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You are applying for a non-immigrant visa... and you have intent of immigration... wrong visa (so it should be voided). If you enter on a tourist visa, and they find your intent is to work... they will void that visa (even if you have not worked illegally yet). BTW, Thai laws are written in Thai not English...

They should deport you then since you are not applying for your current visa with the correct intent. Now that the humour is out of way, English is not the law, and the law defines what your status is here... not the English dictionary...

If you overstay, you are classed as an illegal ALIEN. They also assume you are illegally trying to stay here permanently.

Until the US selects a president that understands that they may be voted in as a republican or democratic president, they are president of all Americans not just one a subset of supporters from one party (core belief of that person)... Donald Trump was not that man. Reagan I believe understood, and I believe Bill Clinton understood (even If I did not really like him). This century, the US has had a set of presidents that even in the best of times -- has been driving the US faster and faster to bankruptcy. Now even the fabric of the US is so destroyed, that you have the people divided believing in completely different realities (rather than the same reality but different viewpoints on policies)... The US empire is quickly coming to an end. I doubt the US will even survive as a single country to reach the average lifespan of an empire (around 500 years).

Until you are granted permanent residency status you are temporary. Depending on the immigration system and the immigration interpretation of what you can do on a visa, but none of those interpretations do not change the classification of the visa you have or what you are under the law. For example, I worked in the US for a few years (before becoming VP of the UK office), I was working on a TN1 (NAFTA - temporary visa). If I wanted to get a green card to the US, I would have to start the process and only one visa (also temporary) allowed for transition... but it did not mean it was permanent. I would have had to change my visa from TN1 to H1B which allows for dual purpose (I told the company I would stay on a TN1). Dual purpose meant I could have intentions to apply and start the process to become an immigrant, while staying on a temporary visa... but I would still be a temporary employee (any other visa if you did that - you basically told the immigration office you were staying on a visa that was intended only for temporary and your intentions were permanent -- and they would deport you. In fact the company had many ex-students working on H1B at the company while in the process of getting permanent residency.... Shortly after the dot-com bust happened and the company downsized to less than half it's employees.... anyone that had an H1B but became unemployment had 10 days to leave the country since H1B is a work visa... and the process of applying for permanent residency was voided. Those that had permanent residency had the legal right to stay since they were recognized by the immigration system as immigrants.

The thing is that there is no permanency to you living here. You might be lucky enough to die here, but on any given renewal of your temporary non-immigrant visa -- Thailand could refuse you an extension... you have no legal right to stay here longer than the length of the visa. If you want the legal right to permanently live here... you have to apply and be approved for 'permanent reisdent' status.

Correct, it is nothing more than an equivalent to a tourist visa for one year based on the lack of need to work since they are retired. Immigrant is someone with Permanent Resident status. No matter how long you are on temporary visa (Non-Immigrant, Tourist, temporary work permit), you gain no more status than someone entering on the equivalent visa today... you have to prove that you CURRENTLY meet the requirements to get another visa of the same type. If you no longer meet those requirements - you have to find another requirement you meet or you have to go back home (i.e. temporary).

BS. My first 'long term' visa was an educational visa taking Thai language lessons before they cracked down on the visa. At that time, it was easy to extend (but then the first extension was after less than a full year (forget if it was 3 or 6 months). They cracked down on the educational visa and then many of those moved to using visa-waivers repeatedly until those were cracked down on, then they moved onto tourist visas... Any pensioner who is receiving a regular pension payment from a western country to Thailand, should be able to live a much better life locally than they would be back home and if they have not gone crazy spending every night out at a gogo/beer bar, living on all western food at restaurants, living in a western oriented condo in 'downtown' Bangkok... should be receiving more money than they spend and within a short time should have no problem qualifying based on a bank balance here. Personally, I prefer having a buffer in a Thai bank for emergencies anyway. I find it much much easier to qualify for extensions based on retirement... walk in, fill in a few forms, they look at the bank statement (sometimes with a surprise look at the size of the float).... stamped and out the door for another year. Educational visa's on the other hand they view with great suspicion and are more likely to be refused extension at anytime.

No, I do not... they would park it through a process of laundering... likely in Singapore ... along with many here and elsewhere. A lot of money in Singpore is not looked at that closely and it is a more secure place to park it.

No, it is not like that... it is like the customers that have been with the bank for 20 years doing all their business... but generate less income than new customers that they attract with generous incentives... yet still worth more in one year than those customers that are complaining about being treated as if they are less important... I just think their expectations are wildly out of proportion with reality through.

Can't you find a doctor to give you a positive pregnancy cert ????

Can't you get the Sinovac and/or vaccine for now, travel to the US and get two more shots. You would have to get a PCR test before departure (1 - 3 days I believe), and upon arrival last I saw the CDC recommended self-quarantine for 7 days and another PCR test 3+ days after arrival (there is no differentiation between vaccinated and non is there??).

So get some booster shots and you get your number .... win win...????

"The pass can be downloaded via the Mohpromt application. However, the app currently accepts only 13-digit Thai ID numbers, meaning expats may have difficulty registering. " This happens again and again... the simple solution to fix this repeated issue - is to issue encourage and issue the Thai ID (for a fee of course) (with an indicator that it is non-immigrant, non-work permit) to anyone with non-immigrant visa (annual). The ID can have a link to the passport which means anyone holding it can leave their passport at home rather than bringing it for ID purposes (hotels etc.).

They would ask the mother for a contribution to their retirement fund... are you saying Denmark should do the same?

You have problem reading english and understanding that I am saying deporting him is wrong "If there is someone to punish, find a way to punish the one who violated the law -- without punishing the child. "

Yes, he kicked him out for personal reasons because he stabbed him in the back -- not for being an convicted criminal whose actions lead to people dying from their addiction. (I doubt he was caught for the first violation).

This is a hard one for me... If there is anyone to punish it is the adoptive mother for violating immigration laws. I don't feel punishing the child who was brought to Denmark who cannot legally make decisions for himself. He also has lived there for 3 years, made friends, gone to school (basically a third of his life - and most of is memory)... and punishing him for someone else's malfeasance is wrong. If there is someone to punish, find a way to punish the one who violated the law -- without punishing the child.

Because this is Thailand and not Malaysia and they don't have to base the rules around what another country does. A retiree visa is just a tourist visa in disguise, you are a non-resident temporary visa holder that has to get a new visa every year. i.e. you are not a [permanent] resident or a citizen. There are good reasons not to allow non-residents to buy land as the market and affordability of land in Thailand could be affected greatly by allowing unrestricted foreign ownership, pricing out even more locals out of the market. They could of course accomplish the same thing by restricting land ownership to a maximum size (something for one house - no investment properties) and apply a very high capital gains tax on the sale of the property (unless the proceeds are transferred to another parcel or land or resident/citizen offspring).

If your world is Thailand, it generally means that if you are caught and you are a criminal of any ability... a packet of money changes hands... and you are released because you did nothing wrong.

So in your world, criminals follow the rules and report their location.... but then don't follow the rules when they are committing crimes? How about this, if someone who is on a non-immigrant is arrested for committing a crime (of significance)... you hold them and either take them to trial first... then incarcerate/deport them... or just deport them...

And yet @daveAustinis saying that Vietnam is the promise land for retirees... a country without a "retirement visa"....

Yes, Thailand was not colonized because western states had no interest in them.... unlike Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia... So if your theory of disinterest is true, what did all those countries have that Thailand did not?

Received first shot of pfizer today.

There are many people who have the idea of retiring to Thailand when their time comes that they can retire - they will come here from retirement. Tourism will not likely recover for at least 5 years, probably more... but retirees will start coming when it is not such a hassle to travel.