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I had the same issue so just did it in Thai. The province pull down worked, but district and sub district did not. Though the pull down when done in Thai has both the Thai and English. On the main page the address shows in English even though I selected things in Thai. Except that I typed the street in Thai so that shows in Thai.

This was relatively painless to sign up for. The only issue is the pulldowns for the district and subdistrict didn't fill when done in English. Province worked just fine, but the others wouldn't trigger in English even with just single letters. So I just did the address in Thai. But afterwards it shows the address in English for the places that were pulldowns. The street in in Thai since that is manually typed. It seems to be a 2 step process. Set up what is probably a user account. That login info came almost instantly. Then go back to your Profile and add any addresses that you're responsible for. I think this cuts out massive amounts of logins since the old system required identifying as the owner, manager, tenant, etc. So I think a property manager had to register each place with a separate login. At minimum, if they managed, rented, and owned different locations, those would be separate logins. A renter now seems to be able to keep the same account, then add any new places they rent, and can delete the old. Same for owners, who may also be renters or own more than one place. Just add any addresses regardless of who you are relative to that address. I could be wrong about that, but I recall the registration being address specific, rather than person/entity specific before. They didn't ask for the title document for my condo, only the house book and id/passport. They should probably add a check box for each address where you specify that you are the landlord, property manager, renter, etc.

Soi 13 has one somewhat close to Sukhumvit either in a barber shop or near it, and another farther back in a shopping center that has an Indian restaurant in front. Soi 19 has one on the left maybe 200 meters in, then another on the alley about 350 meters in, that runs from Asoke through to Soi 15. That one is next to a coin laundromat. Not sure of prices, The one on the alley off Soi 19 offers ironing, but not sure about the others. Paid maybe 350 baht for maybe 4 or 5 shirts and probably 3 shorts ironed. I think was by the kilo, but could have been by piece.

I registered as an owner via the website from the USA and no VPN. It gave an error saying there already was a registration. So after I arrived in Thailand maybe a week to 3 weeks after I had tried, I asked the management company to do a TM30 for me, and they were able to register as some other category. (It is a rental.) They received an account in a day, I believe. Then a day or two after they did my TM30, I got an email saying my account was approved. I don't know if the website had double submitted it, and I was seeing the response to the second submission. But it did take mine much longer to approve than the management company's. No idea why as I had in person submitted a TM30 2 years prior and nothing had changed in the information.

I've used Keepass for a while. Completely offline. You can create a key file separate from the data file, so both of those plus the password are needed to access the passwords. KeePass Password Safe There are mobile versions so that the database file (and any key file) can be copied to a phone and used there as well. That is a drawback versus the web based ones such as Lastpass since you have to keep the file updated on all devices manually. But I don't trust web based versions. I used to use password safe that someone mentioned above, but I think keepass worked better for use on PC and phone back when I switched.

Back on my first passport when I had almost no trips, it seemed like they would stamp a bit spaced out. Both in terms of doing different pages, and also putting stamps in the middle of the page versus say top left corner. So it was one country per page for a few countries. And not chronological order or on consecutive pages. Which I thought was them trying to make people fell like they had more stamps in their passport. As soon as I started getting more stamps, they generally started more neatly doing top to bottom and trying to get as many as possible on each page and trying to do consecutive pages. Once in a while someone will pick a weird spot.

It has said this for about 2 years. Maybe more. I only started looking at the IATA info to be sure the requirements they had were consistently worded with other sources during the pandemic. Since it is the only place I've seen it, I wouldn't rely on it. However, if someone planned to not carry much cash, printing it out might help someone talk an officer into accepting it. Plead that they thought those were the requirements. I carry extra cash, even if I don't plan on exchanging it, just in case.

The IATA website now says the following, which is the only place I've seen credit cards mentioned. I have never been asked in about 40 arrivals and never seen anyone asked to show funds: IATA - Thailand Passport, Visa and Health Advice (iatatravelcentre.com)

I left at midnight last Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and the security and immigration lines were the longest I've ever seen. The entire security screening cue area upstairs was full. Then downstairs, both sides in immigration for foreign passports were full, and they had the lines for Thai passports going under the stairs in the center. Those were fairly short. But both areas kept moving fairly well. Seemed to keep up with the people coming in. I arrived early and got through in about 1 1/2 hours including the time had I gone straight to the gate. They started check in 3 hours ahead of the departure time and I was near the front of that line since I had arrived over 3 1/2 hours before departure. Based on time data on pictures I took of my boarding passes and after getting into the airside area right after immigration, it took under 45 minutes to get through after getting my boarding pass. So a bit over an hour total from my starting point at check in. I had done online/mobile check in, which was a much shorter line. If I had arrived later, probably would have gotten through in under 2 hours. Though would have been stressful given there is also the distance to the gate. I did see several people running to their planes, which I don't recall seeing before. One group heard final boarding for their flight and had to literally run instead of just hurrying.

There is a way to get a PIN online if someone runs into this in the future. Requires having an IRS account, which may or may not be easy to obtain outside of the US. Get An Identity Protection PIN | Internal Revenue Service (irs.gov)

Venmo is US only.

I think you are right about the dollars being the trigger. All US dollar SWIFT transfers go through NY. So there is no way around the US' "know your customer" laws. I have a US based crypto account and they just asked for my tax information all over again. Literally had prefilled the fields on the website for me since they had the info and I checked the box certifying it was my info and submitted. All my bank accounts and brokerage are constantly asking me to update my income. Started about 2 years ago. So somewhere in those massive bills passed the last couple years had to have increased requirements.

Simply taking a test upon arrival depends upon being able to board the plane to begin with. The airline will be allowing or denying boarding going by the way the regulation is worded, and that may be a problem right now. Right now, the IATA website says: There is no longer any specific mention of unvaccinated. So unless this changes, the airlines will most likely not allow unvaccinated to board. There used to be an additional section saying that unvaccinated passengers must have a PCR or Professional rapid test within 72 hours prior to boarding. Now there is no additional section on unvaccinated at all. It should say unvaccinated passengers are allowed, but are subject to test upon arrival. Then there will be no confusion. Certain airlines are much more meticulous than others. Someone will have to

I'm not at the pool. I'm in a quarantine room so wouldn't be using the pool. Their english is not so great at the front desk. One time I called to ask if I could choose from different items for meals, since the flyer said that. After a lot of going back and forth she finally understood and said no. If I wanted different things then the only option was ordering room service after. Then someone showed up at my room with a toothbrush saying that I had requested one. So even though she did understand at the end, apparently she thought I had also requested a toothbrush. My main goal was to find out if restrictions for the area had been changed, which happened when I was in quarantine last year. Seems like maybe in Bangkok that happened. Like a shut down of unofficially opened places.

I used to, but then realized there's no changing minds. Also some people have a whole lot of time on their hands to be posting, where I'd rather do other things. Like right now I would not be on here other than I'm in quarantine.