Anonymous participant some immigration offices don’t ask for tm30 (Samui for example), or you can show up with the old one and play dumb farang. It’s not like they’re super strict about that. Or check in some cheap hotel nearby for 1 night and get tm30 from them

You don’t need tm7, if the agent tells you that, go find another agent. That person is complete and unabridged idiot

@Sefton *******

if the local immigration officers don’t want tm47, so be it. They are the ones who might potentially fine you for the lack of it, no one else cares

HCMC immigration lines: very surprising. I had to fly to Hanoi a couple of times in the recent months and never spent more than 10 min in the line

@Jj ***

US visas are piece of cake compared to Schengen ones. Speaking of "their rules" - in my experience about a third of Thai-produced papers I get have serious typos and still get mai-pen-rai'ed through. Most recent examples: a school letter required to transfer Non-ED and -O had my name prefixed with "Mrs" and my daughter's name misspelled - the school refused to re-do the letter and was absolutely right as the immigration couldn't care less and accepted the letter as is; another one is a building ownership title from the land office: for some unknown reason they dropped the mooban number from the address, making it ambiguous (we have 4 moobans in our tambon) - the lawyer says it's obviously wrong, but as long as the paper was issued by the land office itself, it's sort of ok

Just go to Thailand on visa-exempt and re-enter after once your DTV is ready

The only good thing about condos is foreign freehold. Maybe there’s one out there not in ruins after 5-10y and the managing company still doing great job, but it’s very rare

@Michael ******

it is their bank. All Thai banks charge ~500 baht fee on incoming international transfers

@Wannikea ********

not at all, in my experience - depends on the country. F.e. US visas are usually valid for 3y, could be way past the passport’s expiration date, while Schengen ones are usually issued with the expiration date not exceeding the passport’s

@Urs *******

quite often they issue visas with expiration date aligned with the passport one, but it’s not always the case