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On 8/20/2021 at 10:55 AM, ubonjoe said:

Probably immigration officer at a airport that did not know about a non-o visa being available at a immigration office if you could meet the requirements. It has been possible for many years now. People get them all the time.

You seem to have good knowledge so I will give you my status and see if you can advise

I lived in Thailand 2003 to 2018 then moved to ireland now i want to return to Thailand

I am J&J vacinated and so is my thai wife. I have made requests for my blank english and irish criminal records to be released. I have sold the irish house that was acting as my home and completion should take place late sept

    We have flights booked in early nov but they are flexible tickets

I qualify for most thai visas 

I am married to thai lady

I am over 50 years in fact 65 years old

I have more than 10 m in savings so i qualify for elite but i do not like terms

i have the 10 m required for investment visa but I do not consider the restrictions to be fair

I could opt for the 3 mill investment visa which seems like a good idea as I will probably take 3 mill with me to buy a condo

   Now ubonjoe what would you do if you were in my position. Would you wait until the Thai Visa in London decides to answer the phone and then apply for the non im o visa. Or would you just get covid insurance, a medical, and COE then fly to Bangkok or Ko Samui, or Phiket and get my o visa after I have done the quarantine.....oh yes doe my thai wife require covid insurance 

On 8/16/2021 at 1:42 PM, Dante99 said:

You may refer your concerns about the inappropriate paperwork requirements to the Department of State in Bangkok.  It is unlikely that they will help you but they control those regulations.

 

In the meantime consider Spain or Cambodia, your fitness for Thailand is questionable.

Well it seems both you and myself consider the paperwork as inappropriate, but maybe we both lack education as to how the world and especially England has changed it seems when I worked as head of security at shrubland hall (yes james bond shrubland hall) the criminal record check made by my employers only went back seven years but now they go back 100 years 

20 hours ago, nkg said:

 

Some on this forum love to pull up the ladder behind them, when they themselves are already in Thailand. They will spend hours rubbishing the sandbox, demanding that borders stay closed, and generally trying to put people off coming to Thailand.

 

You are correct and to make things worse said people tend to preach, but hate it if anyone preaches to them

20 hours ago, Albert Zweistein said:

They asked your number so they could avoid answering the phone once you called them. Not interested in your problems.

My instant re-action to your post was it was incredibly stupid, having said that anything is possible

10 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Probably immigration officer at a airport that did not know about a non-o visa being available at a immigration office if you could meet the requirements. It has been possible for many years now. People get them all the time.

You have to apply for a Thai Non-Immigrant Visa from a Thai Embassy or Consulate in your country.

1. Contact the Thailand Embassy or Consulate where you will submit the visa application or visit their website. Learn about the opening hours, working days, and if you have to make an appointment. You can find a list of the diplomatic mission offices of Thailand here.
2. Collect the required documents for the specific Non-Immigrant Visa you are applying for
3. Submit the documents and visa application. Depending on which Embassy/Consulate you apply in, you can submit the application:
   • In-person
   • Through the post, in which case you have to enclose a pre-paid and self-addressed envelope
4. Wait for the application to be processed
5. Collect your passport with the visa affixed. If you applied by mail, the Embassy/Consulate will mail it to you.

Note: If you are already in Thailand on another type of visa, you can apply to change the category to another type of Non-Immigrant Visa at the Thailand Immigration Department in Bangkok. This does not apply to holders of a Thai Visa On Arrival

23 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You can apply for the non-o visa with a visa exempt entry. No problem to move the funds into another account since it only has to be in the bank on the day you appy  and there is no requirement to prove it came from abroad when based upon marriage to a Thai. See: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/6.pdf

Well according to the link provided a farang can visit thailand without a visa and then apply for a non im o visa whilst in thailand. Now I will tell you a story and maybe you can explain why it does not count. 

    Four years ago i went on a cruise at said time I was using a retirement visa which had one re-entry allowed. We left thailand and returned so the one re-entry was used. The cruise stoped at thailand so if I went ashore a second re-entry would show and hence the retirement visa would become void. I told the cruise line that I would not leave the ship at the thai port and they should make sure my passport was not stamped...they agreed but then forgot and my passport which the ship was holding was stamped as me going ashore. When we arrived back in Thailand I was told my visa was no good...so I asked for another. Thai immigration said no and instead gave me a 30 day no visa residence. I was told the non im visa had to be applied for in another country then I could change it for a retirement visa when I returned to Thailand...I followed said instructions by way of visiting the thai embassy in hong kong........the question is why our years ago i could not convert a 30 entrance (without visa) to a non img O visa but it seems now it can be done...have the rules changed???

I am a british citizen uk passport living in Ireland ....my wife is thai

from 2003 -2018 I lived in Thailand by way of retirement visa

from  2018 to now I lived in Ireland but now want to go back to Thailand

I registered with Thai E visa and wrote the above details. I was rejected and told (by computer) to visit in person the nearest thai embassy but they are all closed. I contacted thai consulate London who told me to contact thai embassy but the embassy will not answer my e mails or answer the phone when i call them

Let us make things even more complicated 

I am a uk passport holder

I am living in Ireland 

The Thail embassy in dublin is closed forever?

I apply for evisa for thailand which asks me for passport details and my address then a message appears a person with your circumstances should go in person to the nearest thai embassy

but both dublin and london (desk service) are closed

Obvious answer would be get the old fashion form for non im o visa and post it to london but I cannot contact london thai embassy to get advice on this matter

7 hours ago, ramrod711 said:

And the criminal record check and medical form will have to be filled out in your country of residence.

Now according to my experiences and reading it is possible to go from non im o visa to retirement whilst in Thailand, but the non im o has to be obtained outside thailand. I have done this before by going to HK but with travel restrictions and closed embassies that will not be an easy task

On 8/17/2021 at 3:02 PM, canthai55 said:

Thai embassy, or consulate, or the websites affiliated with same, will have all the answers you need re entry requirements, ASQ, COE, Testing prior to boarding, etc

I contacted the thai consulate london they admitted my circumstances (ie nomad with UK passport but never lives in UK and has spent 85% of last 20 years in Thailand) makes it difficult to establish what hurdles i have to jump to get a visa. The Thai Consulate said a person like myself should contact the embassy. I did as requested and they wrote back saying they would write to me within a week., and they did saying they wanted my phone no so they could talk to me...so on monday i gave them my phone number, but they have not phoned. Hence today I phoned twice one call waiting 25 minutes next call waiting 30 then gave up

I know people believe that hurdles are easy to jump over but my hurdles are not so easy. First of all I put my Irish House for sale a few months ago when there was a lock down in Thailand but there was a great amount of confidence that Thailand would become open in OCT. Now selling a house is easy in Thailand but in Ireland it is normal to trust lawyers and agents. However, I have suffered at the hands of irish lawyers and agents and the people who are supposed to regulate said professions. Hence I prefer to be in the country where the sale is taking place. Now my plans were that I put the property on the market  in July it sells subject to contract in early August contracts are exchanged in early Sept completion happens in early oct and we grab the money and go to thailand in OCT or Nov. Now my scenario has run smoothly apart from the Thailand situation getting worse rather than better.

    Getting back to the Thai Visa hurdles I have been watching ex pat advice programs who seem to suggest the if I go for the Phuket sand box I will need to restrict my travels after the one week in Phuket and obtain COE for the follow on destinations, but if I opt for 14 asq in Bangkok it might well be reduced and after completing the 14 or 7day asq i will have full freedom to travel anywhere in Thailand....is this true 

Already sold house in Ireland and trying to get things sorted, lets do this by points

1) I am UK citizen, I lived in Thailand 2003-2018 mainly using retirement visa, then I moved Ireland now I want to move back to Thailand

a) Is there a short cut for someone who only left thailand a few years ago

b) I tried e visa got registered but it rejected my application it would seem because my place of residence does not match my passport. I received the message please apply in person at nearest embassy, but the Dublin embassy is closed and tells people to apply online, and the Thai embassy in London is closed. I tried phoning the Thai embassy in London but after hanging on for 30 min gave up. I have e mailed the Thai Embassy in London but after a week no answer.......Should I apply on a form to London if yes which form for Non Imm 0 visa leading to retirement visa

2) The thai visa webb site says I have to get a medical saying I do not suffer from certain deseases ....said deseaces are mainly tropical and not often caught in Ireland do I really need this certificate and if yes where do I go for it in Ireland a GP doctor or Hospital Doctor.

3) The thai embassy also ask for a criminal record report from couintry of residence and country of passport.   Now I believe in England criminal records are deleted (spent) after 7 years so considering I have not lived in England for 18 years  and have not visited england for 10 years the english criminal record check would be useless.  Also in total I have only lived in Ireland for 2 years I cannot see how Irish criminal records are of any good......Therefore I would suggest an application for papers concerning my Thai criminal record would be the most appropiate

4) Also the thai embassy say I must have a flight going to Phuket. Well as of mid august that is reasonable but my booked flight to Bangkok is in Nov and when said date arrives Bangkok might be open...might reduce ASQ to 7 days, pattaya  might be open, phuket might be closed, or everywhere in Thailand might be closed, or I might decide to go to ko samui

                     Please answer the questions you can answer

There seems to be a large price range for the type of condo I am looking for ie one bed 35-45 sq m and it would seem I could get away with 1.3 m and if i want to i can pay 3 m . Now I understand age, thai only registration, facilities, view, location can effect the price by 30%. However, I cannot find an explanation why i can buy a one bed condo with pool and gym for 1.3 m yet another condo which only looks a little better is listed at 3 m...Am I missing something ? is the 1.3 m condo made of match sticks? or is it just the person asking 3 M lives in LA LA land

On 6/6/2021 at 1:33 PM, Surelynot said:

HUB

If usa admit that they were making a virus to kill innocent people and it escaped from the china lab by way of a dirty Chinese worker. Then the USA and china could admit what was added to the virus in order to help new variants develop then the people making the vaccine would have enough info to make a good vaccine 

I am uk citizen and will return to Thailand after covid  using a thai retirement visa

My wife is thai

We might be doing stock market /ETF s when we return

Am I allowed to invest without getting a work permit

what would the CGT and dividend tax rate be for me and my wife

thanks  bye

My idea is clinics at airports giving J&J vacine you arrive get a jab then 5 days in hotel if ok you are set free

good for tourists

good for thailand tourist industry

Just a thought airbnb is considered to be illegal because short term accommodation is illegal if the LL does not have a hotel licence. However a hotel licence is not required if the LL is renting out 4 rooms or less. Therefore in theory someone could purchase 4 studio condos in pattaya and rent them out on airbnb 

On 4/12/2021 at 12:44 PM, Excel said:

Don't worry about being polite as I can see your economic ignorance is shining bright.  And as for my day job well I don't really need one any more. However as I have said before this thread is about currency manipulation ,not immature banter, which your country has suspected Thailand of for some time.

There is no need to divert money from health care to inflate the baht. All that has to be done is to rig a press conference using normal USA/GB procedures ie the media are told in advance what questions they should ask the finance minister

The question the minister is asked runs as follows...Do you think the thai baht is over valued

If the minister wants the baht to collapse he answers ...yes and we will not interfere if the baht goes down in value

If the minister wants the baht to rise in value then the answer is ....no we have only recovered back to pre 1997 rates

18 hours ago, Toosetinmyways said:

Perhaps the OP is refering to condominiums that are constructed on leasehold land?

I am no expert but lets have a look at this ...you want to live somewhere you buy land and a house that is yet to be built or is already built on said land you own house and land freehold

  No let us look at condos the piece of land your condo is on is also the land for the condos below yours and the condos above...therefore it is impossible for you to own the land freehold. Therefore a system has to be devised that gives the condo owner the right to do (within certain re straits) what he wants to do in his condo but said owner cannot interfere with the land because in doing so he would be interfering with  the rights of other condo owners. Therefore the builder of the condo or management company or just a land speculator has to have the freehold interest and he charges land lease charges ie rent to all the condo owners....usually the person with freehold on the land has the option to change land rent or conditions every 25 years

This is just an assumption 

I suspect in thailand houses owned by thais are freehold and condos owner by thais are leashold

My question is how does the leashold system work are the leases 30 years and have to be renewed if so is it easy or are they 200 year leases

4 hours ago, chaihot said:

 

There is one of the answers to the million dollar question.

 

Thailand did not want to pay for a "foreigner" vaccine.  Until they can produce it in Thailand (and control the bribes), vaccines aren't going to happen.

 

Did anyone see the article that said the government is allowing private hospitals to begin importing vaccines?  ... PROVIDED for every 3 vaccines they imported, they give one to the government??

  It seems that production of vaccine would be adequate if third parties are allowed to copy vacine i believe it is called generic vaccine production. However by way of lobbying ect ect the production of vaccines is being restricted to pfier ect 

On 4/12/2021 at 6:37 AM, natway09 said:

You must have "costs" on this asset.

Claim all those expenses (deduction) ensure have full receipts before summitting.

I presume in your wife:s name as an individual ?

As a side question what are advantages/disadvantages to buying condos off plan...I assume there could be problems if the developer stops trading and leaves the condo half built. I assume Nordic still have unfinished buildings will the people who put a deposit down in one of nordics unfinished buildings lose their deposit

On 4/12/2021 at 6:37 AM, natway09 said:

You must have "costs" on this asset.

Claim all those expenses (deduction) ensure have full receipts before summitting.

I presume in your wife:s name as an individual ?

Well it is debatable if a car can be claimed for..the profit when the condos are sold will go under CGT. Of course there is furniture depreciation but if we buy fully furnished and sell fully furnished then again it becomes CGT , so that is left is advert costs phone bills and repairs 

It will be wife's name as individual 

Thanks for you answer natway09 whilst we are on subject do you have any idea what one of the other answers means ie orinoco wrote

Maybe op needs to look a bit closer to home, for answers.

ten years ago we purchased a 12 room very basic apt block . Each room was rented out at 800 bht pcm and we had about an average of 10 rooms occupied. There was no allowances for expenses or basic tax credit allowance, and we had no other forms of income. I believe my wife paid about 10% ie about 10,000bht per year in tax. Now I have been reading a thai tax advice web site, and said site suggests if we owned the apt block now we would not pay one baht in tax until our income surpassed 150,000 baht and when it surpasses 150,000 the income in excess of 150,000 would only be taxed at 5%  until our income went over 250000.....either tax allowances/rates have shot up over the past 10 years, or mistakes have been made....please advise me

What is going on with the banks trying to sell bottom grade housing for top grade prices.

I have looked at some of the pictures and have properties with asking prices of 3 mill and said same house could be purchased for 2 million and the 2 mill version would be in better condition

do the banks expect the person interested to start bidding at half the asking price