jacko45k

Let us not get ahead of ourselves. It has only recently been removed from the list and needs time. The situation is really still in flux. Not sure it will create many jobs relative to that of cultivating rice.

Killing 1 or killing 4?

Describe to me exactly how a retirement Extension has become more difficult to obtain in say the last year or maybe 2. The last change was when some Embassies refused to do income letters... not immigration's fault.. prior to that medical insurance on O-A Extensions, Oct 2019. Also the requirement to keep the 800k for 3 months and then 400k for 7. The ability to get a multi-O was another I can think of. All this a long time ago.

They actually had them fresh at my little village market for a spell, but it did not last!

There you go.... it used to happen every year before Covid.. always just before peak season. They might do better looking for overstayers amongst those drinking a beer for breakfast! I suspect overstayers are not doing their 90 day reports... there is nothing forcing them to... and yes they do pursue via records of where they were last living. All this talk, and yet I have not seen a post by someone of being harassed by police and telling us what they ask for. But thanks for the memory jog there... must take a photo of my new Extension, just in case!

No no, we get enough confusion already with it being called a Visa....

Not the stuff you put in the toilet to make it flush blue water?

After all these years even they don't call asking for money. She gets the odd scammer call...

There are a couple of types of scam going round. Ones offering the opportunity to make money, others whereby the victim is told they are in trouble for something and money is demanded. The latter act in fear rather than greed.

Yes, I have mentioned this. More of the same I say.... send spies into nightclubs to take a look at emergency exits. Far too serious to ignore. I don't really mind if they march the odd overstayer off... I would stay home if I was on overstay!

Get down to Villa and see what Brussels sprouts cost, can't afford those at home!

There is still the 1900 for the Extension, and the cost of the agent in that fee! (I expect he gets what he asks for.....!)

Just put new tyres on the truck.. they were about 1000 baht each more than last time. Now that is inflation!

Well our discussion is more about mostly Westerners getting retirement Extensions bypassing the money on deposit requirement. Perhaps you mean migrant workers. I did have a pal getting his ext from KK, a long way from his home, had to pay a premium to do 90-day reports!

1200 deaths a day forced their hand!

What?

Any agent can do the Extension,. I agree one should get one sourced from the place one actually lives... if people choose to live in rural villages they should not get Extensions sourced elsewhere, that is illegal... nothing to do with bypassing monetary requirements. I don't even have to go to immigration!

You are ignorant as to what Covid cost the UK with furloughs etc? £410 billion. This is the equivalent of about £4,600 to £6,100 per person in the UK..

In what regard.... ? An officer has the right to sign off on a requirement and yet you say that makes him criminal in some way and needs to be held to account? The Extensions worked perfectly well. I am not sure you have the legal qualifications to deem them legit or not.

And tying up 800,000/400,000 for the full and complete year. There are other advantages too, like not having to go back after 3 months. At 2.5% p,a, they got the 20,000, covered (and maybe then some) and no long line stood in the sun! I am not sure which is the dim person's better option.

And surely it went up substantially each month from February to October this year.

It was more about fake marriages!

Some claimed they had valid extensions, they looked exactly the same as mine. You are probably aware also some do not consider it illegal... there is provision in the immigration law for a higher ranking officer to sign off on a requirement legitimately. Before that, they were signing BS stat decs or affidavits at their Embassy! ED Visas that require no school attendance etc etc.

18 years and counting! (Learning Thai, not using an ED Visa).

I knew so many who preferred to do this as they vehemently did not want to keep 800k here.... they did not trust the banks or the system! Some claimed they made money on investments they did not want to lose. None of them were unsavory characters. Ready to go at the drop of a hat was a common sentiment.