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  1. No link.

     

    But others have posted links .. way tooooooo many threads for me to find the link(s). And there were discussions about it,  Research if you not believe me. I believe me ????????????????

     

    An agent did a talk at an Expats meeting recently in Pattaya. Reports on here were he said new regs not a problem. The meeting was only 300 yards from my condo ... so maybe I should have gone but I read the reports.

     

     

     

     

     

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  2. 23 minutes ago, elviajero said:

    No it is not.

     

    The is no rule/regulation or directive from the TIB waiving “seasoning for agent-applications.”

    Seasoning is waived for agent applications. A well known fact. They themselves advertise this. They dont even bother to hide it.

     

    Or am I missing the context of what you were saying.

     

    Its called bribery / corruption. I think that was the point being made. 

     

    The same agents are advertising the new regs wont effect their business. 

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  3. 50 minutes ago, sumrit said:

    No it is not. On the TM.7 it is entitled:

     

    APPLICATION FOR EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY STAY IN THE KINGDOM

     

    Yep. Your right. My memory is it used to say retirement visa too but your right.. just looked very latest ones not say. Sorry ????  Well spotted.

     

    All them Immigration Officers calling them Retirement Visas though .. and them signs and passport stamps and the 99.99999 % people saying retirement visa .. the dictionary meaning ... permission to stay is a visa. But hey ho.

     

    Its like insisting there is no such thing as a baht bus. Correcting them that the official name is Songthow (or something) and correcting anyone who ever says baht bus.  If its called a baht bus by 99.99999 percent of people .. I tend to call them that toooo. 

     

    Just saying. 

     

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  4. On 2/14/2019 at 12:32 PM, Pilotman said:

    The place is an unplanned mess, a sewer in place of the sea, a rubbish tip for a beach and a traffic nightmare.  It floods in the rainy season, stinks in the dry season and is full of people you would never wish to see, meet or ever socialise with. Dead? here's hoping. 

    I think you should say how you really feel about the place .. not hold back.  ????

     

    Last time I checked it was not compulsory to visit Pattaya.  Dont like it .. dont go there.

     

    We dont all move in your high end circles. Us people you dont want to meet or socialise with are really gutted.  PLEASE change you mind.  

     

    Off to the Opera tonight are you ? Or is it Bridge at the golf club. Jeez wish I had your class. I gonna have to make do with scantily dressed temptresses dancing whilst Im trying to concentrate on my beer. Its so boring here.

     

    But I like all them cute smiles and laughter .. thats just the old falang. 

     

    Where is your posh classy bit of Thailand and life style  .. rhetorical question .. I dont care. 

     

    You know alot about it .. describing the different seasons. Must have been here quite a bit.  Could not have been toooo bad or were you held captive.

     

     

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  5. 13 minutes ago, Dazinoz said:

    Amazes me how many people on these forums think they are so much better than others.

    I think he was having a sense of humour.  Perfectly reasonable light heartedness..  Much written each day that is nasty .. not this. He must be foreign tooooooo.  I get the gallows humour. He is laughing at our / his situation not being superior.

     

    But hey ho. 

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  6. Is this not good news, in small part, for those from "non grumpy 4"  embassy countries.

     

    I reckon squillions of you who have income from home countries no longer need an embassy letter.

     

    Did not some have to go to BKK personally ?  They now accept other proof.

     

    But of course it has to come here. And be in inconvenient monthly blocks .... and a bank letter needed now.  And you can now not bring in cash in pocket from trips home that will count.

     

    Maybe not toooooo good.

     

    Just might be a tiny bit good though .. for some .. maybe.

     

    Possibly.

     

     

  7. 5 minutes ago, sfokevin said:

    Both my Apple Mac and IPad access Kasikorns website fine via Safari... The App seemed to only allow one device (preferably your phone which you must ink the phone number to at an ATM)...

    Thanks for info.  

     

    The problem is with Samsung's / Android "Chrome" default browser.  Amazing really as its so widely used.  Before I knew ... I once spent days trying to buy tickets for an event in Dubai. Many phone calls got me no where. Online purchase only.  On the 4th phone call the girl told me .. their system wont work with Android default browser.  

     

     

  8. Its argueably now more adviseable to keep a close track of bank account(s).  Getting passbook updates not always convenient.

     

    For Info ...

     

    Kasikorns Cyber (online banking) site does NOT seem to like Android default browser (Chrome). I have found many sites dont work with Chrome. Including some features on my English bank site.

     

    But I still persevered struggling to get it to accept my new user name and password. After 2 hours and phone calls to Kbank I remembered. Durrrrrrrr ! tooo many beers over the years. ????

     

    Had to download and use a different browser. I downloaded Firefox and it works a treat.

     

    Errrrrrrr except Firefox has very annoying features. I.e Its possible to download your account history for offline use/printing. But when I try to do that .. Firefox asks for permission to access my photos and files. What the Ferk !!!!! WHY !!!!!!!!

     

    I say NO .. and the download wont occur. I got rid of Firefox before because of this VERY annoying feature. So no printout possible with my set up .. so passbook only printed record.  

     

    I might have to dust off my crappy old Windows laptop to get a print out if I feel the need. The internet bank shows in lovely big bold letters in full International Transation Deposit. But IOs will know the codes in passbook very soon.

     

    So dont struggle with Kbank with Chrome ... in my experience it wont work.

  9. "My TW transfers to Kasikorn only show as 05027 (International Transaction) when they use Kasikorn as their local banking partner (as shown on the TW receipt pdf). If they use BBL then it gets coded as 07416 (Stock Trading) or more recently 07206 (Receive Other Transfer)."

     

    I have no idea but now I got all the codes meanings  .. I can see ALL my internet requested transfers over the past 2 or 3 years show very clearly they from my UK bank. Well to be acurate .. thats its an international transfer ... Probably also before that but old bank books destroyed.

     

    Phew .. all good. I can stick with Kasikorn.

     

    I always send in pounds not let Lloyds do the exchange .. They always give 2 auto warnings I will lose money and create a delay.  BS .. they want to make money on the exchange rate.  Banks suck.

     

    It might be if sending in baht it not get TFN code ... pounds arriving down them wires to be exchanged gonna generate some different code. ????????????

  10. Wow. Ballpoint. Your a star.

     

    Many thanks

     

    I will put PDF on my phone to flash under Immigration Officers nose if needed.

     

    Im sorted .. providing rules not change again. The 4 countries citizens needing to show 65k or more income from abroad a big contrast to ALL the rest proving income that need not come anywhere near Thailand .......a HUGE difference in fact.

     

    .... never been discrimated against before ????????????????

  11. On 2/6/2019 at 4:00 PM, ballpoint said:

    Kasikorn Bank uses TFN05027 - 05032 as its "International Transction" (sic) code:

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    That list is exactly what Ive been searching for ... for many days.

     

    Thanks for posting.  My account book's list and other posted lists not include all the international codes. Gonna print this and take to immigration when renewing. Sorted .. errrrrrr I think. 

     

    No idea why all the posts that you gotta move to Bangkok Bank and use TW. Spooked me.

     

    Soon immigration will be experts on bank transaction codes but nice to have it printed out.

     

    I suspect all the codes will show on internet banking which Ive just applied for today but this list good info. 

     

    I wont get 12 inward monthly payments in but they have been ordered to be lenient the first year and accept fewer imports.  I must print put BJs letter that says allowances be made. Previously I did 2 or 3 large transfers in a year.

     

    What a performance. 800k route as a plan B hopefully not needed after first year if it all ok.

  12. Many years ago I opened an account with Kasikorn bank near/at the Avenue complex in Pattaya. The girl did the opening bit ... as she started a sales talk regarding me taking out accident insurance. It was cheap and she was quite charming not pushy. She was very dissapointed when I at first said no.

     

    I asked if it was compulsory to buy if opening an account and she replied yes .. but with a cheeky smile.  

     

    I think I paid 5,000 baht for a years coverage .... in the end. I was just so pleased I had an account and taken another big step towards getting  a "visa" extension .. I didnt care.

     

    Later I realised she had charmed a stupid old man with a pretty face and cute smile (her not me had the pretty face and cute smile????) and gained some commision. It was never compulsory ... it was a little perk for her.

     

    In bars you get hit for lady drinks .... in banks sometimes its accident insurance it seems. But it was genuine insurance not coloured water ????.

     

    After 1 year I was not asked or reminded to renew.  Health insurance obtained elsewhere.

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  13. Not much to do with this story really but I will share this ..

     

    Many years ago I was food shopping in my local supermarket.  In England. Nearing completion of my shop I was mentally ticking off my shopping list and realised that one item (cant remember what) was not in my supermarket basket ... but I was convinced I had picked it up. Thus I was confused.

     

    Eventually I found it .. I had accidently put it in my personal bag. Completely freaked me out. If a store detective had seen me do it and I had not realised ... jeez .. 

     

    I imagined being detained in front of locals as I left .. court .. local newspaper .. criminal record.  Humiliation .. in eyes of neighbours and work colleagues. They always prosecuted shoplifters in them days.

     

    Who would believe me .. "I accidently put in my bag and accidently not pay" your honour.

     

    30 plus years later I still will never ever take my own shopping bag or even wear a coat into a shop however cold or wet the weather is. (Its left in car).

     

    I am conscious of the menace of plastic bags but still cant buy and carry a reuseable bag for life. I still not want any bag as I shop.

     

    Ok weird of me .. I admit. 

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  14. I think I have read so much of these threads that Ive possibly confused myself. Sorry.

     

    Im in a hotel that has no English TV,  isolated out in sticks, no bars near, and wifi not good enough for things like U tube.  I think Im on ThiaVisa overload. ????????????????????????????????.

     

    Those of us from the 4 countries whose embassys are not doing income letters have to proove 65k every month comimg in from abroad. (In many many cases bleeping impossible .....)

     

    ALL others just have to proove 65k income in their own countries (that wont neccessarily come anywhere near Thailand) as before.

     

    Is that right ?

     

     

     

  15. "If Big Joke really wanted to get rid of agents and their under the table practices, then why not simply put a sign on each office that states........."NO AGENTS". Unless they are representing an individual who for medical reasons cannot make the visit to the offices"

     

    I think that is a tad simplistic.  A while back I had a visa related question and as an agent had an office yards from my condo and which I passed umpteen times a day ..on a whim I went in. 

     

    His welcoming smile dropped when I requested to ask a question for free ????. Shock horror.  His answer was he did not know but I suspect he was not even listening and still in shock at the word 'free'.

     

    But he went on to say that an Immigration Officer came by his office every lunch time .. he will be there soon he said ... to see if there was anyone needing their assistance.

     

    He also said I dont understand your problem but he would sort a visa for 30k .. of which he got only 500. Im doing it as a favour for you. Yeah yeah. But that is beside the point. 

     

    My point is a notice banning agents or actually banning them from Immigration Office wont do much in my opinion.  It will save agents going to them and put some kilometres on IOs vehicles thats all. 

     

    But it would stop us having to see agents placing a dozen passports on the IOs desk.  They dont seem to feel the need for discretion. 

     

     

  16. The money in the bank requirements after getting your "retirement" visa only make sense to me if they are the requirements needed to get your next visa 12 months later. 

     

    I mean .. so its discovered you are 1 baht under 800k or 400k for 1 day so then what ? Are you taken to court, Dragged to the airport / fined / visa revoked / shot.  How would they ever even know. I dont wanna carry my bank book around ( joke) But hey ho .. we will soon find out. 

     

    My point is ... If we are in trouble for going below the relevent sum .... then switching from money in the bank method to income method is gonna be errrrrrr ... complicated.

     

    You will need 12 times 65k income AND keep lump sum up to the required amounts prior to your big switch over of methods. 

     

    Im possibly dithering over the best way to go ... I think Im dithering .. not sure.

     

    Im not claiming its difficult .. but 12 months advanced planning needed I think .... to change methods.

     

     

     

     

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  17. One of plus points of living in Thailand (or similar) as opposed to UK is there is no local tax here (that applies to me anyway) .. back home its based on the property you live in ( not own ).

     

    In the UK I would be paying the equivalent of 13,500 baht a month just in "council tax".  So Im that amount up monthly. My tenent has to pay it not me. £336.09 a month in pounds. 

    I know there is "free" health care etc etc. I had just not thought of that plus point till today when I researched the tax sum now for a new tenent. 

     

    Gave me a warm glow .. mmmm how many "free" beers does that money give me.????????????

     

    Maths not my strong point but 13,500 divided by 0.90 baht is only 15000 beers a month.

     

    Jeez. Gonna have to try and make do I suppose. Or find cheaper beer.

     

     

     

  18. On 1/18/2019 at 4:24 PM, Gillyflower said:

    I thought that you couldn't take bottles, plastic or otherwise with you.  just recently I had 3 small packets of cheese taken.  Reason......they might explode in the plane!!!!!  Mind you I once saw on a Luthansa flight B'kok/Francfort aman with a huge bag of Chang cans.

    Maybe your confusing the going into Airside search .. no fluids allowed etc .. and AFTER when in airside departure lounge being able to buy duty free shop alchohol.

     

    To be more discreet onboard some buy a bottle(s) of coke or similar .. replace some or much of it with duty free rum or whisky. It still looks like coke I find .. I mean someone told me. Swigging from litre bottle of whisky or rum a bit obvious I would think.

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