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I really wonder if it's necessary to do anything, given that everything expires on the date your leaving, doesn't the WP just, well, automatically expire. Hopefully, someone on this forum can better advise. To cancel you'd need a letter from your employer confirming the date of termination, you'd take this to ChaengWattana (for BKK), or whatever immigration office is relevant to the place of work specified by your work permit. I don't see what they're going to stamp in your passport though - expires 31/7, cancelled 31/7, doesn't make sense does it. I think these rules were designed for people who leave employment before expiration.

I really don't think it should be necessary to do anything. But this is Thailand, and I don't want to be at the airport a couple of hours before my flight and be told I need to go cancel my work permit. That would suck big time and cost me a lot of money by way of a missed flight.

It is probably safest to get a Thai person to ring immigration and work permit office before I go.

My school will be on summer holidays. But my contract, WP and Non B all end on July 31st.

Go to the local tax departpent and make sure that you've got a form with you at the airport.

If you've got a work permit, you'll have to cancle it before you're leaving. If the local Immigration isn't that far away drive by and it might be done in a sec.

I've got a work permit that expires the same say as my non B, July 31st.

Where would I get this cancelled in Bangkok, if it is needed?

I'm finishing my job the end of July and returning time. My non B expires on July 31st.

Do I just leave Thailand the day of expiry, or do I need to report to immigration to get it cancelled???

Maybe a strange question but I had heard if you leave Thailand on a Non B and don't intend on returning you must visit immigration and have the visa cancelled.

I see, source is just Kbank man's comment, and for 3 years.

Glut's are part and parcel of bubble's, gluts put downward pressure on rents and prices.

Thailand does not have property bubble but property glut. This is set to worsen over 2013 & 2014. Just ask any R.E. Agent about time taken for a property to sell. Then watch the price movements. In beach side towns studios are selling well and to some extent 1BR condos, the rest move slllloowly, very slowly. The man from Kasikorn Bank says there are 130,000 units unsold each year confirming the property glut.

Can you add a source, 130,000 unsold per year for how many years?

I am not convinced there is a catastrophe around the corner, but presumably it is always better to have the market under supplied than in an oversupply situation

If there was a catastrophe around the corner there would be high unemployment. Decreasing currency value. Low rates of foreign investment. Declining GDP. Stock market crashing. Now lets take a look at the reality of the situation. No unemployment; importing workers from other countries. Increasing currency value and purchasing power. High rates of foreign investment. Increasing GDP. Stock market at all time highs.

Econ 101. You are welcome.

As if the thread wasn't bad enough already you post the above. And to put this NPL thing to rest, here is Ireland. NPL's less than 1% in '07 at the height of the housing bubble.

There may be a little more too it than just dumb students who don't know anything about hitler. A matayom student at our school when asked to write about someone they admire wrote about Hitler. The concerned teacher who assigned the homework called him in to quiz him on his choice.

T: What do you know about Hitler?

S: He was a strong man.

T: Was he good or bad, did he do good or bad things?

S: I think he was okay.

T: Do you know he killed a lot of people?

S: He kill a lot of Jew.

T: Do you think it is ok to kill jews?

S: Emmmm ..Iduno... em .... no.

T: Do you know what Hitler would have done to you?

S: No.

T: He would have put you in the gas chamber. Do you know what a gas chamber is?

S: No.

T: [Explains]

T: So know you know Hitler was not someone to admire.

S: Ok sorry teacher.

That was very disturbing. We also had students wanting to dance to this for a christmas show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydRxCUZp8Bg

The thai teachers were oblivious to how insulting this might be.

Yes some are oblivous to history some not so much.

Yeah I can hold out on this one as I've got time. Not in a rush to go anywhere just yet, so "mai mee" will be the consistent answer to any suggestion of money.

Money was mentioned before he learned of me(we parked out of view of his house, but he happened to be coming back from somewhere and spotted me), maybe he has done similar in the past, my girlfriend tells me this is common, not only in her village!

She hasn't made an application yet but has been to visit the Pu Yai Baan to get her sister's moving along and been asking him what she herself needs. She has no birth cert or record of school attendance. The Pu Yai Baan mentioned getting references to vouch that she grew up here but also put it to her that it is complicated, takes time, and hinted that money could move things along. Her sister's might have theirs within the next few weeks, so hopefully that might make things easier.

Bifftastic, I'm told the handsome sum of money can be 40k plus! If the official fee is 50 baht, that's quite a deal they have going. The girlfriend has already been to the Pu Yai Baan with some whiskey, I will persuade her to keep on the case and hopefully can get this done without having to fork out a large sum of money.

She is also in the process of getting her two youngest sisters thai id, which is easier for some reason, maybe records of a hospital birth here or something. Trying to get a good explanation of the process from my girlfriend is difficult, some lost in translation and some down to the Pu Yai Baan not explaining exactly whats needed to her.

Thanks again.

Thanks for the replies.

The way my girlfriend described the process of getting Thai ID was somewhat similar bifftastic. She would have to get a lot of documents co-signed, people vouching that she grew up in Thailand etc. and then a handsome sum of money for the official taking care of the process.

Has anyone with an Akha girlfriend or other Hill tribe girlfriend without thai id done this. My girlfriend needs a copy of a friends id and adress just to leave the province for a couple of weeks so I imagine organising a trip abroad might be a no go which would suck.

Any help is appreciated.

A major advantage for me, living in the Rai, is that I am surrounded by a wonderful outdoor playground easily accessed from my front door. All that, and yet no shortage of modern conveniences to speak of. I even enjoy our 50 kilometer drive to town which we seem to do three or four times each week.

I love Chiang Rai, its great but enjoying driving here? Always feel I am inches from death on the highway, even in town at slower speeds it can feel the same, someone will change direction suddenly and not even think about looking behind. Not really a disadvantage of the Rai, more Thailand in general though.

Called out to the airport, they now open from 8am to 9pm.

Unfortunately I cannot book with my current bank card.

I done this before almost a year ago. They were open at strange hours from memory, maybe 10am to 1pm, then 4pm-7pm, not fully sure. I don't remember being charged extra either.

Was there a couple a weeks ago, got back from Bangkok, called a metered taxi, walked outside the airport completely, I think they don't want to drive right to the front door and pick you up to avoid conflict with the airport taxis, it cost about 120 baht into town. In the airport I was offered a taxi for 400, the aw its only a few dollars attitude doesn't sit right with me.

Does anyone know the opening hours for the Air Asia sales office at Chiang Rai Airport?

Or if someone has booked through an agent in town how much of a premium did you pay?

Thanks guys. I'm not in a rush for it to clear and a 300baht fee is fine so happy to cash it here.

Express taxback(tax refund agency) want to send me a cheque for a tax refund I'm due, is cashing the cheque at a bank in Thailand be possible?

This could be a tough question, I have a cupboard press with some broken frosted glass that I need to replace, thai girlfriend has no idea where to go and condotel management weren't too helpful either. Anyone know of a glaziers in Chinag Rai?

I don't care too much for all of what Ron Paul says, but as an outsider to US politics, he seems to be the best of the bad bunch. Too many vested interests would stand the lose if he was elected and will make sure he doesn't. The newsletters will be brought to the fore again should he make a serious run. The reality is a line like "Ron Paul made money selling a racist newsletter" is enough to convince people not to vote for him without any thought for themselves. I mean some basic maths wouldn't go astray, a few sentences in decades of material, would be 0.0000000.....% of words printed, and the fact racists would buy so called racist newsletter to receive a few sentences over a period of decades, I guess they must be racist and stupid, the right wing nutcases.

Thanks for the replies, I have a HP laptop with a partitioned drive but don't have recovery disks, will give re installing a try once i back things up.

My notebook after 4 years of vista has only 8gb available out of 120gb and is a little slow, Is there somewhere I can take my notebook to clear everything off and start again with a new OS?

The wife says there is a laundry place not far from you. Go to the army gardening center, and look across the street from the gardening center. Somewhere in that area. She isn't positive that it is still open but says it was last time she looked. Don't know if they pick up and deliver or not.

So, leaving the Condotel, go right, proceed down the street past Ricos and continue for several hundred yards. Should be somewhere along there on your left. If you don't see it, just stop in and ask the gardening center people. They will know who has what in that area.

Thanks will have a look for it.