stuartd1

I have a non-o "retirement" visa.

I last entered Thailand on the 10th Oct '15 and am booked on a flight out on the 7th Jan '16.

This makes it exactly 90 days in LOS including day of entery and departure.

Am I going to have a hassle at the airport?

There's a new headphone shop next to the Rimping near Airport Plaza. Good selection and easy parking.

A medical certificate is stated as a requirement when replacing a one year licence with a five year.

Does this have to be obtained from a hospital, the same as when originally applying for the one year licence?

If so, which is the easiest?

Pork is so cheap here I cannot believe that someone would compromise on the quality just to save what is literally a few baht. All our pork is purchased from a farm that gets it supply from the villagers, the pigs seem to have the free run of the land and when they are slaughtered they are stunned with those electric headphone things first. The farm then hangs the meat in walk in fridges for two days before it goes to be sold. The combination of happy, mostly free range pigs and a couple of days hanging makes a huge difference from the stressed out pigs that provide the meat in many places

And here is?

It takes ten working days at immigration, but no cost.

Form can be downloaded on the internet, see main TV Visa page.

Need form, 2 x photos, proof of residence, (I take a letter from my landlord) and photcopy of passport pages (main page, last entry stamp and departure card)

google chiangmaishipping

300 THB per m3 per month

google chiangmaishipping.

We have ours there.

"As a matter of interest how was the NON "O" arranged in Chang Mai and on what basis ?"

As ubonjoe says, arranged by agency locally on 60 day tourist visa, just been extended.

Think I understand the docs required. Really need to confirm that Penang will do it and find an agent that will assist if necessary.

I have a non-o which was arranged in Chiang Mai. We have been advised that my wife (not Thai) will need to get hers outside Thailand and we thought we would do it in Penang.

Has anyone experience in doing this there?

Would also be grateful for contact details of an agency who could maybe "smooth the process". Most only seem to do tourist visas.

Just returned from immigration office. Procedure for residence certificate has changed.

Handed in documents and was told to come back in ten days, probably to be told that paerwork not as required!

Upside is that it now seems to be free!

or fructose.............?

So have I. So?

I have a freind who lives there. Yesterday he told me that he had had no sleep the previous night due to a combination of barking dogs and karaoke noise.

Just as well you had your window up!

Is Thailand not already almost a Chinese colony? Major gold-dealers have always been Chinese.

The current clan in charge has a Chinese background, do they not? Name a major business in

Thailand that does not have a Chinese background of some sort in its upper echelon. I would

dare say there is a deep Chinese foothold in Thailand without it being a colony per se.

The USA has definitely had its run of printing bad-paper to pay its debts. However, I do wonder

why those that hold those debts keep taking them?

Yes but most of the Thai's of chinese descent despise the Chinese nationals. Remember, they came to Thailand to escape China!

Google "portable safe for travel" for a way to avoid this

American or British size 13.

But a single entry tourist visa will give you 60 days plus a thirty day extension. Penang would be an good holiday option.

Not sure how practical an education visa might be if you're planning on moving around.

Corruption?

I think this survey is basically flawed, having lived / worked in both Malaysia and Singapore I cannot believe that Malaysia is no. 1!

The Garden, Thapae Road Soi 5

Is there a Stuart Page from Rutland out there?

I have received an Arrival Notice and Proforma Invoice for his personal effects shipment fom UK instead of mine from Malta!

Please PM me to see if we can't sort it out.

Back to the same old question, what has priority, humans or the envirnment.