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your recent travel experiences (or future plans for) flying US east coast to Thailand to Chiang Mai
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DTV visa extension
The "elite visa" is via a private company, who pay off immigration with part of the money. The annual extensions should be scrapped - ideally, would be like an online 90-day report, and electronically pay the fee. In Laos/Cambodia, it's ~$350-USD / year - a bit more if under retirement-age - no hoops except the money, which also proves you are not destitute. -
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Surat-Bangkok Flight Runs Out of Liquor, Passengers Finish Alcohol Worth 70,000 Baht
Exactly what I was wondering. I think that if they had charged in-flight alcohol prices, there'd be plenty of instances of 3 men sharing 1 gin, and asking for a discount because they brought their own cup. -
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DTV visa extension
Yes, the purpose was getting people who were spending their money in other countries, where immigration do not hassle people on tourist-entries, to stay in Thailand, instead. Why else make it 5 years for "soft power" options? Why push them out to spend their money in Cambodia, instead of Thailand? Add "e-gate" entry, and Immigration will be cut out of the loop (to their consternation - no agent-money with "pre-screened" / "vip" entry). The money-rules are silly, when dealing with people who have no reason to work illegally for a tiny-fraction of the min-wage in their home country, and have no access to Thai welfare in any form. "Running out of money" is a self-correcting problem. The rare oddball who is caught sleeping rough can easily be rounded-up and deported - one case among tens of thousands. Those money-rules only exist to create agent-business. -
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Photo via Facebook/ Phuket Times ภูเก็ตไทม์ Dutch tourist allegedly escapes bills and steals from many Phuket hotels By Petch Petpailin A Dutch tourist reportedly evaded paying bills and stole room keys, along with other items, from several hotels in Phuket but remains at large. Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1346970-dutch-tourist-allegedly-escapes-bills-and-steals-from-many-phuket-hotels/ -
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Drunken drama: Russian hospitalised after Bangla brawl
send him back to puti. he will take care of him -
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Are we really better than the Russians, Indians, Arabs and Chinese in the eyes of Thais?
NO because many "western" expats are cheapscates -
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DTV visa extension
They can "legally deny" - yes - but that isn't what they are doing. "Staying here too much" on tourist-entries is not a legal reason to deny entry, which is why they then stamp a different false-reason in the passport, to cover their tracks. If there is any doubt as to the motivating-reason for this behavior, note they have agent-services lined-up to cash in on what they are doing. Annual-extensions are similar - see the agent, and the "problems" go away. As long as folks don't mistakenly think immigration are "just doing their job," then they can budget and plan to deal with the real-world situation, and stay here with few problems. Being naive, and believing "following the law" is enough, and things can end badly. -
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