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Just nearly sent me back home to Blighty.
If his GF hadn't answered the phone, he would have been booted. And they would have stamped "didn't have the money" - after telling him it was for "coming too much/often" - to spite flying to/from England (which isn't cheap, these days). -
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The debate thread.
Who would have thought we had so many Swifties on this forum 🤢 -
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Lao borders (some at least) now requiring overnight stay?
I read one report where someone with a Non-Imm visa did not have to spend the one-night-out at one of the borders. YMMV. I would have a change of clothes, just in case. Could also ask the local visa-run vans if they know. -
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Revisiting History: The Unlikely Campaign to Vilify Winston Churchill
Dude plunged with his horse into a Wadi filled with spear and sword waving Mahdist fanatics while armed with nothing but a C96 Mauser and a sword and rode out the other side. Anybody here ever shot a C96? Try one. Churchill was a real man. -
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Don’t kill the golden goose! Tax reforms may drive away expats
Do you think they will enforce the motorcycle helmet laws anytime soon? -
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Switching from marriage visa to visa exempt t
Yes - two reported here recently. One was refused and returned from a Bangkok airport to where he started. He then flew to CM and got in OK (no "agent entry" program there to incentivize denied-entries): Another was almost refused, but managed to get his GF to talk to the IO, who then grudgingly let him in. If she hadn't been available to talk right then, he would have been gone: if you use known safe entry points - no problem. Otherwise, be sure to pay whatever agent-service the entry point is using. One here for Bangkok airports: ... so just add that figure to your budget, if you need to fly in to Bangkok. May be easier to just deal with annual extensions. -
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Trump Harris: Who won the debate ?
So you think there is a reasonable probability that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, based on the following evidence..... -
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Restore lost Yellow Book
Did they make you go to Tourist Police and put your fingerprints on a record? Or they just scammed me?) No I wasn't put last because of nationality, just because I didn't understand the system. And btw 3 more thais were in line after me. 1st time I've had to wait after fingerprints maybe 1-2 months. But at Amphoe everything was rather fast. -
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The debate thread.
I believe the debates are only held through news organizations, so that's a no. -
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US House Foreign Affairs Committee Report on the Afghanistan Withdrawal
The House Republicans have their unfailingly partisan political opinion for what transpired. The U.S. government's Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction had a different opinion: Inspector General Blames Trump’s Taliban Deal for Afghan Collapse Although the report criticized the Trump administration’s deal with the Taliban, it also highlighted severe structural deficiencies in the Afghan security forces. May 19, 2022 "The Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the task force assigned to review U.S. spending in Afghanistan, said in its quarterly report that it believes the abrupt collapse of the U.S.-backed Afghan government was in large part due to the deal the Trump administration made with the Taliban in February 2020. [emphasis added] The report, which was released on Wednesday, argued that the deal had been the “single most important near-term factor” explaining the Afghan security forces’ disintegration during the Taliban’s offensive in the summer of 2021. It described the impending departure of U.S. forces as a “catalyst” that intensified Afghan forces’ existing problems, including persistent low morale and a perception that the government’s defeat was inevitable. Gen. Sami Sadat, a former Afghan National Army (ANA) general interviewed by SIGAR investigators, claimed that the signing of the deal—in which American negotiators promised that U.S. troops would withdraw from the country by May 2021—had an outsized “psychological impact” on “the average Afghan soldier,” motivating them to enter “survival mode and bec[ome] susceptible to accepting other officers and deals.” (more) https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/inspector-general-blames-trump’s-taliban-deal-afghan-collapse-202534
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