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Correct me if I am wrong, but there is nothing in the announcement that says you don't have to go to immigration to get the automatic Covid extension.  I suspect that the lines will be just a long, but they should move more quickly with less paperwork required.

6 minutes ago, Muzzique said:

Not sure how you come to that conclusion as the Global reality is completely the opposite. Most countries adhere to British English as their standard educational target and the BBC is the predominate Global English language transmission broadcaster.

 

I have a feeling you need to remove your rose tinted glasses. 

 

 

BBC English?  Does that mean the next generation of English speakers will all sound like Lyse Doucet? ????

2 hours ago, Andyfez said:

Yes. Many kids start speaking Philipino/American English.

The word I always question is 'gotten'.

Gotten is an interesting word, or perhaps I should say an interesting conjugation. 

400 years ago, when there was no difference between British and American English, we all used gotten as the past participle of get.  Over time, the two dialects diverged and the British stopped using gotten and now use got, while the Americans have retained the original conjugation.

So, the question is, who is correct?  The ones who kept the original form of the word or the ones who have forgotten it? ????

When they don't really know what to do, bureaucrats tend to feel that they have to do something.  So they do something random that doesn't really achieve anything and may, in fact, be counterproductive, but gives people the illusion that they 'are doing something about the situation'.

You normally see this sort of thinking from the Immigration Police, but it looks as though the provincial governors are getting into the act!

Does "Automatic" mean that tourists won't have to do anything to get the extension?  Or will they "Automatically" give the extension when you apply for it with all the appropriate paperwork.

If I was a betting man, I know which one I would put my money on.

My wife is an extremely social person, so she hasn't really reacted well to being isolated.  In addition to long, long phone calls, and loud conversations with the neighbor across the street, she has been waylaying delivery people and engaging them in long talks about random stuff!  ????

In the past I could just send a messenger or my wife to pick up the passport after final approval.  As of last year, I have had to go in myself.  This is a CW.

This will obviously trigger a government "Stimulus" package!  That means that the government will pump some of our tax money into these big corporations to make the 'economy' look healthier.  The US does the same thing, they are just a tiny bit more subtle about it.  ????

A couple of things to consider:

US citizenship:  The child does not have to be born in the US to get this.  As the child of a US citizen, it will be eligible for US citizenship regardless of where it is born.  Getting the US citizenship will be much easier if the parents are legally married, the father is named on the Birth Certificate and the child is registered at the US Embassy.

Thai citizenship:  Again possible as the child of a Thai mother, but easier if it is born in Thailand.

Birth/PreNatal care:  Unless the parents have US health insurance, the average cost of giving birth in the US will be about 400k-600k baht.  The cost in Thailand will be about 1/10 of that.  The US is the most expensive place on Earth to give birth.

US Hospitals will probably be flooded with patients in the next couple of months.  Thai hospitals may be as well, but currently, Thailand has a lower rate of infection than the US.

I would recommend that the mother come back to Thailand if she has family/support or a home here, and the father apply to the Thai embassy to get permission to follow her.

I checked that bus website and got this message:  Sorry, there's no trip available on this date

The buses are not running.

So, what paperwork will be required to get this extension to 30 June?  Another letter from your embassy? Signed copies of every page in your passport (this one's pretty much a given), a note from your landlord - complete with signed copies of his Thai ID, Tabian Baan and the residences Tabian Baan?  A note from your mother?

I have no confidence that they are actually going to streamline or simplify the extension process, I think that they are just going to give extra time to people who have tourist visas or visa exempt entries.

The full quote (from that hot bed or radical thought The Wall Street Journal):

Emanuel, Nov. 19, 2008: You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before. I think America as a whole in 1973 and 1974, and not just my view but obviously the administration's, missed the opportunity to deal with the energy crisis that was before us. For a long time our entire energy policy came down to cheap oil. This is an opportunity, what used to be long-term problems, be they in the health care area, energy area, education area, fiscal area, tax area, regulatory reform area, things that we have postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. This crisis provides the opportunity, for us, as I would say, the opportunity to do things that you could not do before. The good news, I suppose, if you want to see a silver lining, is the problems are big enough that they lend themselves to ideas from both parties for the solution.

So the 'things that we could not do before' is to enact bipartisan solutions.

It's well documented that UV light will kill many viruses.

https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/02/10/uv-light-airplanes-could-prevent-spread-coronavirus-and-other-infectious-diseases-14562

The American Council on Science and Health agrees with him.

I think that it is highly unlikely that the PM, or anyone else in authority, will make an announcement about visas or foreigners.  So I expect that Immigration will just blindly continue with business as usual. 

The only way that Immigration will make things easier for us would be if various Chambers of Commerce put some pressure on the relevant authorities (as they did with the TM30).  The US/UK embassies will probably be as worthless as usual, so we can only hope that some big businesses are inconvenienced and will complain.

My wife has been saying the same:  Curfew will be from 7pm to 7am, starting in a couple of days.

He looks familiar... does anyone know what Mooham (the Mercedes rage boy) is up too?  ????

My school has told us to prepare online/remote lessons for the first 8 weeks of school!  The English teachers are mostly preparing videos, but as a Science teacher I'm preparing powerpoints with follow-up questions.  I'll schedule live Q&A sessions using Zoom or Google Classroom.

I teach older students, P6 to M3, so I shouldn't have much difficulty teaching this way.  The teachers who teach very young students are not looking forward to this!

Hopefully, this will just be a contingency plan and classes will begin in mid-May as usual. 

As for the OP, I am obviously staying.  I just renewed my WP and will be extending my Type O visa for another year in August.

So, how long before we start seeing negative interest in the US?  Will it be days, weeks or months?

Trump has been pressuring the Fed to keep interest rates low to keep the economy looking healthy.  Now that the inevitable correction has started, there's no place to go but to less than zero!

^True.  I dropped a friend off at Swampy last week.  She was the only person in the check-in line!