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How long until google map adds the newly opened stations? Anyone know how this usually works?

Wow.... that is bizarre...

My calendar claims Asalha Bucha Day on the 16th (Tuesday) is a NON-observed holiday, but I recall it was observed last year. Any ideas? (please note: 17th is Thai Buddhist Lent and is definitely an observed public holiday)  Will Thai Immigration Chaeng Wattana open their doors?

That's fascinating. They were adamant that they had done so. No doubt a lot of crossed wires in communication.

Oh well. I wasn't there.

2019_07_05 5_06 pm Office Lens.pdf

And here is one of the forms. I've removed identifying information. The crucial line is the first line which details the offence. It is partly illegible.

I find it is amazingly erratic. I've gone with only one other person waiting, and I've gone with a 4 hour wait with a hundred plus people. Beginning and end of the week and after national holidays are the worst days. It is always better to go late in the afternoon.

For one of them, it was the immigration office to the east of Chaeng Wattana. I'm not sure what that is. I'm unsure of the other person.

They were insistent it was a TM28. Since both were staying in serviced apartments, so the owner/administrator would be the TM30. The fine was 800 baht for one. He showed me the form and it was the same as a traffic offence fine (it said something like a "delay in informing" in Thai). I'm afraid I didn't get enough details on the other. I'm trying to get them to take a photo of their respective fines and send them to me.

My personal concern is with Chaeng Wattana . Any news on them?

The TM28 for change of address (not the TM30 for the possessor of the property to inform immigration of alien at their address) has never been seriously enforced. Immigration always seemed to accept the notice on the same day as a 90 day notification.

However, I've now heard two cases of criminal fines for a couple of days late in informing (i.e. they informed on the day of their 90 days notification). The fines were described as 'processing fees' but they received and showed me a criminal fine slip. Nothing was entered on their passports.

What is going on?

I'm quite jumpy about this since I moved a long time ago but because I am popping in and out of the country (this removes the requirement of the 90 day and starts the clock ticking on a fresh 90 day upon arrival back in Thailand) I won't be informing them of my address change until a 90 day notification sometime in November (having moved way back in January).

This apparent new crackdown reminds me of the 90 notification crackdown that started around 15 years back. Before then, Immigration ignored the 90 day requirement.

Wow! Thanks UbonJoe. For Chaengwattana is it 45 days or 30 days?

How early in advance of the end of a visa extension (a one year work visa) can a new application be made? Normally I do it around 7 days beforehand but when is the earliest possible request? 21 days?

(Normally, I have to apply for a work visa but this year it is a 2 year work permit so I have no paperwork to be done for the permit. So I am hoping to get the visa done early as I am not reliant on staff for work permit issues and want to leave the country for a trip at around that time.)

Thanks!

Thanks, Ubonjoe! A couple of little questions...

So, I fill in the old address on the re-entry permit (TM8?) in order to match the filed address (as filed in my on-line 90 days form).

Then when I return the 90 days start ticking and at 90days I will have to do a walk-in 90 days with also the TM28? Is it possible to do online with the new immigration entrance number or will the change of address require a journey to the immigration office anyway?

The TM30 is the apartment owner's duty, right? My guess, knowing his efficiency, is that this was long ago done. So his TM30 probably does not match my address as I have recorded it.

My address has changed between my last 90 days address notification (TM47?) and business travel. My understanding was this is ok so long as informed on a routine walk-in 90 day notification. The wrinkle is that I am heading abroad for a few days.

When I fill in the re-entry form at the airport, should I write the new address? This will presumably create a kerfuffle since I have not yet handed in a TM28(?) to immigration. Is the address they want, the one on the files or the one in reality? Could they do a TM28 at the airport? This seems to not matter since by leaving my 90 day clock starts ticking again for my return.

I not only remain in the same immigration area, but it is actually only a change of my room number, since I simply moved across the corridor in my apartment block. I forget myself that I have even moved...

Thanks.

It is a small pedal e-bike. Max speed is 30kph.

I am most concerned about theft insurance, but its speed etc. means it could do some damage and receive damage on the road.

Any thoughts from fellow e-bike users. I don't have and don't need home insurance so I can't include it within that. It is clearly not an e-scooter so it doesn't fall under the motorbike laws. 

(I'm also looking for a pamphlet on relevant traffic laws)

Ok. Thanks. I used to play in japan at 3 or 4am. It was lovely in their hot season.

Any true all night golf courses? 24 hour opening.

If not, what's the latest to shut.

Thanks.

Sheryl,

Thanks for that!

She has just come back with her plan to book at 'Thonburi 2' hospital. What do you think of that? She has booked a time so I don't want to stop this decision she has finally made to book an appointment.

Sheryl and Co.,

I have a Thai friend. She is rather innocent, harmless in nature, and because she is hi-so she is quite isolated from the world. She works in a government post.

She started to complain to me that some people on her Facebook were sending malicious messages to her and saying nasty things about her. All these people are connected to me from over the years, but I haven't seen any in at least 2 years. I have never been close to them. When I pressed her she sent me what seemed entirely innocent photos by those people (say, for example, one girl in a bikini at a swimming pool). Her explanation for how this was a communication to her in particular and how there was a hidden malicious message seemed entirely irrational to me. She claimed, for example, that since the girl's bikini was blue because I had used a e-moji in blue weeks prior, bikini-girl was communicating against my friend.

It seems clear that she has become obsessed with me (they are all facebook friends of mine and she complains one of the friends fancies me) and has locked onto my friends as targeting her. I have blocked her from my Facebook to try to diminish her obsessions. But I don't want to lose her as a friend. I have known her for at least 10 years.

I want her to get better. In speaking to mutual friends of her and mine it's clear that she has even 10 years back displayed odd thoughts. For example, she claimed to see hallucinations while meditating. To me, she was always a little oddball but very sweet in nature.

I have finally persuaded her to see a doctor. But I don't want her case to be dismissed as trivial by the doctor and her sent home. Although she looks harmless and so there is no social danger, it is effectively ruining her life-- she typically writes 30 plus messages to me a day about the ways by facebook friends are attacking her. In a sense, Facebook has become her life.

What doctor and what hospital can I get real care for her?

She's an old friend and I want things to work out for the best with her. My Thai friends tell me that Thais fear mental health at hospitals since they believe it will lead them to be locked away or ostracized.

How will this station Tha Pra work as an interchange station? It has three blue lines merging on it. Does everyone get off and change trains to proceed? Is one line a through line (and if so, which one?)?

How will this station Tha Pra work as an interchange station? It has three blue lines merging on it. Does everyone get off and change trains to proceed? Is one line a through line (and if so, which one?)?

Thank you!

So I've been given a 2 year work contract after years and years of getting a one year contract.

My employer tells me that this entitles me to get a 2 year work permit but I will still will only be able to get a 1 year visa.

Is that right?

Has anyone got a copy (PDF) or even a photo of the "5 diseases" health form (apparently was introduced on March 1st)? The one I've got for my visa has 6 diseases listed so it must be some other form...

I can't rely on my clinic's doctor as he is in his late 70s and not up on these types of things...

I've had this happen twice in 10 years. The second time, the computer was destroyed by a power surge that caused it to smoke and make a loud bang. The power wouldn't even turn on. Yet I still recovered all the data on the hard drive... because I went to Pantip Plaza.

Pantip Plaza has a few places that can deal with it. Give each place the chance to recover the data. If they can't, move to the next stall. You'll have to pay for a new hard drive, perhaps 800 baht in total.

Cross your fingers.

On 2/25/2007 at 10:09 PM, ercorn said:

The park in front of the kings palace by the river is pretty dodgy

That park is closed. It was concreted over for the Royal funeral and is now inaccessible. But it is true that around that area with very few residents there is an unusually high crime rate. The BKK police rated it as a Top 10 robbery area.

Oh thanks. What a shame they don't extend this to others.