Aussietraveller

What a load of <deleted>.

Ning is going to Bangkok because she id being paid to do so.

She was told that poor Mr Thaksin has a lot of his money stolen by this bad government, and Mr Thaksin loves all the people from Rural Thailand.

Ning cannot understand the complexities of the Court ruling that was handed down the other day, and how it showed that Thaksin has not legally earned all of the money that he has.

Ning cannot understand this because of the Standard of education she recieved.

The education system that was set up by Thaksin and others who have led this country.

This whole thing is about a greedy man in Dubai who wants his money back at any cost.

If ning and others get hurt, Mr Thaksin will not be there to wipe the blood off.

Hi Mason,

When i first met my girlfriend we applied for a tourist Visa for her to come to Australia.

We got a 12 month multi entry tourist visa and that staff at the embassy could not have been more helpful.

Later we got married and applied for spouse Visa.

It was processed and granted and the embassy in Bangkok again were very helpful.

My wife has now been in Australia 2.5 years and have been granted her permenant residency.

Again only 1st class service from Immigration.

No problem here with discrimination.

Without knowing your exact circumstances, i would suggest that if you have been given advice to not apply for a tourist visa for your wife, then it may be prudent not to do so.

If you do need clarification on anything it may pay to call the embassy.

Hi All,

I will be in Bangkok with the Family in a few months and am looking for a family friendly hotel/Serviced apartment on Sukhumvit Rd.

I will be travelling with my wife and 2 small kids.

Can anyone recommend a Serviced apartment or Hotel?

2 bedroom apartment would be great.

It is only for 3 - 4 days when we arrive and the same before we leave, so not looking for a long term option.

price preferably 3000 - 6000 THB/night

Thanks in advance.

Sky news in Australia is reporting that ASEAN Summit has been cancelled due to security at the venue.

To The OP,

Do not let the previous posters deter you from your well planned and thought out investment strategy.

I happen to have a very profitable beer bar in Pattaya that is for sale.

It sounds exactly like the business that you are looking to buy.

The exact working model for a successful beer bar is a closely guarded secret, so you will understand that i will need a fairly substantial(non refundable) deposit paid into my bank account prior to telling you anything about it.

Please contact me directly for the banking details.

Looking forward from hearing from you soon...........

Hi there,

I had a similar situation when my wife was originally in OZ several years ago.

She was here on a 12 month tourist Visa and had to leave the country every 90 days.

We applied for a NZ Tourist Visa for her, and they were very reluctant to grant it, as they felt that we were only applying to use the NZ trip as her 90 day turnaround.

This was partly true.

Her visa was issued by NZ reluctantly, with the condition that she would not get another NZ Tourist visa while in OZ on her OZ Tourist Visa.

They are aware that NZ is used for a Visa Run, and do not seem to make it easy.

Depending on where you are, try Tiger Air or Jetstar for a quick trip to KL or Singapore or Bali.

Good Luck.

RIP Kit

great post warfi.

I have ridden that road many times myself, and reading your story describes it all so well.

I can almost smell the diesel fumes from the bus struggling to get the next load of tourists over the hill.

Keep up the good work.

From personal experience, one issue that you may have is the medical for her Visa.

When applying for a spouse Visa, your wife will need a chest X Ray.

The advice that we received from our doctors was not to get the X Ray done while my wife was pregnant, unless it was life threatening.

Sorry to throw a spanner in the works.

doosyhindleg,

I am Australian, my wife is Thai.

We had our first baby in Thailand, by choice.

I cannot speak highly enough of the treatment that we recieved at the Hospital, and also with the Oz Embassy afterwards getting all of our paperwork in order.

Whilst there were certainly some hoops to jump through as far as getting the little ones citizenship and OZ passport, it was not too bad.

The application for my wife's Spouse Visa was submitted after the baby was born, and the fact that we had started a family did contribute to the success of this application, I believe.

We are about to have our second child here in Australia, and i can say that the hospital system here is worse than in Thailand.

Medicare does not cover a lot of the costs, and we have (after 7 months) spent more in OZ than we did in Thailand for the whole pregnancy including birth etc.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.

Happy birthday to His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.

Long live the King.

Well said OP.

Lest we forget....

Thaksin Shinawatra, the deposed Thai Prime Minister and former owner of Manchester City Football Club, has had his visa revoked by the British Government, two years after he fled to exile in London following a military coup.

An immigration officer at the British Embassy in Bangkok has also e-mailed airlines warning them not to allow Thaksin, 59, or his wife Potjaman, 51, both thought currently to be in China, to board flights to Britain after a Thai court last month sentenced him to two years in prison for corruption. According to media reports in Thailand, Thaksin was considering sanctuaries such as China, the Philippines and the Bahamas last night.

A Whitehall source confirmed yesterday that the Home Office had revoked the couple’s visas under rules banning entry to those convicted of offences that can carry a jail sentence under British law. The Thai Government confirmed that it had been informed – in fact, the only person who appeared not to have been notified was Thaksin himself. “I spoke with Thaksin’s secretary and he said that Thaksin still has not been notified by the British Government,” said Phongthep Thepkanjana, a spokesman for Thaksin.

Unconfirmed reports said that the Thaksins had been granted honorary citizenship by the Bahamas. The couple are said to be in China, where they are building a £5.5 million home.

Pracha Prosobdee, a member of the ruling pro-Thaksin People Power Party (PPP), told a Thai newspaper: “We don’t have to be concerned about Thaksin and his family. There are the Bahamas and several countries in Africa and around the world that will gladly welcome high-quality people like him.” The tycoon first fled to London after the military coup in 2006 and bought a £3 million penthouse flat in Kensington, West London, and a £4.5 million mansion in Weybridge, Surrey. He bought Manchester City in July last year and sold it in September to Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment for £210 million. He retained the post of honorary president but the club’s board is believed to be considering stripping him of the title. There is also concern over his link to a 10 per cent holding of the club’s shares through associates.

Last month Thailand’s constitutional court convicted him in absentia of abusing his power as Prime Minister over his wife’s purchase in 2003 of a 772 million baht (£14 million) plot of land in central Bangkok. The court found that a government agency sold the property at Thaksin’s behest for a third of its market value.

The visa revocation puts an end to attempts by Thailand to extradite Thaksin from London. Indeed, it may have been a desire to avoid a complicated and politically charged extradition process that motivated the Home Office to take the procedurally much simpler step of revoking the visas – making Thaksin, at a stroke, someone else’s problem.

Thai prosecutors complained that the British decision would complicate the job of extraditing Thaksin. It will now be harder to keep track of him, and he could end up in a country with which Thailand does not have an extradition treaty.

Thaksin was the most popular, but also the most divisive, Prime Minister that Thailand has known. His village health-care schemes and programme of cheap loans won him the love of rural voters who had been ignored by the metropolitan political class, and carried him to three successive election victories. But many middle class urban Thais abhorred him, accusing him of using the vast wealth he acquired as a businessman to corrupt the country’s institutions and make it impossible to unseat him and his supporters.

Supporters of Thaksin still control Thailand’s Government, and this month more than 50,000 people attended a rally in Bangkok to hear him speak by telephone. Yesterday the Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat – Thaksin’s brother-in-law – said: “The revoking of the visas is the decision by the Government of Great Britain. We cannot criticise.”

SOURCE: timesonline.co.uk

When you get married in January, you will need to do it at any Amphur, in order to get the paperwork done.

One of the questions that you will be asked is if you wife wishes to take your surname.

If so they will do all of the paperwork and and your Marriage papers will show that.

You can then get your wifes ID card re issued at that Amphur at the same time.

You then take your wifes passport to the passport office with the marriage paperwork and new ID card, and they will organise a new passport for her.

Good luck with it all.

Thanks for the info fishhooks.

We are considering a trip back to LOS next year, and had planned to stay several months.

Looks like we may make it just under 2 months.

We have been using Aussiecall for months now.

I have a Vodafone plan for $1000 per month that gives us $5000 worth of calls.

The call to Aussiecall is charged at a normal australian mobile rate, and even my wife cannot make more calls to her mum than the call cap.

Although she does try...

Sometimes it is hard to connect in peak periods, but overall it is great.

The verdict sends a clear message, and not before time.

There is some hope of a similar outcome for Thaksin.

Whether she will ever spend a day in the pokey is another question, i for one do doubt that.

Hi All,

My wife and I got back to Australia with our baby late last year.

As long as you get back to Australia before the baby is 26 weeks old, you will be fine.

I would suspect that you will have to have the childs citizenship approved and Australian passport issued.

Centerlink wanted to see original birth certificate and certified Translation, as well as her passport with an entry date stamped in it.

Apart from Centerlink being a PITA to deal with, it was all fairly straightforward.

We had to apply to the ATO and get my wife a Tax File Number prior to Centerlink processing the claim.

But for $4000 it was worth a little running around.

I rented a Jazz in Phuket for 12 months @ 15,000 a month.

It was Brand new when we got it.

It was a private rental, not one of the rental companies.

Your quote is right on the money.

Michael,

The best advice is to ignore any advice from people with less than 10 posts.

Check out the Australian Embassy Website and department of immigration website.

The main things that will be looked are proof of your relationship.

Pictures of you together, proof of you traveling to spend time with her, proof of your travel together.

The big one is that she has sufficient ties to Thailand to make her return.

Spell out clearly why she would come back to Thailand, and not overstay her Visa in Australia.

PM me if you have any questions.

GB,

Congratulations, that is a great Christmas present.

We used BNH, across the road from the Oz Embassy in Bangkok.

1st Class facilities, and great staff.

Cost was just over 2000 Baht from memory.

Open the carrots dude.

Congratulations.

4 days turnaround is impressive for a Visa.

Macwalen,

I hope that as a result of this thread, your business continues to receive a lot of additional students.

You have contributed to this forum, by putting your money into advertising. This is more than most of your critics on here can say.

There have been a lot of things said and you have replied and undertaken to review your advertising.

You have answered most of the questions asked, and done so in a civil manner.

Unfortunately the manners of some members are not quite up to that standard.

Your marketing is spot on.

You are marketing to foreigners in Thailand, who wish to have a visa to stay here. So promote that fact.

(this forum is full of threads complaining about the lack of Visa options)

The school name says that it is a school for learning Thai.

Marketing is about selling the strong points of your business to your potential customers.

Having the ability to get a Visa by undertaking these studies is a big selling point, and you are correct to highlight that.

Are all of those who are complaining about this personally affected by it? Are they potential students?

Or are they the same people who, in other threads complain about lack of visa options, price of milk, Visa runs, Thai people, etc...

Good luck with your business.