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Wow, this is third world autocrat stuff.
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14 hours ago, kokesaat said:
I appreciate all the feedback. I may explore having someone go through my personal papers to find my wife's old passport and sent it to the US. I have since found out that you have to present yourself in person at one of the embassies/consulates to have a new passport issued.
Just to clarify a few things.....my wife is Thai (when she's in Thailand), with a Thai ID card and housepaper. But over the 23 years we've lived in Thailand, she's always traveled back and forth with her American passport. Yes, she goes through the rubber stamp process to get an annual extension......as we both do our extensions at the same time, the immigration officer is only concerned with my finances. For a variety of reasons (coups, unrest, etc) we've both felt more comfortable with her being in Thailand on a US passport. Obviously, we didn't see Covid happening, but it's a lesson learned.
No need to dig through old documents, she can get a new passport with her ID card. it is an extremely easy process. If they ask for her old passport, just report it lost.
As for being in Thailand on a US passport, given she still is a Thai citizen (despite entering on the US passport) she won't be offered any consular assistance, so it makes little difference from that perspective.
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Sloppiness from this President? Who'd have thunk it?
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1 hour ago, KhaoYai said:
If you don't get any joy with a new passport from the Thai Embassy, as far as I know you'll be fine with her old one if you can get someone to send it to you. She is a Thai citizen and her passport establishes that. I've seen several accounts where Thai citizens have been allowed to enter Thailand on an expired passport.
I’ve entered Thailand on an expired passport a couple of times.
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4 hours ago, JonnyF said:
Oh really?
I don't think some of the loony liberals would have issues with the UK doing great work on C-19, I know it. They're so guilt ridden and hateful towards their own country that they are terrified it could lead to national pride. ????.
Don't believe me?
Oh dear, I have to give you that one. A level of wokeness which even makes me shudder.
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24 minutes ago, DoctorG said:Boris is eager to get tim tams from Australia, and who can blame him?
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I certainly can’t.
Giving up free and unfettered access to a market of 400m people and 20 trillion in GDP for some tim tams. We’ll even throw in the Vegemite for nothing!
While Boris huffs and puffs about fishing rights, the welsh farmers are frozen like deers in headlights about the thrown under that green and gold lorry filled with more efficiently grown Australian beef and lamb.
Bring. It. On!
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6 hours ago, CGW said:
???? What am I missing? to me it makes perfect sense to use PTT rather than imported gas!
If the "gas" was imported the level of corruption would doubtless be higher than it currently is, PTT is an excellent well run company, ranking about 80 on in the fortune 500 companies, though sure many wont want to recognise this fact. ????
Your missing plenty. EGAT importing gas allows for competition. PTT have been resisting this for about a decade.
As for their being no corruption at PTT...555
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8 hours ago, Moonfire said:
If you are Thai, you need to leave Thailand on a Thai passport (when you say you left it in Thailand is the first red flag about your post). Reason when your wife returns to Thailand she would enter on the same Thai passport she exited with, which will also have her departure card with it.
A Thai entering the Kingdom on a US passport, means she will have to follow the immigration rules that apply to the US passport and this is where the problems start.
It is a must leave on a Thai passport from Thailand, enter the US on the US passport, exit the US on the US passport, re-enter Thailand on the Thai passport that was used to exit Thailand at the start.
You want the Thai embassy to issue you a new Thai passport when you have NO exit stamp or departure card from the Thai passport you used to leave Thailand at the beginning.
Yes, you have a issue!
No she won’t. The majority of this post is just straight out wrong. Departure and arrival cards have been done away with, not that it ever mattered. The embassy will issue her with a Thai passport given she is thai.
She’ll have no issue reentering Thailand on a blank unused passport. It happens all the time.
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2 hours ago, JonnyF said:The UK leading the way again. When the going gets tough it's easy to separate the wheat from the chaff.
No doubt the Brit haters and the self loathing, hand wringing UK liberals will be along shortly to try and pour cold water on this but it's great news for everyone around the world. Well done to the UK led team ????.
You’d have to have a pretty craven mind to think that anyone would have issues for this work and it’s outcome just because of their nationality....
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She can just get a new Thai passport via the embassy in DC or the nearest consulate authorized to issue them. All she needs is her ID card. A certificate of identity would also be allowable if they are issuing them.
Once issued, she can travel to Thailand, but under current arrangements, will need to arrange this with the embassy and do the mandatory 14 day quarantine.
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6 hours ago, holy cow cm said:
Wow. A state owned by majority share corporation supplying a Stated owned Authority. All in the family.
Its a dysfunctional family. The idea they even trying to play nice together is a big achievement. Of course, EGAT should simply be able to procure its own, and is allowed to these days by law to import it (from memory!), but the landmines in Thai politics means that PTT has won the day for now in keeping a tight hold of the market.
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7 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:TWO NEW CASES caused by GOVERNMENT INCOMPETENCE. Now tell me why I should congratulate the government, considering what a bad job they have done letting it start again after we all suffered to get rid of it?
You're a tough audience.
You were critical of them getting it basically erradiated - your solution of keeping the economy more open would have kept the virus circulating. Now that there are two cases, its also unacceptable.
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1 hour ago, vermin on arrival said:
Only if they keep their borders shut to high rick countries until a treatment or vaccine emerges. If you are lucky it's fast. If not, since there will be no herd immunity developing, NZ may be in a lot of trouble (there are number of epidemiologists who believe this policy is a mistake, but their voices are being stifled). For the moment, it is a great success story and may bear out to be long term. I do hope that they create travel bubbles with other successful nations in containing the virus.
Its uncharted territory, but if you can avoid the importation of it, then that's one less source to worry about.
I'm actually skeptical we will be getting a vaccine anytime soon. Nor for a magic bullet pill. What I suspect will happen will be some sort of combo therapy to blunt the worst effects for it. Reading in between the lines, that's whats coming first. Hopefully that and travel bubbles will be the best home for a return to some medium term normalcy.
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The English getting their hard brexit early and still managing to find a way to whinge about it...
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China pushing boundaries to see who pushes back. Expect more of this behaviour. Much of it will go unpunished.
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19 minutes ago, Loiner said:Right on cue, as predicted. Bit short on venom though - has it been a long day for you?
I'll bet that more Aussies are attracted to him though. They're not usually slow to call a spade a spade, although many of the younger and more stupid ones have been brainwashed into submission.I’m more regular than your bladder these days I’m guessing.
Nothing really to be venomous about.
If you read my previous post, we’ve had charlatans like him forever and a day. They have their appeal to the ‘woe is me - let’s blame the immigrants for my own failings’ mob, but for the rest of us they are a humorous diversion. Im not too worried about them.
As said, he’s auditioning hard to get the attention of old Rupert. The conservative journalists scratch each other’s eyes out for a chance to be Ruperts poodle. It’s fun to watch.
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4 minutes ago, johnpetersen said:Because otherwise doctors might be reluctant to give it to their patients? Because doctors are more likely to listen to Trump than to Anthony Fauci? Or to the Surgeon General? I knew Trump was chief executive of the USA. I didn't know that he was also Chief Medical Officer.
Hey, who needs professional medical advice when you have a self proclaimed stable genius guiding everyone?
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9 minutes ago, TheDark said:I have noticed this too. I don't watch the Sky News Australia on TV, but I do see their shows on Youtube.
At first I was thinking, can they really be related to the Sky News in UK as they really were Fox news of Australia.
The influence of the nutbag element of US politics is increasing given Murdoch owns 70% of the media in the country. As a result there is a audience for whom this stuff appeals. This week it’s the socialists. Before that it was the Sudanese migrants, before that muslims, before that the Asians, Italians and Greeks and before that the Irish.
They are literally told to be be scared of their own shadow, and thus they are.
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8 minutes ago, evadgib said:
while allegedly being a citizen of a mickey mouse country not renowned for any great achievement on the world stage I find this quite laughable.
I dare say he is confusing me for you, Chomper...
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7 minutes ago, vogie said:Australian Sky News doesn't appear to have that problem being carefull not to upset the far left.
Sky news at night fringe dwellers doing their best to get a gig at the Fox News HQ by opening up as many ludicrous fronts in the culture wars as they can.
‘The PC socialists are coming for your culture!!!!!’
I guess if you are thin skinned, insecure and have an aversion to anything but what you see in the mirror, I guess it would resonate.
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25 minutes ago, Baerboxer said:
Now, therefore, if Black Lives Matter to these protesters, why aren't they protesting at the murder of a retired black police captain by a looter? Or the massive black on black killings in Chicago for instance?
Who says they aren't?
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I was told - and it sounds about right - that Thailand has the capacity to quarantine about 500 of its own citizens per day arriving back from overseas. And there is still a backlog. Paying to stay in hotels will alleviate some of it, but that will only be a small weight off things.
Whatever way you look at it, for the time being, unless self isolation become accepted (and I doubt its going to be soon) then then we are looking at fairly limited numbers of people coming in.
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As soon as they are registered on the Tabieen Baan, they are good to go.
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7 minutes ago, Loiner said:
No, one of those that we used to deport to Oztralya so they would be amongst friends.
Keep it up, one day you'll be funny...
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Manhattan prosecutor steps down, ending stand-off with U.S. Attorney General Barr
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I think that’s the whole point! Litigations don’t go very well after that...