Rob Browder

Yes, in hindsight, Russia should have done that immediately after the early-elections were blocked by the anti-democratic Western coup-regime - just as the USA would, if similar was being carried-out by Russia or China in Mexico. Putin trusting that the "West" would EVER act in good faith was a mistake. But, at least now, after Merkel ADMITTED Minsk was just a trick to buy time to build up the Ukrainian military - erasing all doubt about the duplicity - they will hopefully not be so naive, again.

"Prove your Facts with a proven lies-about-everything MSM source? This reminds me of the methods used during Covid - where everything we were told was ALSO a big fat lie. Russia sometimes "omits" things which don't make them look good, but is not known to lie outright as Ukraine has - over, and over, and over again.

If your "Non-B" was just your old/used visa, which you have followed by a 1-year extension based on retirement, then this no longer matters. You should have no problem getting another retirement extension in Jomtien. They require nothing other than the official requirements - no reports of "surprises" there, though you will need a current TM-30. Agent options are available, also.

Yes - and if you think "build democratic skills" somehow matches-up with backing a race-based, ethnic-Russian hating Banderista regime, I've got a bridge to sell you. They literally destroyed a democracy with a coup. She was caught on audio-intercept discussing who the USA was going to INSTALL in the "new govt" - and then REJECTED the early-election option, post-coup. This is hardly the first case of the US State Dept using Orwellian Doublespeak. See the "Freedom Fighter" right-wing death squads in Central and South America.

See Yugoslavia - broken-up by NATO. Also all the CIA and MI6 Coups, which take an entire country. Israel didn't ONLY take land - still expanding now - but also ethnically-cleanses the land, and puts the former-occupants of stolen-land in concentration-camp zones - then allows their "settlers" to brutalize and murder in those areas - stealing more land - backed by their army. The "West" supports this; the hypocrisy is staggering. By contrast, Russia does not practice ethnic-discrimination, and are actively fighting a "Banderista" regime which is founded on ethnic-discrimination. See Zelensky's comments recently about "hating all Russians" - and that most certainly includes the large % of the Ukrainian population who are ethnically-Russian.

That went out the window when NATO broke up / disregarded the "sovereign borders" of Yugoslavia. And never mind the CIA-backed Coup which started this civil-war in 2014. Nuland admitted they spent Billions on this "project" - supporting the Banderista faction. LOL!!! After Ukraine killed political opponents, and bragged about it? As they round-up people in the streets, to throw into certain-death, in an unwinnable war, which only happened because Ukraine REFUSED every off-ramp, including Minsk? To his credit, Zelensky did make a half-hearted effort with Minsk at first, but the Banderistas basically told him to stick it (on video), and refused to stop shelling civilians in Donbass. The death toll from this was over 14K, by the time Russia got involved. The co-signatories did not demand Ukraine follow the treaty they had signed (also passed by the National Security Counsel), and the USA continued supplying "aid," to spite Ukraine ignoring the treaty (both Obama and Trump). As to Trump's angle - in his 1st Term, he escalated that ONGOING war - taking it even further than Obama - supplying lethal-aid, and trashing long-standing arms-control agreements with Russia, which made Ukraine even more of a threat to Russian national-security. So, pretending Russia entering the conflict, as a major Ukraine offensive was beginning, was "only because of Biden," is silly.

That IS a problem. So regulate them, so we do know what is in them, and people can reduce the harm from cigs. In the meantime, look into the nicotine pouches - are legal / tax-stamped. Regular doses of nicotine isn't what causes the major health problems.

I would start a new thread on this, as it seems to vary by office. You would need a recent case of it being allowed/denied, from that office. There is no legal-reason they cannot give you a new permitted-stay based on a different "Non-Immigrant" reason, but ... In any case, I would go there and ask them - and if they say, "no," then ask around with the local agents, to find out what it costs to coax them into doing it.

Check with agents to see how fast they can get a pair of CORs for you - one for the bank, and one for the DLT. Pattaya might be the easiest/quickest option; they have agents to get you a DL fast, as well.

So, Jomtien stopped this "come back in 90-days" bull (which was never enforced) - but now another office has started it. They will check my 12-month statement for compliance when I go back NEXT YEAR, for another extension. My suggestion: First - try to do the 90-day report online. If that fails, I'd mail-in my 90-day report. Worst case would be a 2K fine, if they "rejected" my mailed-in reports (keep those postal-tracking receipts).

If you are a boomer, maybe. Gen-X and after were in a mine-field of having our careers Offshored or "Replaced by will work for cheap" Immigrant. Yes, the insurance-requirement made some sense in this regard, but was never fully implemented (O-A + extensions only). Though, the insurance was a racket - should just be a "stabilize and repatriate" form of insurance, handled by a non-profit org, to keep the rate low. As only a small % people would be "stuck" here, if they get a long-term condition, few would actually collect. Others would pay Thai hospitals to stay = win-win. Oh, yes, the "freeloaders" who "only" support a FEW Thai Families per-each with their spending - who are the vast majority of retirees. Those Thai families "don't matter," so we should just boot out their paycheck-sources. /s Maybe you should talk to folks in rural areas - find out that MOST of the families there are getting money sent-home from younger members, who are being paid, thanks to the "lower income" foreigners. Not only retirees, of course - many lost work due to the self-inflicted-wound tourist visa / exempt "crackdowns" in the past. Granted, the BEST thing Thailand could do to help them, would be to cancel the "work" Visas for the poorest of the poor to come in, and bust those hiring Illegals from the neighboring countries. That way, wages in fields like construction would become Middle-Class jobs which Thais would want to take. But, the powerful don't want that. They LOVE that Cheap Labor, to maximize their profits. They are the same "hi-sos" who complain that some retirees "aren't good enough for Thailand" - clearly don't give a d*** about poorer / working-class Thais. We have the same problem,with the same sort of traitors, in my passport-country.

LTR is Upper Class - not "middle" class. Good to bring in those folks too, of course.

Sure - need to read what the questions were (wording), and how the sample was selected. The best source are the "meta polls" - though all the left/right polling companies have "unparty" biases, so even those have big holes in them. What information do you use to gauge public-opinion? Rallies can / are often astro-turfed. But, more importantly, most people can be FOOLED, whether they are "left" or "right." When enough are not being fooled (discontent with both parties), expect big fake "wedge issue" and hyped-up "events" to be utilized, to get them bleating for their assigned "side," again.

Oh, here we go. "Polls are only valid when MY SIDE comes out on-top - at which time, MY SIDE party candidates re-post them."

You might have noticed the "other side" of the Uniparty basically threw the election-fight. Biden managed to be even worse than Trump on policy. He opened the southern border more than Trump had, after Trump was even weaker than Obama had been. Biden also didn't deliver anything significant to his "base" - on healthcare, wages, etc. The main reason for the elites passing the baton back to Trump, IMO, was that the left-base was fed an ideology not consistent with the wars Israel had planned - and in recruiting Americans into the military to fight in them - and with their ongoing war-crimes in Gaza. The flip to "anti-woke" was due to this.

Anyone who cared about the policies he promised in 2016 was sick of him by mid-2017, after he threw all that in the trash. Polls mid 2020 showed MOST Americans did not want Trump OR Biden - wanted another option. Kamala was even more hated among the Democratic-Party base, as well as from the Right, so no help, there. Most Republicans wanted another option on their side of the ticket - but they were cleverly split, as billionaires (including Democrat-donors) poured millions into Haley's coffers, to split the anti-Trump vote - effectively blocking DeSantis. As well, Trump avoided a Republican Party debate thanks to the "indictments" eating all the news-cycles, and fooling people he was "against the system." Never mind he did everything "the system" wanted, throughout his 1st term. Funny how "Trump's Enemies" kept doing the EXACT THING which increased his poll-numbers and fund-raising, over and over, isn't it? It was sad to see how many Trump "fans" would cheer for a guy who stabbed them in the back for 4 years, the last time. They are literally just "sports fans" cheering a "team" - have no clue about ANY significant policy decisions made - just like the "other side" they laugh at.

Replied to your other post with the interview links here (for others curious): https://aseannow.com/topic/1328518-thailand-visa-exemption-60-days-and-visa-on-arrival-voa-15-days/page/14/#findComment-19746446 Money-quote: "I have to stress, the final decision depends on the discretion of the immigration officer." (... who accept agent-payoffs for unlimited entries)

Yes, you can get a 60-day extension to "visit your wife" from immigration. No financials are required for this extension. There is no 30-day option (only for tourist-type entries).

The MFA spokesmen did several interviews. Here are a couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goyZSHfJlc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfy6zvvekkE Bangkok Post interview podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thailands-new-visas/id1656654945?i=1000663277504 I remember the 24-hour-out discussion in one of the interviews, but it was related to DTV re-entries. Edit: On the "how many times" visa-exempt - he talks about it at ~9:20 in the podcast, above - have to be out for "at least a day." (yet some borders now demanding 2 days) ... "I have to stress, the final decision depends on the discretion of the immigration officer." Removing the 2-per-calendar-year land-border limit on Visa-Exempt is not the same as "unlimited." There was never a hard-limit by air, but plenty of folks got locked-up in airport-detention and forced to fly back where they came from. You CAN get "unlimited," but have to pay off immigration for each entry, after some vague, non-defined "too much time in Thailand as a tourist" period. They keep it vague, and randomly / inconsistently enforced, to maximize agent-partner revenue.

Yes - have heard a MFA spokesperson quote this for DTV border-bounces, required every 6 months. Unfortunately, there is no defined "safe" amount of time out-of-country between tourist-type entries. The policy varies by your past history over years, the entry point, the IO you get at the entry-point, and/or whatever marching-orders they were given for their work-shift.

Unlimited use of visa-exempt? Agree, unless you pay for it via Immigration's agent-partners, in which case it is unlimited, as long as you pay each time. By land, if willing to spend a couple nights out, one can repeat-entry at several crossings - even without the "van agents" - per existing reports. But, the only way to rest assured re-entering on visa-exempts or TR-Visas will be "no problem" is to pay for agent-service. If under 50, the best option is the DTV - both in terms of trouble and cost. If over 50, a retirement-based Non-O extension is the winner hands-down.

Yes, and the only reason immigration would block entry, is if coming / staying often / longer. Even then, it's just a small "fee" through an agent, to buy them off for repeated tourist-entries. There is no "insurance requirement" for tourist-entries - though not having insurance at all is not wise.

I haven't seen any recent reports about the Nakon Phanom / Laos crossing. I also doubt any border-run agents do that route. It is possible that due to not many foreigners using that crossing, they have not instituted a multi-night stay rule - but no way to know without a recent report. You would be looking at a fairly long trip to get to where agent-assisted same-day runs would be guaranteed - Cambodia probably the closest. Unless a 2-night stay in Laos be a deal-breaker, it might be the easiest way to go. You can ask on your way out of Thailand if it is OK to return that evening - see what they say.

The politicians lie, people vote for the lying promises, then they betray us. It's the same for both the right and left flavors of the Uniparty. All the "outrages" created for both "sides" seem manufactured, fake, and designed to keep people's attention off of the things that actually affect the quality of their lives. J6 - you mean the honeypot-sting riot Trump helped arrange for his "fans?" Where his "enemy" (sic), the speaker of the house, refused the required personnel for an event of that size? Where the guy caught on-video inciting illegal-activity to the crowd got a slap on the wrist, while people who walked in used the bathroom, and left, got a felony-charge and prison-time? And, where Trump could have pardoned them all on his way out, but didn't? And, yes, there is court-precedent for the latter.

If it were me, I'd buy safe-entry, if that much - even if the "odds" of denied-entry were low. This is the lowest quote on it I've seen: https://aseannow.com/topic/1336926-setv-metv-still-around-now-that-visa-exempts-are-now-60-days/?do=findComment&comment=19217493