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My friend is in BKK right now with a severely damaged ACL from a sports injury.  Is there a hospital or DR that specializes in sports injuries specifically knee surgeries.  She is a professional athlete and this is serious if the surgeon cannot treat it perfectly, her career will be over.  Because of the pandemic and being stuck in Thailand she cannot really go abroad to get it done currently. 

Thanks for any suggestions and help.

First of all congratulations and good luck. It is an arduous process getting everything in order.  Getting married in Thailand is pretty easy.  Oh, if you have been married before, make sure that you have your divorce certificate, so that you can get married here.  The process for marriage here is quite simple and painless, takes no more than a few hours.

Usually when rejected many times for visas, they will create a hassle when applying for marriage visa. They want to know why denied before, then why keep applying and then why shift tactics and apply for a new type of visa.  They might flag her. If your purpose is to marry her and bring her over, perhaps contact an immigration lawyer or even contact your local immigration to find out. They will know if she has been flagged. Just state your case. 

It doesn't look that good to have a long distance relationship where you have only been together a few times. Try to get as much evidence as you can. Holiday photos. Pictures of wedding party with all her relatives. If you have any relatives or friends that can fly over for the wedding, that will look good too. 

I had a friend who married a girl here with the hopes of bringing her to the US but he didn't know that she had overstayed a visa there a few years ago and was denied her entrance for marriage. Now he lives in the US and she lives here for the next 3-5 years while the appeal process happens.

Hopefully, you will have nothing but good luck.

This forum is for women, not to ask stupid questions that marginalize all women.

You went to visit someone and after the trip they stopped writing you often. It means that you did something wrong on the trip and they don't like you anymore. Plain and simple. Nothing to do with women or Thai. You cannot expect everyone to like you just because you buy them things and travel to see them.

since it was a private message and not a public one, you broke no laws. Really don't worry, but then again with this day and age, don't let the paper trail exist.  Personally, I don't know why you would criticize thai people to someone you aren't that close with in written correspondence.

Really, sounds like you are paranoid.

It costs 1200 Baht per day to live in Chiang mai

1500 Baht per day in Bangkok 

1700 Baht per day in Koh Samuii

1450 Baht per day in Pattaya

1550 Baht per day in Pukett

On 1/2/2017 at 6:19 AM, gamini said:

This is what it might cost you. But you are not everyone. I would imagine that TV members come from all walks of life. Much would depend on if you are married and have children or not, whether your wife is Thai or a foreigner. It would also depend how old  you are because as you get older you spend more money on medicine and medical fees.

I think this poster was giving a very rough estimate. It is a good ball park figure for a middle class existence.  If you factor rent, food, transportation, entertainment, utilities, clothing.

Yes of course people can spend a lot more or a lot less depending on their situation, but it is a reasonable guide for those who are new coming here to see what they might expect to spend.

The only thing I hate about these threads is the d*ck measuring and constant bragging how much or little people can spend. One guy is bragging how he has a 4 bedroom place. yeah, you win.  Every person who is single needs four bedrooms.

I wish when these threads popped up people spent more energy helping the OP than giving such contrary and argumentative posts.

Using the Thai tax standards: under 15k baht a month, you are living a poor lifestyle.  15-30k baht a month you are living a lower middle class lifestyle.  30-60k baht a month you are living a middle class lifestyle.  60-150k baht a month you are living an upper middle class lifestyle.  Beyond that sky is the moon. 

At 50-60k baht a month, you could afford to hire a maid to clean a few times a week, you could eat out most nights or have food delivered. You could eat typical western food most nights, you could drive a car, and live in a reasonable sized condo in town or a larger house or apartment outside of the city center.  Or you could rent a cheap 2k baht room, eat boiled rice and fish, and fresh veggies, walk or ride a bike everywhere, sit in the park and read books 6 hours a day, and save all of your pension for when you die. 

If it is for a local publication, then yes you do open yourself up to scrutiny. If it is from overseas and there is no paper trail to here, no worries.

I think the problem that happens is that most people don't really live by a budget.  What they think they actually spend ends up being a lot more than that after the year. A monthly budget is only a fraction of a yearly budget because of the hidden costs of things.

you also have huge start up costs.

You will spend a minimum of 200k baht in your first month more if you want a car or other comforts. 

For all the morons spouting off 45k baht a month for an apartment, get realistic with the thread. The OP is talking about a budget of 50k baht a month. he is not looking for an upper class lifestyle. He is looking at a middle class simple existence.

My rule of thumb is that whatever you earn in your country for the year would be the equivalent of what you would spend to live here a month in baht.  Example if you earn 30k USD a year, you would comfortable live on 30k baht a month. If you earn 50k dollars a year, you would live on 50k baht a month. 

Have at least 1 million baht security for emergencies that you don't touch.  Try to save at least 10k baht a month from your current pension, because you will have health problems, accidents, need new clothes, etc at some point. If you spend 50k baht a month and that is all you have what happens when you need a little extra for emergencies.

There are many wonderful things to see and do that are free. There are bargains to be found and there are many people who will call you a cheap charlie for living humble.  Tell them to FOFF. Its easy online to brag how high brow you are, but really all people are just existing within their own budget. 

Good luck and always have an exit strategy.

Make sure that one of the photos has both you and your wife in front of the address of the house.  They also like to have pictures of you in the bedroom but I find that too personal and have other photos instead.  They can be difficult in some provinces. You will need 2 photocopies of everything if you don't live in BKK.  After you get the first 30 day temporary approval they will come out to your house and interview your neighbors. Make sure that you tell your neighbors ahead of time. They will need a copy of their ID. 

Make sure you deposit the money in the bank early from overseas wire. They don't usually like when it is done in Cash deposit, they question it sometimes. Or have tax papers and your local thai work permit and a copy of your contract.

If you have kids living with you, they will need to come to the interview also. 

In CM it is a nuisance and you have to go as early as 3 AM to queue. its absurd.

The original visa is for 90 days. Then you get permission to stay for up to 1 year. if you have a multiple entry visa, you don't need to go to immigration, you just head to the border every 90 days. If you get the extension of stay, you will need to go to immigration every 90 days to report.

As for your question about when filling out the form. Yes, fill out the correct address you will be living and the same one you will be applying for the extension of stay. Also whoever is the land owner, will have to fill out a form and report to immigration within 24 hours of your arrival. 

A lot of people get the multiple entry if they are near a border and sometimes its more convenient to take a border trip every 90 days especially those that cannot provide the required 400k in a bank or work permit and 40k baht a month local income (or overseas income with affidavit )

But remember that in order to show proof of income from a Thai salary, you need a tax form. So you will have to have been working for a few months in order to apply for extension of stay.  As for your other questions, yes you will need a re-entry permit if you leave the country after you  apply for extension of stay. The multiple entry visa will be voided out at that point.

You don't need to apply for the extension of stay. You could legally work on the non o multiple entry visa and a valid work permit.  You would just have to leave the country every 90 days rather than doing a 90 day report. 

In BKk there isn't any difference applying for reason based on work or marriage but up here in CM they tell us every year to just apply based on work as he marriage is more hassle.

16 hours ago, overherebc said:

 

If you have 90 days added just before the enter by date you will need a re-entry to keep them. On re-entry you will however only be stamped in again up to that date.

I don't understand what you are talking about. You cannot add 90 days to the visa.  The visa is  90days multiple entry with a one year expiration date.  You can leave the country as many times as you want during that year, but you can only stay 90 days at a time, unless you extend your stay at immigration. But you don't need a re-entry permit as it is a multiple entry visa which is why it is more expensive.

16 hours ago, Suradit69 said:

 

Since the visa is valid until December next year he wouldn't get an extension of stay. If applied for an extension they'd probably tell him to come back in a year/

The 90 days for each entry is different than the expiration date of the multiple entry visa.  As Ubonjoe stated it is extending the period of stay not the visa.

re-entry permits are for people with extensions of stay not for 1 year "multiple entry". hence the name. Unless you extended your stay for one year on that visa. wow 750 ringit Used to be only 500 just a few years back. 

" Extend your stay in the United States by filing a visa extension request with the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) using Form I-539 "

Yes, technically people are extending their stay, but it is a common expression to say extend one's visa and even used on US government websites.

A visa is permission to enter and stay in the country. So I don't see why people cannot call it a visa extension. No, they are not getting a new visa but they are extending their stay which was granted from the visa in the first place.  It is common vernacular in most countries to say "extending my visa" . If you know what they are talking about especially since you are able to correct them, then perhaps just forgive people using different nomenclature for the same thing.

15 hours ago, overherebc said:

What the OP said in his first post is 100% correct and I take the point that people who post will only get the correct information if they supply the correct details.

eg A post of the following.

I have been here on a visa for 3 years and have done all my 90 day reports wish to do such and such now.

When it's pointed out that they are most likely on an extension and the details are explained to them they start arguing that point instead of reading the genuine information given by the likes of UBJ and a few others.

In many cases they end up with problems of their own making and wrongly blame TV for giving them duff info' which is in fact correct.

In fact the person could have been here on the same visa for 3 years. Yes, he/she gets the annual extension but it is still the same visa.  Yes, they are granted extensions, but what are they extending? They are extending their visa, which is the legal term for the document that gives permission to stay in a country.

First of all, why does it have to be a Thai bank account?  He could easily invest it abroad earning up to 5%.  He could also invest in rental properties and generate between 3 and 5% ROI, even more if the property increases in value.

Second,  I have 3 bank accounts here that pay 3% or more in interest.

My wife has one account where she deposits 5k baht a month and gets 4.4% interest. 

16 million at even a 2.5% interest which isn't unreasonable to get from some savings accounts, would net you 40k baht a month which is a reasonable amount to live on without touching the principal.

So yes, 16 million is doable for anyone at age 50 or 60 to retire here on.  Having a passive income or a pension on top of that would be even better because things happen and no monthly budget is ever close to what one spends a year. If someone says they spend a certain amount every month, they often exclude yearly expenses like visas, travel, accidents, hospital bills, etc. 

It has always been illegal to make any alcohol without a license.  I have never seen beer brewing kits sold here so I assume the law applies to beer and wine.  Yes, of course if you just make it in your house in small quantities no one will know, but someone might grass you up. 

Learn the proper way to wai and who to wai to; which it seems most on this site don't know.

first of all, you shouldn't have given him the wai as you are older than he is. It is kind of like you saying excuse me sir to a younger person, just makes us feel uncomfortable.

Second, it isn't uncommon for government workers to just move to the next person. They are busy and probably wasn't even thinking. It wasn't a disrespect to you at all. You don't matter and are irrelevant. Unless perhaps you think that you are a movie start or that your 50k baht a month pension demands all Thais prostrate themselves before you.

Third, you are a foreigner and many Thais that deal with a lot of foreigners don't use Thai expressions or customs with them. If you were in your country working with Japanese all day would you shake their hand or bow to them? Most would eventually bow with them even though it isn't your custom, you would follow the custom of the people you deal with the most.

5 pages and no response from OP. This is a troll. It is also insanely off topic. Have Mods gone on holiday?

You all do realize that the OP was just trolling right? He hasn't responded and isn't really interested in advice, just bragging about his wife and her connections.

I am shocked how many men here think it is their issue to get involved with their partner's work problems. What would you do if your wife came to your work and told your boss that he/she makes you work too hard, or demands to much from you? Or any other problem we all face every day.

Though sexual harassment is a serious issue and should be addressed, overbearing and insecure husbands shouldn't have a part in it.

TOEIC is relatively simple but uses a lot of jargon. Most Native speakers would probably get 99% correct. The TOEFL test is more academic in nature and definitely has a lot of things that sound right to native speakers but are grammatically incorrect. Native speakers seldom score high on TOEFL without practice.

I had been going to Penang for many years to do my multiple entry and it was always pretty easy there. However, Last Summer when I went, they wanted proof of 400k baht for the single entry and didn't give the multiple entry. Did it change back recently or did I just have a bad luck? KL was the same.

All I had to show before was a photocopy of an updated bank book.

looks like a yam or similar to a sweet potato.

Casava is a good guess as well but they are typically longer and not round.

They are all very similar tubers.