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    Thai approved insurer rejected the coverage

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    On 12/26/2019 at 1:51 PM, Sheryl said:

    From what you describe she should reapply to other insurers and this time stick solely to the questions asked and answer them clearly but don't give extraneous information.

    Curious do the insurance companies here keep a group database of people who apply for and were rejected Insurance (In the US the insurance companies are allowed to share such information among carriers)?

    Bar girl meets prince who takes her back to his home country - how often does it happen?

    in ASEAN NOW Community Pub

    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    59 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

     

    LTRs, one Brit that had my house and pension and still wasn't happy, two Thai ladies that found mugs that were prepared to spend more on them than me, one I married that still visits and bangs me, and the current one I'm fairly happily living with.

    That's quite a reasonable list IMHO, with only one negative reference, despite her getting around 600,000 pounds off me.

    I said a good reference not an alibi... :coffee1:

    Survival camps cater to new fear: America's political unrest

    in World News

    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    1 hour ago, BritManToo said:

    Nuke war is a fear of the past.

    More likely is asteroid strike, solar flare, disruption of food or power distribution, civil unrest, pandemic.

    My bet is on a collapse of the marine or permafrost ecosystem... Or in the US the most frightening scenario is rising sea water forcing Floridians to relocate north!... :coffee1:

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    Bailing Out / Jumpin Ship

    in Chiang Mai

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    54 minutes ago, saengd said:

    It would be ironic if you live to be 75 and then have to leave Thailand because you can't get health insurance and your visa application was denied!

    Forced to move back to the UK and got hit by a bus!...

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    Bailing Out / Jumpin Ship

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    1 hour ago, stropper said:

    at my yearly renewal of retirement at udon thani immIgration THIS WEEK, walked in took card,  ushered to desk, supplied all required papers, 2k bart paid and out the door in 20 minutes, with passport and new visa, exactly the same as the past 4 years, the only reason people struggle IS  they are not prepared AND DO NOT HAVE THE MONEY,  it is not rocket science

    Curious... If your visa was a OA visa and you didn’t have health insurance would you has waltzed in and out in 20 minutes?...

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    Bailing Out / Jumpin Ship

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    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    I have lived here for 10 years (Mostly in CM)... Have transitioned from Affidavit to 800k in bank no problem... But at almost 60yo the looming insurance retirements looks to me as an actuarial time bomb making it impossible to live here long term... So next fall I will also make a controlled departure...

     

    My BF will move home to the weekend house we built and I will have to layoff the maid & gardeners and tell my favorite waitress at Dukes a sad goodbye... And my landlord may be able to turn the house into an AirBnB...

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    Transferring funds out of Thailand

    in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments

    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    My Bangkok Bank web interface has a “3rd Party International Account Transfer” setup option... I went thru all the steps to set up my US bank Account as a recipient only at the end to find it saying I must provide copies of my work permit to complete the setup - They only seem to allow the online foreigners to use the transfer system for “salary reparation”?...

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    CM immigration - going downhill?

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    36 minutes ago, Gweiloman said:

    I guess you are very well off, able to blow thousands of baht on someone to do something for you, something which you should be able to do very easily yourself.
    I must admit that I have taken the same approach previously with regards hj’s. 

    So you get the jist of it...

    But many here are rather tight fisted... :coffee1:

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    CM immigration - going downhill?

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

    Posted · Edited by sfokevin

    I use the agent across the street for extensions and such...

    Never spent more than 15 minutes in the actual immigration office... :coffee1:

     

    Btw - It is a bit of a disgrace that a brand new facility has no wheelchair access/elevator, minuscule parking facilities and for a agency that requires a suitcase full of randomly prescribed copies for the simplest thing there is no on site copy facilities!

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