Swiss1960

Legally, you will be working and you need a work permit. As you will be here on a marriage extension, you can get a work permit

- when you create your own company with enough employees, turnover etc (seems unrealistic in your case)

- find a company who will offer you a workspace and a work visa for a share of your profit (there are quite a few such companies doing business in Thailand)

There is a lot of talk about he "Smart Visa" for digital nomads with reduced taxes, BUT... you need a certain income from you work (which you will probably not have) AND it is a B-visa limited to 4 years (at least that is the latest I heard).

I would guess that there are a lot of people who are (illegally) working online in Thailand. The authorities will not care about them / not find them, as long as 

- the work they do is completely for companies outside Thailand

- the salary/remuneration is paid to an account outside Thailand and transferred into Thailand from an account in your name

- no Thai could do this work, so you are not taking anybody's job away

- they are quiet about what they do.

From your description, you will probably fall into this category.

3 hours ago, SCOTT FITZGERSLD said:

they give the world a discount. don't you get it? millions of people all over the world

are now reading it and cheer YEEEHHHH, THAILAND GAVE US A LOWER INSURANCE REQUIREMENT !!

BUT seriously, i want to ask for how long the insurance has to be valid?

say i have a non-O visa for another 8 months, but also carry a passport that allow

me visa exempt. can i buy insurance only for , say, 30 days, or will the thai embassy / computer/ IO will tell me: NO YOU MUST HAVE INSURANCE FOR 9 MONTHS ??

Your problem would not be the insurance, but the loss of the non-O visa... you left the country and got stamped out with a re-entry permit. You enter the country with another passport on a visa exempt, therefore you do not have a re-entry stamp on your non-O visa and therefore, this visa is not valid. You will save few bucks on the insurance, but lose your visa.

Didn't you just write in another post, that you have a new girlfriend? ????

2 hours ago, In Full Agreement said:

 

Starting a post with words like this isn't likely to make you any new friends.

 

 

1) The notion that somebody might try to make friends on a public and anonymous forum makes me ROFL

2) I have never been and will never be intimidated by or a member of the dictatorship of political correct language

Retirement extensions are normally done the same business day, max 1 day, never heard about anything more. IF they tell you that it takes longer, then you should point them to the expiration day of your current permission to stay and kindly ask them for an extension stamp until you return.

Normally, they accept renewal requests one month beforehand. So if you enter end of October for 4 weeks, that would give you a leave date around the w/c 25th November. Therefore, you could apply for the 1y extension (assuming it is a retirement extension) on or after 19th November and get the new extension (and by a new re-entry permit) before you have to leave the country. That is in my view the way to go.

Take your machine to a computer shop where people can do actual diagnostics, instead of asking for internet best guesses. 

56 minutes ago, Geoffggi said:

Ha ha ha!!! Did you never hear the story about the boy who cried wolf too many times ..................LOL

You beat me to it

The only thing the OP seems to "know" about Pattaya is Walking Street - and probably all the 6.x and 13.x sois - and only during nighttime. If you then are drunk yourself and run into other alcoholics (Thai or foreigner does'nt matter), it is the recipe for problems. OP better stays home.

I understand your frustration, OP, about the permanent changes to everything Thailand and Covid. The same is true for us "locals", be this for sale of alcohol (from shops or in restaurants), opening hours and curfews, cinemas, waterparks, not to speak about vaccination opportunities for Thais and foreigners alike.

That said... I understand the "Sandbox" concept for an island, where there are limited ingress and egress points that can be controlled. I have yet to understand, how they want to do such a thing for Pattaya with literally thousands of roads in and out? Do they want to imprison Pattaya center and Jomtien as they did before with (limited) success? But then what to do with locals travelling in and out for work, shopping etc? But then I think, nobody in the whole government did think about this also. 

7 hours ago, bbabythai said:

You are exactly the reason why I would NEVER buy in a gated community. You think you are living in Switzerland with your self entitled attitude. This is Thailand NOT switzerland...

This is not about a country, but about being a responsible neighbor. By allowing trash, rodents and termites in their garden, they endangered all the homes around. If you live in the boonies and far away from other houses, then up to you how you want to live. But if you invest in a gated community, there are written rules about various things that you have to obey to. If you break the rules, you will have the consequences coming.

Imagine you live in an apartment... your neighbor smokes and grills on his balcony and the smoke comes into your apartment. Your neighbor has mold in his apartment and it starts to creep through the wall into your apartment. How fast would you call the juristic committee for help, if your personal talks did lead nowhere? 

The English is not really good, but basically, the consulate rejected your initial offer, as they wanted to give you the chance to change your SHA booking and reduce the number of nights to 7/10 instead of 15. Read again their full text "Good news!! FYI, from October 1st, 2021 onwards, the traveler who is going to Thailand with fully vaccinated will be quarantined only 7 nights, but for the traveler who unvaccinated will be quarantined at AQ hotel for 10 nights. If you are thinking that you still have time to change your hotel booking pls change," 

Actually an almost unheard of proactive effort of a consulate to help you save money on SHA costs