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Totally agree. My engagement with the site is down 90%, although I imagine most people don't arrive via the RSS feed, so it's a very low priority for them.

@george Please don't forget to bring back/recreate this feed. My interaction with this forum is far lower quality without it. That feed gives instant updates on every page that I can drop in on. Thanks.

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Out of curiosity, I visited the Tak Bai district police station about 10 years back. They had a wall of random objects like desks, chairs mixed in with barbed wire, covering the front area of the station. But otherwise, there was nothing strange about the village. The only police officer I saw was jovially chatting to locals at a nearby crossroads. Should you be interested, I can recommend the astonishingly beautiful beach nearby.

One of the many remarkable and stupid things during the Covid crisis was the total failure of the governments to tell us to stay fit and strong. Not only was it extremely obvious to the attentive during the Covid pandemic that the healthy were the least likely to suffer, but the mass panic actually caused many people to give up exercise out of anxiety of the pandemic. I can recall seeing a newspaper headline stating some remarkable percentage of British women simply quit exercise. If you looked at the infamous categories of risk, almost all were related to failures to look after their bodies. One factor held in common by most of the risk categories was being overweight. Only the risk factors of pregnancy and old age were truly out of the patients' control. To make matters worse the governments actually introduced restrictions on visiting parks or going outside, making it very difficult to exercise. It really was stupidity built upon stupidity. Government policy controlled by public anxiety and paranoia is never the best way to govern. I hope they have all learnt from it.

This is definitely not the case at Bangkok Immigration. I have done online after returning from abroad. It might be the official means if you are entering on a new visa. But if entering on a visa extension, and very probably entering on a multiple entry visa, then it'll get accepted by the system. The system on this issue is linked at Bangkok Immigration.

Doing this in Bangkok will result in an automatic rejection. Samut Prakan Immigration clearly have decided to follow their own path.

I second this. The only way I look at AseanNow is through the general feed. And now it's gone.

I asked this exact question on the forum 4 months ago. It is shocking how ambiguous the list is that they provide. I can tell you with absolute certainty that they do allow a mobile phone.

This suggests you have a very high BMI. You wouldn't believe how many illnesses and problems can arise from simply being overweight. Lose the weight. Get your BMI down to 22 or 23. Eat one meal a day. Only eat in a 8 hour period. 16 hours with no food. No snacks and only drinks with no milk or water (black coffee or ginger or good ol' water) during the 16 hour fast. You'll rapidly lose weight and start to feel great. You won't feel hunger after around the first 14 hours; your body will rapidly adapt. Your bank manager will be happy with the food cost savings. But your doctor will be over the moon.

"Nice country you've got there. Would be a shame if it got suffocated by pollution'

That won't work. It'll certainly catch a lot of flies because they are attracted to ultraviolet light. After a few days I will be a pile of flies in it. But mosquitoes are no more attracted to ultraviolet light than humans are.

>Thai Immigration Police has entered the chat

Wow. It was a thousand. But I suppose if I had a 1,000 tablespoons to remove the water it would have been about as effective...

Thais on Facebook immediately figured out what was really going on...

And they actually did this. During the floods of Bangkok in around 2011, they deployed around 20 boats thinking that the boats' propellers would help push the flood waters into the sea more quickly... You can guess the result.

You could get tickets for both services. But make sure you prioritise the marriage visa online appointment time. If your 90 day ticket number is passed for the 90 days line because you are busy dealing with your marriage visa, then simply get another queue number and then see how long you have to wait. You can judge it by looking at the number of people waiting. The lines for the 90 day generally dry up late in the day. So there should be very little of a queue by around 3pm. But I would recommend you do the 90 days online. Should take about 5 minutes.

[News for @lelapin and other Bangkok dwellers] I can now confirm that the 90 days report must be done in person at Chengwattana when a new passport is used, even if you've had all the information shifted onto the new passport at Chengwattana. The Immigration Police Officer insisted the systems (i.e. notification system and the formal transfer of visa and extensions onto new passport) were not linked, at least in Bangkok, and it was impossible to do it online. I am very aware that at other immigration offices it is possible to do online. (I have used the online ever since it first began. The only time I had to attend previously was when the whole system collapsed, such as that period during COVID)

The absurd escalation in the number of companies requiring your passport from around 5 years ago was bound to end up with this situation. When even the BTS requires a passport on file just to get a card, you know it has gone too far. More than 5 years ago, almost nobody had a copy of my passport in any data repository. Now they treat it with the respect given to a cinema ticket. The Thai government at that moment should and could have slammed the door on these requirements. It was so obvious even at the time it was happening that it had gone too far. Putting aside the behaviour of companies, how many times have the Thai Immigration Police accidentally leaked all our data? There were at least two cases during COVID.

It is always unwise to make an appeal to common sense when it comes to speculating on the workings of Thailand's occultic immigration system.

Hallelujah. Finally someone who actually can report on what is happening.

Interesting read. The failure of the issue to be resolved in that topic thread, with absolutely no one having any experience of the issue, I think this thread should be very handy.

So it seems that I overestimated the reading comprehension skills of some of the forum members. So I will lay it out with simple sentences: 1. A couple of months ago, several international airports in Thailand introduced automated gates for foreign passengers when leaving Thailand. 2. These gates speed up the process of immigration checks, because an Immigration Police Officer is no longer needed to check your passport. 3. This system has been in place for Thais for some time. 4. It is challenging for Thailand to introduce a system for foreigners because of the various visas and visa extensions that we are on. 5. One particular problem, is that people with extensions to their visas require a reentry permit to re-enter Thailand using the same extension. 6. If they re-enter Thailand without a reentry permit, they lose their current visa, and must start the process again. 7. I seek anyone who has had the experience of entering and leaving Thailand with the new system, and with a reentry permit, to offer their experiences. I hope this helps.

"Moreover, over 30 million baht vanished from her bank accounts. Panithi was a millionaire and never had any history of financial issues but only a nominal amount of money was left in each of her bank accounts." For each bank account to only have a nominal amount in it she would need around 30,000 bank accounts to explain how they could have withdrawn 30 million Surely the millionaire victim was the creditor.

The system has been around for a month or two now but I've not seen any feedback. A lot of people here must have used the automated passport control gates for leaving Thailand. The concern is for people requiring reentry permits and other complex visa issues. Clearly a tourist on a simple visa will exit without issue. But what happens with those of us on visa extensions, needing reentry permits? Can the automated gates be used or must we still go to the manned immigration desks? What procedure has been set up? And also, can the automated gates be used for arrival when possessing a reentry permit?