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They are ok in Tha Yang a honest and fast immigration office

If Cha Am it is Tha Yang immigration offce province Phetchaburi,TM 28 and TM 30 from the owner if you rent.About 22 km from Cha Am north.

in accounting they are loose and profits and not only profits,and if more loose it's mean bad management.

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

Half of 9,000 is 4,500 – mainly Russian, Chinese and French – not paying their bill, out of 14 million visitors to Phuket, i.e. 0.065 percent.

 

448 million divided with 4,500 is an average bill of 99,556 baht.

 

The leading reasons tourists sought treatment at Vachira were after injuries during water sports, motorcycle accidents and attack by animals.

 

Recently the news stated that government hospitals now something like doubled their their prices for foreigners, so seems like that half that do pay the bill, in the future pays for the half that don't pay their bills, so what's the problem...????

one month ago it was about the old people with OA from a long time ago not paying  the bills,change like the wind.

Just now, Skallywag said:

No hospital bills when dead.  just need to dig a hole in the ground 555

first the hospital in the fridge and then autopsy in the police hospital in Bangkok,is it free of charge?

i read every day,Chinese drown,Russian drown,have they insurance,who pay the hospital?

Me too 8 years ago,first pay 27.000 and then credit card in Bangkok hospital,a bite from a dog!!!!

Retirees have an insurance and a very good insurance,everything pay until the last baht,it is not the good rule to let the old take a thai insurance die cover only 400.000 and some with deductible 300.000,the most dangerous in Thailand are the tourist visa between 20 and 40,let they pay 100 baht with the visa stamp,like they say 40.000.000 passengers x100 baht it is a lot of money and the hospitals will be pay in case of no payment of the bills,i know one thing that the private hospitals ask first before beginning the treatment if you have an tyravel insurance or credit card,if not you c

i have my extension of stay retirement based on OA from 2012 until the 26 march 2020 i will leave Thailand the 23 march to Laos and come back the 28 with a fresh visa Non O based on marriage,it is what my IO says to me to do to kill the OA and begin with 90 days extension and then to one year retirement of marriage i will choice marriage for no surprises again in the future.

2 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

That's the correct information. You need to leave the country when your O-A Visa expires (to kill it).

Then apply for a 90 days Non-Immigrant O based on retirement, in for example Savannakhet or Penang,but you have to meet the financial requirements. Check their websites. 

i prefer the marriage visa,i just only prove 40.000 baht/month or 400.000 2 months before application,may be in the end of the year they will begin again with the Non O retirement to have an insurance,and i have a foreign one and all bills pay from my 2 surgeries in 2016.

6 minutes ago, Thaidream said:

Could you please say what Immigration Office told you this?

Me also the same need go out to kill the OA and coming back on Non O based on marriage visa ,Tha Yang immigration,why not a standard procedure for all Thailand,then out for a few days.

12 minutes ago, Max69xl said:

Why don't you check the requirements online? Every embassy or consulate has a website with all information you need for every type of Visa? 

yes they have everything online but change constantly,why they are not using a standard procedure,each consulate or embassy have other rules.

ok thank you Ubonjoe,for me easier from Hua Hin airport to Kualumpur and further to Penang with the train,a little trip and holiday and no appointment.

is it also a appointment system in Penang like in Vientiane? and no visa i think when i come in Malaysia free stamp for 30 days,i am from Belgium and my wife is thai.

I need also go out the country to make a new Non O visa based on marriage,may be Vientiane or Penang,i don't know in Penang if there is also an appointment system like in Vientiane,for Penang i will check which requirements they ask.

The reason is from my IO that i cannot change my OA visa to marriage visa in Thailand,need go out and after he says very simple to extend again to retirement or marriage visa.

We will speak about this in a few months from now,you need read between the lines!!!!

57 minutes ago, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

 

It appears as though the Thai consulate in Ho Chi Minh, sadly, does not offer the non-imm O based on being over 50. Their web page only specifies three categories of non-imm O: supporting Thai children, married to a Thai and voluntary position in Thailand. 

 

The only non-imm O visa is for volunteers on the pages of the Hanoi embassy, plus the O-A. 

 

Hanging over all of this is the possibility they remove the "over 50" category everywhere or expand the health care requirement to the Os. You have to not only have a Plan B, but a Plan C, Plan D, Plan E, Plan F. . . Think I might go with Plan F. 

I am official married in Thailand and i am up 65,i think that i can receive anywhere Non O based on marriage for 90 days.I think also the Non O up 50 will disappear only for married.

1 hour ago, Max69xl said:

So why don't you start with telling us which immigration office you belong to? If I want correct info about the O-A Visa and insurances, I wouldn't ask the officer behind the 90 days report desk. They have by far the easiest and most simple job at immigration. 

i spoke with the officer making my extensions every year and i understand him,he need respect the informations that he receives from the boss,i think so,and it is a public secret that they prefer a retirement extension that a marriage extension,more work,one set for him and one set for Bangkok and the stamp first in consideration for 30 days and after accepted or refused from Bangkok,Anyway i need go out the country first and then i will see what happen,but i am ready to move to an other country if necessary,have no home and no children here it is may be my luck,many friends are here with one or 2 homes and a family and cannot be accepted by insurances companies because some too old of sick or surgeries in the last 10 years.We are expat ans we have only duties no rights.

1 minute ago, bbi1 said:

The "self-insurance" way with money in the bank sounds fine if they ever did that, but 400k is nothing. It would more likely need to be done this way, a minimum of 2 million baht in the bank and the hospital can automatically direct debit the charges from that account if the person uses their services. That way they won't lose out on people not paying them even if they have funds in the bank, plus procedures for heart attacks or strokes can end up costing huge dollars.

if 400.000 nothing why the insurance give this covering,i have one insurance from my country 2.000.000 baht,have in 2016 2 surgeries all bills pay fr%om my insurance until the last baht,and one month before and 3 months after the operation 10%,like i say before a data base from the non pay hospitals bills(name,age,nationality,type of visa) in a data base and transfer to immigration  offices,it is so simple sometimes.

2 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

Actually other than using an Agent I don't think there is anything he can do that would not require first leaving the country.

 

Unless his extension deadline is some time from now and CM Imm practices  change by then.

Yes and first we don't know when he will go to renew his extension,may be next year februari,march,April,in this time under pressure from embassies and without loose the face they will grandfather these "pilot project" for the OA before 31/10/2019,if he need do now,wait until the last day and go to Laos to begin a new visa Non O and if married it will be very easier.