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After returning, yes, but what about reporting to imm where i am staying temporarily, that i am there. That would mean two reports, of course, one from me and one from the hotel. 

I have a permanent long time residence, where i have stayed with my family for several years, in the northeast. Of course, this is the address I always report to imm. 

Sometimes i leave for business trips or short holidays. The hotels i stay in should report that i stay there. Question: Should i too - as the rules are inforced today - report this short time change of residence ? (I can imagine situations where this becomes crazy, for example, a one night stay in bkk.)

Thanks all. 

On 20/6/2560 at 11:58 AM, ubonjoe said:

You get a 30 day visa exempt entry not a tourist visa. You can only do 2 of them at land border crossings per calendar year.

You can extend each of those entries for 30 days at an immigration office for a fee of 1900 baht.

If you wanted to stay longer than those 4 months you would have to get a single entry tourist visa at a nearby embassy or consulate.

You are marking words again.  :)

Are the latest rules for the classic landborder visa run that when you enter thailand for the first time, you get a one month turist visa, you can then get one more month by crossing a land border, turn around and walk back into thailand the same day; a total of two months. If you want to stay longer you need a visa sticker from a thai consulate ? (Long question :) )

Is there any public transport to this place ?  From the main bus terminal, for example. If i have to take a tuk tuk what should i pay ? 

6 hours ago, dick dasterdly said:

 

No "festival of depravity" required.

 

Some have very large, expensive houses that cost a fortune to maintain.  Others spend a lot of money on expensive foods/household items etc.

 

There is no 'one size fits all' - as we all have our own priorities and way of life.

Yes, we all have our own priorities and way of life. 

I like to live a very simple life. I had a very simple, basic, lifestyle in Europe. I don't see why i should decend into a "festival of depravity" just because i  have moved to Thailand.

I will not share a detailed description of my daily life, but i can mention that for breakfast i usually have a cup of hot tea - sugar, no milk, and a carton of milk -16 baht. 

On August 20, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Craig krup said:

 

I've never, ever understood people allowing stockbrokers to buy and sell investments using your money. A colleague of mine lost £150,000 in 2007-8 when her portfolio - picked by a regional stockbrokers and stuffed full of bank shares - went pop. If stockbrokers could outperform the market they'd be sitting in a Mayfair office earning a hundred times what they are earning. "Allow us to play with your money, because we know more than the world and you'll be able to keep the gains". Yeah. You'll over-trade and clock up all you can in fees and soft commissions. 

 

This bloke has £350,000 (if he was a Brit). City of London investment trust yields just over 4%, as does Murray International. Invested in these two he'd get about £15,000 a year split in eight payments. This (at the moment) is 675,000 baht, or 56,000 baht a month. Share prices could collapse, the baht could soar against the pound, the sky could fall down....People don't like volatility. But aiming into an indefinite future (and in the absence of serious health problems) I'd be pretty confident that £15,000 a year in 2016 in investments that track the whole of the world would probably keep body and soul together in Thailand, and over a thirty year time frame I'd be pretty confident that the capital value would be preserved or grow. The biggest risk is not taking a risk. Sit in cash and run it down and you're definitely doomed. You need to have the cash sitting ready for a meltdown - which happens with monotonous regularity - and then you buy, and buy and buy and make huge losses day after day. Then you hold for ever and retire rich

 

All the clowns who told you to buy when the market was roaring ahead, and told you that you were a fool when you bought during the meltdown, they......well, they get to work for ever. 

56 000 baht/month ! That is an enormous amount of money in my world. After rent i spend about 250 baht per day. I just don't need any more.  

Go for it !!! 

There has been talk about savannakhet wanting a "name change" document when applying for a non-imm o based on marriage.

I just went there and there was no talk about a "name change" document. It was very much business as usual and i could use the usual set of documents.

48 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

If the Amphoe would issue one for the name change done when your registered marriage that would work. Not sure they will do it though.

Yours is the first report I can recall of them asking for one. There was a recent post by a member trying to present one and it was not wanted.

I really think it was a one off occurrence by inexperienced employee at the consulate.

Yes, this is the most likely explanation. 

I remember when my wife changed to my name. We went to the district office with the marrige certificates and the house registration book. My wife told the offical that she wanted to change to her husband's name. The guy just crossed out her thai name and wrote in my name with a pen in the book. No forms to fill in, no stamps and no fee. It took about 10 seconds. (It might have helped that my name looks like a thai name when written with the thai alphabet.)

I just checked my usual set of documents for non-o marrige visa in savannakhet.

The marrige certificates have my wife's maiden name and the house registrstion and id card have my family name. But you can essily see that it is the same person because the ID CARD NUMBER IS THE SAME.

I don't know the background to why they did this, but it doesn't make sense. They must know that you look at the id card number, not the family name.

 Copies of  two house registation books ? One an old book with the wife's maiden name and the current one, with her new family name ?

"Name change document". I didn't know such a document existed. We certainly don't have one.

It all seems unlikely. But "this is thailand" anything can happen. 

I am not sure, but can't you buy a sort of life insurance where you hand over a sum of money to an isurance company and they promise to pay you a monthly sum of money for the rest of your life. The general idea would be that if you drop dead the next day it is good business for the insurance company and if you live to 100 you win and the company loses.

Does these things excist, and if they do, how much would you get for 16 mil .? And is it safe ? If the insurance company goes bankrupt you are ... (Think of a very bad word).

The embassy of a country deals with the relations between governments. Treaties and stuff. The ambassador cuts ribbons.

The Thai Embassy in Laos deals with the relations between the Thai gov. and the Lao gov. Not individual persons applying for visas and things like that.

If you want a visa in Vientiane, or a Thai passport, or if you are a Thai citizen in a Lao prison, you need to contact the Thai consulate, (attached to the Thai embassy), not the Thai embassy, they wouldn't touch you with a pole.

Misleading. Embassies invariably have consular sections that provide consular services. The consular section of an embassy usually has full power to issue all kinds of visas, issue passports and all other consular services. In addition, there may be consulates that are independent of the embassy in other locations. These are intended to provide convenience to those unable to attend the embassy's consular section. Consulates can be official (funded and controlled directly by the relevant government department) or honorary (privately funded but empowered to provide consular services). Each consulate, in most cases, is only permitted to provide a subset of the services provided by the embassy's consular section.

I agree with you, but my post is not misleading.

I am saying that the embassy and the consulate, attached to the embassy, do different things.

Get off in Mukhdahan and buy the Savannakhet - Mukdahan bus ticket: 50 baht.. Full size air conditioned bus.

Do not, not, not use the tuck tuck or vans - they are all con men wanting go steal your money. The correct price is 50 baht.

YES, YES YES

Get off in Mukhdahan and buy the Savannakhet - Mukdahan bus ticket: 50 baht.. Full size air conditioned bus.

Do not, not, not use the tuck tuck or vans - they are all con men wanting go steal your money. The correct price is 50 baht.

Hi.. Can you get the multiple entry non-o if you are in Chiang Mai, go to immigration office with mother and child, my name on Thai birth certificate. Not married and not yet legalised. Thanks a lot

Immigration does not issue multiple entry visas. The multiple entry non-o visa can on be obtained at a Thai embassy or consulate.

The only thing you can get at immigration is a 60 day extension to visit your child

The embassy of a country deals with the relations between governments. Treaties and stuff. The ambassador cuts ribbons.

The Thai Embassy in Laos deals with the relations between the Thai gov. and the Lao gov. Not individual persons applying for visas and things like that.

If you want a visa in Vientiane, or a Thai passport, or if you are a Thai citizen in a Lao prison, you need to contact the Thai consulate, (attached to the Thai embassy), not the Thai embassy, they wouldn't touch you with a pole.

Yes, I admit, I amused myself by exaggerating.

I think that in both western and south-east-Asian cultures it is considered wrong to take advantage of people's ignorance.

To charge 100 baht per person, if the tuk-tuk has 6-8 passengers, to go from the consulate to the border is wrong - its a scam.

There is a difference between to charge "what the market will bear" and running a con.

Tuk tuk are cheap so don't worry about how close.

I stay Mekong Restaurant. Rooms aren't great but nice restaurant overlooking Mekong. Nice staff, good food and quiet. Wifi etc. Can easily setup laptop whatever in restaurant and work away.

Arrange with Tuk Tuk driver to pick you up next day at 1.00pm. 100THB Border to embassy 100THB to hotel. Give him a tip and your well looked after. Don't use the service next door to embassy for forms etc. Their available at the counter and my bloke checks I have it filled in correctly

cheers

NO, "tuk tuks" are not cheap. They are extremely expensive. They run a scam ripping of visa people.

You must always negotiate a price before you get on the tree-wheels. If the con-man, driving the 3-wheels, says 100 bath - is that per person ? or for everybody ???????????????

8 people x 100 baht = 800 baht. That is a fortune in Laos. A family of 6 can live for one month on 800 baht.

I never pay more than 60. Do I get transport to the border ? Yes, always.

But you must have the exact change. They all play the same ancient game of "no change".

I have a non immigrant B visa. Issued in penang, Malaysia. Issued is 2014, current visa is valid till may14th

You do not have have a visa ! That visa issued in 2014 is long expired .

You actually have an "extension of stay" (it is not a visa) issued by an immigration office unless you have a more recent Visa issued by a Thai Embassy/Consulate.

Providing that you have a re-entry permit and the paperwork is in order you will have no problem applying for another "extension of stay" on your returning from the trip.

I looked at the stamps in my passport.

They all say "NON-O Nakhon Sawan Imm. Extension of stay ......."

So, my passport is full of non-o extensions.

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If the immigration police refer to a visa class when they extend the right to stay in Thailand it is, obviously, perfectly reasonable and logical to call it an extension of the visa.

I have a non immigrant B visa. Issued in penang, Malaysia. Issued is 2014, current visa is valid till may14th

You do not have have a visa ! That visa issued in 2014 is long expired .

You actually have an "extension of stay" (it is not a visa) issued by an immigration office unless you have a more recent Visa issued by a Thai Embassy/Consulate.

Providing that you have a re-entry permit and the paperwork is in order you will have no problem applying for another "extension of stay" on your returning from the trip.

I looked at the stamps in my passport.

They all say "NON-O Nakhon Sawan Imm. Extension of stay ......."

So, my passport is full of non-o extensions.

I saw a guy get denied a retirement visa in Savannakhet because he just had the financial information - that is, lot's of money in the bank - and nothing else. I don't know exactly what else they wanted.

Single entry 2000

5000 - I assume that is the price for multiple entry

It might be useful to know that the consulate is very busy on Monday mornings and Tuesday afternoons. The place is virtually deserted on Tue - Fri. You can just walk up to the counter hand in / pick up your stuff.

Savannakhet.

Non-o single entry - no problems.

These days - not so sure about multiple entry - they used to issue multiple entry without financial info - but I am not so sure they do that anymore. You need to get recent information from somebody that has actually been there and been issued a multiple entry.

Some people worry about vocabulary. If you want to be fussy, you don't extend your old visa in Savannakhet, you apply for a new visa.

Non-o single entry - you get 90 days at the border when entering Thailand that can be extended for another 60 days inside Thailand. Then you must leave Thailand and start the process all over again.

No problem to get a multiple entry non-o visa in Savannakhet without the need to show financial proof. There have been several recent reports of people getting them.

This is good news. Thank you for letting me know.

Savannakhet.

Non-o single entry - no problems.

These days - not so sure about multiple entry - they used to issue multiple entry without financial info - but I am not so sure they do that anymore. You need to get recent information from somebody that has actually been there and been issued a multiple entry.

Some people worry about vocabulary. If you want to be fussy, you don't extend your old visa in Savannakhet, you apply for a new visa.

Non-o single entry - you get 90 days at the border when entering Thailand that can be extended for another 60 days inside Thailand. Then you must leave Thailand and start the process all over again.