ThailandRyan

Yes, but it is the lay of the judicial land my friend.....

Now youse the grammar police, such a wild yute.

And if he was deported back to whence he came his passport would have that lovely red stamp indicating such.

Here is one checklist. I will look for more current reports done for your info. You will have to save them first in order to open them sorry for that. This was from last year Retirement Extension application This was my first time to use the relatively new process of using the Immigration website to schedule a specific time slot (date and time) for the retirement extension application process, and I like it a lot. Really saves having to get there at the crack of dawn, hang around in long queue lines, and then wait wait wait. I arrived to Immigration at 9:10 am for a 9:15 to 9:30 appointment slot, was in to see the officer by 9:20 am, and was done with her by 9:35 am, and had my stamped passport back by 10:15 am. Sweet!!! Can also use the same online appointment schedule process for re-entry permit applications at BKK CW, and for in-person 90-day report filings that are now exclusively done at Immigration's Muang Thong Thani outpost. But NOT, for some reason, to schedule marriage extension appointments... When you do the online booking route, you do NOT need to obtain a queue ticket at all inside the Immigration Office. You just bring along with you a printout of the emailed appointment confirmation that Immigration has sent you, and then just go to the designated appointments desk at your appointed time. http://203.151.166.132/immigrant_queue/booking/ The documents required for the retirement extension application were pretty much the same as usual this year at BKK CW, except this year at least, there was no mention of providing copies of 90-day report receipts or TM30 notifications... My documents list is as follows: --Passport with at least 1 year validity remaining --Completed TM7 form printed on a single sheet front and back. Your color photo pasted on the back side, and your phone number hand written at the top of the back side. --Financial documentation as required -- 800K Thai bank deposit letter plus original bankbook, OR 65K in monthly foreign transfers into a Thai bank OR an Embassy income affidavit for those who still have or can get one. Hand signed portrait-orientation photocopies of the following (they want photocopies, they don't seem to like printed scans): -- Passport face page -- if you've obtained a new passport anytime, the front pages of that where Immigration has copied over the old visa and stamps info from your old passport. -- most recent visa or extension stamp -- most recent arrival/entry stamp -- airport departure card front and back -- Hand-drawn or printed map showing the location & address of your home. Money to pay the 1,900b extension of stay fee. Last year, the IO gently chewed me out for having pre-signed all my passport photocopy pages, because she wanted to put her ink stamp on them first, which included a specific spot for the applicant's signature. This year, the IO at the appointment desk not so gently chewed out my Thai wife because I had NOT pre-signed all the passport photocopies, and hadn't pre-filled out the several other misc. junk forms they always have you sign... (most of which are not available on the Immigration website for download, but can be requested in paper form from the front information desk at BKK CW. Dunno what to say about that... At any rate, I figured I've had enough of their junk forms, and having to beg for them at the info desk. So I got a spare, blank set of them today, took them home, scanned them as PDF files, and will now post them here for anyone else who wants to keep them in hand. As UbonJoe noted to me, this trio of documents are specifically in a format used by BKK CW, and other offices may not use the same docs or use them in different format. Ret Exten Overstay Penalties.pdf334.19 kB · 0 downloads Ret Exten Statement 2.pdf1.47 MB · 0 downloads Ret Exten Statement 3.pdf398.95 kB · 0 downloads As part of the application process with the IO, I had to sign the overstay penalties sheet, and then hold up the sheet below my chin while she took what struck me as a kind of police "booking photo" of someone who's just been arrested, except in this case, it was Immigration obtaining incontrovertible visual proof that they have given me the penalties sheet and that I had knowingly signed it. For me, it's always a struggle to understand what the TH speaking Immigration officers are saying, even when they try their hand at halting English, and it hasn't gotten any easier lately, as they now all have clear plastic type divider sections separating you from them, as well as them of course wearing their CV face masks, which further muffles whatever it is they're trying to say... Glad my Thai wife has better ears than I do.... The new "official" rule for bank deposits relating to retirement extensions is you must have the 800K on deposit TWO months before you application date, and then keep that balance for three months after. Then the rest of the year, the account balance cannot fall below 400K. This year was my first year using the bank deposit method, as last year I was able to use one last final U.S. Embassy income affidavit before that process ended. So, today, the Immigration officer at the outset, without asking me anything, immediately looks at my bank book that only shows the 800K on deposit for 2 months, and starts complaining what about the prior months... So it took some explaining before she finally understood and registered that I hadn't had the 400K requirement during the past year (but will for the future, of course). Lastly re the retirement extension, for many years here, Sept. 17 has been my individual annual valid stay until date no matter what date/how early I actually filed my application. But this year for some reason, I was instead given a new stay until date of November 20th, so I got an extra 30 days added beyond my normal October 20 date. So YMMV.... Retirement checklist writeup.docx

However, there is no need to panic, your money will not just evaporate in thin air, and you will not be cut-off. Sounds like to many people believe the conspiracy drivel and wear Tin-foil hats. Technology is such that all transactions are recorded somewhere and your money can be tracked already, unless your mattress is stuffed with cash like my old great grandmother did as she did not believe in the banks after the banks started crashing crash in 1920 and continued until 1933. I mean we also had the savings and loan crisis in 1989 and before she died she pointed that out as well........so it appears some folks do not like the governmental systems. My father had over 100 gold Krugerrands, silver ingots, as well as loose diamonds in his home safe and safety deposit box at the bank as well as the keys to his Crypto storage, yes a 75 year old man had Crypto. When he died I had to liquidate the holdings....that was a headache as the executor and Trustee. Why do you think the US Feds and the IRS have put so many banking controls out there. Annually I have to do my FBAR report for all of my bank accounts. I could care less what they think, if they were interested in me then they can have a go at it, yet they can not even handle investigating people high up.....

It is a sad day when they shut parks etc.....for the special people to meet and greet. Rama 4 Rd. and Sathorn Thai Road have just been feces yesterday and this morning. Glad we were out of town for most of APEC.....ugh.

Not sure if this was posted but Trump will not be playing on Twitter it appears.... Trump Cites Twitter ‘Problems,’ Says He’ll Stick to Own Platform (msn.com) Trump Cites Twitter ‘Problems,’ Says He’ll Stick to Own Platform (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump said he sees “a lot of problems at Twitter” and will stick to his own social-media platform, offering an initial response to Elon Musk’s poll on whether to reinstate the former president’s account.

If you can qualify why not apply for the LTRWP visa....just a thought it would or could alleviate any hassles you may have, but then qualifying is subjective based upon your income. https://ltr.boi.go.th/page/visa-issuance-info.html

How many already are using the Crypto Currency blockchains to move money is the bigger question you need to ask yourself.

Double jeopardy, now that's hilarious

Sarcasm in my post was based upon this Government stating that Pattaya is a Family friendly destination.

Really, you live there, so you should know how long cases can take. I had cases go for al ost 5 years before I testified at Trial, between evidence gathering discovery, motions etc. Look at how Trump has filed this and that and still not complied.... Seems like the Republicans are not making the invrstigation a priority, but oh well, it has now been moved to a special council they have no control over. https://amp-cnn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/19/politics/comer-trump-documents-house-oversight/index.html?amp_gsa=1&amp_js_v=a9&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=16689074578769&csi=1&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F11%2F19%2Fpolitics%2Fcomer-trump-documents-house-oversight%2Findex.html

Just trying to return Pattaya to a Family Friendly destination, I mean isn't that what they claim it is?. I avoid the entire area if possible, we only drive over the Nong Nooch or down to the water park.....more power to those who enjoy the entertainment zones, just not my cup of tea...

Dotting all of the I's and crossing all of the T's so it is an iron clad prosecution, just like all cases are done. If you don't have it all locked down vermin tend to slip though a loophole. That cocaine isn't mine these aren't my pants....

Here you go https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2002-07-13-13-thai-66500997/552956.html The Thai inventors of a controversial AIDS drug, the V1 Immunitor, claim to have developed the world's first cure for the disease prompting thousands of HIV patients to clamor for treatment.

Wow, so many people in panic mode and living in conspiracy land it appears.

I can see the issues which you have as far as certain things go. The biggest one is your age, and at 78 you might be thinking it's a gamble and many more hoops than your use to for a 10 year visa. For those that retire when I did at 50 years of age (Now 57) or 55, 60, or even 65 years of age, it was very appealing at least for me it was, as I had done the Non Imm-O Visa then extension of stay based upon marriage, and then after that relationship fizzled I obtained the Non Imm O-A Visa with the ME re-entry portion being the most attractive. However, locking 800K into a bank here was not a fun moment with it earning very little interest, and then the mandatory insurance which came into effect in October 2019. Of course Covid came next and due to the inability to travel back and forth as before I converted that visa into an extension of stay. Until the LTR came along I was going to kill off the O-A extension I had and re-enter on a 30 day, now 45 day, and start anew with a Non Imm-O based upon retirement. However, the LTR came along just at the time period my extension of stay was coming up to be renewed or killed off. So I applied as I had the necessary qualifications for the LTRWP, and the rest is now history. As I have stated before, the overall costs, with the traveling we do makes the LTR a better deal for at least myself, as over a 10 year period I actually save 7k Baht, was able to utilize the 800K for other investments, which are growing currently, and saved myself many Hundreds of Thousands of Thb by not obtaining the Thai Elite Visa I was looking at as an option. If your set in what you currently do, and don't like to travel to BKK and elsewhere due to certain limitations then maybe your annual extension of stay makes more sense. I believe that there will be a small group who obtain this visa and not the Million they had hoped for. As time goes on maybe they will relax certain limits, but I hope that they finally get the glitches worked out in the system. BTW, they are also trying to roll out an on-line application for the annual extension of stay as well. Whatever your choice and decision, I wish you and everyone else good luck in navigating the immigration processes.

He claims the FBI is corrupt and it sounds as if he indicating complicit in a cover up...

I am sure if Private Dancer was found on his Laptop you would say he (Hunter) was in Thailand as a whoremonger writing stories....must be true it was on his laptop but how do we know how it was placed there. The laptop is a dead issue, through too many hands and no receipts for everything it was accessed and by who....

Never had an issue using it when my contracted jobs needed to pay me, scanned and uploaded.

Yet he did just that....he protested being investigated by a special council. He claims it is all politically motivated and all the stuff found at Mara Lago were his personal items and his Declassified papers....

Suing someone is so passe in the US, not often does anyone go that distance just your hero as he tries to keep his image untainted..lol

Didn't Jimmy Carter's brother also possibly profit from using his brother's name...I mean Billy beer was a great hit. I have a case still in cold storage in the US. One day it might be worth millions if I can sell it to some foreign country and cash in myself. Maybe I would be investigated then....

You sure believe all of the conspiracy gossip don't you. We shall see what happens but first breaking news is that a new Special council has been assigned by the AG Garland against your hero....

Card readers are readily available for cell phones. Contactless payments can be done as well. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.mastercard.com/global/en/business/overview/start-accepting/tap-on-phone.html&ved=2ahUKEwjClevS-rj7AhUHZWwGHQs9DwQQFnoECBkQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2qgHZ5H9QtBJcceiA6gVNw