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19 hours ago, humbug said:

the section sometimes becomes even slower than N1 section

That's interesting. I found that all but one of the N1 counters were converted/turned into N2 counters for the entire morning. 

If things stay the same, it makes sense for me to go very late in the day. Around 3pm.

Just to bounce this thread.

If any person on this forum has been given an N2 ticket by the Immigration Police please let me know your visa type. Thank you.

5 minutes ago, Pattaya57 said:

N2 desk

There is no such thing as N2 desk.

There is a subgroup of N, which share with N1 group, the N counters.

It could be extremely useful for me to know which group of visa holders they are.

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear enough.

I'm asking what is N2. I already know what N is. 

It doesn't refer to a particular area. It refers to a particular group of applicants who fall within the N group. Who are this group? 

The N counter is used for non-business work, such as diplomats, experts, teachers, as well as students and monks.

But what is the N2 subgroup specifically? 

1 hour ago, scorecard said:

How does woke come into this

That's an interesting development.

In the early 1990s "it's political correctness gone mad" phase of politics, what might be called a proto-Woke spasm, a similar conflation occurred between health and safety/risk avoidance issues and the "rectification of names" involved in the process of political correctness.

The conflation arose then because both involved a sense of petty, wasteful bureaucracy, and both produced lots of headline news stories.

4 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

How very Thai. It never happened. Nothing to see here. Move on

Kettle logic.

I ruled out taking the vaccine after I spoke to the doctor when she tested me positive for dengue the first time.

Firstly, it is expensive. Secondly, from my memory of the chat, it requires several jabs over a long period of time. Thirdly, it's not actually that effective; I recall her saying around 60%, and then it fades with time.

In addition, there other nasty mosquito diseases which the vaccine will have no effect on. In Thailand, they are the Zika virus and the Chikungunya virus. My doctor actually thought I had the Zika virus until the test results came back.

1 hour ago, MrJ2U said:

That's it?

 

I've heard horror stories.

I can't speak for him but let me describe my 4-day headache from my dengue infection last year.

The headache was no worse than the migraines I often get. But no matter what there was no relief for 4 days, except if I sat in a almost boiling shower. But the relief only lasted in the shower and 10 minutes after it. That brief period was the only chance I had to fall asleep. 

So for 4 days and 4 nights, I went back and forth to the shower every 30 minutes or so. I felt so exhausted from the pain and lack of sleep, that I gave up even drying myself off from the shower. I would just walk to my bed soaked wet and drop to sleep.

I was so sensitive to light that when I went for a short walk at 2 in the morning, I wore sunglasses, and I still felt dazzled by the night light of the moon.

There were other problems as well but this was the largest problem for the last few days. It was just a headache and yet there are very few people who have a headache which does not end for that length of time at that intensity.

I'm so glad I did not go to hospital. By being home I could control the lighting, get to the shower, and keep the room completely quiet.

Just to explain what is going on here: a Russian refugee living in Georgia and working in IT, likes to comment on anyone with a silly understanding of Russia. This effectively opens up to him almost the entire population of the United States. In this particular review he's looking at the general tendency of Americans to see not just Russia but even Thailand as places to escape ideologies of America, not grasping that they are also not utopias.

The conservative here is ironically making the precise argument that radical leftist feminist Judith Butler was making in her famous work, 'Gender Trouble'. She argued that not just gender but also even sex is performatively produced (this is the book where "performative" emerged in American discourse).

The extreme conservative is favourable to that position by his supporting Thai ladyboys because they truly act like women, as in they performatively constitute themselves as women. He is implicitly opposed to American ladyboys because they don't try to act in conformity with his constructed image of women.

It's interesting to look at this tail end of the 30 year-- increasingly flagging-- dialectical arguments between liberal forces and conservative forces. And just as expected, after all the screaming and shouting and knashing of teeth, the conservative ends up as the liberal.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

57 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

I had not seen this link before.

I will save it in Google Keep

This database has around 3 million books now. It is by far the best collection on the internet. Thailand is indifferent to the question of its legality. Western countries claim it is illegal.

11 minutes ago, NONG CHOK said:

reduced my weight by 20 kg's

The issue is not how much weight you have lost, but whether you are now at an acceptable weight. You should aim to be straight down the middle of the BMI chart. 

I have a great workaround for this for mobile YouTube on my phone.

I use my smartwatch which is connected to my phone and has the ability to override the play function on the YouTube app without removing the prompt question, ensuring no further prompts/ interruptions.

An article approvingly linked from the article here says he admitted to taking $500,000 of his fans' money in a Ponzi scheme.

It looks like he's finally experiencing the rewards of his general behaviour.

And as for other people here complaining that lewd display is normal in Thailand, this is different because it involves distribution of obscene content for money over the internet. Thailand is notoriously strict on this.

3 hours ago, BritTim said:

the company often handles all the paperwork

I agree with you on this.

But they would have benefited from knowing. I guess they will find out eventually from somebody.

Even if the company handles things, as mine does, you still have to physically turn up yourself at chengwatana. 

This e-extension offers two advantages. It removes the absurd waste of time sitting around at chengwatana (even with an appointment last year it still took well over 5 hours), and ensures that some clerical error by the office does not result in having to attend twice.

2 hours ago, DTiger said:

Deafening

You would think that people would be throwing themselves at this option-- getting all the documents approved without even attending Chaeng Wattana-- but instead all there is is silence.

I appreciate that most of the forum users retirees or aspirational retirees, and they are specifically excluded, but that still leaves a large number of others.

I'm just bumping this because the silence is deafening.

I really want to hear some feedback on the use of the e-extension as I'm going to use it in the next couple of days. So, if you have ever used it, how did it go, how quick was it?

1 hour ago, Maestro said:

issue neither work permits nor work permit extensions

Correct.

They describe it as a 'visa extension' by proof of a valid work permit. I was sloppy in my wording. And arguably they are also sloppy with their wording.

Interestingly, the service is heavily plugged on the Immigration Police website. The "e-extension".

But as I said before, it is rather restrictive to who can use it. I would be keen to hear how it went for others.

I found the website.

Has anyone had experience?

Please note that it excludes retirement visas. And only includes a restricted class of work permits.

Here is a newspaper article on it.

Sometime around mid-2022, I saw that for work permit extensions it was now possible to upload documentation to the immigration police in advance of the appointment date. They would then approve or disapprove the documents in advance.

This is hugely useful because refusals of extensions are almost always because of clerical errors completely unconnected to the farang applicant.

I'm unable to find on the immigration police website the link. Has anyone got it? Has anyone used it?

12 minutes ago, john donson said:

western european country

You are narrowing it down...

But it is still absolutely useless information. Every country has an entirely different legal system. In fact, the UK alone has several different legal systems; an English lawyer has no idea about Scottish law for divorces.

13 minutes ago, john donson said:

that should be good enough

No.