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Service the Aircons in March and make use of them.

The odd thing about this is that the money declaration is usually done on the way into the country. But some countries do have restrictions on the amount of cash you can take out of the country without making a declaration, maybe this is what they were checking for. Regardless of this - is it a customs/excise officers job to do this or a simple security guard at a scanner? It's odd because their job is to check for weapons and other items not allowed to be taken 'airside'. The cash sniffing dogs are very real in the UK, if you get caught with even just a few thousand without proof of withdrawal they can seize it - you will get it back eventually if you can prove withdrawal from a bank, etc. The lesson to learn is to keep receipts from any withdrawals and you're good.

Indeed, they are under massive scrutiny for bery good reasons. The Alaska incident is just the tip of the iceberg here. They have some serious problems at that company. I don't know how such a company can go from producing a solid and sound product for decades to planes literally falling apart because some idiot didn't tighten the bolts correctly - which they also found on many other planes based on what I read.

I use it every day, have done for many years

They pay for the change of name with proof, it's not about getting a driving license which requires proof of id 🙄

Yes I guess, also he spent his life in finance, I think he'd had enough of it by the time he retired to tell the truth.

My 'retirement target' is a kind of moving thing, but a few years ago I reckoned I could pretty much do anything for the rest of my life on about $2m, but more would be welcome and 100-150m Baht seems very reasonable for a worry free life in a nice house or two with plenty of room for more investment income than most people dream about earning during their working life. I'll do it as well. Settling for 7.3% pa is very conservative - there's plenty of room for a little more risk with some percentage of your funds - all depends on how you invest it of course. I know a guy with about $10m and it's all in US treasuries 🙄

Interesting, did you undergo antibody testing for all variants?

I heard it gets you hardest when you've had it before, even if you didn't realise that you've had it before - which is a thing.

Can't the parties just make a new coalition and form a new government. If all the coalition partners support this scheme (and I don't belive they do) then they continue as they are. The clocks ticking on this delicate coalition. What is it - 9 separate parties - it was doomed from the outset in my opinion - too many different parties.

What about abused prescription only drugs like Opiates?

-5000 - so you somehow became overdrawn - that's a negative balance right?

I know I got a letter issued along with my new passport which is somehow required to get the current entry AND extension stamp moved over to the new passport. I'm not sure if that letter is only regarded as being valid for a certain amount of time. But I will say - probably best to do the transfer sooner than later once you get the new passport as you never know what's going to happen at immigration when you go.....

A wise decision, always allow room for the unexpected.

Too late to get a new passport now, they will almost certainly just issue the visa up until the expiration date of your passport. So do this first, then get a new passport some time this year, move the appropriate stamps over to your new passport and your new extension date will change in 2025. I had this issue with a Thailand Elite visa, in hindsight I really wish I had renewed my passport at the time even though it still had about 2.5 years left on it because it was a real pain for me to do it the lazy way. Unless of course you live in a country which still produces passports and issues them in the local embassy.....

Apparently so.

Yes, there's been a number of reports of people being mysteriously arrested at the airport before they made it onto the plane. Did they all have no money to pay the fine or are the Phuket Police intercepting these passengers before they get to immigration? Or are immigration simply making up the law as they go, saying oh - that's far too many days to just pay a fine - so off to prison you go?

I wonder if it's the fabled 'Thairannosaurus Rex' 😁

That's expensive, it's 3000 Baht per KG. The 8000 Baht 'fine' suggests they over ordered and had 2.6 KG of uneaten food which is a massive amount of food. What are we talking here? Chicken feet soup or steak & lobster?

Interesting, I have a 5 year Thai driving license and had no idea they would accept that as an ID - they didn't mention it in the support ticket but I only specifically asked about the visa type. Maybe I'll give it a go at some point in the next few weeks. I will add for future readers that the verification process is very prone to failure unless you do it on a mobile phone with a decent camera and use their app instead of a webcam. Did you do it on the phone ?

They told me they will accept the Thailand Elite visa but my problem is the foreign id card / driving license. My UK license expired, I got a new one but it's sitting on a shelf in the UK....so I can't verify at the moment. I'll have it mailed out - however this is not an optimal solution for people from the UK as we don't have ID cards and you're not supposed to renew your driving license while living abroad and I can't be bothered to get any of the other options - too much hassle right now.

It is.

I got a new passport a few years back and didn't bother updating my drivers license, of course I went a week after my birthday to get a full 6 years and I'm not going back to that place any time soon. Hopefully the miserable witch who seems to run it will be retired by then.

I popped along to the local immigration satellite office here in Hua Hin on Monday afternoon, it was 5pm, just wanted to do a 90 day report which takes about 1 or 2 minutes. The screen was turned off so they were done for the day and there must have been 50 or so people sitting around waiting. I spoke to a couple of them who were waiting around and they said the machine had been turned off just 10 or 15 minutes prior to my arrival. Out of curiosity I asked how long they've been waiting and one guy said he pressed the button and got his number at about 11:30am - so they had been waiting for 5 and a half hours already! I'm pretty sure they left the building and carried on with their day before returning and didn't literally sit there for that long but it shows there's a problem inside the country as well as on arrival - and this is sleepy old Hua Hin! The 90 day report can wait, I was early anyway so I'll take my passport with me each time I pop into Bluport on the off chance I can get it done without a wait - but if it's anything like this when I go again then they can shove their 90 day report up their arses and I'll skip it.

Did you get back into Vietnam or not?