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Can anyone tell me if there is a photo shop inside Suvarnabhumi Airport in the departures area ? It’s for re-entry permit (I won’t have time to get them prior). Cheers

 

Yes a 6 month multiple entry tourist visa METV. It has been around about 3 years. If used correctly with your dates it can last for 9 months ( that would require 2 border hops or visa trips.  There is a very long thread on it in the visa section. Costs $200USD Approx.  No reporting. Sixty days each entry than can be extended for 30 more days at immigration. Petty much you have to get it in your home country. 

So it’s a 60 day multiple entry visa with a maximum stay of 90 days at a time (subject to visiting the immigration for a 30 day extension), it is NOT a 6 month visa that would allow you to stay in the country for 6 months hassle free. I make that 60 days hassle free, not 6 months hassle free.

The only thing you were right on was there not being any 90 day hassle, you have a 60 day hassle instead.

You actually got me excited, how crazy of me to think their might actually be a 6 month visa. We can all dream I suppose.

Same here. I lived in Thai for 5 years, based on marriage. Now, I will come as a tourist, with tourist visa up to 6 months. No reporting. Ni 90-day stuff. No visa hassle.

Really ? There is a 6 month tourist visa ?

Or at least should legally not have been there for the past 59 days. None of this would have happened.

And now there will be a new crackdown on overstayers, as they will now be labeled as rapists, drug dealers and potential murderers.

RIP to the young girl.

Does anyone have an update with regards to parking at the airport.

 

Is there still one main car park (the new building) servicing both the domestic and international terminals ? Or does the domestic terminal now have its own car park ?

 

I heard the old car park is now open again for servicing the domestic terminal, not sure if true.

 

 

Thanks Patrick, will check out the place near Bullys, I havent ventured this way, only upper Sukhumvit areas.

 

You are right Meljames, but as I said I dont want to order online, its not an option for me.

Could anyone recommend any health stores in BKK, particularly for means health, a place to buy testo boosters etc, natural herbal stuff.

Searched everywhere in BKK but cant seem to find anywhere. Boots, Watsons and GNC dont have what im looking for.

Dont want to order online. And please no jokes about cheap copy Viagra on the side walks of Sukhumvit.

 

Thanks in advance !

Does anyone have any recent experience in selling a car in Phuket ? Where is the best 2nd hand car place to go ?

 

I'm not interested in finding a private buyer and selling myself, dont have the time listing in the PG, Baht & sold etc,  just want to walk into a garage and do a quick cash deal. Also not looking to trade in, dont want to buy another car.

 

Any help is appreciated.

There is actually a very simple solution, ban larger tour buses from entering any heavily populated tourist areas, particularly areas that require entering via a hill (Patong, Kata/Karon).

There is absolutely no need for these tour buses, should 30 something Chinese need picking up and taking to the other side of the island, send 2 or 3 minivans.

OK minivan drivers are no better, but they do require less driver training and a real understanding of what they are actually driving, rather than a tour bus.

It will also eliminate the problems of the traffic build up the tour busses cause by crawling up the hills at 5kms an hour, doing 3 point turns (or 7 point turns as the case may be) in the middle of the road, etc..

Any coach or tour bus that enters Phuket from another province must go to a stop off point and have the passengers transferred to minivans, the check point just after coming off the Sarasin Bridge would be ideal, plenty of space around there to do this.

Problem solved !

25 minutes ago, Father Fintan Stack said:

From 30+ years of experience he is spot on. Permits and visas are nothing but a hassle. 

 

My last experience was having to pay a hefty bribe to Immigration for a visa extension and that was it for me. My paperwork was all in order and all done through an agent. This was just over six months ago.

 

That's because you were using an agent.

4 hours ago, marquess said:

Legitimately married foreigners ought to be given the right of residency and the right to work.

They have already been given this right, has been the case for many years now.

 

The most ridiculous part of this clampdown is the fine for engaging in work different from what is registered in the work permit, the fine being "upto" the same as not having a work permit at all.

19 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

I have not seen a report for some time of them doing a single entry non-o for being 50 or over in a long time.

The one I can recall the person doing it had to wait a couple of hours after he submitted the application for them to confirm they would do it before they accepted the application.

 

Thanks Ubonjoe, I will be applying for the non O on the basis of having a Thai spouse (I'm under 50).

Can anyone clarify if Phnom Penh are issuing Non immigrant O visas ?

Yes I think the single entry non O immigrant visa would be a better option. Do they issue them in Phnom Penh ?

6 minutes ago, BritTim said:

If using a tourist entry (60-day entry with tourist visa or 30-day visa exempt tourist entry) then it is possible after completing a series of steps, to get a one-year extension. The first step, which must be started while you have at least 15 days left on your tourist entry, is to apply for a conversion to a non immigrant entry. (At one point, this needed to be done in Bangkok, requiring two visits to Chaeng Wattana immigration 15 days apart, but now many local immigration offices are allowed to handle it.) This then puts you in a similar situation to someone who entered Thailand on a single entry non immigrant visa (i.e. you have a fresh 90-day non immigrant entry). Towards the end of that 90-day entry, you apply for the one-year extension.

 

If you reveal where you will be living in Thailand, someone here may well be able to tell you if the local immigration office can handle the conversion, as well as any specific roadblocks they may erect to complicate the process. If you can apply for a single entry non immigrant visa before coming to Thailand, that is usually simpler.

Yes I think the single entry non O immigrant visa would be a better option.

 

Do they issue them in Phnom Penh ?

 

If I enter Thailand on a 60 day tourist visa am I able to apply for a 1 year extension of stay towards the end of the 60 day period ? Or does this only apply if entering on a non Immigrant visa ?

Can anyone confirm if it is still possible to get a 60 day Thailand tourist visa in Phnom Penh, and are they still free ?

 

Thought I would resurrect an older thread rather than start a new one.

44 minutes ago, jenifer d said:

i'm reading this at 10:30 p.m., only because i'm a bit lazy in getting down to

editing the current good book that i'm working on for my publisher 

 

that said, as far as the OP- what the hell has Pattaya got going for it without bars and prostitutes???

can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, and if you put lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig...

 

are they really so stupid, shortsighted and deluded that they think they can transform Patts???

or is this just a temporary crackdown to increase the amounts in the brown envelopes?!?!?!? 

Its not all of Patts, just walking street. Read the OP.

Its only walking street so I can't see the big deal. Most people I know who go to Pattaya never go to walking street. In fact I don't know anyone that does (myself included).

6 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

A off topic inflammatory post has been removed.

 

All a I can say about the medical being needed is that it appears on the work permit application and renewal  forms. See: https://www.doe.go.th/prd/main/downloads/param/site/1/cat/14/sub/0/pull/category/view/list-label#

Also there have been many  reports on this forum of them wanting a blood test for syphilis as part of the requirement for few years now.

 

Appreciate what your saying Joe but you may notice I was asking for "current" requirements and not from a few years ago.  As you may well know rules change all the time, a "few years" ago it was OK to do unlimited border runs while on a 30 day visa exempt stamp.

 

As an administrator of this forum I'm quite surprised you would ask posters to go back a few years for their answer, rather than encourage more up-to date information.

 

So back to my question, it seems the only blood test they may ask for is syphilis ? Im also hearing they have recently introduced a test for HIV ?

 

And please refrain from the usual predictable replies like "why, are you worried ?  The answer is yes I'm worried, I hate needles !!

 

 

3 hours ago, FritsSikkink said:

I am a project manager at a BOI company and renewed last week, no medical at all.

I have already established that I need a medical certificate. My question in the OP was not if I required a medical certificate or not, the question I was asking is what blood tests are carried out as part of the medical, if any.

 

Thanks Thainet, I'm actually renewing an expired work permit, not renewing a previous stamp, effectively applying all over again. I'm renewing mine 6-7 weeks AFTER the last stamp expired and not before.

 

You are absolutely correct in that you do not need a medical certificate to get a new stamp in a current/valid work permit.

 

Sorry, what I should have said in my OP was "re-apply" and not renew, as often I hear many people refering to getting a new stamp as renewing, when it is not. 

 

Renwing the stamp in your WP is almost like 90 day reporting, your not actually renewing anything, you are merely checking in.

17 minutes ago, thainet said:

Did my renewal last week.

1)My original passport and work permit, plus required company documents were sent by my office to 'One Stop' at 8am and back by 11.30am.

2)No medical certificate required.

3)As I am on 'Marriage extension' I gave a copy of my marriage certificate only.

Very easy this time (this is my 4th renewal)...quite impressed.

Thanks Thainet, did your work permit actually expire, or did you just renew the recent stamp ? 

 

In other words did you re-apply all over again and get a new blue book ?

Does anyone know currently what tests are required for a medical certificate in order to renew a work permit ?

 

I'm hearing that it now includes all sorts of other blood tests, such as Syphilis and HIV ?

Hi all, I'm looking for a hotel in Bangkok with large swimming pool, does anyone know of any ? Would ideally be in the Sukhumvit area.

As a frequent visitor to Bangkok the only ones I ever come across are the ones with the tiny roof top pools.

 

Thanks

In my opinion, and the way I interpret Thai Labor Law:

No work permit should be required for simply owning the property.

No work permit should be required if the property owner rents out the property, using a legal property agent.

No work permit should be required if the property owner is renting out their property themselves, via the internet, phone and foreign / local bank account, whilst outside of Thailand. Whilst they are "working" - they are not in Thailand, so are not under the jurisdiction of Thai Labor Laws.

A work permit should be required by a foreign property owner who markets, advertises, accepts bookings and enquiries, meets and greets, hands out keys, makes inspections, cleans the property, performs repairs and maintenance, and banking and bill paying (accounting) - this is clearly, "working" as the individual is engaging in work by exerting energy or using knowledge whether or not in consideration of wages or other benefits.

I agree with all that ...

Off topic.

This thread/survey is asking if you believe work permits are necessary at all, it is not about condo rentals, even though they were mentioned in the intro. That has been covered in other threads.

Give NKM a break, the 3 other threads he previously hijacked for his own cause are starting to go quiet, he needs fresh topics in order to continue his goal in convincing everyone that the property market in Phuket has collapsed.

Any new topic that so much as mentions a word associated with property you can be assured he will be all over it.