Petchou

Do immigration still accept affidavit from embassy as sole proof of funds for extension of stay for retirement?  

Note our embassy still deliver affidavits based on tax documents.

Thanks

2 hours ago, thequietman said:

 have more money 

Not sure when thousands come to teach here for meegre salary.  Even too many who are retiring here.  It's clear that you know only the poorest Thais here.  

19 hours ago, faraday said:

The book was published in 2014, & now the bastion of truth aka The Sun & lefties rag The Mirror decide it's suddenly newsworthy.

 

Until The Daily Mail, substantiates this, I won't believe it.

 

 

How about Bill Wyman then....? He was tupping Mandy whatever her name was, long time ago.

Since when the sun and the mirror are left media?   Conspiracy ideology is obsolete and used just to avoid facts and reality.

Do you know at which age he met his wife?  It confirm what the book bring.  Nothing new.

On 3/20/2019 at 1:56 PM, car720 said:

nobody is even mentioning the fact that there are no jobs for citizens let alone anyone else and that is in the cities.  In the bush it is worse.  Where is the common sense.  They are not allowed to get the dole for four years.

What you assert is just a creation of your mind and far from being a fact.  It's actually the opposite.  You need to do homework before making such statement

https://www.businessinsider.com.au/australia-economy-job-vacancies-abs-2019-1

19 hours ago, digger70 said:

Are you for real ,Ain't you one of them? If Australia wasn't Invaded there would be nothing for the Abbo's to claim and to Bludge from the government  they would be still living in the bush and eating Grubs .????

Oh really.  These Invaders are the lowest society produced, the aboriginals didn't necessarily want what you think is civilization, made of crimes, stealing and killing Innocents.  There is nothing to be proud of, you should be ashamed being a descendant of these trushy people.

Thais thinking.  You can't be black and monk.   Nothing surprising. Lol

On 3/8/2019 at 4:19 PM, 4MyEgo said:

Totally disagree with your comment.

 

I believe Thai women are in fact naturally beautiful, with no makeup, therefore your comment should be the other way around in my opinion, i.e. "Most Thai women look ugly with makeup, anyways, each to the own ????

That's what happens when someone is always drunk. Everything look beautiful.  ????????????????

22 hours ago, rkidlad said:

Ah, this happens in other countries so.........................?

 

Ignore it?

Let it continue?

Pass no judgement as two wrongs now seem to make a right?

Really - what's the answer? 

It means that those who are being offended by this should just remember that their country citizens are not that better.  I never said that it's good neither here or somewhere else.   

10 hours ago, Samui Bodoh said:

"...The website said the monthly costs for a single person to live in Bangkok was 21,017.40฿ without rent..."

 

21,017 a month WITHOUT rent? What the hell do people do in Bangkok that is so expensive?

 

I live on Koh Samui, modestly but comfortably, for around that much including rent.

 

PS To be fair, I neither smoke nor drink; those are two of the more expensive habits...

 

 

There is living and living.  Average of 700 baht per day including rent.  I wonder how can anyone have a good life from food to entertainment.   Without expenses for health etc...

All countries particular Western ones where most retired come from have rough conditions and requirements to give visas to foreigners.   I wonder why some think it should not be the case for Thais to do same.    Anyone honest should not be bothered by stopping the cheating to obtain visas through these agents by falsifying bank documents etc...

6 hours ago, TopDeadSenter said:

No. Not easy. His crimes of arson and vandalism were committed in Bahrain. That is where he should be returned to. The fact the Australia gave the nod to have him arrested attests to the credibility and seriousness of his despicable crimes. And also gives credence to the legal trial that convicted him. Send him back to Bahrain, let him serve his sentence, then he can go on holiday to Australia or for work whatever(as a free man).

 The notion that criminals can run abroad to soft touch countries (Canada and Oz) and seek asylum from their criminal sentences is a disgrace. That this guy flaunted his run and hide game made it even worse.

How do you know that Bahraini are not lying.  Knowing their disrespect to human rights and any law in general, the chances are very high that he is innocent.

1 hour ago, Boon Mee said:

That fat old Geezer is 'smartly dressed'? 555 

Guess because got on long pants and a shirt? ???? 

Quite a standard outfit of so many baby-boomers farangs here. Lol

3 hours ago, HLover said:

Did not see the phrase Cheap Charlie once in the article.

Anyway, this article and the pollution situation warrants an investment in a facemask stockpile.

Cheap charlies.is reserved for farangs and there are so many.

It's strange.  Normally he doesn't even need a visa for one month stay as a tourist.  It could be he was scammed by combodian agent or he is not in good mental health.  If he had any previous criminals file or blacklisted, it would have been mentioned.  They should just take him back to combodia and let him go if he didn't commit any other offences.

2 hours ago, sambum said:

As long as you are one of the lucky ones whose Embassy is still issuing letters!

 

If your Embassy no longer issues a "Proof of Income" letter and if your pension is insufficient to cover the 40,000 baht a month requirement (I would suspect that would mean a lot of people), the way I read it is that the 40,000 baht a month (or possibly the difference between your pension and 40,000 baht - this is not clear) has to be paid into a Thai bank account.

 

I am not that much concerned with the amount of money to be given the retirement visa.  It's more dealing with Banks here instead of making many safe and invested back home.  And it's quite straightforward to get an affidavit from my ambassador with official taxes documents and my pension statement.  Happy they didn't change this.

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

Yes it will be accepted. See this topic that has a translation of the amendment.

 

Very good news.  At least it allows to avoid Thai Banks to get Chunk of our money charging fees and giving very bad exchange rates.   Thanks for your reply.

Some ambassies still provide affidavits letters confirming financial resources for their citizens such Canada.  Does it mean, a letter still be accepted as proof of resources or not?

4 hours ago, Thaiwrath said:

There's more chance of the election being on February 24th ! ????????????????

No in February 30th lol

They should check the criminal records of Thai wives and give a copy to potential husband before marriage.  Just to be fair. 

23 hours ago, allanos said:

This is an asinine comment, designed to provoke the (white) Brits, I guess.

 

We don't know the colours of the first humans, just like we don't know the colours of dinosaurs.  When we see them pictured, we see an artist's representation. 

 

If we make the assumption that the earliest humans were black because they were "out of Africa", it is of interest, anyway, that more modern finds of early human remains are indicating that the earliest forms of humankind were in present-day Eastern Europe/ Greece.  Does that mean that the first British were white, anyway?

You should educate yourself.  You are the only one who doesn't know the color of homosapiens.  

5 hours ago, samsensam said:

 

if you really want to be a pedant then neither is black.

 

 

Being white is discoloration, first humans were black.  Here is how first British looked like In the following 

15 hours ago, Orac said:

When I set up the SCB Easy app on my phone it required not only my atm card number but also my PIN number???

Exactly.  It's quite stupid to ask for ATM pin.  

5 hours ago, ThreeEyedRaven said:

A week ago he said he would arrest 7,000 more by the end of this month. News on it suggests he is still way short of that mark. I also haven't seen reports of 99,500 over-stayers caught so far. Sounds like another story with numbers and facts plucked right out of thin air, and with promises worth zero.

overstayers can voluntarily leave too.