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Denied Entry
I was unable to open a bank account with my marriage-based 90-day Non O. It's possible that the reason is that I live in a small town in Sri Saket, where they don't get many foreigners. (Although each time I go a bank I see at least one foreign customer...) I went to the three bank branches in my small town, as well as to all of the bank branches in a slightly bigger town nearby. That covers all of the big ones - BBL, SCB, Kasikorn; Ayutthaya. I was turned down by all of them. One required a 1-year visa (sic); another required a pink card; yet another required a COR; and - my personal favorite - another one required an international driver license. WTF! Later, when I went to my Immigration Office to do my TM30, I told the officer that I was unable to open a bank account, so how exactly am I supposed to comply with the financial requirements. He did not seem surprised, and he actually wrote a letter for me requesting that a bank lets me to open a bank account! It was only thanks to this letter that SCB finally opened an account for me. -
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Jihad on the Way.
Yes...I know what you are talking about. One fought and won a deportation order because he had started a family in the UK . The family members were himself and his cat. Well, without change things will continue getting worse. A start would be withdrawing funding for lawyers. If you want them to fight your case fine , but the state will stop paying for them. The state will not pay for anything at all For too long , sucessive governments have promised tough action then once elected sat on their hands except to make it more difficult for qualified law abiding nurses etc to come and take jobs in the NHS. They then pat themselves on the back and say they are reducing net immigration. Only now with Reform UK promising tougher action are the other parties going into panic mode. Not because they are concerned about their obvious failure to deal with the problem but because they fear they may lose their comfy jobs to the new kids on the block. Like it or not , there is a very high probability that Nigel Farage will become the PM in the future. Brexit happened by the narrowist of margins on account of the immigration issue and the expectation that the UK would regain control of its borders. Total failure but it does serve to illustrate that a large percent of the electorate are so concerned about the issue that they will go to any extreme in attempt to see some reform. The UK is not sleepwalking into a disastrous future it is sprinting there with its eyes wide open. -
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Is Your Doctor Being Influenced by Big Pharma?
For statins yes ,given out like sweets despite the side effects ,I escaped statins to the good -
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Koh Samui Immigration - Transferring visa/extension stamps to new passport
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And this, dear children, is why you NEED a torque wrench and a thermal imager!!
Got me worried now. Did an underground cable joint on my UK household incomer (post meter) and can't remember if I retightened the allen screws after bending the cables into line to allow so the joint covers aligned and clicked into place. Had a similar problem previously, not my doing though - the electricity provider made a bad joint onto the main cable when the house was built. 15 years on I turned on the microwave one morning and lost all power - been a little flickering for a week or so prior to that. Provider arrived and found the burned out joint. Still, house is sold and I'm heading for Thailand soon 🙂.- 1
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Elon Musk and his alleged stash.
You're writing nonsense. The DOGE website now claims $165 billion in savings. However, it still details only a fraction of the supposed cuts, and earlier accounting errors have given way to new ones. A common sleight of hand is canceling a “blanket purchase agreement”—in which the recipient had been given the equivalent of a credit limit to incur necessary costs on a project—and then claiming savings of the full credit limit rather than the (in many cases substantially lower) amount that was actually spent. Even assuming that the website’s stated savings have become twice as accurate as they were in February, annual savings would reach perhaps $15 billion, or 0.2 percent of federal spending. DOGE Was Never About Saving Money - The Atlantic
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