Jaysisaket

My wife says that they make fermented fish sauce in big barrels. And a monkey probably fell there and drowned and got fermented. And the teeth and some bones is what is left of it.

Universal wearing of face masks during epidemics works. Don’t listen to people who say otherwise. Be thankful that the majority of Thais wear them. It is one of the reasons there is no insane explosion of this disease in Thailand.

The countries where mask wearing was played down and even discouraged are all getting the epidemic out of hand: Spain, USA, Italy. 80% of the cases are asymptomatic and these people still emit the virus from their mouth and nose when breathing and talking. You never know if you are one of this cases. Universal mask wearing insures that The virus spread from all of the asymptomatic cases is greatly reduced.

13 hours ago, trigpoint said:

Apparently true, my wife works in a restaurant on pratamnak soi 5 and said more Russian now, miserable buggers she said, don't speak a word of English, don't tip or smile either. 

Your wife “sapek inglit leeten bit” herself, doesn’t she? 

By the way. Thais always treat their paying customers with respect. It’s part of their culture. Can’t imagine your wife bad mouthing her customers unless she is trying to please you because this is what you like to hear.

I have always been of the opinion that two major countries constantly sabotage the EU's evolution: the U.K. and Russia. And if the EU wants to move further these two countries must be broken and transformed into smaller states devoid of empirical ambitions. And what do you know. They seem to have brought this fate upon themselves and seem to be on the right path now.

 

i am looking forward to the time when the EU will be able to accept into its ranks an independent Scotland, the little England and the Wales as separate states. And also possibly a number of smaller states which are left after Russia has broken down.

 

While the opinion of the British people must be respected and their government must give them what they voted for. The whole Brexit thing is heading for a wreck. The U.K. politicians of course are to blame for fooling their own folks into believing that the U.K. will be able to easily cherry pick every best trade deal. The argument was that the U.K. is so important for the EU that it will be the U.K. who will be setting the conditions, in short the U.K. will do whatever it wants and enrich itself at the expense of hundreds of millions of the EU citizens. 

But the reality seems to be quickly catching up. My bet is that the public opinion will not change and the British people would rather become twice or more as poor rather than agree to the EU conditions. The U.K. will leave with no deal. The nation will lose all of its competitive advantages and will gradually see its standards of life and business opportunities inside the country deteriorate. That will be the doom of the U.K. Nobody wants to live with the poor when you have rich neighbors with a lot more opportunities. 

 

 

How did you pay? Bank transfer or credit card..?

I made a direct transfer to the Thailand Elite bank account.

I contacted their customer service by phone and they quickly sorted my problem. The lady on the other end confirmed that there were performance issues in some browsers.

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Hey, folks

After reading your positive feedback I decided to apply for the easy access program. Went to their website, clicked the button: "download application form". The system asked me for some basic personal information. Pressed the button "Next". An error pops up that there was something wrong. Tried again with the same result. The disclaimer in the pop up said that they got my information and would contact me asap.

Two days have passed and I haven't heard anything from them. One would expect a better functioning website and better customer service for this kind of money. I am surprised.

Which browser were you using? I got the error in Safari but it worked fine in Firefox- info sent, someone called me back in about three minutes- which is was pretty impressive- and I got an email with all the relevant documents needed about a half hour later or so.

So I'm guessing your information hasn't been passed on.

I am using Chrome. And obviously it is one of the browsers with which their website does not work properly.

now I am 500'000 bahts richer than you and with this money I will spend some vacations in Lao and in same time renew my tourist Visa for 5 years.

on top of this, everything is free for me, I have just invested my 500000 bahts at 6 percents and now I make 30000 bahts a year. (2500 bahts a month for 5 years)
total after 5 years=over 150k bahts in my pocket.

I have heard that elite card will soon be cancelled by the new government! and no refund...

It is called Thailand Elite for a reason. It is not for everyone.

Hey, folks

After reading your positive feedback I decided to apply for the easy access program. Went to their website, clicked the button: "download application form". The system asked me for some basic personal information. Pressed the button "Next". An error pops up that there was something wrong. Tried again with the same result. The disclaimer in the pop up said that they got my information and would contact me asap.

Two days have passed and I haven't heard anything from them. One would expect a better functioning website and better customer service for this kind of money. I am surprised.

Whatever they may require I will never carry my passport on me. Robberies are frequent in tourist areas and if my passport gets stolen it will be a massive pain in the ass to restore it together with all the stamps. Last thing I want us to be stranded in a 3rd world country with no documents and thus unable to travel.

On a side note. I am from Spain and you are obliged to carry a valid ID on you at all times. The fine is 50 euros if you fail to present an ID when asked by the police. Never happened to me but a friend of mine was fined once.

I had a motorbike accident on Koh Samui two days ago. Was driving a honda click along the main road next to Lamai when a stray dog jumped under the wheels. It was already dark and it sprung out of nowhere and right under the wheels of my bike.

The speed was about 50 km and the impact was felt hard. I lost control of the vehicle and we crashed into parked motorbikes. I was thrown out and have massive scratches and bruises on my arms and legs. My girlfriend landed on me and is fortunately unharmed.

Surprisingly an ambulance and arrived within 5 mins and I was taken to some hospital. All my wounds got cleaned, disinfected, treated and bandaged. And it was almost free of charge (had to pay only 100 baht for the antibiotics from the hospitals pharmacy). I was told that if you arrive with an ambulance the emergency aid is paid for by the government irrespective of your nationality. However if you come on your own you will have to pay.

Luckily the owners of the parked bikes didn't press for any compensation as they saw what had happened and that I was not at fault. But it cost me 3.3k in repairs for my bike. The front had to be completely replaced.

So be careful folks.

I tried to get a Spanish visa for my girlfriend to stay with me 3 months. She is in the same situation as your girlfriend. Unemployed and has no assets in Thailand. We submitted all the documents required (travel insurance, plane tickets there and back, invitation from me, her bank statement with 500k baht).

The visa was refused. The original reasoning was that provided information was unreliable. We appealed the ruling. And it was rejected too. The reason: no guarantees that the applicant will return to her home country.

I've heard that Spanish embassies are really reluctant to issue visas to citizens of developing countries who have little ties with their home country. The unemployment is at the staggering 26% here and there is a considerable share of those unemployed and on welfare who are former immigrants.

I think your chances will be greater if you follow the advice here and apply for a short term transit visa. Stating that Spain will only be used as a port to sail abroad on your boat.

Antochili is a Georgian last name. But his first name indicates where he was probably born and raised.

Im not sure but surely the Eco must be satisfied she will return to Thailand - what ties did you show to Thailand?

To be honest we did not show that she had any ties with Thailand. Basically she is single, self-employed and does not own any property in Thailand. She had enough funds to show but they all were credited in lump sum. So it may indeed look unreliable.

I have filed an appeal for her. The demands for the appeal are: it should be in the Spanish language and must be forwarded by a regular mail and arrive no later than 30 days since the refusal decision. So I am thinking that for an average Thai person it is not so easy to appeal. And I am thinking it was done so on purpose to minimize the amount of appeals. But nevertheless we submitted it. And now are waiting for their response.

I exchanged a couple of e-mails with the Embassy's employee and she told me that after submission of the appeal they will have to investigate all the circumstances. And will contact us in case anything else is needed or visa was granted. If they do not contact us within 30 days after the appeal was submitted then it would mean that the resolution was negative once again. So maybe we are waiting in vain and they will just toss our documents into a trash bin and forget about them.

I am thinking of submitting a new application with modified circumstances. Instead of just coming to visit me she will also study Spanish in a certified language school. I am going to pay for a 12 week course and the school told me that they would provide me with all the supporting documents for an educational visa. In my opinion this should have more chances. Denying a young girl (she is just 24) an opportunity to study which could possibly help her in life would be cruel.

How odd, so the primairy reasons for a negative outturn were okay (travel purpose not clear, not sure if applicant wil return in time, insufficient funds), but the evidence backing this up was?

Did you guarantee her? If so I do not know what evidence the Spanish ask for this. If she guaranteed herself her bankbook (going back 3-6 months) plus some proof of income/job should be enough. The risk being that a lot of transfers could raise an eyenbrown: it could but does not necessarily mean something fishy is going on. In either case the website should state what supporting documents they would want to see. If you privided those things it wouldn't make any sense to denie the visa??

Unless they suspect the documents have been doctered with!!

She presented her bank book and her bank statement. She had more than is required by the Embassy in her account. The bank statement was signed by a senior manager of Bangkok Bank with a bank stamp.

In the application we wrote that she was self employed as a hairdresser and a make up artist. Which is true. We did not present any proof of job though as there is no proof. And the Embassy never asked for this.

From my side I presented an invitation made by the police here in Spain and my bank statement. I have enough money in my account to support both of us for many years to come. But they also asked for a guarantee letter from my job. Which was presented the same day. I have talked to the folks at my bank and my job. Nobody received any calls from the Embassy.

So do i get it correct that they are accusing us of submitting false information without making inquiries first? All the documents that we presented were genuine (except for faxed employer guarantee letter) and reflected the real state of things. So I am clueless as to why they should choose to doubt us.

I found the Embassy e-mail so I am going to write an e-mail to the consul asking him to elaborate more on what information he deemed as non reliable. But I would like to know if there are any other means of appealing. Because I believe we suffered unjustly in this situation.

My girlfriend has just received her passport back. Her visa was denied.

Here is what we did. We submitted everything from the original list at Silom Complex on the 5th of June.

From my side I also wrote a small explanatory letter to the consul that I would support my girlfriend fully during her stay and wrote where we would stay and what we were going to do (sightseeing). I presented my bank statement as a proof of my financial means.

In about 4 days we were contacted by the VFS saying that the Spanish Embassy wants also a guarantee letter from my place of work. Which was compiled the same day and sent by fax.

On Monday (16th of June) my girlfriend received a message that she could come to collect her passport. And the passport had only the stamp that the application for a visa was submitted on 05/06/2014. There is also a supplementary page which says: THE INFORMATION PROVIDED TO JUSTIFY THE PURPOSE AND CONDITIONS OF THE EXPECTED STAY ARE NOT RELIABLE. It also says that we have 1 month from this notice to lodge an optional reconsideration appeal against this resolution.

We surely want to appeal. So I am asking your advice on how to do it properly. Basically I disagree with the fact that the information we provided was not reliable. It was all reliable and easily verifiable. If they required additional information they had to ask. But they only asked me for a guarantee letter from my place of employment.

Hello, folks!

I want my Thai girlfriend of 2 years to visit me in Spain for 2-3 months. For the visa she is required to present:

1. Two application forms with 2 fotoes

2. Medical insurance covering no less than 30.000 euro during the stay

3. Return ticket from Spain back to Thailand

4. Invitation from the receiving party

5. Proof of financial means

I can organize everything without any problems whatsoever. But I am worried about part #5. According to the embassy's website the applicant can be sponsored only by close relatives which I am not. So I cannot sponsor her. And my girlfriend used to be a bargirl but now is a freelance hairdresser and a make up artist. Her own income is sporadic and fairly low all in cash and she pays no taxes of course. So she will not be able to present any official proof. I support her every month when I am outside of Thailand by transfering 20k to her bank account. When I am in Thailand we live together and I have all the money and pay for everything so there are no transfers during these periods.

We are building a house in Sisaket and I use her bank account as the place to transfer funds from abroad to pay for the construction works. Over the last month I transfered around 21.000 euro to her account. And there is a balance of around 500k baht there which should be enough. But when she brings her bank statement it will be obvious that the money was transfered by me every time majorily over the last month and was not earned by her.

Basically the situation is that in reality I am the sponsor. She does not work a normal job and all the money she has comes from me. But I cannot act as a sponsor since I am not her close family. Is it a big issue really when applying for the visa and she can be denied? Has anybody had the same situation and they got their visa?