jeffandgop

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. 

3 hours ago, simoh1490 said:

The Dukes is doing its usual, 650 baht I think.

Requires prepaid reservation. But still could try to drop in

4 hours ago, cmsally said:

Looks like a striped kukri.

Striped keelbacks tend to be more patterned towards the head end.

Thank you!

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

It's a Striped Kukri snake, Oligodon taeniatus, small harmless snake.

regards worgeordie

Thank you!!

Anyone know what kind of snake this is?

5 minutes ago, Thailand said:

I am aware that it is not an email address which would be a highly unlikely way for immigration to accept reports.

 

It would appear that another poster made a mistake simple mistake confusing a url with an email address.

 

I have successfully used the online reporting 5 times when it is actually working. However the last time it was stuck in pending for 8 days ( normally 2 day approval) so I also mailed in. Quite ironic for imm to promote online reporting when my last attempt failed. 

I’ve been able to successfully use the online system only once in 2 years. 

1 hour ago, Thailand said:

This is the note received with my wife's receipt of 90 day notification 2 days ago. 

 

Was this received by all and sundry or just special people?

That’s NOT an email address. That’s the url to the IM website to input your 90 day report WHICH HARDLY EVER WORKS. 

13 hours ago, opalred said:

it was a warm and humid  day in los

the postman delivered my mail to my house  mailbox

in the mail was a returned letter for my 90day report

i carefully undid the letters

to my surprise was a note in the immigration letter

it read you can email your 90day report to this email address

i think this might be easier in future 

thinking did everyone get this notice 

or left the angry old farts out

and only sent to the people with good attitude 

have a good day

Why don’t u post that email address?  Thanks

I’ve had about 4 outpatient visits in the last 3 months for my heart and ended up having an angiogram performed (no stents) with an overnight stay in a private room for less than 100k baht. I was quite pleased with the outpatient charges as well as the angiogram costs and the treatment in general was excellent. 

Dukes

And today we had to close all windows at 11am as the burning started up again but this time the wind carried the smoke directly towards and into our neighborhood. We live about 3/4 miles from the field. I just vacuumed up the ashes from the area around the house and will have to vacuum the pool tomorrow. 

I live in Land & Houses Maejo. The large rice field to the west of the moobaan’s boundary was set afire yesterday afternoon

16 hours ago, Thailand said:

Just tried the site to check previous "acceptances" 5 in total, no problem.

 

Were you using IE?

Yes

Tried last Tue (26 Sept) to do the 90 day online. No success in completing the data input. Site would just lock up. 

Sent to IM by registered mail Wed (27 Sept); received by IM next day. 

Sent back yesterday by IM to to me by my registered mail envelope I had included with my original submittal and I received my new slip today.

My 90 Day experience this time around.

Tried last Tue (26 Sept) to do online. No success in completing the data input. Site would just lock up. 

Sent to IM by registered mail Wed (27 Sept); received by IM next day. 

Sent back yesterday by IM to to me by my registered mail envelope I had included with my original submittal and I received my new slip today.

21 hours ago, cnxgary said:

If one does not have a TM 30 receipt in their passport you will not be issued a queue # to renew a 1 yr. visa you will be directed upstairs to register. People arrive early to get a # only to be turned away.

Wrong. I renewed my annual extension of stay without presenting a TM30. 

I live in Maejo. Within the last year surges and spikes in electrical voltage have fried the control/logic boards in my washing machine, a room air con (& fried the unit's fan motor), and last week, the oven clock/timer.
After the washing machine circuit board was replaced, we now unplug our washer & dryer when not in use. After the air con repair, we now keep the circuit breakers for all our air cons & hot water heaters off when not in use. The oven is on a circuit shared with other outlets and I'm planning to have that re-wired to its own dedicated circuit breaker so I can turn the breaker off when not in use. Remember- electronic devices and appliances always are receiving electricity and risk of damage when not in use. For all of our electronics and other appliances I bought high quality surge protectors from Lazada for all of the electrical outlets theses are connected to.


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24 minutes ago, FolkGuitar said:

I've been using True Internet for the past 4 years, and never had any problems. I can only remember the net being down twice in all those years, and only for a few hours each. Speeds are fast enough for any live viewing, and with reliability like this, I have absolutely no complaints.

I used True for 4 years as well. But their product is overpriced compared to 3BB and with 3BB I get fiber optic technology and True was only coax cable. Performance overall is much better and at less cost.  In fact I dumped True Visions at the same time and now just stream my TV content and no longer pay True 2500+ per month for content that just kept getting worse and worse and more expensive (I.e., loss of HBO, etc)

2 hours ago, worgeordie said:

Was this CNX to Bangkok ?, it's once it tries to Thailand to overseas sites that matter.

regards worgeordie

Yes. Speeds will get much slower once your traffic goes overseas thru Thailand's single gateway. I'm able to stream television shows here from the US using a VPN and so far I've rarely experienced any freezing, slowing or buffering.