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The top cop is bang on the mark. Such admirable detective skills. There's no doubt that Thais were involved in helping the bomber. The taxi driver that took him to Erawan was Thai, as were the hotel staff who gave him a place to stay.
Uhh..., this is THAILAND so there are Thais Is there some way you can blame it on the Yanks?Oh yes, they can. There was a movie Bangkok Dangerous, Nicolas Cage came to Bangkok to do some Thais in. Blame it on the Yanks for giving the Thais ideas how to rent a foreigner to do a dirty job on their behalf. By the way, Nicolas had the change of heart and went after the bad guys. How surprising!
TNT was invented by a German, so blame it on them I say.
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The top cop is bang on the mark. Such admirable detective skills. There's no doubt that Thais were involved in helping the bomber. The taxi driver that took him to Erawan was Thai, as were the hotel staff who gave him a place to stay.
How about the immigration officer that let him into the country?
Ii is quite possible this person has lived in Thailand for a long time. Works here and speaks Thai.
I don't understand why the RTP can't find out who he is. I know the photos are not too clear but as they have photos at immigration of every foreigner who has entered the country then sure they must be able to use some kind of facial recognition software to narrow it down somewhat.
Well spotted. I'd say that the immigration officer is more than likely to be a closet red shirt supporter too.
On facial recognition - the quality of the CCTV images is very poor. It's unlikely that facial recognition software would be able to match it with anything.
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"He said it was impossible for a foreigner to come into Bangkok and would able to know where to go and how to hike motorcycle across the bridge."
Mayhaps he had ummm...errr... been there a couple times before?
Or Google Maps, Street View?
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The top cop is bang on the mark. Such admirable detective skills. There's no doubt that Thais were involved in helping the bomber. The taxi driver that took him to Erawan was Thai, as were the hotel staff who gave him a place to stay.
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'Pulled down the flaperons at full height'? I very much doubt it.
Are you sure that you don't mean that the pilot deployed the spoilers? They look a bit like flaps but are extended from the top surface of the wing, rather than the trailing edge. Spoilers are commonly used to reduce altitude quickly while preventing acceleration if a pilot is too high for the glide slope .... they do make a buffeting sound, but they are perfectly safe.
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Wheeling out Suthep is just a ploy, to divert attention from the total mess that this government is making of running the country.
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Bane, but the government lacks the insight to see why.
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What does a bunch of old generals (who have never even had to fight a war) know about anything, really?
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I wish Australia would do the same, instead, what you have three is a bunch of liberals and
soft hearted whom, somehow defends the ' new Australians ' criminal behavior with
a ' fair go ' BS, while the very same criminals are living safe and sucking on the social
securities tits dry thumbing their noses at the authorities...
Australia does do the same. Non-citizens get kicked out if they are (among other reasons) sentenced to a year or over in the slammer.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ma1958118/s501.html
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How come he's allowed t hold a news conference but other politicians aren't?
Oh, I forgot, Suthep is a non-political politician. Made very believable by his posing as a monk for a while.
Reconciliation, Thai style?
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Phuket airport is in dire need of expansion. Terrible place.
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Who knows?
The government can say that black is white if it pleases them. They control the mass media.
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Some debit / credit cards can be temporarily locked online, or assigned small daily limits.
I had some sent from Oz, and locked them during transit.
As others have said, use a courier like DHL for additional security.
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What they look for is the means to support herself over there, and a compelling reason to come back to Thailand at the end of her visit.
In addition to the usual supporting information, it will help if you Include in the application reasons why you both must come back to Thailand after your visit. Evidence of employment here for both of you, pay slips, evidence of your directorship, company financial statement, etc, will stand you in good stead.
Writing a letter stating that you will accompany her and support her during her visit will help too, ass will any letters from friend in Australia who can vouch for her circumstances.
That's all I did when (as a UK citizen) I took my (then girlfriend) to Australia a few years back.
You can apply online now too, so no need to go to the VFS office in town.
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Since making the appointment at the ministry, they called me twice to be sure I was coming and to remind me to bring the w 197,000 baht.
I've also learned that once I have the PR, whenever I want to leave the country I need to travel to an immigration office on a day and time they have normal hours, and pay them 5 times the amount of money that I normally pay with either a work visa or a retirement visa. This can't be done at the airport.
So once they've prodded and tested me and my contacts, once they've gotten personal recommendations from extremely high-level government officials, and after being interviewed on tape before a panel of experts to be absolutely sure I am the kind of person who would bring benefit to Thailand, then they want nearly 200,000 baht in cash, plus more under the table both on a federal and local level, and they want to make it more difficulty for me to travel than if I were a football hooligan on a expat tour.
I really feel bad to say that they have convinced me to pass on their kind invitation. I will remain here on my 2 year work visa, and when I retire again I'll go back to 1 year retirement visas. I respect the opinions of those who see this differently and I think you made some very good points. As you can see by the narrative, I decided to get the PR, but then the policies and attitudes that surrounded it made me feel I would be more of a captive than guest.
Thanks again for all the great input.
Yep - the last part of PR, where you pick it up, is the part where they give you the runaround. Going to immigration, the Ampher and the police station. That said, once it's done, it's done, and the PR stays with you for life.
Most places that issue PR have regulations about re-entry visas, so Thailand is not alone in its requirement for PR holders to apply for a visa to re-enter.
It's a shame you fell at the last hurdle.
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Well now, there's a surprise.
Doubtless there will be another excuse in 2017 to postpone it again.
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Can't he make it rain?
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Whoops, you are quite right. The OP was asking about UK citizenship. I shouldn't mix posting and working. ...
On my wife's Oz citizenship, waiting four years is obviously the easiest way but at the time it looked like I'd have to work abroad, hence the rush to get my wife over the citizenship line before leaving Oz.
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Been there, done that. The residence requirements for a PR to qualify for Australian Citizenship are:
1) Four (4) years lawful residence in Australia immediately prior to making an application for Australian citizenship with at least 12 months as a permanent resident, and2) Absences from Australia of no more than 12 months in total in the four (4) years prior to application, and no more than three (3) months in the 12 month permanent residency period prior to application.For breaks between visas prior to PR, this is how they calculate it:>>>>>>>>>>>>>36.4 Calculation of the 4-year lawful residence period when a person has been absent from Australia on the day 4 years immediately before applyingIf a person’s first arrival in Australia is less than 4 years before they apply for citizenship, they cannot meet the general residence requirement, even if they spend 3 years continuously in Australia.The start date of the 4-year lawful residence period is usually the date 4 years immediately before they lodge their application. However, if the person has not made their first entry into Australia, they need to wait at least 4 years after their first entry to meet this requirement.Where a person was outside Australia on the day 4 years immediately before applying, but had previously been in Australia, they may still use the day 4-years immediately before applying as a start date (for the purposes of being eligible to satisfy the 4 year lawful requirement), providing that on that day they held a visa which was in effect on that day (a visa granted in Australia is in effect from the day of grant, a visa granted offshore comes into effect when the person enters Australia on that visa).If these conditions are met, then the person may use the full 4 year period immediately before applying towards meeting the general residence requirement.For the purposes of the residence calculator, the lawful residence date will be the date that the ‘in effect visa’ that was held ‘on the day 4 years immediately prior to the day of application’ came into effect.>>>>>>>>>>>>>So - your wife having a visitor visa WILL count as the start of the four year residency period, BUT ONLY IF her visa was in effect, i.e. valid, on the day four years before her citizenship application. This means that (on the day four years before she applies for citizenship), she would have EITHER had to have been in Australia on her visitor visa OR she would have already have made her first entry to Australia on it, and if she has since left Oz then it would need to still be valid for subsequent entries to Oz.I tried this path and failed - although my wife had been to Oz on a visitors visa and since left, that visa was no longer "in effect" on the day four years before we applied for citizenship, so we had to wait longer, until four years after the start of her next visit to Oz on her new (fiancee) visa. She eventually she got her citizenship.The Citizenship online application wizard on the DIBP website knows all your wife's immigration history, and will only allow her to proceed with her application if it meets the residency requirements, so is a good place to test the water on her eligibility - the wizard won't let her proceed, and will show an error, if she doesn't meet the residency requirement. -
Could be - the last paper application we did was around 4 months ago ....
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One of the guys in our office is applying for a subclass 600 visa (business visit) visa. Applications are now done online, with no need for the tedious visit to VFS in the city, unless they later want to interview you. The only surcharge to the AUD 135 visa fee is a small credit card surcharge, so no need to pay VFS either.
The online application asks pretty much the same questions as the old paper application. It is followed by a payment screen, then a screen where you upload scans of supporting documentation. Once submitted, you get a transaction ID that you can use to track the progress of your application. Australian visas don't need a passport sticker, and are issued electronically linked to your passport number.
Use the "Search Visas" link here: http://www.border.gov.au/ to access the application system.
Hats off to the Aussies for making this easier.
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Looking at the photo, it's easy to see why he prefers to look so miserable all the time.
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They get fined for getting their ti*ts out at a pool party and there are god knows how many go go bars in Thailand, did the girls refuse to work in one of the BIB's gogo bars, Thailand is getting funnier by the day.....Whens the clamp down on nipples going to hit Bangkok, Pattaya or numerous locations in Thailand
Right - they got fined because the organisers forgot to pay off the cops beforehand.
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All very reminiscent of the Banharn administration.
Uhh..., this is THAILAND so there are Thais
Is there some way you can blame it on the Yanks?
Recent Passport Renewal in Australia
in Visas and migration to other countries
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That's right. Priority processing gets it done in two working days:
https://www.passports.gov.au/web/priorityprocfee.aspx
And costs and extra AUD 111
https://www.passports.gov.au/Web/Queries/Fees.aspx
You can pick up your passport from the passport office, or the post office, if you have no fixed address. They will send a card to your PO Box, then you go to the post office, show your ID and pick up your passport.