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4 hours ago, itsari said:
You need to show proof of foreign income from clients abroad .
How would a person retired in Thailand manage that if they wish to change to a DTV visa ?
To Mr confused, you need to show a portfolio of work history to show you are a free lancer or demonstrate your profesional activities.
The visas purpose is to remote workers and not tourists or retired people either
Soft power visa for either catering/cooking or music/live venue promotions.
I have skills, experience and resume in both. Long time ago now I agree, but kept relevant documents.
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29 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:Stop it. The fact is that these buffoons were riding around in a mostly tourist zone disturbing people. The hotels and tourists complained and action was taken. Your argument is that no action should have been taken because some Thais may or may not drive around without a muffler and it is weak. Another wrongful act does not excuse intentional dangerous activity.
The drivers were not just making noise, but driving like idiots scaring people. The cops could not get them for that because they did not see the wrongful activity occur, but they could get them for disturbing the peace.
Yep,
Flog them, then hang draw and quarter them and deport the remains.
Problem solved.
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Thank whoever the election is over.
Next year there will be ample time for Trump supporters to crow and squawk, knowing Trump's penchant to be ridiculously controversial and be in the news daily,
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14 hours ago, 300sd said:
Not sure how widely eaten it is but I have seen rats barbecuing at one of the local markets near Hua Hin. Didn't ask what price.
Frog legs are also on the menu at a restaurant near there and actually my friend wanted to order it. The waitress said they didn't have any today and my friend asked: "why not?" She grinned and said they never caught any today.
Yeah,
Bugger going native, I'll stick to the meats I know and trust.
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I've been on Non-O with yearly extensions for many years now.
And the same as @DrJack54 the pluses seem to definitely outweigh the negatives with DTV hence my thread last week.
As it happens my new extension isn't due until July 2025, so I have ample opportunity to see if they change the DTV entry rules or the system of granting the visa.
It has all the benefits, No Re-entry payment fees, no turning up at Immigration every year with handfuls of documents.
And of course, once you have shown evidence of 500K in any currency, you get the visa fairly easily, without any rules governing any monies have to be retained in the bank, unlike us, where we keep 800K for 2 months before, and three months after, and then it can never fall below 400K blah, blah, blah.
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12 hours ago, RocketDog said:
You're right that's exactly what I said when they legalized alcohol, tobbaco, sugar, and caffeine and now look where we are!
What we need are more laws that restrict everything except what the government (or you Scouse) deem is healthy for us all.
What I miss most about being an adult is not having anybody to tell me what to do everyday. Is this something you can help us with scouse?
Looking past your facetious post, you are then saying, reading between the lines, that we should legalize Heroin, Ketamine, etc.
What a great idea.
Without some semblance of rules and order, we have Anarchy, but if that is what will make you feel like an adult, carry on!
You made a silly post and completely took out of context what I was meaning, but if it makes you feel adequate........
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On 11/6/2024 at 6:23 PM, GammaGlobulin said:
Dear Folks,
Not sure why Harris has decided to forego a timely concession speech.
Still, I think some Americans may have heard enough talk from the Word-Salad candidate.
Do you feel sorry for Kamala?
I sort of do.
I often feel sorry for those who get tripped up, in the end, by their own Magical Thinking.
Whatever convinced her that she might have been right for the job of Leader of the Free World...
She was just so obviously not cut out for it.
One thing to dream an unrealistic dream.
And, another thing to actually act on what she should have known was an impossibility.
If I were she, I would have conceded immediately after the writing was on the wall.
But, I can also understand that....she had a headache, and preferred to go to sleep.
Thankfully, most of us, from now on, will not be forced to listen to so many incoherent sentences strung together.
This, in itself, will be a godsend for the American public, one and all.
Thank goodness that it's over now.
Best regards,
Gamma
Note4: What a relief .....
Incoherent sentences, well your orange man takes the biscuit for that.
As stated before 350 million in the USA, and he is the best you can muster?
A proven liar, felon, misogynist ,racist, tax cheat, and draft dodger!
Good grief Charlie Brown.
At the moment she is mustering the troops for an attack on Capitol Hill, because that's what happens in the USA when you lose an election, isn't it?
China and Russia will now go from strength to strength.
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7 minutes ago, bradiston said:
Yes, a different kettle of rodent to sewer rat. My wedding breakfast was cold rat curry. Accompanied by a lot of hilarity from the villagers looking on.
We definitely in the UK wouldn't call them Rats and all the negativity that conjures up.
We would call what you are talking about, Field Mice.
Hell of a difference.
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22 hours ago, chiang mai said:
This is Asia, not Kansas or Brighton! Rat meat is widely eaten everywhere in Asia, bikes are a standard form of transport. In London it is said that you are never more than 10 feet from at least 100 rats in buildings and underground, at least here they are eaten and put to some use.
Please tell us where rat meat is so widely eaten across Asia?
Apart from Cambodia when it was having a really tough time, I don't know of anywhere TBH
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Regurgitated crap.
Their behaviour has been like this for years, natural norms don't apply to these protected taxi mafias.
Nothing been done and nothing will ever be done.
Next week they will have a ' crackdown ' What a load of tosh.
It's a sad situation when a tourist coming to spend their hard earned money is to be jostled, threatened and terrorized by these filth when all the tourist wants to do is ' have a holiday '
Of course these morons can never see further than their personal needs and wishes.
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Looks like he ate a few platefuls.
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8 minutes ago, Sandboxer said:
You must have missed the part in the headline where it says "Brits"....
We can choose our friends.
We can't choose our relatives or our nationality.
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Great story!
Walt Disney would be proud of this little gem either way.
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10 minutes ago, chiang mai said:
Expats are always going to say that any business in Thailand that is run by foreigners is bad, up to no good, full of chancers etc, I guess it must be jealousy in most cases. An expat business could be offering free information and advice and some people would be suspicious, just as they were with Lister! Folks need to get their paranoia under control.
I wonder why expats are suspicious of other expats who run businesses here?
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22 minutes ago, khunpin said:
Obviously people from that small island in the Atlantic Ocean fall for every cheap trick. 🤦🏼♂️
And which vast expanse of the globe do you hail from, oh great one?
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37 minutes ago, Cabradelmar said:
True that. And if they are looking at it as easy dough, there not doing it unwittingly.
They know exactly what they are doing and I know quite a few Pakistanis who are behind such schemes, even on a bigger scale than these small fry.
They are buying fabrics etc and smuggling it in with these goods on an industrial level.
36 minutes ago, Homburg said:Unwitting? I think not. Witless perhaps?
Feckless!
36 minutes ago, khunpin said:Obviously people from that small island in the Atlantic Ocean fall for every cheap trick. 🤦🏼♂️
They don't fall for it, they are willing participants. Anything except doing the four letter word......WORK!
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Just now, bkk6060 said:
Yes. Don't forget get the thousands of Chinese and Russian. People think they will pay? Good luck.
Ha,
Yeah, more chance of a rocking horse winning the Steeplechase!
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9 minutes ago, chiang mai said:Pen and paper works just as well.
Yeah you're right,
I can see it now.
Boozy Brits filling out their daily spends on the bar stools.
1. 15 Chang beers, one plate khao pad moo, three lady drinks...........etc
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Another thread that will go nowhere as everybody has their own entrenched ideas and interpretations of this new system.
Meanwhile the powers that be remain silent.
If their own regional offices don't know what is going on, how do they expect expats to know?
What about the thousands that aren't on Asean Now to gather news, fact or fiction, and don't read the Thai gazette?
It's all as clear as mud and the only ones asking you to trot off to the tax office, (which many have and have been turned away by officers who haven't a clue what you are talking about,) are those tax advisory offices and those with a vested interest in getting customers.
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4 hours ago, chiang mai said:FWIW I agree that everyone should be proactive, but that doesn't mean rushing out to obtain a TIN or buying his or anyone else's tax services. Everyone should understand the issues as they relate to their particular unique situation and calculate their own exposure to Thai tax using pen and paper. Set up a spread sheet and update it every month with your income and your TEDA and see what the end of the year position looks like, that's sensible.
Not all people can do spreadsheets, especially elderly foreigners.
3 hours ago, BritManToo said:Expat clubs are riddled with crooks trying to make money from elderly expats.
True.
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1 hour ago, NicoBKK said:
My wife is Indonesian, best of all 🙂
Malaysians are nice and the ones I've met aren't too hung up about religion.
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13 minutes ago, Cabradelmar said:
Unwitting? Unintelligent more likely. How stupid do you to be to be an unwitting participate to mule kilos of ganja back to the UK in your luggage.
They think it's easy dough, one thing for sure, these clowns are not Pablo Escobar!
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4 hours ago, Ironmike said:
They must breed another form of complete idiots in the UK these days,, who would be so stupid to risk 10 years in a Thai prison for a free holiday,, lock them all up
They won't go to jail in Thailand for posting cannabis.
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15 hours ago, Foxx said:
Well, apart from the time when I submitted by mail and never received confirmation. I had to go to the office and search through a vast manual ledger looking for where they'd received my mail in report. Total waste of my time. (Admittedly, this was about 15 years ago, and at a provincial office, so maybe they've improved things since then.)
Don't go anywhere, just keep your proof of postage and proof it was signed for.
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DTV or retirement visa ?
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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A big question I have for any of you guys that have switched from retirement extensions to DTV, did you wait until your retirement extension had fully expired, or did you apply successfully before the expiry date of your extension??????
Lastly, did you apply in home country or over this way, in a neighbouring country, such as Laos or Cambodia?
@DrJack54 I think this could possibly have relevance to us.
Incidentally, as well as qualifying for the soft power visa on the grounds of catering or live music, I go every few months to get a voice prosthesis changed by a doctor in Khonkaen hospital. I have regular appointments and proof of this.
This is a medical procedure which requires an experienced ENT doctor to do it, and will be necessary for life, I suppose I could request a visa on these terms?