markdav13s

Hi, 

I am travelling this weekend to savannakhet to renew my visa. I would just like to know if it is still ok for my wife to join me using her ID card.

I know it was possible in the past, but would like to know if anything has changed since COVID. 

Thanks

3 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Yes

 

 

Thank you.

So this has to be done on the same day as the work permit is cancelled and not before. 

Is it possible to change the reason for the extension from employment to marriage?

Thanks for your speedy response.

I enetered the country 12 years ago on a multiple entry non O visa. 

Hi all, 

I am currently in the middle of resigning from my current employer, and would like some advice from anyone who is clued up on the current visa laws.

I am currently on an extension of stayn and will be cancelling my work permit at the end of the month. Once the work permit and visa are cancelled I will apply for the 7 days extension. Is it possible to get the covid visa as that has now been extended till mid March?

Once I get the 7 days extension can I then start the process of changing to a marriage or child dependency visa or do I need to leave the country?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

http://th-stat.com/

This is an app that a Thai friend passed on to me. Seems to be accurate (according to gov released data) and easy to follow. 

The app mentioned in this post gives similar figures but is a bit of a mess IMHO.

Hope it's useful for someone.

I got the visa and work permit through the agency, if I go the immigration can the immigration backdate the cancellation of the visa to the last day I worked for them, or what will happen if the agency has cancelled the visa without me knowing? And I should have left the country back then, and they have been stalling me. There is nothing I wouldnt put past this agency I work for. Thanks for your replies before. Any advice is welcomed as im starting to get worried.

HI, I have been working for an agency here in Thailand in a school. However I was very unhappy with the conditions that I was working in, so I left the job. Since then I have been in contact with the agency asking what I need to do next and I keep speaking to different people. I want to know if my work permit has been cancelled so I can go and do a visa run, but noone gives me a straight answer. Now this has gone on for two months and I'm getting worried that they may have cancelled it and I dont know. Then last week I spoke with the head woman at the agency and she says that she has started all the paperwok to cancel the visa and workpermit, but she needs me to go to the visa and work permit office with her when she is ready sometime this month. I just want to leave the country and get a new visa, but the visa run opperator says I need a letter saying that my permit and visa has been cancelled, is there any way that I can just go to the border and do the run without this letter. I am worried that if I go to the office with the owner of the agency that she will screw me over for something or the cancellation of the visa will be backdated or worse the documents have already been cancelled which means I'm here illegally, please can someone give me some advice.

It has just been on the news this morning and my wife is saying that the news is reporting that the 16 year old girl that was driving the car was alone. and the superstar was killed in the van. even though the two girls were in the pictures.

Can anyone confirm this is true. or has the cover-up begun.

Two things:

Seat belts

Law-enforcement

I use these vans daily, and they are so scary. the drivers don't give give two hoots about the people they are ferrying. quite often they will start cutting each other up at very high speeds. the drivers are supposed to be licensed for the vans but most of the time its a different picture than the actual driver. when they start being maniacs I will tell him to stop and get out and refuse to pay him as he is an idiot putting my life in danger. The Thais, However will just sit there and not say anything, as their face value is worth more thatn their life value.

On the seat belts, about 99% of the vans I have been in have cut out the seat belts. the the lock is still there but the part that wraps around you and locks you in is missing. Try to find it !!! where its supposed to start there is a little bit there and you can see that they have used a knife to cut the rest off. So we don't get a choice to wear a seat belt or not.

Hello I had a trip planned to go to Lao tomorrow as my visa extension is expired next week. all is planned and I am ready to go.However, I was talking with a guy from the agency I work at and he said why am I going to Lao just go to the border in cambodia ( arunya parret) and they will stamp me 90 days. even though my B visa extension is expired next week. Is this true can I get 90 days on the border? I ask because I read that they only issue 14 days at the borders. Another thing is my visa was for a school I taught at which I left over a month ago so I am just a bit worried about getting fined for overstay 500 Baht per day. My work permit hasn't been cancelled. but this guy said that the overstay is only 200 Baht. Can someone please advise me if what he is saying is true, as I am now not sure.Thanks

My visa extension is for 6 months based on my employment. The scholl hasnt asked for my work permit back yet. will the immigration know that I have finished my employment.

can ayone please advise me on what to do now and what visa can I get to tie me over until my next job kiks in.

I am married to a Thai and have children here. can I get a visa based on that?

Hello, I hope there is someone that can help me.

I have a B visa extension and a work permit to work at my school. the work pemit was valid until 20th november and the visa till the 17th decmber. I went to do my 90 day report and they didnt give me the 90 days as they will only stamp up until the date of the work permit. Now the term has ended and with a few problems from my school they do not want to renew my contract, however I have found a new job and a friend told me if I dont go back to the same school I have 7 days to do a new visa run after leaving a job as the visa and work permit become invalid.

Is this true? as I didnt know this until today and my new job wont do a visa for me until next month when I start, and I have gone over the seven days.

Can someone please advise me on what I need to do.

Thanks in advance

Hi, My driving licence from the uk has expired and I would like to know how I can renew it from here. its not the main date that has expired but i think the one for the photograph, is there a way I can do it through the embassy or does in need to be done back home, also is there a time limit for when it needs to be done as I have no plans to return in the imediate future, but when I do return I will need it for my work and it will be a pain to return send it off and wait before I can start work.

any info appreciated

I am in one of the lucky selected towns with the 3g HSDPA 7mb/s is on trail.

it is a service through AIS and is advertised as 7 mbs when I bought it I asked the lady and called Ais to confirm that I will actually get 7 Mbs and they said they will Guarentee at leats 5mbs to which I said well why advertise 7 if noones going to get that.

I still went ahead and bought it as it still seemed to be a good deal at 499 baht for the first 6 months then up to 599 baht for an UNLIMITED service.

got it home and speed tested it and everyday ive had it and the best speed best speed i got was 3 Mbs and most of the time it was 2 Mbs. but still thought it was a good deal as I was paying TOT 700 baht for 4Mbs connection.

After about 2 weeks my internet slowed right down and everytime i did a speed test it showed up as 256 connection so I called up Ais thinking there was a problem.

but guess what, Their so called unlimited service is unlimited until you have downloaded 4 giggs( which is hardly anything) then they slow your connection down to 256 Kbs connection speed until your next month comes up.

When I was with TOT I was paying for an unlimited service and I always got that.

So if there is anybody that are heavy downloaders dont bother with the HSDPA 3G. I dont download movies or anything I am a Teacher and just download worksheets for my students and the 4Gb was soon used up.

The words UNLIMITED mean nothing over here.

oh now i see. so at the embassy im not registering his birth but registering him as a british citizen.

but can someone tell me about the id card of the mother as i am sole guardian and the mother will never give me a copy of the idcard with her signature on, also are there any topics already on the forum about what needs to be done to apply for the registration and passport like translations and things.and do I need Biometric photos if so where do i get them done?

thanks

Thanks for the reply but I dont understand why they say I dont need to register. but others say I do.

"

Registering a birth

If your child is born outside the UK you can register the birth with the nearest consulate or with our consular department in London if you've returned to the UK. You don't have to do this, but if you do your child will be given a British style birth certificate and the birth will be registered at the general register office in the UK. This is called Consular birth registration

Consular birth registrations are not required to register your child as a British citizen or to apply for a British passport as British nationality is passed from parent to child. Your child will need to have an automatic claim to British nationality in order to register their birth in this way.

Please refer to the Home Office for more information on British nationality

We recommend consular birth registration because it means you'll be able to get extra copies of the consular certificate from the General Register Office in the future."

I am sure this question has been asked before but i have searched the forum and can find what I want.

I have got my son a Thai passport using the form por kor 14 ( sole guardian) no problems

I then went to the brittish embassy to get his brittish passport and they say I need a copy of my ex wifes idcard signed even though I have sole custody and there is no chance of getting a copy of her idcard. Is there a way around this?

also they said that i need to register the birth before I can apply for a passport which is more expense. i have looked at other websites and even the foreign and commonwealth office and the Brittish embassy in bangkok websites state that its not compulsary to register the birth. Its not a problem to register but i just want to get his passport quickly and funds are a bit tight at the moment. can I get his passport without registering the birth and if I can can I register the birth later?

Also does anybody know any other links on this site about the steps to take to apply for the passport, things i need to do.

Thanks

Things get worse by the day. Ch7 have broadcast our appearence on friday in phi mai police station, There was well over an hour of video footage and and they only decided to a bad bit , they have not even asked for my sise of the story they just went ahead and broadcast a story that I had kidnapped my son from her, They dont know anything about the situation or the past history, but they just go ahead and allow the ex wife to voice her view and and now the whole nation is looking to me and my new wife as the bad people in this and not the way we should be looked at. I now go to school and every person is looking at me as a person that is no good, why is these people so small minded, they listen to something and believe every word of it. Is there a complaints department for ch7 or is does anybody think I should contact them and give my side of the story or just let it go until after the trail. I just hope that what she has done doesnt affect the court outcome, also are they allowed to show thing on national news while there is a court case pending?

Thanks for the replies again Mickeyidea and mario2008,

yesterday I was at school and I recieved a phonecall from my new wife saying that two women had taken my son.

I raced home to find my wife on the door step crying her eyes out. she told me what happened.

There has been one of our neighbours (recently moved here) calling us to teach her daughter english so she said she will come and pay the money. she came to the house so my wife oppened the door to talk with her, at this time my son was sleeping. while my wife was talking with this woman she said she needed to check with her boyfriend on the phone. so she phoned someone and then two women came running around the corner one pinned my heavily pregnant wife to the ground and the other went inside and snatched my son. I am possitive that the lady coming to pay the money was in on it.

when she told me this i raced away on my bike to catch up with them as they left in a taxi. my wife called the police who werent interested so she then called a friend of hers and that friend called her friend who is the chief of police in another city. that police got police stopps set up and when i reached Phimai I got a call saying they had been stopped and were being held in phimai police station. so i went there. when i arrived there was channel7 there with video cameras I walked in and saw the sister of my exwife holding my son and he was screaming. I walked over to her and grabbed hold of my son and then onother sister came running ove and started punching me in the back of the head while the other was pulling on my sons leggs telling me to release their nephew. the police then came rushing over and demanded i give my son to the police officer whi I kept saying in a ster voice MAI (no) then the mother and grandmother came over and the police were saying its her son she gave birth to him give him to her. I said I have papers to say I am his guardian, but they were determined to give him to her.i said wait for my lawyer to arive.

After a while the ex wifes lawyer came and the police didnt want to wait for my lawyer they kept saying "you come" and I kept saying no.

After the lawyer came they sat down and talked and they wanted to keep him for a few day to which i said no as she is dangerous for him. shes already been to the hospital and removed his drip and now shes taken him without caring that he needs his medication ( he was diagnosed as having epilepsy while he was at hospital after lots of previous tests)

the lawyer then asked me to take him to the bangkok hospital with them for a proper doctor to examin him (proper doctor) and they will pay for all expense, I said ok. so the ex and sisters got in a taxi and left to wait in korat. my lawyer then said if i go she will have the doctors admit him and it will be difficult to get him out. so i took him home. My lawyer has advise me to not return to my homeand maybe leave korat so i am staying at a friends, to scared to send him to school even.

My wife has been to the police to make a report and guess what they dont want to do one, so she and her friend screamed the place down and called the chief police agian just to get it done, I cant press charges against the sisters as the police say that the ex's sisters and mother have every right to snatch him, which isnt true, but what can we do. even the police are uneducated.

hi everyone.

lost wanted to post an update on recent events.

I went to the social services department a week last friday and all seemed to go well she asked me lots of questions but only based on what the ex had told her, I would liked to have given her more of the story but I wasnt given the opportunity.

the following monday I was due in the courts for the firdt time but my lawyer told me not to go as its only for negotiations, after this was over the lawyer called and give us a date for the trial. and he said it will all be dealt with on that day. also he said that he has contacted the social services department and they will submit a report recomending that he will be better off staying with me. How much weight does this report hold? also is the court process only a day?

The next day the mother turned up at the school where my son is at and tried to snatch him but luckily the school is aware of the sittuation and waited for me to arrive. when i arrived i kept calm and there was no end of abuse thrown at me lots of foul language was given to me and my new partener in Thai and english. it was terrible, there were other parents and children there to listen to this even my son, I know he is still young but he is at the age where he picks everything up even if its said once. And guess what when he returned home he repeated a word that he had heared that day "f&^K" only once. when my ex and her mother realised they werent getting anywhere they left, but not before they expressed how bad the school and the food was for my son to other teachers.she also told me how soon I will die. All was recorded on video but not very clear as there was a lot of crying kids .

on Monday this week my son went to school and the calss played outside in the playground for a few hours, and the next day he got a fever at school which caused gim to have a seizure. the school contacted me and they rushed him to the hospital wher I quickly followed. he stayed at the hospital overnight and the next morning the school contacted me and my new partener to tell us that the ex had contacted the school to find out what happened and where he was, this is such a small town any thing happens it get back to her straight away. I was on my way back to the hospital when i got a call from my partener saying the ex had come.

I arrived in the hospital to find my sons hands and shirt covered in blood. My new partener said to me that she and my son were in the room sleeping when they turned up and the ex and her mother startaed giving her lots of abuse so she left the room to call for a nurse. while she was talikng to the nurse she saw the ex and her mother walking down the corridor with my son with blood coming out of his arm where they ( NOT A NURSE) had removed his drip. The nurses and security stopped them from taking him from the hospital.

When i arrived i was given again abuse that i dont take care of him well and he is always sick. I demanded to know who removed his medication and she said she was taking him to the bankok hospital 3 hours away. I called a nurse in and asked who removed the drip and they said they didnt know but the ex and her mother were the only ones in the room. The police were called and yet again they didnt want to get involved. i wanted to make a report at the police station and the lazy cops didnt want to saying that its the mother who should be taking care of him not me even though I have sole custody. and we are in the process of going to court. to which they said to my parter we cant win as she is thai and i am not and she is his mother. Then my partener rared up at them saying she will have the lawyer her soon we just want to make a report not their advice. eventually we got a report.

also while I was at the hospital she brought along two guys That she thought could help her take him from me but they were so drunk that they couldnt walk straight let alone confront me, the police did ask who they were and the grandmother said they were family members wanting to visit my son, which I know the boys from my old vilage and I know they arent family just local Idiots. Once again all was caught on video.

Also while at the hospital I said to the ex to go and and wait for the courts decision and she said she has given somethin and has won already before we have attended court, can someone tell me, are these judges corrupted or is she just mouthing off, as its not going to be a fair courtcase if she has done that.

thanks everyone,

its not a scooter its an R6 and I know Its only a bike but its the thought of her getting something else from me. shes had everything else.

and yes my son is far more important. and just wanted to know if because we passed everything to our son and I am his guardian. do I keep hold of it for him, eventhough hes far too young to go on it.

You're using an R6 for grocery shopping? And it's your only form of transport? So that means you're taking your 2 year old around on an R6? Wow... Can afford an R6 but not a car (or taxi)? Rather amazing your ex-wife didn't get custody. Poor kid

Yes Bigbikebkk I do use my bike for grocery shopping, and I also use it to comute to my work which is 60 km away. I used to have a car and scooters but they all got financed (by the ex) and reposessed or taken away (by the ex) when we got divorced The only thing I walked away with is my bike, and now my son after he was clearly neglected by my wife who was supposed to be taking care of him.

You say I can afford an R6 but not a car, please read the original post, I HAD A CAR, I now dont have the finances to buy a new on nor want one.

You say " so that means that youre taking your 2 year old around on an R6" maybe you want to try getting out of Bangkok and realise that there are other modes of transport in the sticks, My son has never and will never get on a motor bike or a scooter with me or anyone else untill he is old enough by my standards not thai standards and when that time comes hopefully we will be living back in england. so he will Know better. As for now when we go out he goes with me in a Tuk Tuk or we use the trains or busses, he also uses the same transportation when he goes out with his nanny.

Rather amazing your ex-wife didn't get custody. Poor kid

Please dont comment on other Peoples situations that you know nothing about I was asking for advice on my bike hence the topic is Bike NOT Family, my son had a very bad time staying with his mother and grandmother and has a wonderfull time living with me and all his needs are taken care of. That is why I HAVE CUSTODY of him.

thanks everyone,

its not a scooter its an R6 and I know Its only a bike but its the thought of her getting something else from me. shes had everything else.

and yes my son is far more important. and just wanted to know if because we passed everything to our son and I am his guardian. do I keep hold of it for him, eventhough hes far too young to go on it.

what is the power of attorny document, I already have coppies of her id card can i change the name that way?

Thanks everyone,

I guess it has been stolen, shes not getting my bike shes had everything else the car, house and now trying to take my child and motorbike.

will be moving to bkk soon so I will leave it somewhere else till i go