bbi1

No sir, you, my friend, understand very little about Thailand and bar girls. Many of the bar girls have a gambling problem, most have a baby to a Thai man who they dumped on their parents to look after, most are liers and cheaters, are only interested in money from sucker foreigners and have many suckers around the world sending them money, most are happy to sleep around with other dudes for money, even if they have a bf/husband. Normal Thais don't think highly of bargirls and don't want to be associate with them.

There are no real "traditional" women in the Pattaya area. 90% of them are from out of province coming here to sell what they have. "Wants to be a mother" - well, most of them are already single mothers while a small handful don't have kids already. The ones that are dumped their kids in the village for their parents to look after while they make the moolah here. Some wants more kids, others don't.

A lot of them or legal age working in normal jobs are up for some P4P. In fact, many of them go out to clubs and sell the punani too or are semi-pro for some extra cash. Ones that work in retail, fast food restaurants, waitresses, hotels, dental assistants, salons, etc.

You don't know agents help do the dodgy dodgy for old farts who don't have 800k in the bank and "help" then with this legal requirement for a big fee?

Can Russians get a 30 day extension after the 90 days? I've seen quite a number of Ruskies at Jomtien Immigration, so I'm guessint so???

Well, that just sucks and it plain stupid. Pay 500 baht extra and have to wait another week. You may as well go there yourself and lodge it yourself. You still need to wait another one business day to get your passport back with the extension, which must be a recent thing as previously you got it back the same day.

But do you still need to line up in the queue ticket line? So you have to pay an extra 500 baht to book an appointment online? What a ripoff. They don't mention any additional fees on the big sign next to the queue ticket counter. All the sign says is "a quicker and easier way to do your extension"

What about all the old farts who use agents for retirement visas who don't have the 800k in the bank? Immigration should deport them too for doing dodgy things and not having money. There should be a serious crackdown on this, big time. Too many are doing the dodgy dodgy.

Exactly. Would be handy for people to know the name of the agent/agency so others can avoid them.

Most of them work in the sex industry, or have in the past, or work as semi-pros. You are kidding yourself there buddy.

No bar girl is trustworthy. If you believe that, you are just plain dumb and stupid.

So don't come anywhere near Pattaya/Jomtien/Chonburi area then. It's what you are looking to avoid.

Yes, they're all the same. Not the place for relationships.

I think you should go and get that addressed asap. A trip to the local clinic or hospital is advised. I'm sure other members would advise the same.

So what's the point of the online E-extension thing then? Don't you get a queue number once you do it online? They have a huge sign next to the queue desk that it's a quicker way of getting an extension. I think the steps were: 1. Upload documents 2. Pay the fee online - anyone know if you can pay the 1,900 baht by a credit card??? 3. I forgot what the last step was on the sign.

What is this "hassle-free entry" service you mentioned? I'm interested in knowing about this, as would be some others here.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's one of the old dudes. It's usually some of the folks here on retirement visas who post telling the younger ones that they shouldn't be staying here on tourist visas. If it's a troll, I'm putting my money is on an old dude starting all these new accounts and posting "denial at BKK threads".

Did you print out anything from your online TM30 to take with you to Jomtien Immigration? The 1st thing the girls at the queue ticket desk do is look for a TM30 slip stapled to your passport, if you need to do anything at Jomtien. Also, how does the TM30 online work, does anyone actually checks your rental contract to see it's correct and valid? In person they always look through it to make sure everything is in the rental contract and it's valid.

Yep, it's most likely the same troll poster as the past 2 times in the last week.

Another brand new member and the 1st post again is another troll post of BKK denial/nearly denied. I think it's the same dude as the last two times trolling. Probably some old dude with too much times on his hands, keeps creating new accounts.

Yes, Jomtien Immigration always looks in your passport to see if a TM30 slip has been stapled to your passport. I never knew that a TM30 could be done online, so I'm wondering how this will go for those doing it online as you have no proof in your passport that it has been done. No TM30 in passport, no extension can be done. If you do a TM30 online, do you just upload the rental contract and that's it? Does anyone actually checks your rental contract to see it's correct and valid? In person they always look through it to make sure everything is in the rental contract and it's valid.

Another brand new member claiming to have a problem at BKK airport. A couple of days ago it was another brand new member. I'm wondering if there's any legitimacy or just some bored old dudes creating a new account on here to stir up the pot. More legitimacy would come from long-term members here, but I've yet to see those members claim similar problems at BKK airport.

The world's turned into crap. They are trying to brainwash kids into this gay & ladyboy rubbish on tv. No wonder Thailand has so many gays and ladyboys.

It would be very easy for the OP to snap a few pics of either his "locking me and another guy in a holding room for 2 hours" in BKK or at the AirAisa counter in KL to give some proof & legitimacy to his story. I did provide pics as proof when others were disputing me that Jomtien Immigration weren't letting people do extensions weeks in advanced, but only one business day in advanced. That put the haters claiming that it was possible to be silent. A few pics of proof goes a long way, especially when you are a brand new member and your 1st post is a big claim like this.

Great, and the OP hasn't provided any pics as proof of anything. Surely he could've easily taken a few snaps during that time and posted here as proof, especially in KL. Seems more like a troll post by a new member.