@Jay ******

If you are UK, it used to be the Post Office, now it's selected Paypoint shops. You are supposed to tell them which country you need it for: there are 3 treaties. Post Office masters/mistresses had a card from the Post Office telling them, updated once a year. I suppose Paypoint shopkeepers normally selling booze and ciggies are even less trained. If you got it from somewhere else, like online, it's fake and you were scammed.

@Jay ******

You were given the wrong one. The 1948 convention IDP is 12 months. Thailand went to the 1968 convention 2 years ago. 1968 convention IDPs are 3 years or the expiry of your UK Photo card, whichever comes first.

@Janelle ****

ok, I will take your word for it that you have a medical condition thst requires traveling from Taiwan to Thailand for essential treatment. Prescriptions though do not normally need visits to hospitals. Taiwan has pharmacies as well.

You know what the problem is so obviously no need to ask a group.

@Janelle ****

You responding to me with that stupid suggestion. I suggested it's not up to them to conduct detective work to validate your alleged medical needs and alleged booked medical treatments. You have to provide the proof through a notary. Somewhat curious what medical treatment in Thailand is not available in the Republic of China. Or is this a ruse to lie on a beach?

@Janelle ****

That's not their job. The onus is on you. Visas are a privilege not a right

Thailand allows you to bring 30 days of prescribed medicine. You might need an import licence, especially if opiate based

Ashes is a euphemism. It's ground up bones that have been through a cremulator. These aren't commonly found in Thailand. Typically things like long bones, vertebrae, bits of skull, will still be quite visible afterwards. It's the relatives who collect the bits for an urn, not undertakers. If you want a box of ashes to be sent to Australia it's quite possible that it's a shoe box full of dirt. I helped my wife transfer the remains of her parents and brothers (the temple was expanding, and they needed to clear the cemetery. She kept referring to bones. I thought this was a mistranslation. But, yeah, there were a lot of bones being fished out of urns and sacks.

Spend 5 years learning how to stir fry

@Us ****

Do you think they are coming to become Americans, or just yo get a job, make a bit of money, eventually bugger off. Immigrants or expats?

@Us ****

Parts of Mississipi are pretty grim, people living in tin shacks.