linno2

My family calls them fruit flies - but they are smaller than Australian fruit flies - you can almost breath them in they are so small!

One possibility - symptoms fit with peripheral neuropathy. Main cause is diabetes.  High blood sugar levels can damage the nerves. Other causes include long term excessive alcohol consumption, previous surgery, previous injury, low vitamin B12 levels, thyroid issues, certain infections such as shingles and Lyme (tick) disease, some forms of cancer, immune disorders and more.  It is a common symptom with a range of causes. Worth getting checked out.

That is good news.  I have tried multiple links and not succeeding - I get one error that states connected to Immigration which is not currently accepting connections.  Have tried through Chrome and Bing, on laptop and phone, using different internet providers and wi fi URLs.  I have been able to complete the online form and submission does not deliver a result.  I have checked the status option and can see previous approved 90m day registrations.  I am trying to avoid am 140km round trip for a 2 minute transaction if possible.  If you could share the link you used to achieve success that would be very much appreciated.

Drying rice. Tambon Sam Rit, Amphur Phimai, Changwat Nakhon Ratchasima

On 1/6/2020 at 3:06 PM, Beggar said:

There are many. Some don't get paid and think this is no problem then. But it is not important if you get money or not. It is important that you do something that could be classified as work. 

I understand that volunteering is also classified as work and not permitted without a permit. The payment does not determine if it work.

In Fiji they are about to ban single use plastic bags.  At the vege section of the supermarket they have single use plastic, at the pharmacy, the choc top ice-creams at the cinema etc.  I must admit that I have not sorted what to do with the kitchen garbage in terms of loading into the larger bin that is collected - I still have some black bin liners and a stash of supermarket bags in the meanwhile. What do other folks do?

On 11/9/2019 at 2:22 PM, worgeordie said:

My 84 year old cousin visits us every winter, stays for

3 months,in the past fill 1 form send it off to Thai Embassy

in London along with payment to get Visa,easy

 

Now this time has to fill in a 5 page application,online to get

a E-Visa,what a carry on, picture too light,picture too dark,

needs letter from me inviting her to stay at our house,has

to provide a copy of bank statements,so things are definitely

a lot more difficult now,for her at least.

regards Worgeordie

 

 

It is happening in many countries. More than a dozen previous visas for my wife to Australia (married and joint bank accounts and family all in OZ).  Just helped her complete the 17 page application form with 11 uploaded attachments such as marriage certificate, tabian ban, business registration and web site, drivers license, ID card, old passport details, previous country visa details (5 UK, PNG, Bahrain etc) plus a 10 hour return trip for another round of finger prints and photo. 

14 hours ago, Russell17au said:

and it appears that I am not the only one having problems with this a other things. One is a man with sole custody of his daughter who is working and paying his tax here had his extension application refused even thou he had all the documents that proved his income so he had to deposit 400,000 in the bank and another one is that a bedridden mans wife did his 90 day report and had the same I/O as me and he told her that her husband had to attend in person and he claimed that her husband being bedridden was not on the system and the woman had to get a doctors certificate and photos and take back but when she took them back she saw a different I/O and was told that she did not need those things because her husbands problems are on the system, so what is this coming to. I have until 3 December on what I am going to do. I can pack up and leave Thailand and my wife until I can get her a residents visa for Australia which takes up to 2 years, take my wife and move to Vietnam or somewhere else or see if I can get a Mutli Entry Marriage Visa from Suvannakhet. They are the only options that I seem to have.

 

The previous 2 years has increased to 4 years for your wife to get an Australian visa showing the majority of time in Australia and the costs have grown.

11 minutes ago, Toany said:

Which immigration office and how many weeks did it take?

It will help the rest of us waiting

In Thailand goal posts have wheels
 

Nakhon Ratchasima - circa 4 weeks. Applied in English with my wife's ID and details as she owns the land.

On 5/25/2019 at 7:09 PM, LongTang said:

Thank you for the report.

I want to make sure i understand this correctly as it is the first time the consequences for not doing the TM30 involve jail time for the visitor !

Did they specifically warned you about visitors being Jailed for not reporting??? If true, then it puts everything on a completely different level, the damage will be enormous !

My friend was taken into the head person's office and told "she could be put in gaol for not reporting". I was not in the room but my friend was clearly 'rattled' by the session. She is a very polite worldy person with 70yrs experience of life - and not rude in any way.

We received online TM30 registration capacity this week.  So will be OK from now on. Thjanks for comments hints and tips.

Cheers!

we got fined THB2,000 for a family friend staying with us. This happened when we took her for a visa extention to regional immigration.  Our fault - just didn't realise that family and friends (75 yrar old woman) staying with you in your house had to be reported (they did give the address to immigration at the time of arrival lin BKK and stayed a night in a BKK hotel first).  Anyway 2 days ago we got the online registration connected. So we can now register our kids when they visit us in our home in a week.  It took about 6 weeks to get the online TM30 registration facility to go live.

Has anyone got the link for the online household visitor registration? The 90 day residence site is 'down' or as they said turned off. Also is there any formal advice from the government advising of the need to register that some one can provide the link for? Thanks in anticipation.

Cheers

Linno

Thanks for the information.

Cheers

I am nearing completion of raising the house by 1.2 meters. There was a local sense that we didn't have to get permission as it was the same house- I am glad that we did as in fact you do need to notify and comply. Local builder OK - my wife beneficially advised to make regular visits and discuss the farung requirements in managable amounts - in other words do not bombard the team with too much detail as she advised this would not be to everyones benefit. We made sure that a positive relationship was maintained despite needing to knock down a half built wall and extend an eve and so on. I always came with some fluro spray paint and sketch pads and downloaded photos of what I wanted for things like moisture barrier under the slab, roof insulation, septic tanks, the hinging direction for doors etc. Many aspects I adopted from Thai Visa subscribers with much thanks! The builder and many visitors often thought I was crazy with the insultation, using the large cement blocks, extra circuits, installing earth and so on - but after lots of discussion there has been much approval with progressive understanding of the benefits and risk mangement. Close to finishing up and will post pictures and details.

Cheers!

My wife makes me separate the coke bottles and aluminium cans before I put them in the bin.

She doesn't take them to the recycling people herself though. My mother-in-law does that when she's in Bangkok. Apparently it adds up, along with any scrap metal (we changed the fence around our garden to a wall after the floods) and other things...

same for my extended family - nothign seems to go to waste (which can be an eyesore) - old broken fans. any metal of any kind including old burned out pots and pans, plastic of any kind and bottles. Every couple of months a motorcycle with side trolly trundles up with scales and exchanges it for a few THB. Good stuff from my perspective - although I would not like to live next door to the collector!

Just had a call from people who left from BKK for a normally 4hr trip to Buri Ram - it took them nearly 12 hours to get there.

Sent from my iPad using ThaiVisa ap

I made a big mistake - arrived at Suvarnabhumi at 8.10 from Oz last night drove to Korat arriving at 9.15 this morning - bumper to bumper most of the way - nowhere to park at the service stations - took my wife 25 minutes to go to the loo because of the queue. Its hard not to be too close to the car in front - as soon as you leave some road space a car jumps in front to close the gap! No major accidents but hundreds of white spray paint marks onthe tarmac where the many bumper to bumper crashes have occured. I should have known better.

Dear All,

I cannot upload photos to my post -

Not sure why you are using the Toolbar as the correct method of adding a photo attachment is the following: After you hit the Reply to a topic, click on the More Reply Options at the bottom right of the reply window. Then you will see an Attach Files section on the bottom left. Click on the Browse button to select a file from your local disk then click on Attach This File to do the actual upload of the file to Thaivisa. When done, just hit Add Reply.

many thanks - I was too thick to understand the help file on attaching pictures as it looked like I needed to use the 'toolbar' - learn something every day - cheers!

To address the issue above ... the reason that the Farm doesn't have 'flush toilets' is simply because the effluent (sh*it) retention system they have couldn't cope the that level of volume flow.

Maybe a lot of the other guys living in remote locations have experienced this?

Yes I have, Simple to fix. Install an outlet and a soak away drain. The containment vessel can be coverted into a double chamber septic tank. A capful of EM every few days and you're set.

To survive in the village you just have to toe the line. Follow the lead of those around you. A little like this:

Those who fall off, drown or get eaten by the sharks

We have a selection of loos installed at different times. One that might suit and is cheap and easy to install. It is a normal looking seat and toilet bowl but the flush system is manual requiring you to ladle in the flush water from the usual bucket within the bathroom/toilet. So easy plumbing, the comfort of sitting rather than squatting, low water volume, much lower cost to buy.

Spent the first half of 2012 in Afghanistan and the 2nd half off and on in Pakistan - apart from the tragic episodes in the South, the rest of Thailand is truly like a paradise in comparison.

Dear All,

I cannot upload photos to my post - my guess is that this is because I don't seem to be able to download the 'Toolbar' from the MORE menu. When I click the 'toolbar' option it seems to start the process but eventually times out before anything is downloaded. tried many times and same response. It may be because I am currently in Pakistan and it could be barred like UTube etc. Any ideas? I am back in BKK on Sunday so will try again then unless a solution in the meantime. Cheers

Perhaps one factor is that the other places referred to, are much more focussed on catering for tourists and foreigeners which brings a higer number of them and consequently more dissatisfied people? I find where I live there are very few services that cater for farungs. Only Thai style hotels and guest houses, cannot buy real cheese or real bread, no foreign fast food joints, only one shop that sells the Nation/BKK Post - and always sold out of the few copies per day, only instant coffee at the one large 'supermarket' more like a warehouse selling moslty bulk packed items for village shops, no western restaurants, no bars playing covers of 70's 80's and 90's rock, no obvious raunchy night spots (well none that I have seen or been shown) - just a couple of places with a line up of male and female singers belting out Isaan hits of he blitz and of course a great desire to serve more beers and 'whisky' - and I must admit to enjoying some large parties at these places with the boat race team or football team after winning the finals! My sense is that the folks who decide to live here do not need to be entertained and stay because they have decided to make a commitment - to their partner/wife and embrace what the place has to offer - a tremendous amout as many have shared!

What mistakes did I make last time I stayed there a few nights?

I paid over B1,000 for one of those fancy mosquito killers. The ones with the fancy light that attracts the mossie then has a suction fan which then sucks then into the high voltage grid below.

An adjoining landowner had turned his unused parcel of land into a rubbish tip and the fly population was almost unbearable.

I thought the mossie zapper might have attracted and killed them also ... WRONG!

Anyone want a hardly used mozzie zapper ... free to a good home ... just pay postage ...

There are some compensations for staying at the Farm ...

Sunsets

the items that I am glad to have brought to a village in Isaan include a coffee plunger (Frech Press) (I can buy the grounds in the Mall Korat), a cork screw, a decent can opener, a programmable water timer for the gardens, a decent heavy based flat bottom fry pan for cooking a steak, decent sized heavy duty kitchen/BBQ tongs and tea towels

Front page of The Express Tribune Punjab Pakistan - "The allegedly toxic Tyno cough syrup manufactured by Reko Pharma recently blamed for the death of some 19 people has been cleared by the drug labs in Karachi and Punjab." but the story goes on to say that the results have not officially been released AND that none of the parents of the 19 dead would allow autopsies. So the commonly expressed feeling of Pakistanis is that this is 'being swept under the carpet' is a coverup due to some corruption payments etc etc. SO essentially if no autopsies then nothing to compare and contrast. Probably the end of story and families will not get compensation s they victims who all died in a couple of days 'were all addicts' - all sounds incredible!!!