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6 hours ago, papersource said:

Just bought some Bayer Testoviron Depot from the pharmacy on Sukumvit just before soi 4 (next to the larger pharmacy that is closing) and before the police box.

 

it is new packaging and from Pakistan but it is Bayer and says so on the ampules. Each box contains three 1ml ampules of 250mg each for 600 baht (200 baht per ampule) 

 

It is manufactured by Medipharm Pvt. Ltd Pakistan. I was not sure if it was legit or not until I googled Bayer Pakistan and searched under history and see that Bayer bought Medipharm from Schering in 2006. So Medipharm Pakistan is owned by Bayer. 

 

i will try to attach a photo below:

 

 

Excellent info...Did you need a prescription?

On 11/19/2018 at 11:53 AM, JackThompson said:

My advise on Jomtien for marriage-based extensions (assuming you do get married - a necessary pre-requisite):

• Be sure you have a TM-30 submitted.
• I hope you own your own condo, because if you rent, you will need a stack of documents from your landlord to show at the family-based-extension desk - more than is required for the TM-30 desk.  This may involve the landlord going to an amphoe to get fresh documents.
• Unless your landlord will comply, you then have two choices if in the jurisdiction of the Jomtien office:
  • A Non-O-ME Visa from Savannakhet, with same-day-return border-bounces every 90-days.  That is still easier than having to apply for Non-O Visas based on retirement every 90-days.
  • Pay an agent 25K Baht to get the extension.  The clawing for agent-money is why they make the process difficult in the first place - to extort money from you for an honest, valid extension application (note - I've been through this personally at that office). 

 

This is true - unfortunately.  The BKK/Chang Wattana office is reported as being professional - a vast improvement over many local offices, including Jomtien for Non-O stamps and Thai-family-based extensions.

Your point about the agent money extortion is spot on ????. Big Joke, in his new corporate statement on the Jomtien immigration website, says there’ll be ‘standardisation’ of processes/regulations across all immigration offices. Not holding my breath...

On 11/19/2018 at 3:05 PM, Bill Miller said:

Just to clarify, as I think this could be misunderstood: Don't have to " apply for Non-O Visas based on retirement every 90-days." Once a year works.
I decided a couple of years ago to "bag it" with Jomtien after an effort to extort 16,000 baht, pre "Big Joke", over the newly enforced residency rules. I get a new non "O" multi entry at Savan, and do a "bounce" every 90 days at whatever neighboring nation tickles our fancy. 
Ongoing story about the residency thing; ny landlady lives in Europe somewhere, I think Germany. My waan jai found the condo for me, and did all the negotiating, etc., with a delightful young real estate gal. Problems? The lease was in Thai, and signed by my nearest and dearest. TM 30? What's that?
Decided to "unscrew the inscrutables" in all this. A very helpful woman at the Juristic office cobbled up a lease agreement in my name, and for a 500 baht fee went to Jomtien on my behalf, settled the 1,600 baht TM 30 fine, and brought me back the appropriate receipts, forms, etc.
They would not give me a copy of the "lease", which I guess is a sort of phony, anyhow, the real owner never being present in all this. The gal did it all as an  "agent in situ". I don't mind as we have been paying month to month for half a year anyway. Just happy to have the TM 30.
Anyone know if Jomtien will accept that for a residence certificate? Might just want to get a driver's license, however much I grit my teeth when on the roads here.

For a 500 baht fee? 555... some call it being helpful, I call it corruption. 

We should never forget the role that corruption plays when individual officers/different immigration offices make marriage based extensions more and more difficult each year. 

And it will become harder under Big Joke with his new ‘no tip’ policy. Before, an extra 500 baht here and there could get a particular requirement ignored. Fines were handed out like lollies, with no receipts and no audit trail...

now, the kickbacks the IO’s recieve from dodgy immigration agents is their best source of extra income. They don’t want farang to do the yearly paperwork/application themselves, they want them to pay a ridiculous fee to an agent, ( I’ve been told by some guys they pay 15,000 baht for a marriage extension!), who they then receive a percentage of that fee from, in return for a hassle free processing service. 

I bet that sour-faced dragon at Jomtien is raking it in...????????

On 2/20/2018 at 3:24 PM, JackThompson said:

This policy, and other aspects of the requirements, varies wildly by office. 

Yes, it’s all very laughable how each office and the ‘rules’ they follow change from year to year. Thailand 1.0 at its finest. Have a look at the Jomtien immigration website, where they’re promoting the new corporate vision under Big Joke. One of the statement of values headings is ‘Standardisation.’ Yeah, right...

4 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

Understood and your missing the point. 

Am I? Or you’re just not making it very well...99% of farang living in Thailand fall under the definition of an ‘alien’ and therefore, fall under the jurisdiction of RTP attached to the immigration division. 

Easiest way to have a foreigner dealt with by police in Thailand is to call and report him as an illegal alien living next door to you, whether they are legal or not. Tell them the guy’s overstayed his visa for a year, and once the smell of baht in a brown paper bag wafts to their greedy noses, they’ll be around in a flash turning him over. He may or may not be illegal, but the visit should make him pull his head in...Call and make a complaint of harassment, farang on farang,  they couldn’t care less...

10 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

The fact the word 'police' is used doesn't mean what your suggesting.

 

They are separate and with a separate purpose.  

 

 

Fact is they are a division of the RTP. They are not, as in the US or UK, their own government department. Yes they have a seperate purpose, but they are not seperate to RTP...

17 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You could make a complaint to the police. What he is doing is harassment that is violation of the law.

Immigration would do nothing without him being charged by the police.

Not sure if that advice is 100% correct? Immigration are the police, just working in a seperate division of the RTP. They have the same powers as all other police in Thailand.  Yes the immigration police may refer the matter to patrol level officers or the Tourist police, but they are able to investigate/take action if they choose to...After all, nearly every foreigner living in Thailand is an alien of some sort? 

Thai cops would see this as karma. If the OP had left Thailand when supposed to -   passport wouldn’t have been stolen,  wouldn’t have ‘intimidated’ the poor Cambodian lads and made a scene, wouldnt have added another crime statistic that makes Thailand look bad, wouldn’t have annoyed the cops by making them do some worketc etc etc...Thai logic, entirely the OP’s fault...

3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

The database the online reporting system uses is one from entries to the country not the one that immigration has access to. In order to do online reporting again you will have to leave and re-enter the country using the new passport.

You will still be able use the slip with the barcode for your next report and they will change local 90 day reporting records.

Good news, if like you say, I can still use the blue form.

Only in Thailand would one organisation (immigration police) run 2 separate databases (arrivals system and online 90 day report system) without linking them...Ludicrous that immigration police at entry points update a database that local immigration offices don't have access to.

Cheers for the reply.

20 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

I means your record could not be found. I always get it due to 2 problems. My last entry was before 2013 and I have gotten a new passport since then.

Check that you complete all the required fields correctly. Did you use the drop down menu for your nationality? Did you enter the entire arrival card number you have to enter the first 2 letters of it.

You only need to complete the fields with a * beside it.

You might want to try again later. That also comes up if the system cannot access the database where the records are stored.

Interesting point you make about getting a new passport since the last 90 day report. I haven't been able to do the online report with my new passport number either. Immigration changed my stamps over to new passport but I guess they haven't entered the new passport on the system. Which means my existing blue form with barcode for previous 90 day report will be null and void? And I'll have to do another TM47?

Cheers

On ‎5‎/‎7‎/‎2017 at 9:17 AM, steven100 said:

yep ... the fat ugly farang just want bom bom, you see it everywhere in Pattaya, many fat farang with a girl 20yr old taking to the room. The farang only go to Pattaya for one thing ? they give them money ... it's like a business deal.

Steven,

I hope your previous 2,000 odd posts have been a bit more enlightening? Or are you one of these fellas sitting behind a keyboard thousand of miles away, who's never been to Thailand? Let alone Pattaya...

2 hours ago, kingstonkid said:

Good thing is that most of these guys will not be coming to Thailand for underage hookers.

 

California just made it legal to be a hooker and underage.

 

The law change in California applies to the underage child working as a prostitute - often victims of human trafficking. Now they cannot be charged, treated as victims and not criminals. Pimps and those using underage prostitutes are still liable, guilty at law, nothing changes...So to suggest that paedophiles will stop coming to Thailand because they can do it without fear of prosecution in California is beyond ludicrous...

5 minutes ago, Jumbo1968 said:

The I.O. In Jomtien was giving people receipts if they were paying a fine for not reporting.

So you think that just because we receive a receipt the money doesn't go to corrupt bosses? Bit naïve aint it? Police corruption in Thailand works on what I like to call a reverse pyramid scheme...the more money the lower level plebs can make for the boss at the top, the more makes its way eventually down to them...army crackdowns on Russian mafia and illegal workers in Pattaya has obviously made a serious dent on Jomtien immigration's bank account...thus the recent need to fine for TM28/30 non-compliance...next year they'll just go back to the 1979 manual and find something else to hit us with... 

In 7 years of marriage visa extensions in 3 different provinces, I have never been asked to produce a TM28 or TM30. This year in Jomtien, my wife was fined 1600 baht, even though I own the residence. Some will say that Jomtien immigration are merely enforcing the law, but after years of ignoring this requirement, I'd suggest that the decision to start imposing fines for this has more to do with the Army's crackdown on police corruption. New fines are required to make up for a lack of the immigration bosses "tea money" funds...

Why did it have to be a speeding charge? Surely there's a "Reckless driving" charge within Thai traffic regulations? And it's easier to prove, with circumstantial evidence such as how far the body was dragged, skid marks on the road, damage to vehicle, eyewitness accounts etc taken into account, with the high speed deemed to be reckless in a built up area with a 60km/h speed limit...in initial reports the witnesses to the excessive speed were other police officers and taxi drivers. But unfortunately once the pressure from above started and the bribes rolled in, their memories failed them...

1 hour ago, joeyg said:

You all think it was quite cute and a display of bravado, boasting about your years of former and current illegal drug use.  Some even promoting it for their children.  Sad bunch here.  How crazy are you?  Take a good long look in the mirror.  Madness, indeed.  If this thread doesn't attract the attention of Law Enforcement to your IP addresses I don't know what will.

 

It's like jumping up and down holding a neon sign saying, "I do illegal drugs and think your laws are bullshit!!!"

 

And you guys are complaining about "Tracking sim cards." This is the result of the drug damaged brain,  Frightening...

Agree with what you say about pathetic statements from some who would be "happy" for their children to do extasy when they are adults...obviously these people have never had to tell parents that their "child" has overdosed on it or literally had their heart explode at the age of 15...MDMA is a synthetic substance concocted from all types of chemicals...the criminals who produce it do not care what effect those chemicals will have on the users, they just want to make it as cheaply as possible. Having seen many MDMA labs first hand, I've no doubt users would be shocked to see what toxic chemicals they are putting into their bodies. Every pill taken, especially in Asia, is like playing Russian roulette in my opinion...sooner or later you'll get a bad one, and that could be fatal. I've seen teenaged kids die from their first ever extasy pill...I'm yet to see a kid die from his first ever beer...If this Aussie DJ sold my kid a pill that proved fatal, no gaol sentence would be enough...just saying.

If you have done nothing wrong, or you don't intend to do anything wrong in the future, you have nothing to fear of the CCTV cameras or feel intimidated by them.

But do you feel any safer knowing on your local street there are CCTV cameras? I'm suggesting it is intimidaating because the state is indirectly sending a message that the people in this area can not be trusted.

Ask any Londoner do they feel any safer because of CCTV. I lived in places with and without secruity cameras installed on the streets and just saying I felt safer for my own and my family's personal safety in the places without street cameras.

I don't follow your logic. Are you saying that the police should take away the CCTV cameras in high crime areas so that you will feel safer walking there? The reason you feel safer in areas without cameras is because they are statistically low crime areas to start with. Despite what the cynics think. the powers that be do not throw darts at a city map when deciding where to install CCTV cameras....

Having served 25 years in policing, I agree with Costas2008 100% regarding the role of CCTV cameras. Those who whinge about police states, breach of civil rights, big brother spying etc etc are the same ones who are quick to condemn governments and Police Forces for a lack of action when crime increases. In most major cities, fit, trained police officers do not sit watching the CCTV screens instead of patrolling the streets. Those who think otherwise are watching too much TV. That role is performed by civilians or police who have been injured and bound to office duties. Fact is, police cannot be everywhere at the same time and some areas do have higher crime incidence than others and CCTVs role is to provide the 24 hour constant coverage that resource stretched police forces cannot. Its a worldwide fact that the use of CCTV cameras in city areas has had a significant impact on malicious damage, vehicle theft, assaults and robberies, many of which are alcohol related and is why you will often see a larger concentration of cameras in the vicinity of licensed premises. They are not to be used alone as a crime reduction strategy, but combined with police presence, they not only act as a deterrent to criminals but provide assistance for investigators in identification and time scale analysis ie. when did the crime occur? The Ko Tao murders and the murdered girl in London park are recent examples of CCTV cameras assisting in identification of suspects and helping to narrow down the times between which a crime was commited. To assume that because an area has CCTV cameras it is unsafe or their will not be police patrols is incorrect. The criminals of this world hate being watched, If you are a law abiding person with nothing to hide, the ones who may be watching via CCTV are, despite what the paranoid amongst us would have us believe, watching us for our own safety. The main reason I doubt that Thailand will install more CCTVs is that they may just reveal too many secrets of the boys in brown.

I am on my fourth extension of stay, based on marriage visa.

My current extension ends on 18th December. Im aware that I can apply for the extension anywhere from 30-45

days before this date. But what is the latest date that an extension can be applied for? For example, must it be 7 days before it expires or something similar? No-one at immigration seems to understand the question.

I am unable to apply now due to commitments and being overseas until 17th December. Will applying for the extension 1 day before the current one expires be a problem?

Any advice/information from personal experience much appreciated...

cheers

Ubonjoe thanks for reply. Yes thats why i was looking for recent confirmation as have also seen reports that jomtien office requires it. I own the condo im living in so could show chanote etc i guess plus bills in my name, although ive tried this before in bkk and they insisted on the affidavit from the embassy even though i was showing them the same documents! Mai pen rai, TIT!

Also, anyone heard of having to get a letter form the previous years' place of extension to show to the new one when you change addresses? The missus rang the jomtien office and they said this was required, even though the location of the last extension issue is plain to see in the passport. Any ideas what letter they are referring to?

Cheers

Regarding the list of required docs at jomtien immigration by OP - I have just moved to jomtien permanently from surin. Ive done

my past 3 marriage extensions in Surin and before that CW. I notice on the list at jomtien, there is no mention of a need for proof of address? In surin i had to show my yellow tabien baan and in bkk, a signed affidavit from embassy outlining my residential address. Can anyone else confirm that proof of address is not required at jomtien office, as would save me a trip up to the embassy in bkk.

Thanks in advance...

Paramedic22- how many juiced up doctors have u ever seen? Not many....and there's a reason for it. They know the dangers. You are late 40s and dont have any negative effects - yet... Lets hear from you in another ten years on whether your 20 years of AS steroid use has been worth it. And why the need for a paramedic to use anyhow? I thought all ambulances used hydraulic trolleys these days? So your use is for pure vanity, just like all the other fools who painfully try to justify themselves?