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If you want to live in the country, lease some land an raise some of the food you need and a crop you can sell for more money.

Find an Issan Lady who knows how to farm and enjoy life !!

Good luck, if you are retired military you may be able to use your military health plan here, I am retired USAF they pay 75% of my medical cost.

Never have a problem other than long wait for extension of stay and then again for multi re-entry. 

For those of us who are or going to be long time residents, they should have a five year extension and re-entry. crazy to go every year. I would gladly pay the same amount per year for the stay, just make every five years.

90 Day Report should be an ATM Transaction with the Bank you have an account with. The bank knows your address and phone number. Hell I have been here 13 years and do not like the annual song and dance, because to me it is stupid and this is 21st Century !!

 You have two weeks before or one week after, if you have not heard two days before the one week after, March your "Donkey" down and report. Of course you can take a flight to Singapore, Hong Kong and have a beer.

You may ask Bumrungrad Business Center Visa Service, if you have been a patient you should have a Hospital Number, not sure if required. They will make the run to Chang Wattana for you, fee 600 THB.

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Good luck !

Isn't there a way to report corruption, sounds like it to me if they hike you 3,000THB.

I use Bumrungrad Visa Service, as I am an on going Hospital Number, they charge 600 THB and I only have to go there and fill out or drop off the forms.

Check with his Hospital to see if they offer the service. Also, if he has a Thai Wife she can do for him, as some have said already with authorization another may do for him.

As for the talk about fees for other issues, Extension of Stay 1,900, Single Re-entry 1,900 Multiple Re-entry 3,800.

I do not what Country or what your fix income is each month. I am from Us and every year I go to US Embassy and get a motorized letter stating I have more than 65,000 THB a month in retirement income. If you are not from US check your Embassy to see if you can get a letter. Although the I am married to a Thai Lady I do not us marriage as basis.

If you qualify for None-O Visa you can get in BKK at Immigration, they will give 6 months and at the end of that a yearly extension of Stay.

I travel quite a bit in my Consulting Business, so I pay 3,800THB and get a Multi-entry Permit each time do the extension and do not worry.

If you go throught the Bangkok Division One use can get an appointment and not have to spend half a day sitting.

Very nice, and Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to all !! I did not know there was that many Expat Oriented Programs !!

There are people from some countries and cultures I would only allow for medical purposes. Thailand does not need them and they cause far too much trouble for the little they spend here.

Enjoyed reading about your venture !! I did about the same the first time I took my Thai Wife to USA. Flew into LAX, processed her thru and after a few days in LA rented an SUV and drove, with many stops, to my Sister's in Ft Walton Beach, FL. After a stay there we headed thru Atlanta to Charleston, SC, Sterling, Va. and finally to NYC to fly back to BKK.

We only found three real Thai Food places all the way, best was Siam Lotus in Las Vegas, one in Ft Walton and one in Charleston.

Getting my wife's Visa was easy in BKK because I had lived there 8 years, at that time, and everything was processed in BKK, about 4 months time.

Good luck, God Bless !!

What happened to the reporting at a 7/11 ?

To me it is simple do the report or expect trouble. The 90 day does not cost anything but time to do it.

We ExPats should do what is right.

Were you born in a Thai Hospital or in a home. If at home was there a Mid-Wife who could verify who your Mother is ?

The mods may regard this post as against the rules, but I consider it helpful and morally right. This is a time to research the best lawyer to handle your problem. You are morally entitled to Thai nationality, but will probably need a lawyer with contacts who can grease the wheels a bit to actually make it happen. Usually, corruption in Thailand is damaging,, but sometimes its presence can be helpful in correcting an unfair situation.

I wish you luck, my problem is you are not considering the long term needs of this Lady, only your immediate needs. Less say you live with her 8 to 10 years of her prime years and either die or kick her out, now she is stuck in some foreign country and becomes unable to find another she will have a problem.

But, That is your business, just a though.

Been here 11 years, have very good and beautiful Thai wife, expensive, though !!

Aside from the reduced cost of living I like the climate, for many years I worked for US Airlines in the East and North East, Ice and Snow every year, so Thailand never has either !!

My problem is the way they discriminate against retirees verses those with Work Permits, such as banking, cell phone accounts. I also do not like not being able to own land, they should allow, but restrict amount of land to say 50 Rai.

This stupid annual renewal of visa extensions is crazy, should have choice one year, three or five year. Just pay the same amount, but not go through the Que every year.

I see them stop trucks and vans on the service roads of Rama II Road. But to stop trucks, vans and many cars on the streets in BKK would only make the traffic worse.

Too many guns in the hands of untrained and uncontrolled. What was he doing with a gun, did he have a permit and waht was he hiding ??

I guess he got tired of handing out gratuities to the cops

Makes me wonder why they always pick on the motorcycles and not the cars, vans and trucks?

Are the just fast easy targets?

They need a "Three Times and then Life Law" here.

The real problem here is most do not have an education or skill. They also see no future for themselves so why not take from those that have.

Of coirse, it is stupid for a young women to be hanging around at 03:00, unless she has a "Black Belt" and is looking for practice.

I hope you have developed some "Self Discipline" since you had a problem with it before. Good luck !!

Colonization Pay Back is Hell !! Europe is feeling the pain for all the plunder for Centuries.

Aircraft Engine Bleed Air and Air Conditioning 101. The air used to provide pressurization for the cabin is Bleed Air for either 8th or 13th Stage of Compression in the engine, depending on power setting of the engine. Occasionally one of the Air Oil Seals will allow a small amount of oil vapor to enter the compressor section.

The Pressurized air from the engine goes through two Heat Exchangers , a Primary before entering the Air Cycle Machines which is both a compressor and then an Expansion Turbine, there is a Secondary Heat Exchanger between the Compressor side of the ACM and the Expansion Turbine side. The expansion of air is where the cooling comes from. It then goes through a Coalescing Filter to remove any particulate matter and oil vapors.

Someyimes some oil fumes will enter the cabin, but you can smell it and the crew can isolate the bad system and shut it down. It would be very rare to have the fumes in only one isolated area as the air enters a Plenum Chamber and the distribution is wide spread from there. The only isolated place could be where the Risers are located carrying air to tghe overhead bins and Gasper Outlets. That row is where you only have one window instead of two for each seat.

.Now we wait and see what the findings are.

I don't get it why everyone seems to think this is unfair. They are talking about the bigger taxi's no surcharge for the smaller ones. Those bigger taxi's are more expensive to buy and to operate. Fair is fair besides if your alone you don't need one of those and you can make do with a smaller one.

So I am ok with this as long as its only for the bigger kind.

Curious, How often do you actually fly in/out of BKK ?? The biggest problem here is the unknowing tourist, if you have lived in Thailand and allow them to rip you off, must be your fault !! I rarely use the Meter Taxi. I use my wife and her Civic or the AOT Limo. Nice cars, smell good and have Professional acting drivers !!

And some thought "Southern Engineering" was bad, of course you would need to be from the Southern USA to understand the "Political Correctness" of that term !!

Is this the same place where a Lady drove off and her Baby was injured and died ?