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    Kudos to the posters for some excellent info. My experience is rather dated at this point, but for what it's worth:

     

    You might have better luck, for Americans at least, at the consulate in Chiang Mai, being a little further from the party zone, though I suppose you'd have to justify being there somehow.

     

    We had a joint bank account with a decent sum in it for a while, which seemed to make a difference.

     

    My GF had traveled within Asia, and her "experienced" passport might have helped us as well.

     

    Like the original poster, we also made a point of appearing comfortable as a couple. We made sure that the interviewer understood that I spoke Thai, as well as her speaking English.

     

    She made it perfectly clear to the interviewer that she was a proud middle-class Thai, and had very little interest in the U.S. beyond tourism. I suppose they hear that all the time, but she was like "you've got to be kidding - why wouldn't I want to come home?".

     

    A pair of glasses and the right clothes won't hurt.

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    HIV should not be too much of a worry if you cover up, and I hope we all do. Not that condoms don't break. . . I know a lot of folks (most?) do oral bareback, which, according to the studies, has a very low incidence of HIV transfer. But it DOES have a high rate of transfer for all the other nasties. I can't speak for anyone else, but if I show up back home with a STD, the death will be quicker but more painful than HIV, if you get my drift. Does anyone else cover up for oral?

     

    Side note, and I think I posted this somewhere else here - if you're in the provinces and take Doxycyclene as an anti-malarial, that *may* provide some protection against STDs other than HIV. But I'm no doctor, so do your own research on that.

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