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To all you posters who think it is such a simple process to apply for an Australian visitors visa and who can't understand the whinging of disappointed sponsors.  Even having the cheek to accuse us of being "princesses" LOL.

If you can't offer helpful information then please <deleted> off !!

My guess is it that "your" applications have never been rejected?

In my case when I arrived in Thailand we immediately began putting the application together and eventually ticked all the boxes.  I was so confident that her application would succeed because it was so comprehensive and truthful.  I booked our air ticket so that my GF could accompany me back to Oz at the end of my 2 months stay.

I even chose to pay the $330 option to fast-track our application at the visa centre.  The rejection was so disappointing (for a couple very much in love).  "after "careful consideration" I came to the conclusion that the applicant has no intention to return to Thailand." 

I came back to Oz alone, totally aggrieved at the decision.  For 40 years I have witnessed applications for Australian passports being deemed as a responsible professional person with impeccable credentials. Obviously this means SFA to the immigration dept.  Letters of complaint to the dept. were answered with non-committal excuses and denial that anything would be improved or changed. A total lack of responsibility being taken. The Canberra swamp needs to be drained !

for example:

"from omegaman
HI all,

Just went through the process of trying to obtain a visa class 600 multi entry tourist visa for wife. Of course Fortress Taxstralia (bad people in good people out) denied the visa on the grounds of not submitting biometrics. Well I would have sworn as she had completed that the the year before when obtaining same visa that as you have them already what has changed? No reply from email to embassy as expected. Lesson learnt and out of pocket 3500 baht. The immi account of course mentions nothing about having 14 days to submit your biometrics. Nope lets just take this mugs money and who in the bejesus is going to challenge the decision at 1700AUD. 

My application ticked all the points and I wanted to see the Embassy on my next visit for any further questions and/or requests, so what happened? 3 days after submitting my application this idiotic Atchima with position number...bla bla… refused my application as stated: after "careful consideration" I came to the conclusion that the applicant has no intention to return to Thailand. 

This has to be the ultimate act of stupidity and it is intolerable that one person has the power to reject an application and that one has no possibility to question that person (Atchima) how came to the "careful consideration" ???"

My case rests ..

18 minutes ago, Haso said:

For the info of those Aussies interested... I lodged my Partners Visa Application Subclass 600 electronically for her 2nd visit Australia for (3 months) in mid February after travelling from Phuket to Bangkok for the biometrics. Shame they don't have that service here yet. The visit to VFS was efficient, fast and professional. It took about 15 minutes. No problems. Three days later I received an email on her behalf "Granted". I thought .. What's all the fuss about.? Was I just lucky to have no issues??Better still they approved a 12 moth visa when I only applied for three months.. Better still again it was for 3 month multiple visits on each occasion for a period of 12 months. Happy wife.. Happy life. Cheers.


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Thanks for the happy news.  One would assume that some common sense was used in this case - simply because she did not overstay the first time equals an unblemished record.

I think this thread is mainly concerned with 1st time applications that do not get approved despite the visa applications being comprehensive and honest.  Having my GF's first application rejected was a horrible experience for both of us.  We put so much work into it.  Like most other people who have had this experience at the whims of Thai staff at the visa centre, we feel that the process is not fair or just.

Especially with no right of appeal or review by a senior staff member.

It's really a case of "guilty" before proven innocent.

The cost of installing boom gates seems to outweigh the worth of human lives.

2 hours ago, transam said:

Yep, planted in a tree....????

On 12/22/2018 at 9:58 AM, weri said:

coming to think of it, who in the right mind want to come to the <deleted> up Australia anyway? I in my mind I go rather to Thailand and spend a few weeks with great people and best hospitality, than travel around in this laughable country called Australia which I choose to migrate to in 1970 and have regretted it of late as this once great country is systematically destroyed by the stupidity of our greedy politicians. Whish is also reflected in the stupidity of the Australian Embassies! 

Totally agree with you Weri 

Typical of these Govt. departments who take no responsibility for their actions. No incentive to change. Just same old BS every day and get well paid.  They are swamps that need draining (to coin a phrase)

Can feel your pain and disgust mate !!

Unbelievable how the Immigration department treat their own citizens as if they were of no value at all, show no respect and no compassion whatsoever.  If I were you I would try to contact your local member of parliament and explain what happened. Just one phone call from them can get your application fixed.  Just because they have this dumb policy that's supposed to catch over-stayers/workers they think they can apply it to everyone without consequences.  Bloody asylum seekers and illegal immigrants get treated better than Australian citizens and genuine Thai tourists.  

In the past I have used Google maps to successfully guide taxi drivers to my destination around Bangkok.

However a recent trip in a hire car proved to be the opposite.

I do not have an explanation but Google maps led me astray at every turn. I suspect somebody could have hacked my Samsung phone. Or maybe my phone has a problem.

At times I received conflicting instructions to "turn right" then 3 seconds later told me to "turn left".  The last instruction said "turn right".

I did not realise I was in a one-way bus line driving the wrong way. At the end of this road there was a policeman waiting for me. I explained I had been following Google maps. His reply was "never follow Google!" He confiscated my IDL and after much discussion let me go with a 1000 baht fine. Other times on my journey to Kanchanaburi Google maps failed to give any instructions at all, leaving me guessing which way to turn at tee junctions.  I would be reluctant to use Google maps again.

Have you noticed how the size of their gear-lever embellishment seems to match the size of their ego?  Or is it inversely proportional to the size of something else? I have taken a few rides with these maniacs who pretend to be formula one pilots.  Long curving roads at speeds enough to make the tires squeal. One tire-blowout and it would be a rollover into the ditch.  The most relaxing journey I had in a mini bus was with a mature woman driver who stuck to the speed limit and never made a scary move. 

Thanks for the replies KhunBENQ and Dr Sheryl.

I agree entirely that pressure to achieve is counter-productive

and advised the mother to just concentrate on praise for every small achievement and avoid bribes as they are ineffective and can disappoint the child leading to more anxiety. 

She appears to have taken the advice and appreciated the help given.

My ex-wife was interested in giving our 5 year old boy a supplement called Alertide

She has asked me for my opinion.  My son has not been diagnosed with any disorder

but like many parents in Thailand she feels pressured to get our child to the top of his class.

I could not find a readable list in English showing the ingredients. 

It's being marketed in Thailand and there is some advertising on FB and eBay

as well as https://healthy777.weebly.com/alertide.html

The advertising claims that Alertide has some beneficial effects on  brain performance and

can also be effective in cases of ADHD. 

Any opinions or more information ?

Hi Sheryl

Im afraid I have been the victim of an elaborate hoax/scam.

This young lady convinced me of her plight in order to obtain sympathy money.  She said she was from Kamphaengphet. I have a copy of her ID card which she was reluctant to give me after I first met her. Her first story was about her mother who was getting chemotherapy and she needed money to pay the specialist. I had my suspicions but she never offered me any proof of her mother's plight or her own alleged condition other than to show me a breast covered by a large plaster and she complained of pain and swelling.

I could not see any signs of inflammation or bruising around the edge of the plaster. As you can imagine I was not going to ask her to remove the plaster in order to prove she was telling the truth. So I felt obligated to go along with her story. She said she had no friends or relatives in Bangkok. Today she wanted to come and see me again hoping to get more money. I told her not to come back and that I no longer believed her story. I warned her that she could be charged with fraud.

It's hard to believe that she was taking advantage of my kindness in order to scam money. She was not offering any sexual services so I thought she was genuinely in need of help.

Sorry for wasting your time Sheryl.

Hi Sheryl

The young lady came to me for help.

She told me the doctor was quite young. In a town 5 hours north of Bkk. She had a marble sized lump in the left breast just above the lower bra line and another smaller one on the upper left side. Both palpable through the skin. The doctor injected local anaesthetic in both areas. He took a biopsy canular and inserted through the nipple to reach the lower lump and did that two or three times.

She said it was extremely painful and it made her cry. I dont understand why he did not take the shortest route under the bra line to reach the lump.

I would even question the need for a biopsy at that first appointment.

Now she is in severe pain. Has a fever and the entire left breast is swollen and very tender. She is still waiting for results. The doc prescribed Cloxacillin and ibuprofen at the biopsy apointment. Yesterday she saw the Dr for dressing change . His only comment to take all the prescribed medicine and not expose the wound to water. She has a history of allergies and is understandibly afraid to take any stronger pain medication in case she has an allergic reactio

Thank you very much Sheryl

I forwarded your message to the young lady concerned and she told me to convey her sincere thanks to you.

She is feeling a little calmer now.

I will let you know the outcome in due course.

A young Thai lady 23 contacted me in a highly distressed state. Her GP detected a breast lump and immediatly did a biopsy. No family history mother is 68. Now she awaits biposy results.

Can somebody PM me with links where this lady can get proper advice and support.

She feels obligated to do what the doctor recomends. I feel she needs a second opinion. 

thanks 

At least a card won't go flat like my Samsung 

Anybody knowing the whereabouts of retiree

Dr David Eaton BDS (University of Bristol, UK)

former dentist in Mandurah Western Australia

- please send me a PM 

Thank you

Myanmar has found the ideal solution to the problem of Islamic invasion.

Islam have infiltrated Thailand from the south. They will remain quiet and slowly find jobs with local councils as they have done in the UK.  Next comes Sharia courts as the thin end of the wedge.  More mosques are built with Saudi money.  Then they introduce blasphemy laws to prevent anyone criticizing Islam.  Their numbers increase and eventually they introduce full Sharia law.  Thai Buddhists need to be aware not to allow Islam to spread.  If not, given time it will end in disaster. And it won't be the Rohingya that are on the receiving end of genocide. Take Lebanon as an example which used to be a majority Christian country but now !00% Muslim. 

"In Thailand, an hospital using baking soda cannot make money."

A friend of mine was in a Bangkok hospital recently, on a saline drip. 

The bill was 14,500 baht per day.

Australian Immigration make it very difficult to marry a foreigner in order to jump the legal immigration queue.

However there is a percentage that manage to sneak in.

They can get caught out when Centrelink discovers anomalies in their welfare payments such as different addresses and finding the newly married couple have never lived together. Since the marriage.

I wonder how many muslins from the middle east are marrying Thai women as part of the islamic plan to infiltrate and take over Thailand. From the number of new mosques I've seen their plan seems to be working well.