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Either that, or the plain fact could be that, when it comes to issues relating to the TM30 form, Chaengwattana are a ROGUE OFFICE PAR EXCELLENCE.

Trouble with cash is that you more often than not need that particular scourge of the banking world worldwide (and not just in Thailand) known as the ATM machine to lay your hands on any of the stuff!

Whereas banks back in your home country are, on the other hand, models of 1,000,000% perfection, right?

I strongly suspect that the face-saving tactics which most of us have experienced in Thailand would probably pale into insignificance when compared to the outrageous and blinkered "in-denial" approach adopted by PO hierarchy for ages in that particular instance until the truth finally came out of the woodwork.

Yep, I bet that there are zilllions of Bangkok Bank customers just itching to scan QR codes with the app between these times!

Probably not a good idea to hold 3 accounts with 1 bank IMHO in view of the DPA scheme 1m limit to which I have just referred.

I wholeheartedly endorse the view that it is best to open a second account with no internet access or card linked to it in order to house the 800,000 THB minimum balance needed for retirement extension purposes. In your case, though, I would strongly advise you against opening a second account with Bangkok Bank since the Deposit Protection Agency's guarantee scheme limit of 1,000,000 THB covers ALL accounts which you might hold with that particular bank.

To view the official requirements for Australian OA visa applications as set out on the website of the Royal Thai Embassy in Canberra, do the following:- (1) Click on https://canberra.thaiembassy.org/visa-categories (2) Scroll down and click on RETIREMENT VISA CATEGORIES (3) Select second option (Retirement Visa valid for 1 year) These indicate that there have not, in fact, been any recent changes to the financial requirements - contrary to what Integrity Legal may be alleging in the context of that wondrous (and purely fictitious-sounding) organisation called "The Thai Australian Consulate"!

Whereas a Thai who, in your eyes, has the nerve to work illegally in your home country should, of course, have the book thrown at them without mercy or fear, right?

And if unsuccessful......??

So does this mean that I need a work permit to give food and water to our rabbit and hose down her litter tray, as I do each day?

And probably way more accurate to boot!

Hats off to the OP's home country for letting him have a new passport within 60 days!???? Would never have happened had he been a Brit☹️

As I recall, CW were certainly gleefully fining people left, right and centre (including, I believe, @lopburi3) for the non-submission of completed TM30's when they abruptly inflicted this requirement on their punters with zero advance notice a few years ago, after ages of not bothering about it. So they definitely have a rogue track record IMHO when it comes to the TM30 form.

Would that still be possible if you were being pushed in a wheelchair which you had booked at the airport (as opposed to walking), though? How amenable would the BKK wheelchair pushers be to doing this?

A cautionary word for those who, like me, are aged 70+ and/or disabled, though: the priority lanes which we are entitled to use only seem to take us to Zones 1 or 3 and not to Zone 2 where, as already said, the re-entry permit office is located. That's certainly how it appeared to me when I flew out from BKK to Europe on 16 June (having fortunately already obtained a re-entry permit at my local immigration office).

What is definitely the major overriding concern for us Brits in renewing our passports from Thailand as far as I am concerned is the bloody rigmarole we're subjected to in achieving this end. To the best of my knowledge no other Western nation requires its Thai expats to make not 1 but 2 potentially difficult physical journeys to a rundown office building with an extremely silly name tucked down some obscure sidestreet somewhere or other in deepest, darkest Bangkok or to its Chiang Mai equivalent, or forces them to shell out an extra 5,000 THB for an agent to spare them these enforced route marches!

It is important for your daughter to check specifically that she is staying at a hotel which has provided the local immigration office at which she will be seeking the 30-day extension with the notification needed to comply with TM30 requirements. Without such a notification her chances of obtaining such an extension at that particular office will probably be zero.

You chaps certainly seem to believe in the "moaning minnie" approach to expressing your gratitude to @Red Phoenix for his efforts, don't you?????????☹️Is asking him by PM to send you his note really that much of a big deal? Even if he were to post his note on the open forum it would probably soon get lost in all the subsequent noise on here! And heaven help anyone relying on the Search function to try and track it down!????

Yep nothing - and I mean nothing - must be allowed to get in the way of demonising Thais on here, must it?

Yes.

Kindly provide specific examples of the stats to which you refer. Or are you in reality relying on popular Asean Now mythological folklore? And your suggestion that comparisons between Thailand and Western countries are silly is IMHO a perfect illustration of the anti-Thai mindset which is so pervasive on this forum.

Unfortunately your valid points are unlikely to cut any ice with those on here who hold each and every Thai person in sneeringly patronising contempt with their brazenly arrogant "Me Mr Ultra-Superior and 1,000,000%-Perfect Westerner" attitude, and who always deploy the same old "Off Topic" excuse whenever anyone has in their eyes the temerity to tar Westerners with the same negative brush as they gleefully do Thais.

So presumably there are other offices which require maps to be provided for retirement extensions, although I can't recall any reports of them on here. Certainly I've never been asked for one by Rayong (although I do always include a map in my "just in case" bundle of supporting docs).

More to the point as regards this particular thread, how are Phuket when it comes to issuing residency certificates? Do they issue them free of charge and without the need for any "special requirements" to be met, as they are supposed to?