@Kenny ****

if you port to Google voice before you leave the US, while you still have a US cell number, it may work, mine has worked for five years with most banks. I did lose my Venmo recently. However, capital one denied me a new account because it wasn’t a real US cell. Do not tell anyone you’re doing this, or they may cancel your account. Some banks or credit cards can send the OTP to any number that you can receive, others know that it is a VoIP, etc.,, and require a genuine mobile number in any country. Still others, like my capital, one, require an active cell number in the United States. So the answer is it depends.

@Peter *******

some countries need the IDP from some other countries in order to drive there. It can be a matter of a non-Roman alphabet, like if your license is in Arabic or Chinese, but also, I just went to Poland and couldn’t drive because I didn’t have an IDP. It turns out the US didn’t sign the 1949 convention or something, and although IDPs from the US are available by mail now, it’s a lengthy process, and I didn’t have time. I actually have a Thai IDP, but forgot to bring it.

You can be sure if they ever get things sorted, easy parking and train at the door, they will move immigration farther away.

@Kool ******

they passed a law in 2019 that you don’t need a new TM30 if you return to the same home if if you left the country. Immigration offices varied if following this. Now Bangkok has connected the TM30 and 90 day reporting systems, so you need a new TM30 every time you either 1)stay at a hotel that does a TM30 or 2)leave Thailand and return

@Jeroen **********

iglu.net

@Nongnuch *******

glad you got it sorted!

@Cory *********

might need to go to airport where the wrong stamp was done. Have reentry permit?

@Deanna ******

you can open an account at the state department credit union, then deposit your check on the app. They alloe us expats to open accounts. I did it. DM me if needed.

@Mike ********

if she is going to access the the 30 Baht , or Social Security Thai national health schemes, she may want to get permission from your landlord, and be put on the house book at the condo where you guys usually live. Otherwise, she would be registered at a hospital near the hospital location, not your actual location.

@Christopher **********

that is exactly it, except for maybe Ireland. US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada have the five eyes treaty. It started for terrorism, but now they share their immigration screen. If you are rejected at one, you will probably be rejected at all of them, especially for tourist visas. To answer the OP’s original question, are usually goes like this, you submit a long and difficult application, what a year for an interview, and they throw you out. I visited the trendy building in Bangkok, we’re Thai people apply for a Schengen visa, and also the US consulate. US consulate is full of supplicants begging for visas which they will not get and the trendy building is full of applicants, who probably will if I get a visa if they meet the requirements.