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In response to their notice that Online Banking will cease on 1 October 2025, I downloaded the app and because it informed me I had to go to any branch to register, did just that. Took passport and the clerk tried several times to register me, but Registration Failed on every occasion. She asked whether I had more than 1 SIM, whether my account was registered using another SIM, another form of ID, to which the answer is "no". Very sorry. She also thought that if I had Online Banking, the app could not be registered, but I have no idea whether that line was based on anything. So clearly there is something remiss with this registration malarkey.

Why not download the TraffyFondue app and report it (in ENG or THA) to BMA with narrative & pictures. They respond very quickly. Whether they do anything about it speedily is yet to be seen. I have used it recently for crapped up pavements, (made by BMA) during a questionable initiative to make them more user friendly, (which they are now obviously not), as the workmen assigned to the task dig it up, (often in the wrong places) and reinstate it with cement laid by a child, or a gaping hole, or a pile of concrete rubble are clearly not supervised, or following a plan, if ever there was one. Once you download the app, it gives you this LINE and you add your name and complete your issue in the brown box at the extreme right.

And it may provide the military the screen they need to remove a government in their well-worn fashion. And the rest, which only became "inconvenient" because it affected Chinese, and burst the Chinese tourist balloon.

Not disputing that. He does need due process, which he was denied.

Exactly. The new indictment is pretty thin, despite Bondi's attempt to paint it as people trafficking, or trafficking children (remind you of anyone, Epstein etc)?...which is taking a mighty long time to declassify because it might include a large role played by one Donald Taco Trump.

Thanks. Gottcha.

Well, 33.4% of the electorate. A bit like the US electorate: the majority didn't vote for either candidate, (Harris or Trump). The lack of interest in voting is indeed a choice, but rather a sad one when the the consequences are there for all to see. Although " [democracy] is the worst form of government" is attributed to Churchill, he said:

Ok good. That presumably saves time if there's a queue at IMM. Normally I travel using Fast Track, but last time I didn't and the e-Gate facility wasn't available, except to Thais, (and even that seemed too novel to be of much benefit). I don't suppose the e-Gate works for returning to Thailand.

Do you think option 1 allows for use of passport, or does it mean Pink ID, (which is same as TIN)? (I have not registered my Pink ID / TIN with my bank).

I have received the letter, but it is different from yours, in that it gives me 3 options to receive the money, (at Krung Thai Bank): 1) is probably not applicable, as my bank account (and therefore PromptPay) is registered through my passport, (but whether that is my "national ID number", I don't know). 2) is not applicable, as I do not have a Krung Thai account. 3) I do not know what an e-Money card is, or how to use it.

Just curious about use of e gate: I presume you hold a UK passport, but were able to utilise the e gate with that and it correctly read your EoS Non O visa? Also, were you in Fast Track because you're a Qatar Airways Gold card holder, or were you travelling in Business Class? Thanks.

The famous quote attributed to Samuel Johnson is: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." The full quote, as recorded by his biographer James Boswell, is: "Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford." (In 1777.)

Yes, a bit complicated. I have PromptPay on my bank accounts, but bank accounts opened with passport and they have no record of my pink ID, nor would they accept it, (AFAIK). I'll just deposit the WHT refund cheque. I agree, awaiting clarification as in "waiting for Godot", I imagine. I shall continue to retain information as I did for 2024, (none of which has been required). When there's something unequivocal, (a man can dream), I will decide how to proceed with document retention etc.

@Zaphod Priest & @Yumthai Noted, thank you. I obviously misunderstood some of the hundreds of thousands of claims made over the last 18 months that these (CRS & FACTA) were of themselves serious tax evasion tools.