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This is some new places i Maha Sarakham.
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It has been open for about 6 month.
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22 hours ago, pianoman said:
Thanks. This is great news.
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15 hours ago, pianoman said:
Now to add Insult to Injury, there is a post stating that the "New Immigration Office" for Maha Sarakhom will be open Sept. 1st... And still no word as to if those of us living in Mueang Kalasin can use either the New Roi Et office or the soon to be "New Maha Sarakhom" office...
I am off this morning making the 2+ hour drive each way, on the dangerous 2 lane winding road to Sakon Nakhon Immigration to do a 90 Day Report, and will try to get an explanation regarding all of the New Offices surrounding Mueang Kalasin....
Pianoman
I live in Maha Sarakham and I have not heard about any new Immigration Office there. If there is gonna be one I would certainly appreciate some information about that.
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I suggest you google or Facebook what you request using Mahasarakham as your location. I accidently came across one there recently and may even take a drive over there to visit. Also on youtube.
The Indian restaurant is next to the canal on the same side as all the big restaurants. Not on the side where you have the road.
https://www.facebook.com/search/109519682399575/places-in/129539913784760/places/intersect/
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What can possibly be illegal about possession of a Thai drivers license that is issued by the drivers license authority in Thailand, that's nonsense!
Maybe you would say the same thing when someone pays money (NOT talking about the fee) for a Non Immigrant Visa. They just have a "stamp" in the passport, nothing more. If some officials investigate they will easily find out that some papers are missing. And the consequences are severe, Maybe not to much for the officers, but for the foreigner it's maybe some jail time, a heavy fine and "bye bye" do not come back to Thailand for a while. If you don't have the propper papers you are technically braking the law. And it's the same with a Thai drivers license. Even iff the officer gives you a Thai drivers license without you having the propper qualifications it DOESN'T mean that you are "home free". It's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to give the officer at DLT all the papers needed.
Thinking that in Thailand no laws, what so ever, does'n exist is a big mistake. Today Thai authorities are "hunting down" foreigners without a visa, foreigners working without a work permit and foreigners using a company for buying land. So tell me why schouldn't foreigners with a unlawfull Thai drivers license be worried?
No I would not say the same thing about that subject because what you're starting to discuss is clearly illegal, visa's is not the topic of the thread.
Get off your hi-horse Norlund and get over your paranoia about everything and everyone being corrupt in Thailand, obtaining a Thai drivers license is a no risk "must do" for people who follow a simple process and don't try to take short cuts. I'm out of this thread, it's become too silly!
If you bother to read what I wrote you will see that I don't say anything about corruption.
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What can possibly be illegal about possession of a Thai drivers license that is issued by the drivers license authority in Thailand, that's nonsense!
Maybe you would say the same thing when someone pays money (NOT talking about the fee) for a Non Immigrant Visa. They just have a "stamp" in the passport, nothing more. If some officials investigate they will easily find out that some papers are missing. And the consequences are severe, Maybe not to much for the officers, but for the foreigner it's maybe some jail time, a heavy fine and "bye bye" do not come back to Thailand for a while. If you don't have the propper papers you are technically braking the law. And it's the same with a Thai drivers license. Even iff the officer gives you a Thai drivers license without you having the propper qualifications it DOESN'T mean that you are "home free". It's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to give the officer at DLT all the papers needed.
Thinking that in Thailand no laws, what so ever, does'n exist is a big mistake. Today Thai authorities are "hunting down" foreigners without a visa, foreigners working without a work permit and foreigners using a company for buying land. So tell me why schouldn't foreigners with a unlawfull Thai drivers license be worried?
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1 you can get a thai licence on tourist visa or visa exempt I know I have and many others haveThis has been discussed on other threads before, but I can repeat myself once more. This is some of the papers you need to have a Thai drivers license.
1. Non Immigrant Visa.
2. Certification of your address in Thailand from either the Immigration office, your ambassy, yellow book or from the local polise station.
3. National drivers license together with international drivers lisence or a verfication of your national drivers license from your ambassy if you don't have
an international drivers license.
Thai law says that a foreigner MUST obtain a Thai drivers license after staying in the kingdom for more than 90 days. An international drivers license is INVALID after 90 days.
IFF you have obtained your Thai drivers license iligally you are BRAKING THE LAW. What you have in your hand is an illigal document.
2.correct and you also need a medical cert as well.
3.uk in my case full driving licence then you do not need it licence or any letter from anyone.
As for breaking the law then chumburi DLO has broken there own law oh and so has KK DLO for renewing it, which I will say they 100% have not. So please why don't you listen to others.
What I tell you is THAI LAW. What you and some others DO NOT understand is that Thailand DO NOT work like the western countries you are all comming from. What I'm telling you it's easy to find proof for on the net after a "few clics". You MUST NOT think that an officer at DLT or Immigration Office is allways doing everything "by the book". Then you or others will sooner or later end up with problems. An officer can do whatever he or she wants to do, and sometimes THEY DO. If the officer tell you that you DON'T need the propper visa or a certification of address at DLT then you don't need it (AT THAT TIME). But it DOESN'T mean that this is THAI LAW and it's gonna happen the next time for you or someone else in this office.
When I had my first Thai drivers license (I don't have one in my native country) the officer asked me if I could drive and I said: not to much. (It's really a funny story). And still he gave me. If I told other foreigners that you don't need driving skills to get a Thai drivers license it certainly would make problems for other foreigners. You HAVE to see the difference between what the officers do and what THAI LAW says and UNDERSTAND that they give you a Thai drivers license or a Thai visa WITHOUT the propper papers. This is just common knowledge for us that has stayed some years in Thailand.
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This has been discussed on other threads before, but I can repeat myself once more. This is some of the papers you need to have a Thai drivers license.
1. Non Immigrant Visa.
2. Certification of your address in Thailand from either the Immigration office, your ambassy, yellow book or from the local polise station.
3. National drivers license together with international drivers lisence or a verfication of your national drivers license from your ambassy if you don't have
an international drivers license.
Thai law says that a foreigner MUST obtain a Thai drivers license after staying in the kingdom for more than 90 days. An international drivers license is INVALID after 90 days.
IFF you have obtained your Thai drivers license iligally you are BRAKING THE LAW. What you have in your hand is an illigal document.
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Thanks been today to change address and yes it was deemed by KK DLO as necessary. If you get a speeding fine from fixed cameras it will be sent to your address. They said if it was retuned as no longer here it would inker higher penalties. Wether they were right or wrong I did it for my price of mind every document now has correct address and all have same ID number now. I like my ducks all in a row. Plus the bonus I recived of getting my new 5 year licence 8 months early. No tests color or foot. So yes in the end was worth it in my bookYou don't need to change the address.
Ps documentation needed licence, yellow book, and the new ID card for me no problems at all.
The reason why you don't need to change address is that the Immigration Police allready has your correct address if you have the yellow book or your landlord, wife or girlfriend have registered your adress at the Immigration Office.
To get a Thai drivers lisence you need a Non Immigrant Visa. When you apply for a Non Immigrant Visa you MUST give the Immigration Office your correct address. When you do your 90-days repport you give them the new address iff you move.
Not to be argumentative but if you are here on a 30 day visa exempt you can get a driving licence I did. Then you go out of country to get a non o based on marriage which I did. So then we move which we did therefore immigration have not have your address because I didn't get a visa from them. Now if you leave the country every 90 days and return they still haven't got your new address. Now if the mrs doesnt bother to tell immigration via a tm 30 they have no idea where you live. Now in my case what you say is correct but are the BIB going to ask the immigration police where you live !!!! Probably not I venture to say. Anyway its done now and as stated before I am glad I did it. Thanks for reply though
I think that you have gotten it all wrong. It has been several discusions on the forum about Thai drivers license. And often someone doesn't understand that Thai officials do what they do when they want to do. If an official gives you a Thai drivers license it doesn't need to mean that it's by the book. To have a Thai drivers license THAI LAW says you need a Non Immigrant Visa.
Acording to Thai law a foreigner can't stay in a house, apartment or hotel for more than 24 hours without the landlord/hotel notifying the local police station. It means that whatever visa or not you got they know were you live. If the landlord or hotel doesn't notify the local police he or her is braking the law. If you are renting a house or apartment the landlord MUST notify the Immigation Office.
When you apply for a Non Immigrant Visa outside Thailand at an ambassy or consulat I can asure you that EVERY information of your whereabouts in Thailand wil be registered and that information is open for the immigration officers to see. Today the Immigration officers are going from "door to door" checking out that the information they get is correct.
The Immigration Office DOES NOT issue visas. They extend visas.
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Thanks been today to change address and yes it was deemed by KK DLO as necessary. If you get a speeding fine from fixed cameras it will be sent to your address. They said if it was retuned as no longer here it would inker higher penalties. Wether they were right or wrong I did it for my price of mind every document now has correct address and all have same ID number now. I like my ducks all in a row. Plus the bonus I recived of getting my new 5 year licence 8 months early. No tests color or foot. So yes in the end was worth it in my bookYou don't need to change the address.
Ps documentation needed licence, yellow book, and the new ID card for me no problems at all.
The reason why you don't need to change address is that the Immigration Police allready has your correct address if you have the yellow book or your landlord, wife or girlfriend have registered your adress at the Immigration Office.
To get a Thai drivers lisence you need a Non Immigrant Visa. When you apply for a Non Immigrant Visa you MUST give the Immigration Office your correct address. When you do your 90-days repport you give them the new address iff you move.
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You don't need to change the address.
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Before the fee was 20 baht for both thai and farlang at the tower in Mukdahan. Today it's 30 baht for thai and 50 baht for farlang. They explained to me that they had been told to do so.
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I passed the crash site about 10 am the same day. It didn't look pretty. At first I thought it was two trucks. Because the truck was split in two halves.
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Mahasarakham better. Significant University. Richer.
I agree with you. I live in Maha Sarakham and there is no "farlang" bars/restaurants here. Twice the last years it has been a "farlang" bar in Maha Sarakham. They both didn't have the skills to run a bar so now one is sold to a Thai couple and the other one is an internet cafe. But if the right person opens a bar in Maha Sarakham I still think it can work.
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This is a good place to look. Prices are from about 5000 Baht and up.
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Maybe this link will help you.
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Geez, I live in a small village and work in another small village. Everybody has a newer car than me. New houses are sprouting up everywhere I look. My students all go home in cars not motorbikes. I can't find anyone to do some work for me for less than 1000 a day as they all have plenty of work. The new tesco in town is packed and so are the new restaurants. I don't know what part of Issan I am missing. Different strokes.
It's actually very easy to prove that there is poverty in Thailand by using statistics. The average monthly wages are about 13 500 baht. How can all these people afford to buy a car or a nice house? They can't. What you see is the middleclass and the rich driving around. Mostly the new houses are built by the middleclass and foreigners.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/thailand/wages
"Poverty has declined substantially over the last 30 years from 67% in 1986 to 11% in 2014 as incomes have risen. Poverty in Thailand is primarily a rural phenomenon, with over 80 percent of the country's 7.3 million poor living in rural areas (as of 2013), though a third of the poor are now in urban areas outside of Bangkok as well. Some regions—particularly the deep South and Northeast—and some ethnic groups lag greatly behind others, and the benefits of economic success have not been shared equally, especially between Bangkok, Thailand’s largest urban area, and the rest of the co.untry."
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Are you NUTS? My wife's family farms rice in Ubon! None of the above applies! Yes, they are poor, but happy! My wife went to
work in Korat at 18 and then she got her undergraduate degree at night! She took the Civil Service Exam after graduation and was
Number 2 in NE Thailand. Got a great job in the District Admin. She now has her MBA and is C-7 at 45. Her Teeth are beautiful
and I asked about brushing her teeth on the farm. Her Grandmother made toothbrushes and toothpaste at very little cost, if any.
so, don't put this CRAP OUT!
You have the right to disagree, but NOT the right to be impolite. I think that you should really get out there and see it for yourself. I have lived in a poor village in the middle of Isaan for many years and I know what he says is true. And if you think that people living in the villages are well educated you really need some "enlightenment".
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I think you went on the main road (the middle road) in Maha Sarakham, passed the not yet buildt Serm Thai (mall), passed the marked/shops on the corner at the streetlights (ringroad) on the road to Kossum (Khon Kaen). When you pass the city you see a lot of children early in the morning and in the evening.
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Sorry Aussie Steve I just saw your post that is right we stayed in the back one and had to go out like tin to get in[/quote
Was it the Taksilla hotel you staid in.
Inside hotel had lots of wood on the walls mickjn
Sorry aussiesteve I do not can do ask you to speak to much but my daughter wants me to ask you
In a few days my daughter said a lady is coming from Thailand to help me.She said every close to the block there are 2 hotels I am at the back it is a good hotel.
My daughter said and I do not know.We go out from the hotel and go left then go over a river or something and turn left again.She said but I do not remember we do not drive that far are there is a big school and a lot of school kids.We then drive a long way and there is a market then go a bit more and we are home,but thats that is granmas house no where I live.Apparently I lived some where else then lived in a great new place right near were they just built big shops very new but now about 6 years old.Also my daughter said she thinks I knew you or something similar and you are a good man.The last thing is and I was there but I do not know a thing about this is.One time about 5 years ago I think we were in the car I do not know who I was with or what I was doing and we stopped at the lights and there was a car next to us.People started to run to that car and he got out and shot and killed 2 people but he didn't drive away ran away.The people were Police and I has killed 2 of them,and that all happened about 5 metres from me but know I don't know about this.The police went away and killed him and about 5 people later that day somewhere out of town about 5 hours later.Thank you all the best
You stayed in New Pattana Hotel.
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I am looking at renewing my 1 year Thai driving license. I remember having to prove my address last year, however I don't currently live at a fixed address. Is there any way around the proving address part of it? What else will be needed?
Try in Pattaya. It seems like no laws and regulations exists.
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Salty water in your well can be a result of irrigation. When the farmers use irrigation (ground water) the water table sinks and the water can be salty.
Roku or Apple tv
in Isaan
Posted · Edited by Norlund
I have an Apple TV box from Norway and I have VPN, but how do I connect the Apple TV box to VPN? Do I have to go thru the pc?