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On 8/16/2020 at 3:34 PM, trevoromgh said:

I've never understood where the money comes from for the Thais to all be buying flash new cars at exhorbatant prices. I understood salaries over here are pretty low compared to other parts of the world so unless they all have rich parents or are leasing the vehicles and are therefore in-hoc for millions of baht.  If so it could all backfire if the pandemic leads to large scale redundancies longer term. 

Image and perception. Thais are no different than pretty much everyone else in the world. People will put themselves into debt and ruin all for a little bit of flash.

I got everything sorted in Lampang. Thanks for the replies and you can close the thread Mods.

Coming in from out of town (Lampang). Where are they issuing resident certificates these days? Also anyone know if you still need one to renew a 5 year license?

Any one know when the amnesty for renewing your 5 year licence because of Covid 19 ends?

On March 4, 2560 BE at 6:50 PM, NancyL said:

One time an Imm. officer asked me how it was that I had funds to live since I never touch the 800,000 baht in the fixed account.  This would be similar to be asked how you have fund to prove your were taking financial care of your wife.  My answer was that my husband's pensions are sufficient to provide for both of us and would he like to see our joint bankbook for proof of activity.  I drew it out of the folder and started to open and hand it to him and he just waved it away.    Couldn't you say that your wife doesn't need your support, or you have other income, but it's irregular so you chose the "easy path" of having the 400,000 baht bank account?

 

They just want a "good story".   

 

 

 Oh I  started to explain to her that this account is never used it's just to adhere to the extension requirements and we have several joint accounts in different Thai banks as well as a Canadian bank that we can use for our daily expenses but it only succeeded in making her agitated. Her ruling was no fixed accounts and that was final.

I used a fixed account passbook for 4 years for my extension based on marriage at Chiang Mai immigration. This was on the advice of an immigration officer who remarked on seeing my savings account book on my first extension "why don't you use a fixed account for the better interest". This year since I live outside of Lampang I had to do my extension at Lampang immigration which for the first time this year is now full service. The women processing extensions at the Lampang office informed  me 10 days before my extension deadline when she was checking my documents that my fixed account pass book was no good and a regular savings account book was required and regular activity shown on it to prove I was taking financial  care of my wife????? When I remarked that changing the book now a week before my extension appointment would invalidate my seasoning. She thought for second and then said.. this time OK but next extension no fixed account.  

 Now this was extension based on marriage not retirement but my point being I don't think anyone can give the OP a correct answer to his question. You can't know for certain that a fixed account will be accepted but you can be certain a regular account will.

Yes they now do extensions. However you must live in Lampang province to use it. Same goes for all immigration offices (you must live in the province ) now or so the officer told me at Lampang immigration. 

There is only one officer handling extensions currently in Lampang   and she is severely backed up. You must go in and book an appointment at least a month in advance of your final day.

It's located in the Police investigations building near the court house.

Have your TM 30 in your passport or you will be fined.

Used to play the "best khao soi in Thailand" game with an expat friend living in Phrae. 

Good fun and many a good khao soi along the way.

Is a TM30 a new document required for extension based on marriage?

Thailand Guest House on Moon Muang Soi 2. It's as basic as it gets! Fan,your own toilet and shower with hot water with the classic concrete floor but hey what do you want for 250 baht? It's clean in a quiet area (unless Mandalay night club is back up and running) and the people who run it are great and very helpful.

I also have been here 5 years and never used a TM30. I own a house (in my wife's name)  in a small village outside Lampang. My marriage extension is due in January so will she and I  now need to submit a TM30 with the usual extension documents with her vouching that this is my residence or is her tabian baan sufficient?

Look for a Volvo…. chances are the driver will have a goatee and be smoking a pipe.

47,492 Baht per month

That's ridiculous Dante99!

I can get by on 46,946 Baht per month.

It cost 3300 baht and I'm 70kg. 4 more jabs to go.

My best guess is they've jabbed me for tetanus as well because I had about 5 injections and 2 of those were in my arse.

I told the doctor I'd already been vaccinated for tetanus when she asked me if I'd been vaccinated for rabies, even though she didn't ask. And I queried it before paying but they assured me it was for only one jab and for rabies and that it really was that expensive (I thought at the time they were charging me for all 5 rabies jabs which would be about right at 5 x 500 baht plus extras).

So what can you do, refuse to pay it and just settle the bill for the initial vaccination and trek across Phuket to another hospital and try your luck there? No matter how cautious you are and how much research you do beforehand, there always seems to be a subtle scam.

On a side note I could sit all day in the emergency room watching people come in and out. It's absorbing in a morbid sort of way. All the smokers and heavy drinkers on Thaivisa should do it, a few hours watching overweight farang coming off ambulances on trolleys with heart and chest problems, then the emergency beeep beeep beeep sound as they go into some sort of cardiac arrest or have a heart attack. They'd never smoke or drink again.

Was this a private Hospital?

If so and you want to save some baht, take the card they gave you for your remaining injections to a government hospital and they will finnish you up at a fraction of the cost.

Out & about last night , passing through LK and it was very quiet .

Some bars had no customers at all , quite a lot actually, about half of them had no customers at all .

I was wondering how the bars survive and the running costs of bars .

I ve never ran a bar myself, so I assume the running costs are :

Rental : 1000 Baht per day

Utilities : 200 Baht per day

1 staff : 300 Baht per day

So thats a minimum of 1500 Baht per day running costs .

If they sell a beer for 100 Baht, making 50 Baht profit .

A bar would have to sell 30 beers per day, just to break even

If each customer had three beers , ten customers per day, would be needed, just to break even .

A far cry from 10 years ago!

A friend of mine who owned a bar on Moon Muang soi 2 back then used to tell me he started to make money after selling 8 beers.

Back in the day I could take care of his break even from 1pm to 5pm on my own……… back in the day.

Back in the old days.....4 big bottles of Chang and a mickey of Mekong and who needs amphetamines?

It's normal in the villages. Might start before first light, but one thing is for sure, the volume must be so high that the horn speakers distort the sound, but at least it lets the locals know who's the boss.

Seems to be right,

Innovative Thai marketing. Just rape your ears so you don't ever want to buy their product.

Thai village doctrine....... if the volume knob goes up to 10 then you must turn it to 10.

I have seen reports tha CW does not ask for the Kor Ror 2 to be recently updated.

Some offices even want them to be no older than 30 days.

To be safe my wife gets one shortley before we do the application.

Exactly Ubonjoe!

I wish my wife would see it that way.

We pass the amphur office 2 to 3 times a week while we're doing various shopping runs out here in the sticks. It might take 10 minutes and just 40 baht just to stop and pick up a currently dated Kor Ror 2 and it's done just to be safe.

My wife will say we where told last year we didn't have to get a new one every year (and she's right) and and no amount of just in case logic will make her go into the amphur office where she feels she's being belittled. Unless of course we are told by a immigration officer this year that it must be current and that means another dark of night trip into Chiangmai perhaps to start the whole process again with the proper document requirements.

Maddening!

Well here's a dilemma…. in PoorSucker's post on the paperwork needed.

3.Copy Kor Ror 2 from amphur office,marriage registry(not older than 6 months,even if the marriage certificate is under 6 months old)

Last year the immigration officer we had in Chiangmai told my wife and I that we didn't have to keep getting an updated Kor Ror 2 copy every year(which is what we've been doing for the previous 3 years) and could use the same one from 2015 for 2016's extension.

This was a great relief to my wife because like a great many Thais she is intimidated by government offices and has just hated going to the amphur every year for a new copy(she says the clerks are rude and annoyed when she requests the copy).

I'm not doubting PoorSucker's post on paperwork requirements and if it was up to me I'd march into the amphur office once a week for a new copy but there isn't a snowballs chance in hell that my wife will believe the not older than 6 months criteria or go back to that office after what the Chiangmai immigration officer told us last year.

I'll tell her it can't be older than 6 months she'll say that's rubbish and off we'll go to Chiangmai 75km's away with a very real chance of having to return another day with a up to date Kor Ror 2 before our application can start being processed.

Did my extension a couple of weeks ago. 6.30am in the queue got me a ticket to be seen in the afternoon. Yes it is possible you won't be able to get a ticket for that day if you arrive later. If you are coming a way and want to ensure you get a ticket I would suggest 5.30 to 6.00am. Really depends on how many others are doing the marriage extension on the same day.

Thanks for the info RoastBeef, not as bad as what's been going through my head.

I had visions of us leaving our house at midnight to get to immigration by 2:00am so we would be sure to be seen that day.

It's not ideal but I can suck it up for 1 day a year.

The price of paradise?

There have been a number of comments on the 5am/6am time, but no-one has really answered the OP's original question. I, I'm sure the OP and at least one other would like an answer as to what the current situation is with queuing for marriage extensions at CM. What system is in place? Is "missing out" a potential reality? Is it better or worse than it was before the Promenada change?

As for me, I have never once arrived at that absurdly indecent hour. I think the earliest i have ever arrived has been 8am and have never "missed out". However information on what it is like now seems to be as scarce as hens' teeth. (I live 150km up country so it is rather difficult for me to go and check it out in person.)

I to live 100km out of town and in previous years have used the online queue.

I would also like some feedback on what arrival time would most likely guarantee an appointment for that particular day.

We have a boy in school a store and 2 dogs and "missing out " and trying again the next day is a bleak scenario.

Hee hee hee…….. I can sooooo relate!

Fortunately usually about once a year I have close enough friends who come for a visit that I don't mind asking to bring along 6 to 8 of my favorite brand and style from Canada.

Best of luck!

Are you required to bring another "Proof of Residence" certificate when you renew?

I did the Inthanon-run about six weeks ago, with a visitor, they refused to accept my Thai driving-license, and charged me full tourist-price the same as her.

So I won't be going again, anytime soon !

Or to any other national-parks, either.

I always felt that the concession for resident farangs was a nice 'thank-you', for bringing the country more visitors and revenue, now it acts as a dis-incentive.

Thanks for the heads up Ricardo!

I to thought it was a nice"thank-you" when I brought 3 visitors last November and was given the reduced price after showing my Thai driving-licence.

I have another 3 friends coming for a visit later this month and had planned to do the same with them.

Last November I was able to pay just 40 baht by using my Thai license as ID.