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Hiarious. How are auto gates more (or less) dystopian than being stamped in or out except for not wasting a bit of paper in your passport? The back-end is exactly the same: the IO takes your passport from you, places it in a scanner, your info is read, then you have fingerprints and photo taken for the automated biometric checks. If all checks out he gives you an irrelevant and pointless stamp then hands your passport back. With auto gates you enter your passport directly in to the scanner yourself, you have your fingerprints and photo taken for the automatic biometric check. If all checks out the gates open and off you go. Tell me how that is somehow dystopian - doing the exact same thing, but in a quicker and more efficient manner. Honestly you guys who deliberately make your life more inconvenient because of imagined and paranoid reasons are hilarious.

The front end reminds me of a Mitsubishi Triton........and that is not a good thing to be reminded of. I know pickups are workhorses and people don't necessarily care about the looks (I mean people are buying Cybertrucks), but for me I would prefer one that isn't ugly.

Really? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/28/two-british-teenagers-killed-parasailing-rhodes-greece-say-authorities

One for @ExpatOilWorker to add to his compilation.

All forms you can ever need are here: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/

Why does everyone say "bold"? It's "bald". Not spelling police, just curious.

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Tell us all about the last long and exhausting queue you had on departures. I have never had one and I travel quite a lot. What was your experience? Sounds like you somehow get them all the time, such bad luck!

The most boring, sad and predictable man on the entire forum. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Who is "big data"? And why would they be happy? You're saying a traveller putting his passport in to a machine to be scanned and having biometrics taken is somehow better for "big data" than an IO taking your passport, manually putting it in to a machine to be scanned and then taking your biometrics as is done now - it is just a more efficient way of doing it.

Sorry to hear your life sucks. I'm pretty sure the blame doesn't lie with Thailand or the Thai people.

Great info, thanks Tod!

This.

Great, thank you. I don't know, they didn't mention any home visit - just told me to go back on the 23rd. I guess time will tell.

Hi all, I entered Thailand on a three month non O in early April. Just back from CW (with my wife) to apply for my 12-month extension, all was smooth (thanks to some good advice on this forum) and I am stamped under consideration and due to go back on the 23rd July. My question, does my wife need to go with me on that date too or can I go alone? The reason for asking is I am supposed to be in Samui then for a family trip. Booked ages ago, driving there with wife, kids, two dogs, and a villa is booked and paid for and can't be moved. I don't want to cut short the holiday, but if I can go to CW alone I can leave wife and kids and just fly back for a day, do CW, fly straight back. (And before anyone criticises me for booking a holiday before I'd sorted my visa, I originally planned to do this 2-3 weeks ago but I had to make an unexpected and sudden trip back to the UK, hence only applying for my extension two days before my visa expires)

Yep, and I got shouted at for doing the same with horrendous crowds at Heathrow immigration a couple of years ago. Definitely at BKK there are signs around immigration and security not to take photos.

Oh the irony!

Again, no evidence he was acting or had been asked to. The only "evidence" you have is that he has done some two-bit acting parts in the past, and that is completely irrelevant. BTW he is a canvasser, not a politician.

So no evidence then, you just made it up, thanks for making it clear.

Ha ha ha ha. Because Farage says so!! He loves portraying himself and his party as the victim as it gets his supporters whipped up and they swallow it. Anyway, Farage will fail for an 8th time and will disappear in to insignificance again, but not before lining his pockets, again.

What has his acting history got to do with it? So someone who is a low rent actor can never do anything else in his life because he must be acting and must be being paid to act, constantly? So if he gets a job as a bin man in future he's acting? If he becomes a bus driver he must be acting? You said he was acting in the undercover film and was paid to say what he did. Who paid him, and where is your evidence? You can't answer because you made it up. It's laughable really, how gullible you are if you genuinely believe that.

The cult is strong.

He can't write English very well.

Quite an outlandish claim. Obviously you have evidence or a link to support this as it was a very firm assertion. I guess you just forgot to include it, that can happen. So please share the evidence you have - you seem very certain so it must be compelling.