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is there any correct information available about inter-provincial travel restrictions and the need of a recent covid test to enter some provinces. It seems that Hotels in Trat are now asking for a recent covid test.

In Trad they started refusing bank statements from the previous day just recently. Phuket could be different, but why risking an additional trip?

The best for you would be to get some written confirmation about the recent requirements by your immigration office.

Trat immigration requires:

1. original Passbook (submission date)

2. copy of all Passbook pages (submission date)

3. Letter from the bank/Certificate of deposit (submission date)

4. Statement by the bank showing the last 3 month (submission date)

Trat immigration also wants the TM47 together with TM7.

All immigration offices require different documents and are totally unpredictable.

Regards

Klong Yai always offered all Immigration Services; I just never met anybody that went there.

Website was just updated

http://tratimmigration.com/

No more hope that they accidentally closed the wrong office

went there Friday for an early 90 day reporting after a friend mentioned the relocation. I had to see it with my own eyes.

All the Immigration Staff also has to go to Klong Yai, so we are not the only ones unhappy with this situation.

as of 12.02.2018 Trad Immigration Laem Ngop has been moved to Klong Yai.

Instead of formerly being convenient located between Trad City and the Ferry Ports  to the Islands,

90 day Reports and Visa Extensions have to be done nearly 100 km away, close to the Cambodian Border, now.

Just go up to Sukhumvit and you will see where the buses stop. Take any bus that goes to Rayong or Chantaburi, get out in Rayong. From Rayong bus station take the sorngthaeo to Ban Phe.

Hi Neeranam,

I wasted many days trying to get this Nokia Suite to work. The best result was a connection lasting 20 seconds. Reason could be a non original cable. Mine came in a nice package with the name Nokia on it and even the Model name was mentioned, but I still think it is a fake. Checking many websites I found that hundreds of other people have the same problem and the only solution seems to be using the Profilic USB to Serial Com Port driver, without installing the Nokia Suite. After installing the cable driver you can setup a modem. Should Windows not be able to find a modem driver for the 6070 you can also use the drivers for 6020 or 6100, the 6070 is working fine with all of them.

The name of the Profilic driver is PL 2303 and it should be on one of the disks that came with the phone or cable, otherwise you have to download it.

Okay, I've transferred money from my United States account to my Bangkok Bank account in Thailand many times with no problems. I use Bangkok Bank in New York City as the 'intermediary' bank.

I've also transferred money from my U.S. account to Krung Thai Bank in Thailand in basically the same way but use Krung Thai Bank in Los Angeles as the 'intermediary' bank.

I initiate all the above transfers myself using my U.S. bank's website; simple and no problems.

It's my understanding that money sent from the United States must be sent thru a bank approved/designated to do international transfers.

I just opened an account with Kasikorn Bank here in Thailand. The guy at the bank seemed a little confused when I asked him about an 'intermediary' or 'sister' bank in the United States so I could transfer money to my new account. He said I could find all the information I needed to transfer funds from the United States on the Kasikorn website. This has proven to not be true unless I've overlooked the info.

Anyway, after some research I've come up with the following info and want to verify it from those who have transferred money from the U.S. to Kasikorn Bank in Thailand.

Bank Name: KASIKORNBANK, L.A. AGENCY

Location: LOS ANGELES, California

Routing Number: 1220-3767-6

SWIFT code: KASITHBK

Is this routing # and other info correct? Is this bank a good 'intermediary' bank to use to send funds from the U.S. to Thailand?

Thanks in advance. LDB.

I had the same problem a few months ago. My very simple question for their corresponding bank was answered in different ways, but never to my satisfaction. First they told me that I could use any US Bank and after I mentioned there branch in LA the confirmed it as their corresponding bank.

I finally send an e-mail to their branch in LA and got answer in a few hours. Should you still need the info, please check the attachment. JP Morgan Chase worked fine; the transfer was done in 3 days.

OK, now I know it's not just me. This seems to be the usual, shady business practice that many companies use, especially the banks. Slip in a bunch of overcharges, quietly pay back the ones who complain(sometimes), scoff at the ignorant and laugh all the way to the bank.

I was getting a bunch of sms's from AIS also, about 10 in a row. They read " you don't have enough money to send this SMS". This was after they had eaten 300 baht. So it seems AIS has some way to send SMS's from your phone, which you pay for. This hasn't happened in the past day though, so maybe the problem is fixed. I originally thought I had a virus in my cellphone.

My balance is down to 15.80Bath, so the problem is not fixed yet. I guess that this is really a glitch in the program, which is deducting additional fees sometimes. Since you have the prepaid package they can check the computer log for this special deductions. It seems that AIS is really trying to solve this problem.

You should not let them get away with your money.

It can be really funny to walk into a Telewiz shop and see all this staff getting smaller behind their desks, because they are trying to hide from you.

Just now my balance went down to 0.30Bath and plenty of messages are arriving again.

So tomorrow will be another funny day in the Telewiz shop.

Good luck

Sorry to repost on this, but I can't find the recent post. I remember reading you have to use 50% of the hours at night and 50% during the day, other wise you are billed at 1 baht per minute? I am wondering about this because I paid 500 baht for 250 hours (prepaid) and something has eaten up most of the 300 baht credit I also bought.

I am using prepaid GPRS for a few months now and sometimes they are deducting a few Bath additionally. Once there is no more money on my account and I am using GPRS, I receive plenty of messages, stating that my balance is to low to use this kind of service.

The internet connection is never interrupted by this, as long as you have enough prepaid minutes, but getting more than 30 messages an hour is pretty annoying.

I am keeping my account pretty low, only topping it up before I have to make international calls and could tell AIS Customer Service exactly that 48 Bath disappeared in a couple of days. I only used GPRS during this period, so they promised me to check it with their files.

AIS customer service called back yesterday to tell me that they have solved the problem and had transferred the missing 48 Bath back on my account. When I checked it the balance was only 43 Bath and some hours later down to 36 Bath.

There is nothing like you have to use GPRS on a 50/50 day/night basis; this is a problem with the program AIS is using and with their staff that does not know how to operate the program.

People that use their mobile phone a lot might not even see that there is 10-20Bath vanishing every day.

You really should go to the next Telewiz shop and tell them about your problem. Even the Telewiz staff usually speaks very limited English; they can connect you to the right AIS Service person.

No complaints no improvement.

More complaints more improvement.

AIS just called back, They are still trying to solve the problem, will refund the missing 12Bath and promised to refund all wrong deductions that could happen until they have fixed their problem.

anybody know what it is - seen outside my front gate in bang plee.

This is a Striped Kukri Snake. It eats mostly eggs, can bite when attacked but got no venom. Nice little thing and totally harmless.