khunPer

On 1/19/2024 at 12:55 AM, sirineou said:

Has any of you ever used one of them? is it a good idea? what do I need to know? 

I appreciate and will consider any opinion. 

Thank you 

I've tried a cheap, not brand name water pump; I cannot remember the name. It was close to half price of a brand name water pump, but it didn't even last half the lifetime of a brand name pump – it went to the eternal water pump fields shortly after the one year warranty period ended. My reasonably priced brand name water pumps have in average lasted about 7 years.

5 hours ago, Neilly said:

 

The pinned thread is about retirement extensions...and nothing to do with 90 day reports.

 

What the OP was asking, and you obviously missed the point, was how could we make their life, and ours, simpler if there was a data base that didn't require a trip to immigration (Samui specific)...and half a day wasted if you live in the south of the island, much longer if you live on one of the islands serviced by Samui immigration.

 

For some unknown reason you seem to be some sort of fanboy of Samui immigration, when i did my retirement extension last year there was no mention of the 'Photo in front of the house' in extension tread, so what use is it? Even the girl who does the paperwork check downstairs said, and I quote 'its best to come about three days before your renewal because they keep changing the rules'. 

I'm not a fan, I just follow their demands – it makes a life much more easy.

About "make their life, and ours, simpler" we have the pinned thread about Samui Immigration. It seems like each province have slightly different local regulations, so a database/website would be one for each province, or even one for each immigration office. That's why the pinned thread, which started as a retirement extension advise, but includes numerous other things about Samui Immigration, is so useful.

Some of us pops by a few days before and get the list and attached documents. Therefore it's useful when a member updates with new requirements, like when you found out that a photo in front of the house is needed and thankfully shared that information together with the latest list of needed documentation...

Re. 90-days address report, these ar the comments/posts about that on the first page of the pinned thread....

Yes – to @KhaoNiaw – your TM30 needs to be registered in the new data-system that opened September last year (if I remember the month right).

4 hours ago, Neilly said:

 

This thread has nothing to do with Samui retirement extensions

The pinned thread is quite general about extension of stay and 90-days address report – I don't mention "retirement extension" – and you can find many answers there.

If you ask at immigration, you will get a paper with what documents to bring, it's not that difficult. If you follow the pinned thread about Samui Immigration, you can also find document lists updated answers there.

Unfortunately, a lot of the people in the queue line are not ASEAN NOW-members, and many just extend a 30-days tourist-stay with another 30 days, but stand in the same queue as expats.

Something change at Samui Immigration office almost every year, with the staff trying to make the procedure more smooth. Recently the document check has been moved downstairs with two windows. Before it was a single desk in the upstairs office. There are more and more people coming to extend stay – and some for 90-days address report – at the immigration office, and the immigration staff seems to try to handle it.

There is a sign inside the immigration office with contact for any immigration experience – we are not allowed to snap photos inside the office – that sign is likely also a gateway for suggestions.

When I renewed my extension of stay in October, there was large posters downstairs about using the e-Extension option, which probably can be used to know both paperwork and make things go smoother...

On 1/13/2024 at 4:19 PM, KhunLA said:

What the manager (and a-hole) told you is BS.  Should have just told him your flying out tomorrow & need it.  A lowly staff member was going to retrieve it, and the manager stopped him ... think about that one.   They have a key for a reason.

Normally the banks are very kind; branch manager was probably either new on Samui – I had not seen her before – and following head office rules, or she just had a bad day...

I luckily wisely have several plastic cards from two different Thai banks, plus my foreign cards...

On 1/17/2024 at 7:15 AM, Can samui said:

Hey folks, long time permanent immigration sufferer here and was just wondering.....

Does anyone know of a way to pass honest suggestions to immigration in order to both make their job easier as well as make it easier for use by visitors?

Reason for my query is a combination of observation and personal experience. Was there today to attempt an uncommon task and while waiting in line I noticed that most of the people did not have the proper documentation causing consternation to the tourist and frustration to the immigration officer. Sure enough when my turn came I was quickly informed that I needed waaaay more copies of every extension ever granted to me since Moses was in short pants. Despite my visiting the Thai immigration site and reading what was required as well as sleuthing the old internet I was rejected.

I am sure it would take a semii skilled internet aficionado a short tim3 to construct an updatable site that listed visa task and all documentation required to accomplish said task. Might even put pdf access to required forms.

OK...mild rant done. Headed back tomorrow after cutting down another chunk of the rain forest in order for the proper hoops to be leapt through.

 

If you follow the pinned thread here...

–you will know exactly what papers to bring and what's happening of new amazing demands this year in Samui Immigration.

To Moderator: Please close this thread and let discussion continue in the pinned immigration-thread.

5 hours ago, phetphet said:

I renewed my retirement extension last week on the 11th. Told to come back on the 18th. Looks like those days of just waiting for it are long gone.

Over 50 pages of paper handed over, including copies of all stamped pages in passport, medical certificates, maps etc. There has to be a better way.

Even got sent away for not having 12 month bank statement. I had asked the bank teller for twelve months and she had only given me a 3 months one. My fault for not checking I suppose.

It has taken about a week for several years now, to get one's passport back with a new extension of stay-stamp.

Many banks seems only to be able to print up to six month statement. You can order a full 12-month period from the bank's head office in your local branch, it takes about a week to arrive in the branch. Together with a local statement print you can show a 12-month period by the time apply for extension of stay; remember to get your bank book updates same day as you apply for extension of stay (new rule for Samui Immigration).

3 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

I wonder how the tourists are counted. Flights only?

As far as I know, the ferry companies do not separate tourists from locals from deliveries.

Does anyone out there know?

TM30 is a good suggestion...

On 1/17/2024 at 8:14 AM, Troy Tempest said:

 

You miss my point.....

 

Many go Unreported!

 

A bit like in the film "Jaws" where the mayor wants to keep the Shark attacks quiet and keep the beaches open so as not to Damage the Tourism!

Guessing, when talking about unreported. Please read my post again about to understand EEC-rules, which is what I'm referring to...

On 1/17/2024 at 7:53 AM, Troy Tempest said:

 

Yes I do....It as the back of the hospital.

And you see ambulances driving direct to the morgue behind Samui Hospital..?

On 1/17/2024 at 6:53 AM, Liquorice said:

Then you shouldn't have included the quote from the OP about a Non Imm O-A visa.   

Try editing, or quoting just the relevant part you're referring to.

I don't have a crystal ball.   

I don't mind what you have or don't have, I kindly replied to OP...

5 hours ago, Troy Tempest said:

Per....As I said I know many Doctors and Nurses on the island.

 

I dated a nurse from Samui Hospital.

 

That's how I know!

 

You live in Maenam away from the Ring Road so you probably don't hear all the ambulances that we hear everyday!

 

That's also how I KNOW!

I live that close to the Ring Road that I can hear ambulances, but they sound the same no matter where they are going to. Do you know where the morgue is?

20 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Both guardians listed in the Birth Certificate need to be present when applying for the First passport for a Thai minor.

In the Ops case its safe to assume both 'parents' are.

 

[so you are correct - however, both parents are not required to be present for subsequent Thai Passports - just wanted to add clarification for others who may have a related question].

Yes, both parents also for subsequent passport for a minor; I'm talking from 2022-experience, my daughter was 16 years old. Of course, it might be that some passport-offices have different rules, but I wouldn't take the risk without prior confirmation. Same applies to my Danish home country, both parents needed to be present for the second passport; also 2022.

21 hours ago, Liquorice said:

The Non O-A is based purely on the reason of retirement, not Thai spouse.
That's why the OP stated he needed to get the Non O.

I'm replying about non-O...

On 1/15/2024 at 5:23 AM, SiSePuede419 said:

I'm not working in Thailand, I'm only working in America.

 

My visa doesn't allow me to work in Thailand.

 

There's no evidence I work in Thailand. 

 

I get W-2s from my employer mailed to my home in America.

 

Get your nose out of my business.

 

I'm asking about traveling in and out of the Kingdom of Thailand once a month so I can conduct business in America.

 

Not Thailand. 

You Pattaya Barstool businessmen got me all wrong, I swear. 😄

Nice and kind reply...

However, you will need a long-term visa and extensions of stay to live in Thailand more permanently; for example a non-O based on marriage, if you don't apply for a long stay visa that permits you to do distance work from Thailand.

When applying for the annual extension of stay you can also apply for a multiple re-entry permit – 3,800 baht – which allows you to re-enter unlimited within the period of extension of stay.

19 hours ago, Sparkling said:

As far as I understood, there is no way to get a Non O-A based on marriage outside Thailand - we are in Munich,Germany.

I need to get a Non-O for 90 days, which i can/should extend in Thailand.

Is this right so far?

No, you can apply in your home country; might be more difficult to get it somewhere else.

You can also apply for a non-immigrant O-type visa when you arrive in Thailand as visa exempt or on a tourist visa.

On 1/15/2024 at 8:36 AM, jakow said:

We're in Thailand and traveling to the USA for 1 month. Our 5 year old and 2 year old both have US passports. The 5 year old has a Thai passport, but somehow we completely forgot that we didn't make a Thai passport for our 2 year old and just realized this today. (I know, really dumb.) How big of a problem is this? Our flight is on the 18th in the morning. My wife said we can get an emergency passport for him tomorrow. Is that true, and is it necessary? Thank you for any advice! Can't believe we did this...

No big problem. You can have same day passport issued for an official surcharge around 1,000 baht (it was 1,000 last I visited a Thai passport office a few years ago). Both mom and dad needs to be present when applying for passport for a Thai minor.

On 1/14/2024 at 7:17 AM, changthenomad said:

Hello , I have a full time ED visa for a private business university, 

I would like to form a company in Thai , with a Thai partner (51%), what would happen for director duties undertaken by me , without the 4 employees just yet + 2 mill paid up capital ? 

You can perform high level director duties; i.e. attend board meetings and sign documents and annual statement, but you cannot do any physical work.

On 1/13/2024 at 12:51 PM, Mike Lister said:

I agree things may change but I don't believe there is even the smallest chance that the banks will deduct tax from transfers, at source, that's almost impossible to do because the banks don't know who is tax resident and who is not, nor what funds are assessable or not.

The bank will most likely not withhold any tax, but they might report foreign transfers, which is easily possible with datasystems. In my Scandinavian home country the taxman has for years known all about the people's financial transactions; we don't even need to make a tax return, everything is already known and will be taxed...

On 1/12/2024 at 3:45 AM, Mike Lister said:

The money will not be taxed by the bank when it is received. If anything, that money should be reported on a Thai tax return as income but that will depend on whether you are Thai tax resident in the year it is received and whether your total income exceeds the threshold for filing a return.  There is a separate thread on this subject and a document at the start of it that you may wish to read:

 

 

 

It might change this year with the new tax-rule for foreign transfers from 1st January 2024; however, we are still missing details about how it will work.

On 1/11/2024 at 9:31 AM, advancebooking said:

I told him about 35 million if he lives to 85 yrs old. What do you think? Im sure theres many old guys who can help with this financial assessment. 

That sounds fair enough, if he heads for the affordable P&P-ladies and don't let some move in...

On 1/11/2024 at 10:19 AM, Tropicalevo said:

Hey - back to the future khunPer?

When I first arrived on Samui there was one branch per bank (and Krungsri did not exist here). They were all in Nathon, as well as the one ATM  per bank.

Progress eh?

Digital online era-progress...