jeffandgop

Rumak- My yard is small but I desire even level cuts- something a weed walker is not steady enuf to do

Am looking for recommendations for where there are a very good selection of powered lawn mowers to choose/buy from. If you have any experience and knowledge I’d appreciate your recommendations. 

electrified- your response provides no assurance or even hope that either method will guarantee successfully processing an extension.I went Wed and today is Thur and clearly both days had a clear excess of applicants. Coming in at 1430 does nothing as well. 

Lizard- I don’t believe you know. 

I went yesterday (Wed) to try to process my retirement extension. I arrived at 0930 and was turned away as all que numbers had already been passed out. Anyone confirm that IMM is still doing 25 retirement extensions in the morning and 25 more in the afternoon (bring their self imposed limitations)?

Give Bob a call at ‭082-196-6003‬. His profession are all about pools which involves pumps as well. He might be able to assist. 

I previously purchased my pool supplies from World Chemicals and switched to Swimming Pools Thailand (Bob) for better pricing and  the variety of supplies they offer.

When one of my two Kripsol pumps needed replacement Bob provided the best price and did the removal of the defective pump and installation of the new one. He even made corrections/improvements in my pump house electrical panel while he was installing.

Bob's pool knowledge is unsurpassed in Chiang Mai from my experience. He's the only one I need to or want to call to provide advice, buy supplies, or fix problems.

(I have a 4x8M saltwater pool)

When I selected “The next appointment” print button a new tab opened up with the normal slip having the next report date you would put in your passport. Don’t know why that didn’t work the same for you. 

10 hours ago, Thailand said:

My advice was simply based on the experience of more than one hundred ninety day reports over the years in various forms.

 

It is a simple take it or leave it, your choice is to leave it. Let us know how it turns out as it will be useful for others.

As fate would have it, I received an email from IMM an hour ago “approving” my online submittal.

I appreciate all the feedback.

In the end it is whatever IMM wants to do about any matter, rules or not.

The 90 day submission is not a request for approval, by regulation.  So long as the report is accomplished without falsehoods or errors in the information the foreigner has complied with the regulation.

The attached picture is the header of the Read Me and the the TM-47 form itself is titled "FORM FOR ALIEN TO NOTIFY OF STAYING LONGER THAN 90 DAYS ", and IMM completes the submission at the bottom of the TM-47 under the header "

14 hours ago, Thailand said:

I believe a  "pending" response is not acceptable to immigration.

 

Happened to me time before last so I simply sent by registered mail within the timeframe, you might consider doing the same thing if it stays at "pending" for the next couple of days.

I appreciate your feedback. I posted to see what others who had similar experience might contribute.  As it is immigration who has labelled the submittal "pending" I don't understand what you mean by it "is not acceptable". One could say the same for "accepted" or "rejected" as well, no?

Immigration acknowledges they have received my report of my address via their official channels. What I lack is the exact date when I would need to report again; which is moot when I depart Thailand before whatever date that may be.

I and others have sent the 90 day report by registered mail and have proof of delivery to immigration and yet have not received the nest 90 day reporting slip by return mail.  When that happened to me I went to immigration, they acknowledged they had received it and it had been logged in their system and they handed me my 90 day slip.

I don't see a difference with my "pending" 90 day report.

If you have more details on what you mean when you write "I believe" that "pending" is not acceptable where in this case I will not require their next 90 day slip since I will leave the country well before when that would be due I'd welcome that....

I successfully submitted mine last Thursday 9 March (before 8am). It’s been “pending” since. 

My current 90 expires 21 March. As I’m leaving Thailand for a brief stint on 1 April I don’t care if IM responds or not. It’s in their hands and I’ve complied with the requirements to report, which they acknowledge.

3 minutes ago, jeffandgop said:

You may alternatively provide a CoR from your embassy/consulate.

If you are a US citizen, it is in the form of an affidavit you can download from the Consulate website and you make an appointment with the embassy to have them notarize it. It costs $50.

While the Thai IMM CoR is valid up to 3 months, the Affidavit is valid for up to a year. But once you provide either document to the Land Transport Office they keep it.

Here are the requirements as provided at the Land Transport Office info desk on the 2nd floor..............

You may alternatively provide a CoR from your embassy/consulate.

If you are a US citizen, it is in the form of an affidavit you can download from the Consulate website and you make an appointment with the embassy to have them notarize it. It costs $50.

While the Thai IMM CoR is valid up to 3 months, the Affidavit is valid for up to a year. But once you provide either document to the Land Transport Office they keep it.

Last week I went to the Land Transport office to get me an International Drivers license (IDL) so I can rent a car in Italy next month.  A valid Thai DL is not itself sufficient- I needed to provide copies of all my passport data and non-immigrant visa and obtain from the US Consulate a residency affidavit ($50). So I returned with all the paperwork Wed, they processed the paperwork, and gave me a form to sign. I noticed the IDL form referenced my previous passport no. and asked them to correct it.  Oh, that’s another 55B to update your passport info and you need to go pay for copies of your passport data (never mind they had all that passport copies already).  OK. I go get the copies, pay the money.  They give me a new IDL form to sight w/the correct passport BUT wait- first you (me) need to get a new Thai DL to replace the current one since your passport no. is now changed in our system. I say I don’t want a new Thai DL as it expires in 6 months and I’ll get the new one then. Oh no; no new Thai DL, no IDL.....OK. I go process for a new Thai DL, and return to the desk to get my IDL. No can do..They tell me to come back Friday to pick it up since Thursday is a holiday.

So I went back to the Land Transport office for the third time in a little over a week today and finally got my IDL. See you in 6 months when it’s time to renew my Thai DL. 

Went to Promenada yesterday just before noon to have lunch & obtain a Re-entry permit. Received que #0526; which was #2 for the after lunch processing.  Had lunch then returned to Imm at 1:10pm & I was called up 1 minute later. 10 minutes later I was out the door with the Re-Entry permit.  Staff was attentive and polite and even delivered my completed passport to me directly while I was sitting in a chair waiting for my name to be called to pick it up.....

As I will be doing my Extension of Stay based on Retirement in May, I asked the staff how long a Proof of Income Affidavit is considered valid by Imm and the response was 6 months....

I wrote another email to the Consulate today and within one hour their boilerplate notification email to come pick up the passport was in my in box. Wonder if I had not asked this third time were they ever going to notify........

I know that. Which made their response non helpful. Be that as it may, I checked the status using the link in the thread and received that same status- that it had been mailed to the Consulate but no date details are given. I wrote another email to the Consulate today and within one hour their boilerplate notification email to come pick up the passport was in my in box. Wonder if I hadnt asked this third time were they ever going to notify........

As of today I’m still waiting to receive notification from the CM Consulate. It’s just about 4 weeks since the application was submitted. 

I applied for a renewal at the CM Consulate 11 Jan. I’m still waiting for their notification that they’ve received it so I can pick it up. When I request a status it’s “in the mail to us (Consulate)”.

The span time from the time when you submit your US passport renewal to the Chiang Mai Consulate and receive notification from them it is available to be picked up has been 2 weeks- even their own website says as such.

My wife submitted her renewal paperwork more than 3 weeks ago and still no passport. We contacted the consulate earlier this week and they would only say that "it is being mailed to our office"...no other details, no ETA, etc.  Nothing since.

Has anyone else processed a renewal in the month of January?

My post from earlier today may have not been clear in its request so I will re-post here my question. 

I have always utilized the method of seasoned bank funds (“Account deposit with a bank in Thailand of not less than Baht 800,000 as shown in bank account transactions for the past 3 months”) to apply for my extension of stay based on retirement.

This year I intend to use the “Proof of income of not less than Baht 65,000 per month” to apply. 

Has anyone recently encountered any difficulties, challenges, demands for proof of income, etc., when using the proof of income method?

I have always utilized the  method of seasoned bank funds to apply for my extension of stay based on retirement. This year I intend to use the income affidavit method to apply. 

Has anyone encountered any difficulties, challenges, demands for proof of income, or??

Thanks. 

I’ve lived in Land & Houses in Mai Jo for the last 3 years. There are indeed frequent flyovers during the day at various altitudes and occasionally between midnight and 4am from (presumably) flights to China. A few will be (here comes one now as I write this) so noisy I’ll pause a show I may be watching but those are few. But the frequency of these daytime flights over my house seems to be the same today as they were when I moved here 3 ½ years ago. I like this mooban and these flights aren’t that disruptive. 

Try Magic Computer Repair at Pantip Plaza; Khun Ae at ‭089-261-9839‬.

He did a great fix on my iMac crash. I don’t know if he only works on Apple products or does repairs on PCs as well.