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25 minutes ago, overherebc said:

If she actually has a visa then she can stay legally until it expires unlike an extension that should be cancelled.

That's why I'm asking the questions.

Where did she get the visa????

She has to do the 90-day checks at immigration, so we are on the extension already. 

She got the visa through my work, hence why she is my dependent.

Thanks for the replies and everything.

18 minutes ago, elviajero said:

On divorce any permission to stay based on the former marriage should be cancelled at immigration.

 

The lawyer is correct that it won’t be cancelled unless immigration are informed of the divorce.

Yeah, the lawyer told me there was some form I'd have to submit at Immigration informing them that we were divorced and that I wanted her visa to be canceled.

To clarify, we are all on Non-Imm B visas and they have already been converted into 1 year visas.

Long story short, the marriage is registered here in Thailand and it will be recognized back home. What I am wondering is, my ex is a dependent on my visa. When the divorce is processed, will her visa be terminated? I have heard from a lawyer here that it will only be terminated if I go to immigration and ask for it to be canceled (which I do not want to do). I want her to keep her visa as long as possible. Thanks for any advice you can provide.

An astute and balanced assessment of the situation by one in the know (as evidenced by the below quote).

"Chalerm said the controversial "blanket amnesty" brought an end to the Yingluck government because it (finally) provided the PDRC with a valid reason to overthrow the government".

And just think, if the Yellows had let democracy run it's course, Thaksin would probably have been legitimately voted out of office by now.

The people have the democratic right to protest.

When a govt is trying to pass an amnesty bill for criminals and corrupt politicians because their leader is both they are especially entitled to do so.

The right to protest inept govt and corruption is part of democracy.

and yet so many on here (and elsewhere) cheered very loudly when their right to protest (along with various other rights) were summarily stripped by the Junta...

I live in Thailand and am not hugely impressed by the police .

However in this instance an horrific murder has taken place in Thailand . The Thai police are doing their best to solve the crime

and arrest the culprets . If the Thai police don't do it who else is going to do it . Perhaps the police should drop the case and say to you critics ,

solve it yourselves . Neither the FBI nor Scotland Yard have the local knowhow or language skills and as I understand the DNA is being tested in Singapore , quite independent from Thailand . You think they are pinning the blame on poor illegal immigrants from Myanmar , to save the face of Thailand , accusing the police of racial discrimination . If this had happened in America and an AfroAmerican was blamed , you would be crying foul , racial discrimination .

Not long ago a 13yr old girl was raped on a night train to Bangkok , the THAI railway worker murdered her and threw her body out of the carriage window .

That was not a very good thing to happen in tourist Thailand . When there are so many immigrant workers on a small Thai island there is bound to be a

strong chance that one or more of them has committed the crime .

Spoken like a true Italian - if you get enough of those immigrants together, one of them certainly will wind up murdering some people on holiday! It's just what immigrants do - they are a bunch of low-life criminals!

Also, regarding the Thai train rape/murder - the guy who was found guilty was a nobody and the person who died was Thai. A bit different scenario from what we were looking at here a few weeks ago.

I thought I read on here how Thai people were so much better off without Americans and their opinions and they should all just go home and keep to themselves?

Never been involved in a crisis such as this. However, if I ever am, I pray with all my heart that it is not Thai authorities that I need to rely upon to resolve the situation.

I guess you will be leaving the country then?

I guess this post got you a bit miffed, eh?

Never been involved in a crisis such as this. However, if I ever am, I pray with all my heart that it is not Thai authorities that I need to rely upon to resolve the situation

And why is that?

You ever looked at the list of successful bombings?

Can you find Thailand among them?

Either no one targets the country or their security is first class

I'm gonna go out on a limb and go with option 1.

You must understand what the concept of a ROYAL PARDON is. His Majesty can grant pardon to whom he pleases. It doesn't matter what he or she has done. If in HM conviction this guy doesn't present a danger to society anymore, having, as it were, served 10 years on death row, the King will issue a pardon. He is not restricted by any institution or Law in this. That's all there is to it. 

This is the same thing as a PRESIDENTIAL PARDON. It's really not that difficult to understand.

What you must understand is that people are allowed to wonder about certain individuals receiving pardons and perhaps the feelings stirred in the family or society at large knowing that those individuals received a more lenient sentence than the law decrees they should receive. Also, not really that difficult to understand.
 

Anyone who has faith in OBEC has never taught in a Thai government school. They are a joke and they have no idea how to improve education. The only thing they know are 'buzzwords' like 'global citizen,' 'life-long learner,' and 'technology' (the last one is part of their SMART goal - and that is the extent of the understanding).

There have been some fascist military dictators who started very popular, but the end result wasn't so great. Amazing crowds gathered to hear one speak and to cheer and cheer in the 1930's.

Most of them restricted the press, restricted public gatherings, locked up people who disagreed with them, and some sent people for "reeducation."

Please name me one, no matter how popular with the masses initially, actually had a good ending?

It's easy to cheer at the beginning, when it seems a country needs a savior. Needing a savior is what let those people get power in the first place.

Napolean Bonaparte, George Papadopoulos, Frank Bainimarama (still in power).....there's bound to be more.

But I take your point that most end in tears.

However, it's not a foregone conclusion, and the General does seem to be doing a great job.

You have forgotten, too, that he seems to have the blessing of HM, and will surely defer to HM should HM wish to direct him.

Not saying the General is good or bad or anything about that here. I actually think the coup has done a lot of great things for Thailand. That said:

You seem to have forgotten that every single military coup has had HM approval. Every. Single. One.

That statement doesn't somehow make this one any more credible in light of the facts.

Yup she has hit the nail on the head, there are slaves on fishing boats because Thais don't want the job. I think not!

If 'she' is referring to the Ambassador, I think you misread the article. She didn't say that - the journalist who wrote the article stated that.

Why not? The beach-chair people have already gone back to the wooden loungers that were banned after the tsunami as they caused so many deaths; breaking the limbs of people so that they couldn't stay afloat.

Can you elaborate on that? I never heard anything about that.

I like the Artists impression.

Looking forward to seeing that scene.

Fair do's! He's added three food carts or trinket sellers on the right.

He's missed the plastic rubbish, soi dogs, empty M150 bottles and parked bikes though.

Not to mention the fact he forgot there is currently a road there - or will the road just be turned into the track for the tram? I'm sure that will help traffic situations in Phuket Town.

That somehow just seems so wholly inappropriate . . . but then I'm not Thai so I guess I don't understand . . .

I found the fact that women were discriminated against to me more inappropriate than the images.

What discrimination would that be?

From the article:

However, women are not permitted to enter the shrine due to a local custom.

Sounds Buddhist to me!

That somehow just seems so wholly inappropriate . . . but then I'm not Thai so I guess I don't understand . . .

I found the fact that women were discriminated against to me more inappropriate than the images.

The BBC ought to also highlight the fact that in the UK alone there are around a dozen 'honour murders' a year.

I bought a house in Banbury in 2001, and found out that a young girl there was abducted from that very house 2 years prior and taken to Leicester by her cousins and brothers, she was then stabbed to death multiple times by the very same family members for having a 'relationship' with an English local.

The problem in the UK is that the family members and local muslim community refuse to testify against these murders and the majority of these crimes go unpunished.

It is also noteworthy to mention the left and center left political parties never seem to want to come down hard on these 'islamic traditions' because they are far too worried about 'their votes'..... Eh Mr Blair and Mr Clegg????

That's pretty impressive.

First thoughts on reading title were, 'yeah, go get some of that moody W2II gold back off them Swiss folk'. How wrong was I!

Oh not another one! The Swiss accepted a lot more Jews than the Americans.... blah, blah, blah... any more misinformed preconceptions?

Thanks Captain Obvious... America is across an ocean and Switzerland is directly next-door to Germany. What else should we expect?

And taking in more Jews than America during WWII somehow absolves Switzerland of being the private bank of the Nazis and all the wealth they stole from the various peoples they enslaved?

That's great. Fine the passenger 5K Baht Don't fine the driver or the bus company for not providing the seat belts or properly trained drivers. It must be the passengers fault for the large number of accidents and deaths in the Thai tourist bus industry

No.

It is always the fault of the road. Bad road...bad...bad road.

And here I am thinking it was the malevolent spirits who were to blame! Isn't that why we had some exorcisms performed on roads in Thailand?

"They said they had traveled to Phuket because they could get good money from local people and tourists wanting to make merit. At home, they said, they had hardly any income."

I thought monks weren't supposed to touch or use money. I have heard this a couple of times.

My first impression of the monks in the picture is that they look tough and dangerous. I remember driving by a wat shortly after I moved to Thailand and seeing a monk leaning against the the archway to the wat, smoking a cigarette. He looked like a hoodlum and had a lot of tattoos. That was an eye-opener. After talking to people about this, I found out that people sometimes become a monk to avoid jail time.

Yeah, don't trust people with tattoos - they are all criminals and hoodlums...

This seems to be a common attitude in Thailand - 'not my problem'. My wife pulled over on her motorbike to help a woman who looked like she was in distress and might have needed to go to the hospital. Turns out, her boyfriend was beating her. My wife tried to get people to help, several cars stopped, looked, and then drove off. My wife was several months pregnant at the time and the girl's boyfriend kicked my wife in her stomach for trying to help - still nobody stopped to help. Just kept on driving.

But Thailand is one of the largest Buddhist nations on earth!

Where is everyone reading anything about him handling the bomb/explosive device? I didn't see mention of that in either article.