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I don't give a damn

Indeed, there'll be a fair few people escaping in the other direction too.

Waste of time explaining, seems most of the posters to the Southern Thailand section have never been south of Pattaya.

No doubt, but if you've ever visited Hat Yai you'd know that it's a popular holiday destination for families, Malay, Chinese and Indian Malaysians - it's not just Malaysian sexpats.

No you'll hear the sound of hoards of Malaysians complaining about standing in line for two hours. With the Hari Raya Idul Fitri holiday coinciding with Songkran this year it's also a long holiday in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia too - so Hat Yai is full.

I'm guessing not by themselves, but as evidenced by the Wise transfer receipts they're clearly happy to partner Wise in peer to peer transactions.

Which is where their partners come in, Kasikorn, Bangkok Bank and Dee Money - if you look at a transfer receipt down at the bottom under Paid Out From it shows you the banking partner.

Wigan put a pie into Space! https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/16/pie-in-space-falling-shortcrust-wigan-mission-pie-in-the-sky

The new British passport is pretty robust, the ID page is fully hard laminated, there was no harm in asking immigration.

I thought you meant these two.

Worth trying immigration first if the passport looks ok, new passport is plan B.

Go and have a chat with the immigration office, explain the situation and show them the pre washed photos. Hopefully they'll do the equivalent of transferring stamps from an old passport, but in this case a pre-washed passport to a freshly laundered one.

Shouldn't that read billionaire if they're on the billionaire rich list?

Thanks. I just checked on the Krungsri app and successfully added money to the term account. I hadn't realised you could do that without resetting the whole term deposit and losing whatever interest had accrued.

Yes you can, and I do keep my extension money in a term deposit account. That said the IO officer can be twitchy about the lack of 'movement', they ask you to have your passbook updated on the day of application, at least Hat Yai do, but with term deposit I can't make a transaction on the day to show a total for that day in the passbook. Some officers seem to understand this, others are a little less bright shall we say. Bringing the balance up on the banking app to show the money is there has helped, as does doing the bank letter the same day as the application. So be aware it can be problematic depending on the IO reviewing your application, and no doubt the immigration office you use.

38°C here in Hat Yai this afternoon, but a pleasant 26°C here in my office

Indeed, I was going to say there's little point planting more until you convince people to stop cutting them down and burning them.

Interesting comments reported in the article, which possibly explains why a few days ago a Maxim driver was asking me about 'free visas' and if I had one, when I explained I didn't and needed to pay every year for my extension he seemed pleased.

They're both Sam Stilton sock puppets

Hat Yai Bht50-80 depending on topping

Yes K-Bank seems a lot slower and I've had the same 'busy traffic' pop up. But if I switch to my SIM for internet from home wifi it works. Are you connecting roaming or from a local wifi connection? .

The OPs buying a condo, so needs a bank Foreign Exchange Transaction form for the Land Office.

Wise is peer to peer money transfer, matching someone's need for Canadian Dollars with someone else's desire for Thai Baht, so they won't be able to supply CAD in a Thai bank. Swift transfer is the way to go.

Agreed it's a free service, but when I transferred my stamps to a new passport (Hat Yai IO) I was required to complete Form 22 and supply the documents specified on the form, namely a photocopy of the photo page of old and new passports, plus my extension, original visa, and last arrival stamp. All easy enough and completed whilst I waited.

I almost spate my tea over the keyboard - you couldn't make this up