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I agree that it's just second hand info and rumors but this is the second post I've seen about it. Immigration denies or used to deny entry on several occasions when technically they had no reason to like for back to back tourist visas, being in the country "too much".

History would show a volunteer visa, if they cared to look into it, but I don't think the organization it was done with would.

Yeah it was a ridiculous situation. A ton of people either left the country or scrambled to get Education/Volunteer visas and then people who just sat on their ass and were prepared to overstay got rewarded with a free amnesty for several months.

Someone else made a similar post recently. Apparently the organization that all the volunteer visas were being done under was busted in some form or another and the people who got one under them now have a so called "black mark" on their passport. Legally, the only thing that would prevent you from qualifying for an Elite Visa is an overstay in the past few years or a criminal record etc.. so if people were denied, it might have been at the discretion of the airport immigration officer(s) but I'd follow the advice of the Elite visa staff. If a new passport solves the issue then that's the way I'd go.

Might as well give body bags instead if they don't open things up soon.

Yeah it's horrible. They must have like 1 person working the English line or something.

I read elsewhere that someone said you need to go in or call and specifically ask them to turn back on international transactions.

Interesting. So it's your interpretation as well that the TM30 is not the Hotel, guest house, landlord, agent, owner's responsibility and the majority have just been doing it as a favor?

I'm not interested in a repeated back and forth exchange, you are kind of twisting my words or taking what I say too literally but you can say I'm wrong if you want, here it is direct from immigration themselves. https://www.immigration.go.th/en/?p=14721 "According to section 38 of the 1979 immigration act, “House owners, heads of household, landlords or managers of hotels who accommodate foreign nationals on a temporary basis who stay in the kingdom legally, must notify the local immigration authorities within 24 hours from the time of arrival of the foreign national.” "The notification of residence of foreign nationals is made by the manager of licensed hotels according to the hotel act, owners of guesthouses, mansions, apartments and rented houses using the form TM. 30." Yes he has to do it himself if the owner, landlord etc.. chooses not to but officially it is the owner, landlord etc.. who should be doing it and they will be fined if they don't. I know the TM30 has nothing to do with tax but obviously a registered stay using TM30 is harder for shady landlords to hide for tax purposes and this is basically what I was told when I repeatedly asked one to do one for me for my visa purposes but they refused. You could very well be right that there is no charge to do it, I can't be bothered to dig further into it but I was told by my Japanese landlord in one condo that there was a charge for him when he asked me if I needed one or not.

Read elsewhere that it's already fully booked.

The owner of the condo is required by law to submit a TM30 on your behalf, you both can be fined if one is not filed with 24 hours of your arrival. It can even be done online. I would have asked them to do it but I have been in the same position and when asking been refused so it's not a guarantee that if you ask, they will do it. TM30 means the stay is registered and they have to pay tax on the income plus there is a charge to do it too.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Publicity and attention which hopefully leads to the dishwashers they need. Somebody with connections to cheap migrant labor which the restaurant might not have or want to associate themselves with.

Actually an extra clause was added this time that says: "Officials must be stricter in order to make sure foreigners are not abusing the system."

If the borders are open, they'll go back to doing border runs or visa runs I guess. Or Elite visa if they can afford it. COVID voided the 6 months thing ya.

Previously you didn't but this time it seems they have added a stipulation that it is up to the immigration officer's discretion as they don't want people "abusing" it.

You're talking about illegal money lenders. I'm pretty sure credit card companies don't sell their debt to these kinds of people.

You're quoting from the article where the debtor made a payment on the debt after the 2 years had already passed and renewed the statute of limitations.

What good would that do? Just way off-topic. In the OP's case, the debt was written off and not pursued within the 2 years they had the time to do so. 6 years later now, it cannot be pursued legally if a payment has not been made on the debt.

Yes, the 2 years is how long the lender has to make a claim. If they don't make one within those 2 years, the statute of limitations comes into effect and they can no longer purse the debt unless the person owing money renews it by making even a small payment.

Besides it being statute and not statue, your sentence makes no sense. The statute does apply to credit card debt, which is what this is and it wouldn't be an active case any longer after 2 years which is when the statute of limitations would come into effect.

All you have to do is google thailand statute of limitations on debt and multiple reliable sources say that it is 2 years. Very important to know, If she makes any small payment now, she resets that statute which means she is then liable to be sued for it. There is also the Debt Collection Act which offers her many protections against unscrupulos practices from debt collectors trying to harass her and severely limits them in how they can go about it with harsh consequences for them if they violate it. http://report.dopa.go.th/laws/document/2/231.pdf I suggest reading for yourself like I suggested earlier rather than taking the word of random strangers on this forum.

Thai commercial law stipulates that debt has to be collected in a period of maximum 2 years. Sounds like as you correctly assumed, the company wrote off the debt and possibly sold off a database of non-payees cheap to some scummy collection agency whose job is to scare/make threats in order to collect whatever they can. Not saying it was right for your GF to not pay off her debt but it's too late for that now and paying some scummy company who buys debt for pennies on the dollar isn't really gonna make things right. I am not a lawyer or anything close to one so do not take anything I said as fact and do your own clarifications.

Cash only in Thailand.

It's more the branch than the bank that matters. You'd have the best luck with one in a more isolated area and if you find one willing to open one for you, it will very likely come with the requirement of purchasing their insurance for 6000 baht or something like that.

They'll consider reopening bars January 15th instead of 16th.