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A turtle story par excellence !

Go to your room......Wait in the car.

No advice for Luke...., but a couple questions:

I would like to ask what made you decide on the fiance visa over the marriage K-3 visa. I had decided, after extensive reading, that the K-3 experience was easier to go through, all things considered, less time-consuming.

And, about insurance for your lady, won't she be automatically covered by the VA once you are married? That was what I had thought.

I am planning on going back to LOS to marry my lady there and apply for the marriage visa over there. Plan has been to retire from the world on a 20-acre piece of desert in SW Utah, living on my disability from the VA. But you make a couple points about WA/OR that give me pause to reconsider.

Also, I think your idea about not changing her last name is a good one. One less complication.

Best of luck

As someone else pointed out, in order to marry here in Thailand and apply at the Thai consulate, you must be able to document living here full time for at least 6 months. In addition, still having permanent domicile in the USA.

To the OP, good luck. Due to the fact that a lot of Thai ladies do have the huge culture shock, and so forth, you may hedge some of your bet by not having her completely sell every one of her possessions in Thailand.

The car to the sister is ok, if your fiance ever comes back, she doesn't have to buy a car again, she can take it back for free just as she gave it.

Also, plan on visits the first few years for her to still feel connected to her family and that she doesn't have to go on forever without seeing them. I've been thru this and my plan is spending time in each country each year. Not everyone can do this, but it helps transition.

Find sources for her to buy her food. Big key. If she cooks a lot for herself, find places to buy the Thai sauces and spices. They may be online in the USA but can come via UPS in a day or two.

Find sources for her to buy her food. Big key. If she cooks a lot for herself, find places to buy the Thai sauces and spices. They may be online in the USA but can come via UPS in a day or two. You gotta be kidding or live in some Appalachian mountain town if you think she would have to UPS Thai spices and sauces in . Washington as well a its neighbor to the north British Columbia has every kind of Asian store and product that can be thought of . Some areas you would actually feel like you might be back in Asian countries.In Vancouver BC they actually have Thai food stores and one of the National major chains has an exclusive Asian products store there almost on every corner.

About her car... she bought it a couple of years on the 100,000 THB scheme (where the government gave her 100K towards the purchase.) But the stipulation is she can't sell it. Luckily, her sister will take over payments (but not give my fiancee any money for the equity she has the car (which pisses me off)). But at least she's able to get rid of the car.

We will live in Vancouver, WA. I was living in Portland, but decided to move across the river into Washington because NO STATE income tax! That's worth a lot of money every year. And, I'm just 4 miles from Oregon where there is no SALES tax! So when I make any serious purchases, I just head across the bridge where there are a lot of stores who cater to people like me coming across for the no sales tax. All these tax breaks add up to quite a few thousand dollars a year. Marijuana is legal in WA too and will be on July 1 of this year in Oregon. I just went to a hemp exhibit at the Portland Expo Center and the business is exploding.

She can't wait to leave the heat and come enjoy this beautiful cool weather. We are far north, but because of being on the Pacific, it stays mild, never gets bitterly cold. Last year, I was still wearing a sweater in early July. I don't miss the Thai heat and humidity for anything. It's the main reason I left LOS. I could not get used it. My apartment doesn't even have aircon because it's not needed for most of year. Good weather and tax breaks! There is a big Asian community here on the West coast too. I hope she makes a good set of friends.

The one thing that is really going to hurt is getting her health insurance. I have VA, but will have to find a plan for her. That is the big one thing I miss about Thailand. It makes me sick (pun intended) at what we pay for health care!

Thanks for everyone's advice!

Please forgive as I am new to this site. I could not find where to start a new topic. I am American and I am married to a Thai and I want to take her to america, I have a good one. I am not sure which would be the better visa to apply for her, either a tourist or a marriage visa. Which would be easier to get. Can anyone help me or give me advice or move this topic to the correct forum and let me know where to find. Thanks to all and again I am sorry.

That is the question for your embassy but my suggestion would be do the tourist visa first with an invitation letter depicting the fact you will be sole support and it is for your new wife to meet the family and check out the culture of America. The embassy site has all the detail required for a Letter of Invitation. Your can work on her PR based on marriage after she gets over culture shock. The PR takes almost 9 months or longer. The tourist visit takes a couple of days.

Never met a farang who could speak proper thai. Never ever.

So many farange absolutely refuse to learn to speak Thai. Intonations in the language are beyond many.

God!!!!! I hate when im with my buddies Nz rhey have been here for close to three decades.....and when they speak Thai thwh sound like cartoons......I want to strangle them....and when they come over for dinner.......STOP......were not on sesame street........tip....bar girl thai...makes you sound like an idiot.

WOW..! I can't even understand what you wrote so I would guess your Tinglish would be a lot worse but then again it might be better.

Often wondered the same about numismatic value of old coins.

Also the value of the satang coins due to the metal content.

Please keep us informed, thanks

Interesting points but the OP clearly stated he cleaned them up and I have always known that to be a big No No from a numismatic stand point. However that message is in OVERKILL mode on every post here. I do love the coca-cola suggestion for just coin face value though.

Moving to Motoring, but I agree with ThaiDown, no such provision

I believe there is a provision for a Thai national returning from abroad to bring their personal affects back to Thailand tax exempt but not sure if that would include and Automobile. Worth some digging into if you have a Thai national in your corner.

what is the reason for so many men changing sex, In Thailand? Is it genetic? And how does compare with the rest of Asean?

Its the heat, humidity and of course yaba causing (A sexuality)

700 baht out of pocket and you say a good year for you sorry but you fail eat the darn turtle then drown the wife.

Apparently the Thai nursing authority powers that be allow for nurses to adhere to voodoo and fortune telling in their everyday lives. What a load of crap to be told about a supposedly educated woman who is supposedly a nurse as previously mentioned in other Costas family posts.

- Minced Pork (pork = mu) with basil, rice, fried egg.

- Deep fried pork, green shoots, rice, fried egg.

mai aow phedt, krab = not want spicy, thanks

Thanks! That's exactly what I was looking for. What is deep fried pork? I never heard that one before. Is it like fried chicken ?

Could you tell me the names in thai script if you speak thai? I'll write it down and take it to the restaurant.

You seem totally clueless and needy to boot. What is deep fried pork you ask? Is it like chicken you ask? Did you just get out of kindergarden and your parents abandoned you in big bad spicy Thailand. Go to bland food Europe and nurse at the nipple of of your motherland.

Now I feel very lucky to be free, not kicked out from Thailand, and I will never smoke again.

So...... you could have avoided all these hassles by not breaking a law that you 100% knew about when you came to live in Thailand.

(I'm not saying that this law is a good law, only that you knew about it and knew the consequences of breaking that law).

I agree with you 100%. I am not complaining about what happened to me, and I'm not saying this is a bad law (anyway, who cares about my judgment about the laws in LOS ?)

I'm just reporting, for all the other people smoking weed in Thailand. I know there are a lot.

If you find you cannot quit, there are Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholic Anonymous meetings in Thailand. Better than jail.

Thank's ! I have not been smoking for one month now. I feel good about it. I'm not going to smoke anymore. First that was a little bit hard, because I have been smoking weed for 10 years, but now I feel good. In fact I feel very happy about having stopped.

I find this comment you made in your original OP >3 to 5 light joints a day< What is a light joint. Is that a joint with low THC content or were you simply saying you lit 3-5 joints a day which to me seems close to chronic.

I think the OP is feeling guilty.

I think the OP has his head in the clouds.

May I ask, was this for a visa extension based on retirement or married to a Thai wife?

The reason I ask is, that I am on a retirement visa and never been asked for a photo of my wife and I at home or my home.

Taken from just the second line of the OP, I generally go in over-prepared for the annual extension based on marriage tango (cha cha cha).

You enabler you.

There are some rather crass comments on this thread. Says a lot about the people posting such things

Thats because it is a sick news story that should have been left alone entirely. WITHOUT anyone calling it a love story of a very sick man snuggling his dead wife for 10 months while the maggots feasted on her and stinking up the neighborhood.

Costas sometimes you start things on here that makes absolutely zero sense but yet the wack jobs are quick to add onto your idiotic expressions of ignorant stupidity and carry a "should have left alone story"alone. AGAIN.

Sounds like some typical racist BS. But that said, still better than the US, at least here I would just get rounded up, piss in a cup and be on my way, Stateside the cops would shoot me and say the felt threatened. And look at some of the bigoted posts here. I wish you guys would wear special hats or something to let people know that you're racist scum.

Is there anything wrong with being racist??? Everyone is? Its like a sport; us verse them and them verses us. It always has been a 2 way street and it always will be.

They should do for everyone, why to profile based on the color.

If race is motive, look like Thai police needs a color blind test first!

Didn't take long for someone to use the race card.

They have every right to target the Africans. They hardly come here to open legit businesses.

And you know this how?

Oh my G8D Sufinator you have gone and done it now... Are you the UN's black advocate?

Racial profiling and racism is for the ignorant. This clearly shows just how racist Thai society is. How and why they ever signed the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights is beyond me.

Considering my work which is internet based there is without question a problem with Nigerians but certainly not every Nigerian on the planet and therefore to target these people is again a pure act of racism.

Funny how the Thai women complain of being scammed. They should consider that it takes a special type of person to be scammed ... A) the very stupid and; the very greedy.

Be careful where you tread Suffinator.....

They should do for everyone, why to profile based on the color.

If race is motive, look like Thai police needs a color blind test first!

Didn't take long for someone to use the race card.

They have every right to target the Africans. They hardly come here to open legit businesses.

72 racist... Likes... on the forum to date and counting....

I can have a barrel lock off your door handle in 30sec.

Or lift a sliding window out in less than a minute.

Not to mention lifting off 6 roof tiles and climbing down through the roof.

Don't waste your money, if somebody wants in, it's easy in Thailand.

Wow! Are you a Cat Burglar from your home country on the lam in thailand

Simplest solution is a pin in the door, and a steel plate with a hole in the door frame. At least one set close to every hinge.

Security screws. Once in then done.

I've been intimate with women that have passed out from alcohol and drugs.So being intimate with A dead woman I guess about the same except A little stiff,and the smell.

I talked to her after she woke up and she say's she didn't care what I did.That if she wasn't awake,then not A problem.

I mean if A woman wants to be intimate with me when I'm sleep or dead it wouldn't bother me.

You must be like needle D%%k the bug <deleted> Some people can feel a mosquito bite and some cannot.

Heart breaking story.

There is still love in this cruel world of ours.

May she Rests in Peace and the man keeps being healthy till he meets her again and be with her forever.

Are you for real??

A guy sleeping with a decomposed body for 10 months, and you call it love??

Note to self: Never go to Greece looking for love!!

Some great reporting yet again...Yesterday, a team of public health and social workers went to inspect and make improvements on the house. They also checked and found Yom in good physical and mental health. Un F...g believable!

I keep trying to think of something to say about this but find myself speechless and livid that something like that could go on for so long much less happen at all.

Tywais, as you know I live in the sticks in Issan and my wife is a nurse.

I hear stories like that every day from her.

At the beginning I was appalled and disgusted.

After so many years I've become immune and only pray that things will change one day and some decency will come upon these vermin.

All to common worldwide I am afraid.

You sexy bikini have, vely much.

Ahhh those Dutch.... So well fed...No shame...