Once all the lawsuits start the business will simply go bankrupt and it’ll be a rotten deserted shell like every other project this has happened to.

Pretty sure you won’t get any money back so I think I’d just cut my losses but good luck, I’ve seen this happen too many times in Thailand. However I’m pretty sure lawyers will be falling over themselves to help, with guarantees you’ll win your case- which you will, but there will be no money left to pay you anyway.

I’ve done it myself, they wouldn’t give me the refund when I tried the next time I left Thailand (and was still within the correct time window)

Despite all the obvious and correct replies above, about 15 years ago I managed to send my UK passport along with my clothes to the laundry in Thailand.

It came back having gone through a full cycle and was looking extremely worse for wear with most of the stamps smudged.

I actually continued to travel extensively with that passport, every time I went through a border control I was of course challenged about it but I was polite and just told them it had been washed by accident. It was often met with bemusement.

I was never turned away from anywhere in what must have been 20+ passport controls over years.

I’ll add a disclaimer that I have a second passport so the ‘pressure was off’ as I could have pulled out another passport if denied entry. I purposely tried to use it to avoid filling up my ‘good’ passport.

Of course it should be replaced.

But, with the above in mind I wouldn’t be panicking too much about getting home and going through the motions to replace.

(Might he country dependant, and border guards may have become much more strict).

Just my experience.

Great until you have an issue then good luck 👍

Hi everyone I’d like advice but will refuse to listen to any of it unless it matches my distorted view of reality.

Good luck. 👍😂