@Shane ****

they will. The purpose is security screening. They already do it based on the airlines providing ticketed information before you depart. They will extend that to everyone having to do a simple online authorisation before a ticket is issued.

Honestly as long as they keep it relatively simple and on line no big deal. Don’t know why people get all twisted about it. Don’t like it? Don’t travel

It’s just not worth screwing around with. Park the 800k and forget it until you change visa.

@Немања *********

most of them get misused.

Get a visa and overstay

Get a marriage visa on a marriage of convenience

Get a retirement visa and lie about income

Get a employee or business visa from a dodgy nominee company

Thai is second only to the US in unnecessarily complicated and messy visa procedures. The bureaucracy to support them must be enormous. To make it worse, every time they improve it they just make it more complicated and messy

Why on earth would you enter Thailand on a US passport? Or enter Laos with same when you have a Thai passport. Don’t.

But enjoy paying US taxes for the rest of your life.

It’s Thursday. Must be time to change the rules

Redo all your registered phone numbers to your new Thai number

@Wayne *******

yes but not the Chinese variety. Japanese seasoning sake is specifically for sushi rice. Chinese cooking wine is the similar to Jerez sherry. Much stronger

In my experience not much used in Thai cooking except for the occasional dish of Chinese or Chinese adjacent origin (like moo pa low)

@Marty ********

they will not automatically sign you up