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The link is https://eservice.dlt.go.th/esvapp/login.jsf Thai language only

You misunderstand the process. It's not their job to go and pay the tax for you. But many of them provide this additional service for an additional fee. You can pay the tax yourself and once the test station has entered it into the system you can do it online without any MOT documentation. For some it may be more convenient to let the test station take the documents to a DLT office and then go back and pick the tax disc up. For me, it's more convenient to go to the test station on a Saturday. Then I can go home and deal with the tax online. The tax disc arrives before the end of the week and I don't need to go and pick it up the following Saturday. Incidentally, it's after 7 years that cars need to go in for an MOT and 5 years for motorcycles.

It's extremely simple. I already have the compulsory tax from renewing my insurance a couple of months earlier so just provide the evidence and pay the tax online. After the first time, the details of your vehicle are retained in the system so you don't need to key in any vehicle information. Takes less than 2 minutes. If you have more than one vehicle, you can add others to the same account. You can also add other people's vehicles (your wife's for example). If you need the compulsory insurance with the tax, you just tick the box and add it to the online payment. Takes 2 minutes. The disc is sent to your home address by registered post.

You put that in yourself. Can't remember now if it was uploading a photo file or putting in some code from the insurance document. There's also an option to pay for the insurance at the time if you need to do that.

You can still do it online if you want. The data from the testing station is connected to the central system. You can get it done and then when you get home it will show up in the online system. You don't have to go back to the testing station. It takes a few days to get the disc by registered post though.

I did it using my social insurance number.

Does the Big C Don Muang office still operate? It's still on the website. https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/th/legalized_labours_service_center/

Wouldn't he be OK leaving by the correct date anyway? There are a few offices for neighbouring country passports but I think they tend to deal with those on MOU visas. The main one is at Imperial Ladprao. Maybe CW would be the right place for his case though? The visa vans usually pick up at night. So remember to leave on the night of the 5th so that he's at the border on the morning of the 6th. If he's a day late he'll get fined.

Try re-submitting it.

It's not meant to provide anything for you. They would reimburse hospitals who have been left out of pocket by tourists skipping out without paying or uninsured and can't pay etc. Obviously that opens up huge opportunities for corruption and mismanagement in itself. But the intention was never to provide individual healthcare for foreign tourists?

Loads of songtaews running the Sukhumvit sois out from Phrakhanong going up to Srinakharin Road,.

If you have time, keep resubmitting it. I was successful on the 4th submission one time. I tried little tweaks to the form but the final one that got approval was the same as the first one. Had this happen a couple of times on the new system but mostly it goes smoothly.

Even if it is the Shinawatras

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Thanks. I wasn't aware of that. The Department of Consular Affairs document included them as 45 days but it looks like only through airports. DCA.pdf

Yes, it's based on the bilateral agreements. Hopefully they won't change it but when the GF did her last run, they told her it will be going back to 30 days.

They get 45 days at the moment. The agreement for the neighbouring countries was changed at the same time as the 45-day visa exempt entries for other nationalities. I assume it will either revert to 30 days at the end of March or be extended if that's done for other nationalities.

Even with the van service they still have to get the Cambodian stamps in and out. But it's all done in a very close area and they don't have to go beyond the border officials into Cambodia. They're not usually there very long.

Laos citizens are stamped out of Thailand and then stamped back in. They currently get 45 days (though I think it's still scheduled to revert back to 30) and there are no limits on the number of entries they can make per year. This makes it easy for those who don't have the MOU visa and work permit to stay continuously in Thailand. I'd imagine it's quite easy to do it under their own steam. But most in Bangkok use a van service, which picks them up at home and does the return journey for 900 baht. They don't pay any Cambodian border fee.

That could depend on how they received their Thai ID in the first place? I think a lot of the ongoing crackdown stems from Chinese illegally receiving a Thai ID. Are there ways that Thai citizenship once acquired could be forfeited for criminal behaviour? Though presumably there should be due process in that case?

นกเอี้ยง is Thai for the myna, the 'nok eyoung' ('iang' maybe as an alternative spelling). นกกาเหว่า is the koel, 'nok gaawao' (the Thai name coming from its call).

It was Aaron Hotel. Just mid-low range I guess. I contacted them directly through email as coming out of Covid it wasn't really clear from the booking sites which places were operating. They only asked for my details and never asked for any ID from my girlfriend. She talked to the reception staff a few times and nothing was said at all. We had a couple of nights and then a bigger room for her daughter and mother to stay too. Mostly younger Vietnamese there at the time. Just asked her and she says nothing to worry about in Vientiane.