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When you have checked in for your international flight and have your boarding pass, you go to International departures for which there are 2 entrances (zone 1 and zone2), both with security check and Immigration. The Re-Entry Permit desk is situated in zone 2, after security and before being stamped out by Immigration. It's on the far left side in the Immigration stamp-out hall. If you took zone 1 you would need to go some 300 meters to the left after having been stamped out by Immigration and then enter zone 2 from the back to go to the Re-Entry Permit desk where you can still get it (even after having been stamped out already in Zone1).

On the eve of Zelensky's arrival in New York a billboard with Ukranian flag featured a greeting message. But instead of Glory to Ukraine, the flag read Glory to Urine . The company that owns the screen explained that the error was caused by an intelligent system that compared the yellow color with the word Ukraine and automatically corrected it to a similar consonant word - Urine. ~

https://brownstone.org/articles/researchers-alarmed-to-find-dna-contamination-in-pfizer-vaccine/ Quote from the article's introduction: Phillip Buckhaults, a cancer genomics expert, and professor at the University of South Carolina has testified before a South Carolina Senate Medical Affairs Ad-Hoc Committee saying that Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine is contaminated with billions of tiny DNA fragments. Buckhaults, who has a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology, said “there is a very real hazard” that these fragments of foreign DNA can insert themselves into a person’s own genome and become a “permanent fixture of the cell.” He said it’s a plausible mechanism for what might be “causing some of the rare but serious side effects like death from cardiac arrest” in people following mRNA vaccination. = = = Note that Buckhaults is a staunch fan of the mRNA platform and is fully vaccinated, but he reluctantly addressed the issue at the Committee hearing and made it clear that he would not be taking any boosters before he had personally tested the content of the vial (which only requires a cheap and quick test). Obviously, if the boosters do contain that DNA contamination there is an enormous problem. Not even to mention, all the earlier jabs that were administered containing that DNA contamination. The contamination problem was created when Pfizer upscaled the process for large-scale distribution to the population...

Hope you get your share, stopped raining here some 1 hour ago, but we had rain almost daily for 1-2 hours last week (water reservoir almost overflowing).

Heavy rain now some 150 km South-West from Surin in KhunHan district (SiSaKet province).

Many thanks! It is crystal clear now what he needs to do. A worthwhile alternative could also be for him to exit Thailand without a Re-Entry Permit and apply at the Thai Consulate in Savannakhet for a SingleEntry or MultipleEntry Non Imm O Visa for reason of marriage. In that case I presume he also needs to cancel the Permission to stay from his current Non Imm O ED Visa at his local Imm Office by presenting them with a letter from the school of him terminating the course. At least that's how I interpret UbonJoe's recommendation to avoid being refused exiting Thailand for not being able to provide proof of having followed the Courses that his Non Imm O ED Visa requires him to do.

HI @BritTim > Thanks again for your earlier clear response. I have one additional question: From further information my acquaintance provided, it turns out that he applied for a 90-day Non Imm O ED Visa in his home-country, and that he just re-entered Thailand on that ED Visa. And he now wants to apply for a 1-year extension at his local Imm Office but that extension for a different REASON (marriage as he was married in Thailand last year). Is that possible? Reason for my question being that I know in the case of a Non Imm O-A Visa that you cannot change the reason for your 1-year extension to marriage, when you apply first time for a 1-year extension from such Non Imm O-A Visa, and it is only after having applied for the 1-year extension for reason of retirement based on that Non Imm O-A Visa, that Immigration then allows you for your next extension to switch from retirement to marriage. But maybe that restriction is not applicable when applying for a 1-year extension for reason of marriage in the last month of his 90-day Non Imm O ED Visa. Thanks in advance for any response on this query.

They currently make use of these camera devices on a stick to take your picture for the Re-Entry Permit application, but indeed - in case that device is out of order - it would be prudent to also bring 2 pass-photos with you when applying for the Re-Entry Permit at the Imm service desk in the Airport.

True, most Western countries have a bilateral agreement with Thailand to avoid double taxation. But just like Immigration requires proof of the foreign origin of the funds when applying for a Non Imm O (retirement) Visa or extension, they could add an additional requirement to provide 'evidence' that these funds were already taxed in your home-country and if not that you need to have declared them to the Thai revenues dept. Obviously, an Agent to circumvent or help you dealing with such a requirement would be a very Thai solution to the administrative problems of providing such evidence.

Will you exit Thailand more than 3 times during the remaining time of your current Permission to Stay? If not, it would be more economical to buy a Single-Entry Re-Entry Permit (1000,- THB) instead of the Multiple-Entry one (3.800,- THB). Note that you can also buy the Re-Entry Permit at all major Thai International Airports, so when exiting Thailand by air there is no need to make a trip to your local Imm Office to buy that Re-Entry Permit.

@DrJack54 @BritTim > Many thanks for response to my query! An additional question here... When doing a search for Non-ED on the Forum I came across this Sept 27, 2022 thread: > https://aseannow.com/topic/1273037-cancellation-of-non-ed-extension-before-applying-for-non-b-90-days/#comment-17629814 In essence it states that you need to have the Permission to stay based on that Non-ED Visa cancelled at your local Imm Office in order to avoid potential later problems. As the advice was given by UbonJoe (probably one of his last posts before his sad demise), I would not cast it aside thoughtlessly. For my friend there are two options: #1 - Simply applying at his local Imm Office for the 1-year extension of stay for reason of Marriage during the last month of his current Non-ED Permission to stay. > Possibly the local Imm Office would automatically cancel that previous Permission to stay. But they might need an official termination letter from the ED institute. #2 - Exiting Thailand during the last month of his current Non-ED Permission to stay, and applying for the 1-year ME Non Imm O Visa for reason of marriage at the Savannakhet consulate. > Any information about the necessity of cancellation of that previous Non-ED based Permission to stay in both of these case would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

That's fully correct. According to the 2021 changes to the TM-30 regulations, you do not need to re-submit a TM-30 when returning from a domestic trip or even from a Re-Entry Permit protected international trip. It is only when you move to another address and want to make that your 'official address for immigration purposes' that you need to notify the local Imm Office of that change of address by providing them with a new TM-30 and accompagning documents (e.g. the rental contract and/or the house-book of the new place). Unfortunately there are a couple of Imm Offices - like the Chiang-Mai one - that do require that you re-submit a TM-30 after having returned from a domestic or international trip. That's probably to 'keep them busy' as at CM there is a separate office for TM-30 notifications. And of course those foreigners living in Chiang-Mai province or one of the other provinces where the Imm Office never 'got the memo' that it is not required anymore to re-submit a TM-30, will often vent their anger/frustration on this Forum about it thereby creating the impression that this is a nation-wide issue, while it are only a couple of Imm Offices that are not following the official regulations. Note: At CW they are now requiring that when applying for your 1-year extension of stay that you need to provide a print-out of your TM-30 notification as part of the 'required documents'. Absolutely idiotic as that notification is available and accessible in their TM-30 database (otherwise you would not have been able to get hold of your current permission to stay).

For what it's worth > I have never come across a post of someone being denied applying for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa from a VisaExempt or Tourist entry at the Udon Thani Imm Office. But a phone-call to the office can provide confirmation whether you can apply there.

Someone I know is staying in Thailand on a Permission to stay based on his Non Imm Ed Visa. As he is married to a Thai national he wants to change to a Non Imm O Visa for reason of marriage. What are the steps he needs to make for doing this? Thanks in advance for any response.

The large majority of Imm Offices accept applications for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa when having entered Thailand VisaExempt or on a Tourist Visa. But there are indeed a couple of rogue offices that refuse to do this official 'change of Visa' process, the Chiang-Rai office being one of them. From which Imm Office did your friend get his 1-year Permission to stay? Normally that would be in the province where he has his official address for immigration purposes (except when he made use of a Fixer Agent that his 1-year Permission to stay at an Imm Office where the agent has 'connections').

Your 'official address for Immigration purposes' is in the province of the Imm Office where you do your yearly extension. You would not be able to get any service from an Imm Office in another province, unless you relocated to that new address and provided the local Imm Office with a TM-30 (and supporting documents) of you having moved there.

The old passport will have been invalidated (typically a corner clipped off) when he received the new passport, but the stamps in his old passport are still valid. Obviously, if the name in the new passport is not the same as in the old passport, he would have to provide evidence that it is the same person in both passports. If the new passport contains a reference to he name-change the problem is solved. Otherwise the would need to get an official document in his home-country from the authority that provided him with the new passport of the name-change. Note that he would not have any problem entering Thailand with the new passport, but without some evidence of the name-change, he would probably not get stamped in with a Permission to stay based on his Re-Entry Permit. And without that Re-Entry Permit based entry-stamp he might not have his Permission to stay transfered to his new passport at his local Imm Office. The worst that could happen is that border-immigration would only stamp him in for a 30-day VisaExempt entry, and that he would then have to apply for a NEW Non Imm O Visa at this local Imm Office.

Only if you insist. But I already got my 'reward', in the form of not having harmed my immune system and I never got covid, or any other infection for that matter...

The last week FDA-approved Pfizer covid-vaccines are only targetting the XBB 1.5 covid-virus variant, which is as good as extinct now and other variants are now circulating. Think about it: why would your took a covid-shot for a non-existant threat? That shot has only risks and provides zero-benefit.

The TM-30 notification from a 'night-before-Hotel-checkin' will only be accepted by Immigration for TOURISTS wanting to extend their Permission to stay, as tourists do not have an 'official address for Immigration purposes'. When applying in-country for a Non Imm O Visa, or applying for the 1-year extension of a home-country acquired Non Imm O Visa, Immigration wants additional evidence for the address you are staying (e.g. a rental contract and/or copy of house-book together with a copy of Thai-ID card of the owner of the premises).

This is actually not a PHUKET Forum topic as the system has been rolled out nation-wide. Maybe a moderator can move it to the Thailand Visa, Emigration and News Forum where it belongs.

The new system has been rolled out yesterday, and the 'old' IO TM-30 website cannot be used anymore. As expected (TiT) there are quite some problems/questions from people trying to register on the new system and filing a TM-30 notification. The issues as well as the solutions (if known) are addressed in these two concurrently running new threads on the subject. https://aseannow.com/topic/1306628-tm30-new-website-address-for-filing-notifications-and-registration/ https://aseannow.com/topic/1306565-new-tm-30/

I never encountered any problems with that Thai Covid Vaccination Record app. Might be because I never took the jabs...

If the search-criteria are same as for the old IO TM-30 website, then - the period for the search has to be in Thai date-notation - the period for the search has to be max 7 days apart

@OP > Am I correct that your son is volunteering because of the reduced conscription (6 months) when doing that? Afaik the Thai military uses a lottery system, and there is a once a year district-gathering for those eligible for military service where they need to draw a paper which determines whether they are drafted or not. As this is Thailand even when you are unlucky and pick a 'drafted' ticket, there are ways of getting rid of it when providing a financial incentive to the right military persons.