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Hi everyone,

I have worked for a company from Jan 2022 until Sept 2022 and then changed to another one from October until Dec 2022.

I am wondering how to proceed for the tax declaration online on the Revenue department website. In the past, I used my witholding tax certificate values (Tawi 50) which had only employer so it was quite straight forward and easy to fill in, but now I have two differents witholding tax with two different employers and different tax numbers (my tax number id is still the same of course) and I could not find a way to cope with this in the e-filling system.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Thanks in advance

Hello everyone 

i am changing job from my current company which BOI sponsored for which I get a 2 year extension on my nonB visa , to a non BOI company. 
has anyone got experience if you can change / transfer your work permit without having to leave the country and re-apply for a nonB abroad ?

51 minutes ago, banchang said:

I think the best beach seafood is the one behind/ next too phala temple. I think it’s called sugar palm but in Thai. 
always full of Thai families.  

We used to go there in the past so many times, and it used to be good. But in the past 2 years we went there 2 times and I don't know if we got unlucky but food was terrible.

It was a similar thing with the old Chai Talay next to the Milford, sometimes fantastic food and the next month, horrible. 

On 2/13/2020 at 6:11 AM, Jessi said:

Went to Romson restaurant on the beach  for lunch last Friday

no change, still over rated & over priced.

Could you recommend another seafood restaurant in BanChang with good quality and setting on the beach with lower prices?

English native and especially US tourists complain about other non-native person's english, everywhere they go, not only Thailand. 

Thank you to all for your answers.I know that I will have to get all documents by myself.

 I am just looking at a facilitator in BKK as I have no time to take days and days off to take care of this, as I am based in Rayong.

I just wanted to have someone to facilitate the gathering of documents, get there at SB on the day of application and maybe support in case any additional were missing first.

I would like to avoid to make several trips to the SB because small documents are missing every time, this is why I am looking at this kind of service.

Could anyone advise on a lawyer/attorney which could support for the application process for a decent fee?

I had contacted one in the past but the fee was around 0.5MTHB which seems extremely high to me.

Thanks ubonjoe, and sorry that this is something i might not understand. 

The fact that you are registered on a tabien baan for 5 years or lesss does not matter as you long as you are registered , even for a few weeks/months?

In my situation i was never registered on a tabien baan for the last 9 years but planning to get a yellow one very soon. Assuming i get one yellow tabien baan this month from my local amphur, this means once my marriage is 1 year old i can then apply for citizenship? 

Sorry again for the additional questions 

Actually I asked a lawyer that helps my company about this and this is what she said.

i would be happy to know that if I can get a yellow Tabien baan now, do I need to wait for 5 years or just 1 year of wedding ?  

Thanks for the replies, appreciate a lot the support.

I had thought about citizenship directly but unfortunately I don’t have my name on any tabien baan now as i have been renting since i arrived in 2009. Apparently the requirement  is you need 5 years of proven residency to apply for citizenship.

all others citerias i fulfill them but how to get this residency issue sorted then?

if i go to my local amphur and get a yellow tabien baan then do i need to wait for 5 years?

Hi everyone,

just sharing my experience on applying for PR as I was in Chaeng Wattana this morning.

My application was not accepted as there were some missing stamps/certifications on revenue slips, and my criminal record was more than 3 months old (although the translation and certification by my embassy and MoFA was done last month...)

i still have until the 28th December if I still wish to apply.

my personal situation: I am here working in nonB extensions since 2009, working for a thai company. Just married with Thai last August although we’ve been together for 6 years and we have 2 kids.

I speak thai proficiently at work and we talk in thai at home with my wife.

It took me a long time to study and make sure of the documents required, thanks to this site and also another friend who applied recently sharing his experience.

Most critical document is the criminal record, that has to be translated by an official translator recognized by your embassy , then certified by ur embassy and then by the MoFA. This took me around 3 weeks as I do not live in BKK.

Other tax receipts were all provided by my payroll officer in the company.

Other documents were not so difficult to get or prepare.

arriving at Chaeng Wattana alone and went to the counter to get a queue ticket, Counter D specifically for resident permit application was empty and I got in within 2 minutes .

immigration officer saw me alone and started talking in Thai directly. All the discussion was done in thai but I am not sure that this is a requirement or not.

anybow she asked me in which category I wanted to apply , I said i think i fulfill both work or family criteria but she told that my wife should be here if I want to apply on family criteria.

She went through all documents, and all my tax documents needed to be manually certified by revenue officer. 

Actually my tax receipts were digitally signed by the Revenue department and transmitted to my company , but anyhow not accepted.

Second surprise: as she checked the wedding registration (ใบทะเบียนสมรส) she said that I can’t normally apply on family criteria since we are married for less than 2 years.

Third surprise was the criminal record that i required and received in June, translated and certified in November but still she said that it needed to be less than 3 months.

the discussion ended quite quickly, the officer was very strict and not really helpful I would say, but this is probably my feeling after all that work I had done alone to get prepared for it.

as of today I am not sure I will complete my application, especially if I have to apply on the work criteria as cost is double.

my recommendation is to get really well prepared, come with a thai person to help for the speaking if you are not good enough.

unfortunately in that case, I heard many stories that you had to bribe to compensate your lack of language skills.

hope that this was and will be helpful to any of you wishing to apply.

I confirm that this is the correct process:

- Get official document from your country

- Get it translated in thai by recognized/certified translator from your embassy

- Get the thai translation certified by your embassy

- Get it certified by MoFA

Thanks very much to both of you for the information and help.

Hi everyone,

Does anybody have the typical tests that have to be performed at the hospital for the PR?

Is there any document that you can give to the hospital registration desk so that they know exactly what has to be done during the health check?

Thank you

HI everyone,

I read this topic with attention and I'd like to get some advice as well.

I have been working here for 9 years, paying taxes since, I have had 2 years extension on my nonB visa since 2009.

I am married with a Thai, we have 2 kids, and I can speak thai at proficient level.

My only issue is I have never been on any House registration, never had any yellow book.

Can I apply for Thai citizenship? Is the house registration an issue?

Thanks in advance for the help

I found this in one of my old thai teaching books. 

After being there for several years now and hearing those words all the time, I found it funny that it mentions " Foreigners should not use these words"

If you fancy a craft beer or willing to try any other worldwide beer, you can try Chase's bar on the bypass road towards sukhumvit, a little bit after the BeeHive on the same side.

He must have at least 150 different beers, and you can also get snacks like a smoked duck breast of just french fries with it.

Everything is imported so prices are bit high, but really nice choice.

Nice place

Can someone explain the meaning of this one please: เลี้ยงลูกเสือลูดจระเข้ 

Thank you

Thanks to both of you bannork and tgeezer. So ใส่ตะกร้าล้างนํ้า basically as almost the the same meaning as ย้อมแมวขาย

Could someone explain to me the implicit meaning of this phrase: ใส่ตะกร้าล้างนํ้า Put in the basket and wash it? Is it like to make something more beautiful before selling it?

On 12/28/2017 at 10:05 PM, Arkady said:

 

Unless you don't want to register your marriage or can't on the grounds that one or other of you is already married to someone else, registering your marriage to your Thai partner will be your quickest route.  Since you already have children with her, you will be eligible to apply for citizenship only one year after registration of your marriage.  (It would be three years without children.)  It sounds like you already meet the requirements for three years continuous WP and visa and three years tax receipts.  Getting PR first is a much longer way round because you need five years' PR before you can apply.

 

If you and your partner are able and willing to go the marriage registration route, you should start making some donations to registered Thai charities and plan a trip to SB in Bangkok to make initial enquiries.  A year ahead of application is about right.  Take all your docs and your partner, her docs and your kids' docs with you and they will tell you which ones you need to correct (nearly every one has something wrong with at least one of their Thai docs, even if it is a wrong tone mark in the Thai spelling of their name) and which new ones you need.  You will need a tabien baan, if you haven't already got one.  I don't know, if Rayong is a viable province to apply from - probably not as nearly all provinces outside Bangkok except maybe Phuket, Chonburi and possibly Chiang Mai seem to be non-starters.  So there is a good possibility that you will have to get a tabien baan in Bangkok and apply to SB there.  They can advise you on this to a certain extent.

Dear Arkady,

So many thanks for this very complete answer. It is really really helpful for me

Thanks

Dear both ubonjoe and VIBE,

Thank you for your answers.

What i meant by non-b visa is of course extension of stay. When I arrrived in 2009, I got a non-B visa which was then extended by immigration 4 times for 2 years each time.

Sorry for my bad explanation.

So you must be married to a Thai to apply for citizenship? 

Hi everyone,

Sorry that this question might have been asked so many times, but I'd like to know what's your opinion on the easiest solution for me : either to apply for PR or Thai citizenship.

I have been working here for 8 years , i have had only non-B visas up to know linked with my WP. I am employed by a local company.

My partner is thai (we are not married) and we have 2 kids. I speak thai almost fluently

We live in Rayong province so the local immigration or police would not be of so much help, would  probably need to go to Bangkok.

So is it faster for me to go and apply for Thai citizenship directly even though we are not married (will getting married help a lot?) 

Thanks for your advice and experience sharing

On 2/6/2017 at 0:11 AM, Airalee said:

Not sure if this is the right place to pose this question, but is there any sort of Thai saying/translation for "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence"?

 

The reason I ask is that I have heard from so many Thai friends who want to move to the USA and work as they all believe that the streets are paved with gold and that life will be easy for them there.

you can also say: คนในอยากออก คนนอกอยากเข้า ( kon nai yaak ohk kon nok yaak krao) which  literally means " the one who's inside wants to get out. The one outside wants to get in"