Do it yourself, its not as if they can check. As long as they get it back is what matters to prove you are still alive. If you must ask the dentist or a cop.
Those using corrupt methods are always trying to convince themselves and others it's legal and that bribery causes no victims and everyone is happy. Well try telling that to all those Chinese with bent 'visas' and over 100 officers who have been charged with corruption for issuing them. People are deluding themselves if they think agents getting extensions they are not entitled to will go on for ever, and it's not going to affect them.
You can get know it all opinions on football in any pub. no need to waste millions on old footballers mouthing off, their opinions are no more valid than a pub drunk anyway. As Brian Clough said, more football less yak yak.
Why can't they deal with it? just follow the Thai example. Stick them in detention centres, not hotels, give them one meal a day and keep them there until somebody pays their fare home. They would stop arriving straight away. In some things Thailand is an advanced country.
France does not put them up in 4/5 star hotels, give them money, food, wi fi and medical care. Nor do they believe they are 15 when actually 22. You can't blame them really, if we are such a soft touch they will keep coming.
How could anyone be ashamed of a plan to deport people with no right to be there, have just paid a lot of money to traffickers to enter illegally and who have only done it to grab what they can? Want to claim 'asylum' -do it legally by presenting your passport and evidence to back up your claim.
Strange to think bribery and corruption are illegal? that's a strange attitude. People getting bent extensions are always trying convince themselves and the rest of us what they do is legal, when it's clearly not, and that just because it's been going on for years that makes it ok and that it will never change. They have stopped people cheating the system in the past, such as fake visa runs involving agents and IO's stamping passports when they should not have for a fee. Those with extensions obtained by bribery thinking it will go on forever are being optimistic.
what are Albanians coming over in boats and claiming asylum when they are not even entitled to, if not illegal immigrant's? Never mind others pretending to be from countries they cannot even spell and lying about their ages. People left Germany to get away from the Nazi's, they were not putting Jews up in 5 star hotels were they.
There were a few cafes in Pattaya, don't think there are any left now. Drove from Bkk and back one evening just to See Jin and Dernphen in a Pattaya cafe. Let us know if that place opens again