peterquixote

ahh curses,  

I thought if I took a work permit [ self funded photography researcher ] 

I could gain permanent residency.

It is expensive applying for O-A New Zealand   $NZ 250, and at least a week's work.

I am with a Thai woman, and God do I look after her, you would think they would want me here

Ubonjoe and others, thanks.  I always organise the O-A [ Retirement ]Visa in country of origin New Zealand. 

I have always just sent a copy of bank account print out, with the 800,000 showing as NZ dollars about $NZ40,000.

Thai Embassy NZ like the statement to be signed and then witness signed by a Justice of Peace.

I find adobe acrobat pdf  editor  a big help.

Similar with health document, and Police record.[witness siganture]

This year I will apply for permanent residence on the basis of consecutive 0-A Visas.

I am hoping when I come back to Thailand I can visit Yingluck in jail.

I will say "you Shinawtra cost Thailand about a trillion dollars, and your scum brother much more.

The children of Thailand will live you see your family name reviled".

I received a request for help from a fellow New Zealander. He says he is in overstay, and had to pay 20,000 overstay and 6000 bribe.

He says they took the 20,000 but he didn't have the bribe. He says he has a ticket , but tickets usually have precise dates .

The letter by email:

Sorry to disagree with the comments about hospital doctors.

Two years ago I suffered a lumbar disc effusion, in Laos.

After my insurance Company had left me lying in agony for 6 weeks I arrived at Bumrungrad

International hospital, Bangkok

They were a complete waste of space, and expensive. My pain was enormous.

I went home and my new Thai wife went down to the Chemist, brought back some medicine Tramidol,

and I felt a little better.

thanks people, I have cardiomyopathy. heart disease, and I cough in paroxysms .

To alleviate the coughing on the flight to Bangkok I was going to take some codeine phosphate, and maybe some whisky.

I really can not sit in an aircraft for 9 hours coughing on my neighbor.

I will take the risk, I am a New Zealander and I look pretty straight

A megalomaniac project conceived to please the Chinese, as said before for the 30% for Thaksin, cronies and the assurance for the former Phua Thai party to stay in power for 100 years with the out of budget money.

precious girly drivel which demeans Thai Visa.

Not as though Thai Visa is not already trying to lower its standard.

Wait on did Thai Visa ever have any standards,

wait on yes they do, you can't talk politics really,

motor bikes anybody ??

and get those Thai girly scams off my computer Thai Visa,

http://www.upworthy.com/see-why-we-have-an-absolutely-ridiculous-standard-of-beauty-in-just-37-seconds?c=exit1

....

But for the tourists who would like to stay and would prefer to not leave the Kingdom, for the purpose of renewing their visa, wouldn't it be a win/win situation if we could just go to the local Immigration office. We pay either way.

Again irrelevant, as others also pointed out. Tourist is tourist and the intention of a tourist Visa is short time and for that, enough Visa options exist. All your would / should / could and any negation thereof are irrelevant, as it is not within the Thai law as it is written right now.

Would you please also take note that the same rules exist for Visa into Europe / Schengen: It is not possible to get a tourist Visa that is longer than 90 day within a 180 day period and it is NOT possible to prolong such a Visa.

So you are actually asking the Thai government to be even more lenient tourists to their country than the European countris are with Thai tourists - you are certainly aware that Thai citizens can only apply for Visa through the Embassies, there are no Visa exempt or Visa on arrival possibilities for Thai citizens to Europe (Schengen).

Thais also can't get a visa waiver for the USA, Canada, Australia or NZ. In the case of NZ, some years ago Thais got a 90-day visa waiver, whilst NZers got a reciprocal 90 day visa waiver to enter Thailand, but due to larger numbers of illegal workers and overstayers, the NZ government decided to cancel the visa waiver and impose a visa requirement on Thai citizens, back in 1996 I believe. Thailand responded by reducing the visa-free limit for NZers down to 30 days from 90 days previously.

Apart from a few reciprocal agreements like this, generally speaking tourism is more important for Thailand than for these other countries hence the reason why Thailand is more generous towards allowing Europeans/Americans/Australians etc. to enter Thailand temporarily than they are towards Thais entering those countries temporarily. 6-8% of Thai GDP has been mentioned as coming from tourism, though depending on what industries are included in the makeup of tourism, 10 or more % is likely (especially if you include prostitution, though not all customers are foreigners although there is also such a thing as domestic tourism, which I assume is included in these GDP calculations).

Consequently, it doesn't really matter to the Thai government that their citizens need a visa to access Europe or North America/Australia etc. when citizens of those countries can enter visa free. In any case, 30 days is what most of these countries get without a visa to Thailand, 90 days is standard for Thais that are able to get a visa for any of these countries, although some are more generous than others. In some cases though, particularly European countries from what I've heard, Thais may only get a 15 day visa or whatever that is based on the travel itinerary they submit. Australia on the other hand, routinely hands out 3-month visas even if a Thai only needs to spend a week there; for subsequent visits a 12-month multi entry with a 3-month per time stay limit is often granted. The USA is the most generous (no idea why) when they hand out 10-year visas with a 6-month per time visit limitation. Personally I think that since that is not reciprocated for Americans coming to Thailand, that visa type should be revoked, not withstanding the fact that Thai passports are normally only valid for 5 years thus a 10-year visa is largely redundant given that one would need to travel with both a new passport and their old one containing their valid US visa.

Apparently Thais need to prove that they are flying into and out of the UK to obtain a tourist visa, saying you are going by train/car is not enough (though one could conceivably go by these methods are the visa has been issued but this would probably mean throwing away a previously purchased air ticket). To travel to say Switzerland, an application for a visa needs to go via the Swiss Embassy and if travel is done via another EU Schengen state (such as Austria) the visa will be annotated Schengen + 1 or something, which seems strange given that how would the authorities there know which other countries you are visiting, if you're already inside the Schengen area? Passport controls have been made obsolete now. So yeah the requirements for Thais are far more stringent than for citizens of those countries coming here.

It's also a lot easier for citizens of those and other countries to spend extended periods inside Thailand, unlike the 90 day limitation for non-Schengen citizens inside the Schengen zone.

I enjoyed the convoluted but matter of fact response from Tom Tom.

I met a Thai girl in 2011, and married her, and we came to New Zealand.

I had an entire family pumping for her, and within 18 months she was a resident.

They NZ my country sent her out voting papers

And little me. I just went back to Thailand with her and I supported her entire family.

In response the Thailand Immigration service gave me a fine Immigration for pouring money into the citizens Maha Sarakham.

because I had not transferred money to Thailand bankers.

Read Pheu Thai.

What fool would give money to Thailand , you know what will happen.

You Soi dogs immigration Thailand

Just supporting an entire village family does not reach the brains of these impoverished Thai Immigration people.

For the idiots on Thai Visa who say this is and this is the law, especially precious administrators,

I say get of this Thai Visa go and eat lunch and get out.

And keep the girly virus off my computer Thai Visa.,

Knock Knock on the door administrator

Fair amount of the expected sentimental drivel here. I lived in a Condominium and the dog below howled all night.

I went down a few times to sort this animal out, but he was behind 12 foot wall howling.

arranged a Thai person to talk to owner. No results

Nice food , but sleep at night, suck that sentimentalists,

'dogs are dogs and peopole are people.

Many of the 450 people in the Condo knew and thanked me,

Thai lady dog howler screamed at me.

I said I warned you villaqer shut your dog up,

she said she wanted payment, I got a Thai to say say,

over someone's dead body Bangkok villager.

To state that the article by Achara Deboonme is partisan, is the first truth.

The article is an emotional load, without the resource of evidence or maturity.

First up Achara, the visitors to Thailand were 25 million plus, but down this year, for reasons that may elude you.

The rest of her column a sad little piece of work , whining about the wealth and income gap

and without evidence for suggestion, or any possible remedy.

That is that this post claptrap , without intellectual or evidential merit.

Maybe she thinks the Pheu Thai party was there to help the inequality,

her post is weak I think she is very young, attended University and is without life experience .

I live in New Zealand and generally speaking we see United Nations, and all of its subsidiary as a sad joke.

eg the security Council with 5 permanent members who would not cross the road to help your bleeding child,

too busy sucking cash. Our own Minister of foreign affairs described the Security Council [and by implication] the UN as crippled

I think it most likely the farmers will be paid. Its only a few days in to what is obviously a well designed coup.

All this leads to another possibility.

Will General Prayath stand aside from Army and form his own Government .

It must be hard for Thaksin not able to suck millions each week from his dirty Government.

The weakling responses to this coup from USA and UK are that they believe in democracy.

Well democracy is a way of Governing, not a way of sucking the life blood from Thailand.

I think Prayuth is here for a while

^{It is worth being aware of the fundamental speech differences we have,}

^{that is that business of lice instead of rice. Here a short film to show the funny side of language}

^{I am New Zealand, and you will hear accent, my Wife Isaan.}

^{http://paulscottstories.blogspot.co.nz/2014/03/this-is-story-of-valery-rafferty.html.}

Well, whether I like it or not, my Thai Wife speaks in that way of the pigeon English.

And slowly without knowing it I started to copy her.

Apparently it is a human trait to copy language .

This is why a person will say to you sometimes, you are speaking like your father or Mother did.

We voice copy and intonation.

Sometimes I could be in a Bangkok taxi and raving on about things to my Wife, Miss Wan,

especially my hatred for Thaksin with that loose slightly nasal Southern accent accent we have,

I said we are getting rid of Thaksin and we are going to pay the rice farmer

and the taxi driver leaned over his seat , checked the traffic was safe and said

" I think you can be reading the Bangkok times too often Sir "

and his accent, his accent was as clean crisp as you could imagine, he was about 50 years of age

Just a thought .

Does anybody consider that Prayuth would resign from the Army soon and form a new leadership as a citizen, or just hold the existing position

I have the feeling that the Prayuth Generals had been planning for a long time .

There will have to some cool thinking about the rice, but I hear the phone calls are a flurry in Isaan

We got two phone calls today down here in New Zealand

I am in New Zealand , the Thai girls came around to visit my wife and it was a celebration for Thailand.

A celebration for Thailand. I suppose now we can expect Prayuth to be PM or similar.

It is a good day here, they take that money from the evil Shinawatra and will pay the farmers

well she has more balls than thaksin, did not expect here to show but maybe she is starting to realize she wants to live in Thailand without all the crap her brother has caused

A tiny part of me does have some sympathy for her. It's a situation she probably never wanted to be in and had her arm twisted to make her stay. She must really be cursing Thaksin in her private thoughts, knowing he did all this to her and he meanwhile sits in luxury, probably guzzling champagne and caviar. But sympathy or no, she did sign on to things and her actions have come near to bankrupting the country, destroying its rice exporting market, and driven many to desperation or worse. I have much more sympathy for her victims, in the final run.

Our tears for Thailand , she should be in jail, Shinawatra is finished with disgrace,

his life now disgusting meaningless.

Soon we come back to Thailand, bring our little money and help you recover Thailand .

Lets hope the General realises that he needs to retain control for a long time.

If I were a Thai man I would send my boy into the Army

Dear Gen Prayuth,

Thankx for making an end to this Shinawatra dynasty, now it's time to rebuild the country.

And please do not forget to round up all the redshirt posters on Thaivisa.com, or they will keep hurting the country.

May the Lord Buddha be with you....

yes, thanks Bangmod, who says we Westerners have no opinion when we pay so much.

My own Father in law, he rang us today he was in tears ,

he said to my Wife

"Soon you stop paying me the General has taken Thailand's purse"

Go on General. no time for shy, just be Prime Minister, control that budget.

Everything we down her here says the people support you.

My Wife Isaan is happy all day

I would like to consider briefly the concept of democracy , as the above commenter Jesse Frank has. Thanks Jesse.

Democracy is not a ballot box from which you can do whatever you like even against your people's wishes.

It is not a ballot box to send all of Thailands money to a silver pocket of criminal in Dubai.

It is a method of governing, a method of listening to your people and making progress for all, and not one megalomaniac.

Let me say that the Pheu Thai infra structure scheme was 2 trillion baht,

it stopped at Korat and was billions of dollars which Thaksin would have used to control the army.

In my opinion General Prayeth will eventuate as the peoples hero.

I hope him Prime Minister, I see nobody else.

My Father in Law in Maha Sarakham has no money because of the Shinawatra scum.

I pay him.

He has the humiliation of defeat by that corrupt dog, and he despises the Shinawatra.

The King can feel a good day today, I only wish Yingluck could feel a dirty Thailand jail.

yes, what is going on here, this is a gross violation.

I mean what does it achieve

I am supposed to be flying in to Bangkok arrive 1am,

I mean what the f..k.

It is an absurdity and will create antagonism

people coming home from work going out to work

everything. its wacko what is in his head?