krisb

What many Thai (and other, I presume) newbies to our western countries fail to comprehend is that having a three bedroom house, a newish car and the latest model flatscreen tv doesn't make you rich: it makes you middle class. The concept of this won't sink in until the bills and cost of living hit them with the realisation that it's all relative and that middle class people usually don't have anything left in their pocket at the end of the week to live anything resembling a lavish lifestyle.

The other thing that dawned on my own wife after some time here was that factory workers and garbage collectors are those very middle class types and that they, in most cases, live a better lifestyle than a well-dressed office worker.

It's a very difficult concept for them to grasp that the guy who comes to clean out your sewage drain lives in a house twice the size of your own and drives a BMW.

I think the wife's epiphany came when she took a part-time job and realized how much, or little, she could make relative to the cost of things. What may seem a decent amount for a simple life in TL will get you next to nothing in the U.S.

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It did her head in for 6 months, now she just excepts things....

Classic stuff.

Thank you for starting my day with a laugh.

Like I said I was on Skype to her last night and she checked her email and it had a letter from the officer advising she contact him. She didn't check her email before cos I only send her emails and we were together plus 2 days after applying she lost her phone we caled vfs and advised them of new number

Now I know why app took 3 weeks he was waiting for her to contact him I guess if we did shed b here

Just fk up after fk live n learn it is wht it is

Is it normal for an officer to request an interview for a Tourist visa cos that's what happend but she lost her phone so he couldn't contact her also they sent an email but we never checked her emails till yesterday

Seriously!!!! And this is the first time you've mentioned it???

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Id say at this point

I think your mates stupid. Sorry to say.

It is part of having a passport, never ever hand it over.

makes me feel sick.

turned me off my beer.

Id pour bleach down the drain.

Mate dont take what folks say on here as gospel truth.

Not everyone is an expert and even those that are arent always right.

Ring an agent and talk to them. Its their job.

So using an agent and Geting letters from her n her parents and maybe a prospective employer as a secretary won't help the sitio? I can fit in 1 more visit during Christmas time and get a few pics in with me her family

An agent won't make any difference. It doesn't make any difference to her circumstances.

A letter from her parents won't make any difference. What could they say that would convince anyone that she would return.

"Prospective" employment, particularly as a secretary would be no reason for her to return

You're stuck with having to visit her.

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Id say perhaps an agent would. Not all of us do enough research and homework and find visa apps relatively easy. Perhaps the op could use some professional advice from an agent....cant hurt.

It seems like these days all Thai Visa is guys telling each other that their wife is not a bar girl and/or accusing others of having a bar girl wife.

So you came to Thailand and met a normal girl and got married.

Very interesting and inspiring!

Why do men expect Thai girls (much younger than them) to love them?

Is a much more interesting question.

Or

Why do foreigners expect Thais to love them?

I'm sure bar girls are as capable of love as any other girls.

Why do men expect Thai girls (much younger than them) to love them?

Is a much more interesting question.........troll question.

Never been there but similar chain in Thailand is .... Home Mart

I think you should post pictures of yourself in a bikini - so we can judge whether you are indeed qualified to model.

Homeworks? They have a store locator on their website but you'll need a Thai reader to use it.

If your assets were yours before you got married, then they stay yours.

Theres no 50/50 thing anymore.

I know, my brother just divorced and they were both Australian. Her lawyer said she would only get half of what they both acquired. Even then the business he started, she didnt get anything from that and she worked for him. All she got was sacked from that job.

So yes your assets stay yours. Unless she bought them with you.

Hi, looking for the giant store on the road to Khon Kaen but its in Chumphae.

They are similar to Home Pro but I dont think its Home Pro.

Anyone know the name of this place?

i dont want to lie but if she has no job i can see shel have big problem geting visa she does have a family in issan mom dad dad works as a nurse in hospital mom in restaurand she has sister brother dad owns a home and she has a house book etc what sort of info does she need to provide like letter from dad that he guarantees she comes back or???

also if she gets a formal letter from a company that will state that shel b offerd a job on her return to thailand would that help?

thanks mik

How did you meet a nurse from Issan?....seems kind of rare I suppose.

Anyhow, back to the question you asked, did you ring her vfs case worker and ask what was the problem?...I would have.

>Cracked me up, but I understand where she is coming from, the Hills Hoist is an Aussie invention

What cracked me up is that the Aussies lay claim to this "invention"! Surely any nation on earth could invent such a thing?

They could have, but didn't. It's like saying any nation could have invented gunpowder.

So Hah!....Im right your wrong, I win you loose.

Hi, perhaps admin or moderators can move to ladies forum for you or like said above phuket forum.

My wife registered our UK-born daughter on the Tabien Baan when she was 5. So she's actually in the book AFTER her younger Thai-born sister.

You don't need to put the child in the Tabien Baan until you're back in Thailand. Take the Thai embassy issued birth certificate and probably the child's Thai passport along with the tabien baan to the local amphur.