@Leo ******

For me it’s the x hundredth time I’ve heard it. Also my insurance broker asked me about my license and told me that IDL will invalidate any cover.

@Johnny ********

Then why are you talking about locked phones?

That’s like a blind man talking about color.

@Johnny ********

You’re just too dumb to recognize the problem.

A locked phone can’t be used with another provider.

That’s the same for you fandroid boy.

@Stuart **********

Doesn’t your phone support eSIM?

Very probably not all services will accept a foreign (Thai) phone number.

Your iPhone can handle one SIM and 8 (or more?) eSIMs.

You can either keep a separate cheap phone for the SMS from the banks and others, or get your uk (or the Thai) number as eSIM.

If you go for a cheap phone:

- it can be a PIA to keep it charged

- it can be a PIA to have to start it before receiving a code

- if it’s too old it cannot do WiFi calling

Been there ;)

WiFi calling isn’t well known.

When turned on, and you’re in WiFi, your phone behaves as if it was in the providers country. I use that to call Swiss companies and government without roaming charges.

@Ronald ****

How can it not be approved?

If you come with a visa for retirement from the EVisa site then it’s the right way to do it.

If you misunderstood the visa exemption as having a visa, then no.

You may be lucky, but chances are that the airline will not let you checkin if you don’t have a proper visa matching you ticket.

@Andrew *******

A visa is used to enter the country. Once you enter, a visa is used(!) and you get a stamp saying how long you’re allowed to stay(!).

That’s also the reason why it’s call extension of stay and not extension of visa.

So if you don’t get a visa before entering, you don’t have one and you will not get one. You get a permit for staying in the country. That’s what the stamp is for.

I’m not a native English speaker, but I wonder that you don’t understand what an exemption is.

What I forgot to mention is the wise debit card that I use to pay a lot of goods without any fees in most places like BigC, ptt etc

To get to the truth you must spit the transfer with wise into exchange and transfer.

Idk about your case, but I transfer my currency to wise without any fees.

Then I convert to THB (after waiting for a good exchange rate!).

Then I send THB to my this bank for 44.76 baht per transaction.

No to the conversion: Wise uses interbank rates which is lots better than all the banks. You can see that rate in their web page.

And you should find the bank’s “cash rate” on their homepage - which is better than the “exchange rate” used when transferring money.

You will probably see that you get 1.5-2.5 better rates from wise.

This link shows you what you get when you sell/buy your cash to kasikorn, which will give you 329,451.60 baht right now for 10k USD. When sending money you get less.

The screenshot shows you what you get from wise right now.