa exempt? CW does, but I seem to remember some offices are reluctant to do this.

Their direction wasn't overly clear: "we need a certificate from the amphur of your home country" - that was it. They will certainly need it stamped by the Thai embassy there (which is 600km away and doesn't answer the phone). And what certificate exactly do they need? I thought, too, that this is a pretty standard situation, so there might be some people here who know.

A friend who lives in Udon on retirement extensions of a non-O visa had a name change when in his home country. He got a new passport with his new name. The old passport (with visa, retirement extension and reentry permit) has been invalidated. How can he come back to Thailand? He called immigration in Udon. They told him they need a certificate from his home country that he his the same person as in the old passport, then they would transfer the visa. But how can he even enter at BKK airport? Does he need a new visa? Would he even get a new visa, or would the system realise he has a visa already? He is afraid he will be stamped in at BKK for 30 days visa-exempt.

Funny: When I apply for the reentry, they ask for my visa and i put in my original visa from years ago, not the latest reentry permit from my latest entry into the country. But when I entered the country and TM6 (now abolished) asked for my visa, I had to write the number of the reentry permit