hotandsticky

Is the Non-Imm 'O' 12 month, multiple entry visa, based on marriage still easily available?

That is also typical of everywhere I have traveled in Thailand in the last year or so.

You wouldn't pay anything like that for a small room in Pattaya. Your comparison should be with 5k pm. 7 years payback if you take into account annual maintenance costs

Thailand has very clear laws and very clear rules of intestacy. That said, ultimate power rests with a court - which is ultimately responsible for granting Probate. Wills and signatures DO matter, and will always matter. Anyone would be foolish to doubt the legal validity of leases and usufructs. My partner could sell 'our' land even with the existence of the usufruct in my favour....that is little different to someone in the west selling a house with a sitting tenant. Nobody in their right mind would buy 'our' land subject to my rights of occupation and to the 'fruits of the land'. (My partner calls the land 'ours' - I don't, it is hers).

That shouldn't be necessary as he says a TM30 has been submitted.

Don't need the media to prove their relevance.........it is a given.

They were not the Plebs, the unwashed masses - the zero-dollar tourists. The hiso Chinese have always a nose for a deal.

Ah! The aroma of envy!

Oh dear, that will bring the doggie brigade out...................

Probably because the swimming pool at Mike's shopping mall was closed during Covid.....................plus fewer flying club candidates around with Covid restrictions.

Two land border entries in any calendar year is the usual limit.

No. I had this situation a few back. I obtained my visa from Hull (in the good old days) which was valid for 12 months. After 6 months I renewed my passport. My visa was still valid for 6 months so I had to carry that passport, the new one being used for travel. After that 6 months I obtained a new visa from Hull in the new passport. Towards the end of that visa I applied for an extension of stay based on retirement.

No one is rejoicing.......... but don't expect me to pay for their stupidity.

You are confused. In the context of this thread you would not have any visa stamps in a new passport. In this example the guy has a visa (from Savannaket) in his passport; he gets a new passport. He has 2 passports, one with a visa in and one is virgin. Nothing to be transferred. He does his 90 day visa run (or just leaves the country) and his new passport gets stamped. That is it. Nothing is transferred.

No, they most certainly don't! ???? They (and Immigration officers at Swampy) will say "Do you have visa?". If I say "no, I have an extension of permission to stay based on retirement (off a Non-Immigrant 'O' visa granted in 2009)" I will get blanks looks. That is not the point - that is Thai/Farang communication; this forum is an English language forum frequented mainly by Farangs, IMO it is important to distinguish between between the two - certainly as far as advice is concerned.

The Phantom 500 also seems to be quite popular.

not by me... There is more confusion on these pages from incorrect use of the terminology. A VISA is a visa, an extension of stay is just that. The two are completely different. Whether a bank deems a Non-Imm 'O' visa as sufficient for account opened is another issue. An extension of stay is acceptable.

My point was that a VISA is valid in old passport and you carry the old passport with the new passport. There is no need to go anywhere near Immigration. The new passport will have exit/entry stamps only until you obtain a new visa (or decide to apply for an extension).

Your marriage extension will only be granted until November, the expiry date of your passport. expiry

How long will it take to get your new passport?

That is certainly true of an extension, but I think it is not correct for a visa. That is why you have to carry the old passport (with the visa sticker) and the new passport - into which any immigration stamps are transferred.

I have found Bolt to be very effective, only one failure - soon ordered another. I hate the taxi mafia around Pattaya but I will use a local guy for longer journeys.

Everything is relative.

Now THAT is definitely overkill.

Two of my three were under 10 seconds, the other got caught up in the Thai holiday on 6th December. I always transfer funds from my UK bank account to my WISE account and then instruct the transfer from there.