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3 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:
No difference at all since immigration does not pay attention to those notes stamped or written on or near a visa sticker.
The only thing they look at it for is to be sure it is still valid.
So, why do it at all? ......................And why was it not done before?
Clearly it was done to inform someone who may scrutinise at some future time.
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Yesterday I received my fourth visa in Savannakhet, a Non-O multi entry based on marriage. The visa application was submitted the day before with all of the required documents and copies. The person who received my application asked me where my wife was and I told him she was working, she is a school teacher. No other questions were asked and I returned on the following day to pick up my passport and new visa. I had travelled up to Savannakhet with two friends, one of was with his wife. On comparing our visas my friend's (the one who brought his wife) had a hand written annotation above his visa sticker alluding to the fact that his wife was with him when he submitted his application. Her name was also written. My passport had a small hand written note to the effect that my wife was not present. On checking my previous visas there was no such note written on the visa page and the question was never asked previously. Since I have a multi entry visa, requiring me to leave the country every 90 days, the note on the visa page can only be to inform any IO checking my visa on re-entry. Nothing was said when I crossed back into Thailand at Mukdahan. What difference this is going to make on the next occasion I leave and re-enter I don't know but usually when I do my wife is with me anyway. The two friends who were with me in Savannakhet both had notes written into their passports and as I have said one had his wife with him, the other friend had the same note as mine did. For both of them it was their first Multi entry Non-O based on marriage so there were no historical visas for them to make any comparison. Anyone else come across this or have any knowledge?
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17 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
Original marriage certificate and a copy. Copies of your wife's house book registry and ID card signed by her. Copy of your passport photo page.
Also required are two passport sized photos. If you go to Savannakhet there is a place on the opposite side of the road from the Thai Consulate. For a fee they can help you complete the application form and take the necessary photos.
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17 hours ago, transam said:
NO....................????
I second that emotion!
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On the Thai side of the border at Mukdahan there is an immigration office where your new passport could have been stamped prior to the border crossing. In that way you would have only made one journey. The immigration office is within walking distance of the bridge that leads to Savannakhet.
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In five and a half years of using Thailand Post I have only been asked for ID one time, at a post office away from my home. My local post office personnel know me so I assume that is why I am never asked for ID there.
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1 hour ago, phartley58 said:
Yep. The British Embassy are doing theirs at the British Club Silom. Google is your friend! I just entered "remembrance day bangkok 2019".
The Remembrance Day service commemoration at the British Club WILL NOT actually be held on Remembrance Day, it is being held the day before. Traditionally Remembrance commemorations in Bangkok were held on Remembrance Sunday and not on November 11th unless the two coincided, as they did last year. Now that the British Embassy has moved this year's Bangkok commemoration will be held at the British Club. There will be a full service of commemoration with wreath laying at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery at 11.00 am on Monday November 11th with a smaller wreath laying ceremony afterwards at the Chungkai War Cemetery. The main ceremony in Kanchanaburi is usually attended by dignitaries, diplomats, military and hundreds of expats and tourists.
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6 hours ago, unamazedloso said:
What the hell would it have to do with exports from the US?
What does Rudi Giuliani have to do with US Foreign policy? Mick Mulvaney says that's how this White House does things now and people need to get over it. Plain and simple it is the threat of withholding something in return for something else. Thailand may be a long way away from the US but any threat, no matter how small, to the profits of political campaign contributors is taken very seriously.
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18 hours ago, Just Weird said:
My comment is about getting a refund, that's all, not about whether paying for goods online should be easy!
In order to actually get a refund you must first pay............unless you know something you would like to share with the rest of us.
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1 hour ago, Just Weird said:
This is about getting refunds paid into your bank account (not transferring funds in person) so the location of the bank is irrelevant, isn't it?
Not at all irrelevant. Paying for goods and receiving refunds on line should be easy. The alternative would be to make a personal visit to my bank and make a transfer over the counter which I could also do. Had I transferred at my bank then I think the refund would have been a straight reversal of payment but would have involved me driving 20 km into town.
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On 9/28/2019 at 3:02 PM, Just Weird said:
What has the location of the bank got to do with getting a refund?
It is inconvenient to go to my bank to transfer funds and so much easier to shop on line and pay on line. I do realise that in this case I chose the 'wrong' method to make payment. I could have easily used a debit or credit card drawn from my UK accounts. I chose to simplify things and keep them 'in country' by using one of my Thai accounts online. Surely money laundering is more likely to take place with money flowing into the country from abroad than money already in a Thai account so it is difficult to accept that as a reason that they apply these regulations to foreigners only.
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9 minutes ago, robblok said:No but the problem is clear....
The problem is being a foreigner in Thailand, and being treated differently to everyone else. There is no workaround to that one.
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54 minutes ago, robblok said:
if you dont like it don't use lazada or move to an other country.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to say this. I have no intention of moving. AND, who said it was Lazada?....................I didn't.
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43 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:
They no longer accept online bank transfers so use credit card when paying them.
They still accept online transfers from everyone but will not refund using a reversal of the process to foreigners. They will easily accept money but then claim to have made a refund when in fact they most certainly have not.
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6 minutes ago, tpkhk said:
Been through once or twice. Although we cannot cannot sign up for the wallet, Lazada issues credits into the wallet from where it can be withdrawn to the linked bank account. The process for withdrawal is as listed below from their page. Takes a week or so for it to show up.
Right, but you can not NOW even register to use the wallet unless you are a Thai. The rules seem to have changed. From what I am seeing some were able in the past to register to use the wallet, and can still do so, but if you are a foreigner the door has been slammed in your face.
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3 hours ago, lopburi3 said:
In my experience they do that if supplier cannot provide order for shipment within 3 days. This may happen immediately if stock gone and a good merchant informs platform.
The item is still showing as available for sale on the website. I just added it to my cart with no indication that it may not be available for immediate shipping.
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1 hour ago, wgdanson said:
I got a cash-on-delivery refund last week to my Wallet. Then used the Wallet to buy something else.
With this company you can not even register for a wallet if you are not a Thai.
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1 hour ago, CharlieH said:They were acting in a perfectly reasonable manner. They have no knowledge if the original purchase was made by you or that's it you requiring the refund payment.
They asked for legitimate ID which in fact, your own bank would require to do anything at the counter.
If you object to their methods/practices, use COD in future or shop elsewhere.
Personally I use a credit card, any refund is back-processed very quickly and any <deleted> and I contact the credit card company and just reverse it.
You are missing the point here! They discriminate OPENLY between Thais and foreigners. The question was asked twice! This has nothing to do with them not knowing who made the purchase. I use the company frequently and they have all of the details they need about me. I did not cancel the order, they did and gave no reason saying only that a refund was being made. Let me make it quite clear AGAIN ........I DID NOT request a refund. Later I found out that the refund would have been processed automatically through their wallet system had I been a THAI. Do you understand now?
I understand the bit about the bank requirements but I live 20 km from the nearest bank in a small rural village and shopping online ought to be easy. Paying for goods certainly is but getting your money back if the company cancels the order IS NOT!
I can shop elsewhere. Perhaps you can recommend somewhere I can shop and not be discriminated against in such a manner.
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1 minute ago, Airalee said:
Online bank transfer...proprietary wallet...blah.
For me, in Thailand COD...period.
It was the discriminatory problem that I was intending to highlight. I have also used COD in the past and had I done that this time I may never have known that they openly discriminate against foreigners.
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A few days ago I made a purchase from a well known online retailer here in Thailand. Offered a number of different methods of payment I chose online bank transfer using K+ from my mobile phone. The payment was accepted and verified online and the order went into processing. The next day with no explanation I received notification that my payment was being refunded, the order had been cancelled. After a couple of days I decided to check if the money was back in my bank account and it was not. I went back to the website and sought out the original order to check progress on the refund process. The refund was being made via their proprietary 'wallet' for which I had to register. The registration process asks first of all if you are a Thai or a foreigner and on making the obvious choice I was forwarded to a screen which said that the ******** Wallet is only open to Thais. I contacted their customer service through the online chat facility and was asked the same question: Am I Thai or foreigner? I was told again that the ******* wallet was only available for Thais and if I wanted a refund then I would have to provide a copy of my passport, signed, and my full bank details. I told them that I was not prepared to disclose those details when all that was needed was a simple reversal of the payment, but apparently that can only be done if you are Thai and are signed up to the ******* wallet system. I kicked up a bit of a stink about it and was eventually told that they would be prepared to issue a store credit if I wanted. By that time things had gone far beyond a simple purchase/refund situation. Had the store credit been offered at the outset I may have chosen that but it progressed way beyond a simple online purchase and into a place I really didn't want to be. This is completely open and brazen discrimination against someone who is not Thai. Has anyone else encountered the same problem with online purchases?
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A tip to save you a little time: Download and print the Laos 'visa on arrival' application form. It is available from various sources online. If you have this ready with the required photo, and fee, you will get through Laos immigration much quicker and ahead of the crowd.
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16 hours ago, Bert got kinky said:
As for the article, I have never met a Brit abroad (in any country) who has actually been able to get any emergency help from our embassy.
Really? You need to get out more......speak to a few more people, particularly Brits. I know of some who have received consular assistance but I am not telling who they are............. get your own friends.
What people do not understand is that the help they give is limited by rules, regulations and laws. They can, in certain circumstances, provide advice and assistance but they will not dig you out of any sh**pile of your own creation.
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10 hours ago, Will27 said:
Was there a big turnout?
Posts on here saying it's gotten really busy lately?
An American friend asked me today about this visa. He has previously used an income verification letter. Now he is thinking of changing to this visa type. With some embassies not issuing the verification letter any more there seems to be more interest in getting a visa in Savannakhet but I was there in September and there were very few people in line when the consulate opened. That was on a Tuesday. Some days are apparently busier than others. Monday, for instance is a busy day because the consulate has been closed for the weekend, Thursday also is a busy day and Friday is quiet for obvious reasons. It seems the best days to go would be Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Immersion works much better than detachment.
New twist at Savannakhet?
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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With this visa you do not apply for extensions. The visa is a multi-entry Non-O based on marriage and a new visa is issued on application each time in Savannakhet. Do you have experience of this or are you just giving an opinion?
In that case why was my friend's wife actually named in the annotation as accompanying him? The visa is the same whether accompanied by your wife or not. Wife's name does not need to be in husband's passport. My wife has accompanied me on two previous occasions and nothing was ever written on the visa page before this time. Last year she did not accompany me and nothing was asked about her or written in my passport.