Cyama

On 10/11/2019 at 10:19 AM, DeeMoney said:

The transfer delays were for every country except Cambodia since we use a different portal for Cambodian transfers. As of 4th of October the delays have been resolved. Right now, transfers to Australia and elsewhere would not take more than 3-5 business days.

 

We received a ton of negative reviews because of the transfer delays and refund delays for the month of August and September. Here's hoping that we soon get positive reviews.

 

Again, we are balancing on a fine line between trying to be transparent and not sharing information that cannot be shared. We want to tell our customers exactly why the delays happened and exactly why the refunds took so long to process. But until then, we will try our best.

Sent money mid September. After 2 weeks, I found out it wasn't processed. On 7th October, an email reply said that refund will be made in 3-5 business days. It's been 12 business days and I was told today that they will facilitate the refund within this week. Now tell me, which delay has been resolved? Last transfer I made in July also took more than 12 working days. Very disappointed. And please don't tell me usual 'We will try our best'. I've heard that more than 15 times in the last 3 months. My money has been with Deemoney for over a month now. You are beginning to look like a fraud. Please prove me wrong. Yes, within this week.

Pigeons feel uneasy and eventually leave when they step into a surface applied with this type of gel-like substance. I was told it works for at least 3 months then you will have to reapply.

4 hours ago, Andy32 said:

You can open a Thai PayPal with a Bangkok bank savings Debit card. You won’t need a Thai email address, but you’ll need to use a different email address to the one you registered with your UK PayPal though. 

 

I set set mine up a few years ago with no real problems. Assume it’s all still the same. 

I set up mine just last year using my Bangkok bank savings debit card and it was fairly easy.  Couldn't process any online purchase at first so I called PayPal call center (that time it was still a Singapore number) and was told my account was set and the problem was with my bank. When I called Bangkok bank and explained about the PayPal issue, I was asked to set a maximum amount of payment per day. Did you have to set this amount before? I did this through their call center (had to key in my card number, pin, etc). Now everything works perfectly   

2 hours ago, RBOP said:

The company hiring you must pay your SS on your behalf to the government. This also entitles you to some benefits while working such as free Gov. hospital. When you stop working you can apply to SS office to get all back plus interest. If you have 180 months paid up and 55 or older when stop working you can apply for pension, lump sum or free Gov. hospital. Im opted for lump sum. My work mate who entered SS scheme at 63 yrs and stopped work at 68 will get back all he paid in. 

RBOP, thank you for this information. It would be good if you can post a link or two about this. It seems too hard to find one in English.

I have been on Thai SS for more than 10 years, paid up over 180 months but I am still less than 50 yrs old. It would be good to know the scheme if I leave work before age 55. But if I leave work at 55 and opt for lump sum, how do they compute this? 

Any chance that you could request extension of your current passport validity from your embassy? 

They require the latest one only. But if you notice,  the standard balance sheet shows 2 years information.

I just renewed my Non-B a couple of weeks ago and just submitted the balance sheet for 2015. 

Dertourist, do you need to have a court document such as Kor Ror 11 (guardianship) for the 1 year extension? A friend would like to extend his stay using a similar scheme. His Thai child lives with him, has a Thai ID and is studying in a Thai school. Thai mom doesn’t live with them and he’s not married to her. No problem obtaining the non -O visa in Vientiane or the 400k requirement in the bank. As of now the mother is willing to cooperate but hesitant with the court process.

Last week on Sunday 11th Jan I drove across the Thai border at Sadao on my way to Penang to apply for an ED Visa for my 13 year old son (he will be 14 yrs on the 5th Jan).My son attends an international school and they provided me with all the necessary paperwork

In Sadao it was very busy at the immigration, long queues. I was behind my son when he presented his British passport to a female officer, she spent about 30 seconds and then slammed the passport down and told us that we must go to the overstay office,

We found the office where there were two female officers, one behind a desk and the other dressed in an almost black uniform and wearing a side arm.

My son spoke to them politely in Thai, They asked me why my son had overstayed for so long I started to explain that I understood that he was young enought to have overstay exemption and that we were on our way to Penang to apply for his Visa....they were already shouting at us before I could finish my sentence, The Officer at the desk was frantically thumping calculator keys and presented to me a figure of 52,500 baht and told me I must pay that for 105 days of overstay ! I explained again that my son was only 13 ....trying very hard not to lose my cool as I am obviously aware of the 20.000 baht limit on that length of OS. They carried on shouting in Thai and English and the woman at the desk made a stamp in my sons passport for overstay and wrote in 105 days (this was calculated from his last entry 30 August 2013.......she lost 365 days in her excitement)

Anyway the officer in black told me that there are 'new rules' and now my son has a black mark in his passport that would affect him when he applied for re entry....I was overwhelmed at their unpleasantness.

That was it they said no more about money so I picked up the passport and left .....to start at the back of a long queue again.

We successfully obtained his Visa in Penang and went back through Sadao (my kid was terrified and asked if we could find another border post) but I had no time. The young officer on re entry was very pleasant and chatted to my son in Thai he said nothing about the overstay stamp and stamped us in with a smile.

Did you have to go to Sadao immigration office (not the overstay office) to have this sorted out before crossing the border? I know a couple with 3 OS kids (less than 15 yo) who went to Vientiane, Lao PDR to apply for their kids' visas. At Nongkhai border checkpoint, they were asked to go to Nongkhai immigration office. After the paperwork and fees (about 100+ baht ) their kids' passports were stamped. They went back to Nongkhai border and to Vientiane, got their kids visas and came back to Thailand without any trouble. I will be doing a similar trip early next month with my son who is on OS (turning 15 in Aug) to apply for ED visa so I am trying to find out as much info as I can.