chilly07

SW monsoon finished and NE winds blow pollution in from China. Air so thick you can't see the clouds. Torrential downpours appear out of nowhere but can't wash the particles away.

You are lucky! My experience of Customs and DHL was that the cost of the item ordered tripled when it reached them in Thailand. I told them to return to sender and got a full refund through Visa. Purchased a similar item in Thailand for a fraction of the price! Moral is when in Thailand Bye Thai!

I too have changed from 8yrs of self inflicted marriage extensions to agent procured retirement partly due to mobility problems at immigration bank amphur and covid based access controls in the heat and partly because the year long planning and preparation stress me and my wife more each year. Yes it is expensive but if you add up all the consequencial costs of annual preparedness it's well worthwhile

Thailand sucking up to dictators because they need to keep China at arm's length whilst enjoying their money, need to get discounted oil from Russia, need Russian and Chinese Tourists, and oh yes Thailand has a pretend democracy too!

Try Fascino-they have many branches in Pattaya including their main store on N Pattaya Rd plus outlets next to BPH

Yes app never worked for me and UJ link always does. Did my latest 90 day last Saturday and it was approved last Sunday (Jomtien)

Worth knowing you cannot use HMRC on line submission directly from overseas. I use abcsa.co.uk to do my annual return.

Need to check that airline allows less than 6mths validity otherwise entry to Thailand on expired ID and Passport is OK

Finally after a 6 mths wait my son gets his appointment at the London Embassy to renew his passport and ID card. Long wait due to 1m Thais in the UK many of which are students renewing their passports. Needed my Thai Vaccination ID nos to put on his application form? Don't know how that works? Then we get phone call from embassy saying the names on his birth cert old ID and passport are not the same. Oh yes they certainly are! Also what is his blood type for his ID card? No idea! His brother renewed his iD and passport 6 mths ago without any of this nonsense. Seems the London Embassy likes making up rules just like Immigration in Thailand! Why can't Thai government officials see that reducing unnecessary paperwork and computerising what remains makes their job easier and infinitely more efficient!

Chevrolet and Isuzu pretty well identical so buy an Isuzu.

Probably held at Customs/Courier whilst they work out how much they can sting you for!

Best of luck with this. You must have plenty of evidence of supporting your FIL and the natural justice of passing this onto his son who provided support and care. Unfortunately this behavior is common in Thai families and those that care are often trampled on by those that envy. Again best of luck. The least you can achieve is to show the rest of the family up for their bad behaviour and await karma. They were expecting you to react to their land grab hence smuggling your FIL of to make a will. He probably thought he was spreading the benefit around not favouring anyone? Arithai12s response would really wind the family up and give you the last laugh but you have invested time and money into land you wanted to go to his Son.

Surprised Jomtien ever let you get away with this? Quite clear they expect monthly FTTs into an account in your name only. If you subsequently transfer regularly to another joint account they don't seem to mind. Or make an arrangement with your bank for your wife to make withdrawals from your sole account which wouldn't appear on your bank book either. Just don't withdraw the value of the FTT immediately after the deposit. That might look a bit suspicious. They like to see your bank declaring an inward Foreign Telegraphic Transfer into your account on roughly the same day each month. The exception being of course that annually your Embassy provides an income letter based on evidence you provide. Easy for Immigration and their customer s. Most can do this but a v few seem unable to perform this simple service.

You need the bank to print these out-credit advices- Immigration don't normally accept anything you print out- plus a one year statement certified by the bank when you apply. You have the USA Australian and UK Embassies to thank for this! Everyone else gets an income letter. Those embassies should revert to income letters to stop this nonsense.

Forget it. Customs and courier will screw you. Thais are very good at copying things to a high spec so just bring the specification. Probably save overall if you sell yours back home.

No! Property is the biggest difference. Thailand 2 bed 2 bathroom bungalow 3.5m BHT rent 13k pm UK closer to 10.5m BHT if you can find one rent 100k pm.

Need to use the drop down menus

There must be a Superich AirBnB operating for stinking rich oligarchs fleeing accountability. Just because you have to flee your asset stripped country doesn't mean the luxury stops there. All quite reciprocal of course.

Little point using an agent on a marriage/family extension as you still have to collect all the copies and certificates bank the required funds and obtain their certificates attend Immigration 2 or 3 times with your wife/children and risk further finance restrictions during the year. You do all the work and the agent gets a sizeable fee. Agent enabled retirement extensions however are relatively painless and a farang principal can explain it to you better. After 10 yrs of doing my own marriage extensions and due to ill health I have finally succumbed to an agent enabled retirement extension! I think I have earned my retirement!

Outbreak of belts and or second hand seats screwed to load platforms on pickups?

I used Pattaya Klang driving school who have test track next to DLT office. They queued for me on the day at the DLT and I was 5th in the queue

Freeze the card when not in use!

But don't forget your manners And bring all funds you make. Anon!

Never understood the link between interest rates inflation and fx? Interest rates been kept v low to promote consumerism. Interest rates raised to curtail consumerism and inflation. You would think that raising interest rates would encourage fx rates to rise but no it indicates panic and rates fall thus fuelling inflation. Seems to me that bankers and economists just like change for its own sake allowing profits on small margins!