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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

Nord Stream, Seymour Hersh and how disinformation works Did the United States blow up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea? Spoiler: I don’t know. And Seymour Hersh, a well known U.S. investigative journalist who made the claim last week, has managed to ensure that we may never know the truth. Hersh’s story is a case study in modern-day disinformation. https://www.codastory.com/newsletters/seymour-hersh-nord-stream/

Just to note that the Oliver Alexander thread deals with factual errors in Hersh's interview:

Link to a Twitter thread where Oliver Alexander identifies factual errors made by Hersh:

On the surface Seymour Hersh's story looks passable, but as you dig deeper it has more holes than the Nord Stream pipe. https://oalexanderdk.substack.com/p/blowing-holes-in-seymour-hershs-pipe

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.

I stayed in a hotel in Vientiane with my Lao girlfriend last year without any issues. She also said this would not be possible in her home province.

Pheu Thai to back Prawit as PM? I'm sure he'd be grateful for their support.

That wasn't my experience. My email reminder from the previous 90-day report was of course out of sync with the new entry. Just ignored the email and did it according to the entry date. That was approved without problem (Bangkok). Which also reset the email by the way.

The Chinese have always bought that stuff. It's all the back and muscle relief pads and things like that. Before Covid, 7/11 near me was always full of Chinese tourists that had just got off the tour bus at the hotel, all straight in there and buying up all that stuff and the balm.

It was a woman.