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Thais can also enter most countries in Europe without Quarantine as they are on the "positive" list by the European Commission. Going back they need to go through ASQ though. And for Schengen Tourist visas, ASQ booking is required in Thailand for the return.

1 minute ago, dimitriv said:

 

I would not allow my 3 year old kid outside alone in Europe. My parents let me do that 40 years ago. But nowadays I wouldn't let my kids do that. Too much weird and crazy  people walking around.

 

 

It really depends where you are but agreed there are some weird people. Don’t get me wrong, I or my wife will go outside with her but we’ll not feel obligated to watch her every move as we would in Thailand for fear of being hit by oncoming traffic. 

20 minutes ago, tomauasia said:

There is no iurance for COVID

This stupid gov knows that..They are a disgusting group of racist people that should not be in government period. 

Thailand needs a legitimate election now

My insurance covers Covid up to the annual limit insured. It’s an expat international insurance that I’ve had long before Covid though. 

LH flights to FRA are packed. I flew mid May, my wife just arrived today. Mask requirement respected but moot point when food is served. I couldn’t wear the mask for the full 12 hour flight. mid May didn’t have drink service (except large water bottle for everybody) and no dining choices. My wife had drink service but still no dining choices. Entry qualification control both in BKK and FRA are tough. They held up my wife 2.5 hours at immigration this morning. 
Can’t wait for things to go back to normal. 

In the future, if needed, you should know that Kor Ror 2 is one of the documents you can get in English language at any Amphoe or District Office. No need to translate the Thai one if you can produce an English one (for some countries).

I don’t understand the run on eggs last week. Eggs are being produced everyday so it doesn’t make any sense unless they’ve killed all the chickens laying them. 
Sure enough, yesterday, Makro was fully stocked. And our local Tops Daily market didn’t even know where to stock all the eggs they had. 

46 minutes ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

On the strength of this thread I called in my local petrol station to top up my 1/4 full tank ( was on a food run anyway ).

At PTT 95 octane was down to 17.89 baht at Shell it was 25.89 baht !!

PTT one is 95 Gasohol and the Shell one is VPower which is their top brand. Shell usually stocks only 91 Gasohol which should be the same price as at PTT. No price gauging at all. 

12 minutes ago, marin said:

What? You better check your globe and world flight times. NYC is further from BKK than the west coast of America. Very misleading info you have posted up..

Maybe you better check where Doha is, Mr. Globetrotter!

1 minute ago, elgenon said:

Do you know where the layover is? 

All flights connect in Doha, Qatar

20 minutes ago, elgenon said:

So Qatar flies to America? Do you know how long that flight is?

Gee, how about checking the website?!

yes, they fly to America. Qatar has one of the most extensive networks of all airlines. 
how long? That depends on where you’re going exactly. NYC will be shorter than LA of course. And then if you have a connection in the States it will be even longer. 

On 3/14/2020 at 1:54 AM, eppic said:

Take it from me and many others, it's a complete waste of time to post cars here.  Make sure to list it on One2Car and similar sites if you want any actual response -- if priced aggressively it should sell.  Even my ad on One2Car in English got good response, just make sure to give a Line contact (once I did that mine sold very quickly) -- obviously even better if you can communicate in Thai

It seems you are right. The forum is dead. On Facebook, however, it took one day to find a buyer. Signed the reservation yesterday. Very good and very nice buyers. 

Dear community,

We are selling our main car, a Honda HR-V, received new in July 2016.

It was financed but paid off in 2018 and I am in the blue book as the registered owner. Cash/Bank transfer only.

Specifications:

- EL top of the line

- Moonroof

- Leather Seats

- Magic Seats in the back

- LED lights

- Rain sensor

- Automatic lights

- automatic A/C

- Cruise Control

- Top of the line 3M Crystalline film with near full radiation protection while maintaining visibility

- new Bridgestone Turanza 005A tyres in August 2019 (around 8k on them)

- aftermarket Pioneer 8850BT entertainment unit with Apple Carplay (active), Android Auto (inactive), SD Slot

- rear view camera

No accidents, minor scratches and stone chippings. All scheduled maintenance done at Honda dealer. No technical problems whatsoever.

Can be viewed and test-driven in Bangkok (Chorakhe Bua, Lat Prao).

Price: 610,000 Baht negotiable. Available end of April 2020.

Feel free to send me questions through PM. I can also give you phone number or LINE through PM. 

P.S. I will add interior photos once I have made them tomorrow morning.

15 hours ago, kralledr said:

So what is the point to pay tax if we get it back

Have you worked in any other country before? It's the same as virtually all countries that withhold income tax at the source. 

Your employer should be able to adjust your monthly tax "prepayments" according to your deductions and allowable expenses thus making a claim less likely. But the RD is very efficient and will pay you back any overpaid tax very quickly. 

Best is to have a personal calculation in Excel to anticipate your tax burden. The income tax in Thailand is really very easy compared to other countries.

You can't just go tot the tax office to close it down. You need to go through the proper liquidation process with a full audit and closing accounts and a publication of an EGM for liquidation. All this, your accountant should be able to handle. Cost for the whole process can be from 20k to 100k Baht depending on the accountancy firm. 

Where is your company? Bangkok? I can advise you a contact that can do the whole process for a reasonable price if your company is registered in Bangkok.

15 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

I asked specifically about obtaining one in English at the Amphoe when I did the process as I described.  They indicated that only Thai la gauge is used on the birth certificate and not in English.  They indicated I needed to do what I did.  Not sure where you found your information about them.giving you a copy in English for 10 baht.  

It's not so much that I found my information but actually have the papers at home. We went to Bang Khen and Chatuchak District Offices in Bangkok and both said that English transcripts of birth certificates (among other documents) are readily available. And then they printed it for us. Now, this is not the original birth certificate of course (that one is only available in Thai AFAIK), but an English transcript issued by the Thai authorities for use overseas. In Thailand, the Thai language one will prevail in all cases. 

I've attached the redacted version for your reference.

English birth certificate Thailand_print.pdf

2 minutes ago, Kalasin Jo said:

So for persons born before 1981, not possible? My wife's birth certificate is a photocopy from a paper register I'm sure. It doesn't look at all official and is handwritten in the blank boxes for completion. The only evidence of this being official is a small blue stamp in Thai plus handwritten date ( Thai calendar) on the copy. Several times been told that's all they can do.

 

That being so is our only option, where a birth certificate is required ( for residency application in France), to have it translated by a recognised translator and get the certificate and translation legalised at MoFA? Groan!!!

No. I believe 1980 is the cutoff date for the government maintaining a central IT database. I've had the same issue with my wife who was born in 1979. For her Schengen visa applications, we needed to get the village chief to go to the Amphoe with her and a relative certifying when she was born and where. This was accepted as an alternative to the birth certificate. The French Embassy is well aware that birth certificates weren't commonly issued or even kept by the parents, especially in rural Thailand. So they do accept this is instead. Of course, it will need to be translated and double legalized. 

If you are legally married and the marriage is registered with the French Embassy or any other French government institution, you should have a family book (Livret de famille). This might be sufficient for the visa application instead of the birth certificate. But it seems unlikely that you comply with this scenario as you would have had to have her birth certificate when you asked for the freedom-to-marry certificate.

6 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

Take it to a translation service that is also a notary and will stamp it as such with the notaries signature on it.  Then have it sent along with the original to the MFA in Bangkok for it the copy to be stamped as a legal document from the MFA in Thailand.  It can then be used just like the original Thai birth certificate but as an English version.  Have done this twice now so we had it when completing the Visa process for the USA.  Plenty of Notaries that translate and will take care of the legalization for you at the MFA,  but I can not remember the cost, off hand as it was 2 years ago.  Needed it for my Thai born daughter to enter the USA, as well as for registering her for school.

I think people are not reading the whole thread.

English version available at any Amphoe/DIstrict office. Cost = 10 Baht. Much easier than translation + double legalization. And quicker. And cheaper.

For my Embassy it's enough, so it's enough for me. Other Embassies, of course, may have different requirements.

30 minutes ago, khunPer said:

Depending of what you are going to use the English version of the birth certificate to, and what your home country embassy demand, the need might be slightly different from below...

 

In my case, we had the Thai birth certificate translated by a certified translator. This was for example Okay for buying domestic flight tickets and boarding an airplane.

 

For further use we needed to have the translation to be officially legalized. That was done by Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Legalization Division, Department of Consular Affairs, in Bangkok. It's normally done i two working days, but with a same-day VIP-service...

You can download the application form in for example .docx format. We used the EMS service, and that worked well.

 

Call in advance and check the actual procedures, or check the website, as we did it a few years ago in 2014 when applying for dual foreign citizenship for the child in my home country.

 

In my case my home country's embassy in Bangkok then needed to verify the legalization before the English version of a birth certificated can be used as a legal document. That procedure was also done by EMS in agreement with the embassy; your embassy might have a different procedure, or let a local consulate verify documents.

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Thanks for the reply but as I mentioned before, I needed the English one precisely to avoid the double legalization as my Embassy does accept originally issued documents if they are in English. So, for me all is well in the end.

I have used the legalization service before though, for my marriage preparation. A lot of travelling around required, which I don't like.

For anyone who is interested:

Yes, English language birth certificate extracts/copies can be obtained at any District Office/Amphoe (for persons born after 1980). The cost is 10 Baht per copy. Needed are the ID/Passport of the person for who the birth certificate is requested, the ID/Passport of the legal guardian (if applicable) and the Tabien Baan of the requestor. 

We had some issues with the name changes as the first officer issued the certificate with the currently valid names of the parents as saved in their central database. This did not match with the original birth certificate as the names have changed since then. The supervisor corrected this mistake promptly. 

Hats off, once again, to Thailand for being able to issue English certificates of official government documents and generally being quite efficient when it comes to government administrative affairs of its citizens. This is something that is not at all done in many Western European countries. 

1 hour ago, tabarin said:

Just let a visa company / lawyer translate and legalise it, only around 1K baht to get that done. 

sigh

1 hour ago, steveb6 said:

It can be any district office. It is in the computer system so you can go to any district office. It is considered a certified translation

Great thanks. I thought it would be in the computer system and should thus work the same as for the marriage certificate which I can get at any district office for 20 Baht. Thanks for confirming this. 
 

as for “certified translation” that’s fine as it is issued by a Thai authority and in English. This is accepted by my target country. 

1 hour ago, steveb6 said:

It is quite an easy process if either you or your spouse are Thai. Just go to the district office and ask for the English version and pay 10 baht. If neither are Thai than it is a more complicated process. They require that you have your passport certified  at the department of foreign affairs and then after you can request the English version

Thank you for this information. Yes, my wife is Thai. 
Can it be any District Office or only the one where he was born?

7 hours ago, Bangkokhatter said:

You just need it translating, as long as the translation is done by a reputable company that stamps the translation the Embassy will accept it.

Just got my daughters passport done and I had all Thai documents translated by a company in BKK, no problem even though she was born elsewhere. 

Thanks for your reply but that was not my question. I already have a translation that I used for the Schengen Tourist visa application. 
In this case, however, I would need the original document in English, otherwise I must go through a notarized translation process with double legalization and I want to avoid that if I can obtain the English original directly from the Amphoe/District Office. 

We have our son's (born in 2002) original Thai language birth certificate from Mukdahan. 

For administrative reasons, we now need an English version of the same and our respective Embassy said that English versions can be obtained from any Amphoe.

Now, I just want to ask if somebody knows/can confirm that:

1.) I can get an English version when presenting the original Thai one

2.) I can get it in any Amphoe (not necessarily the one where it was issued)

?

Thanks for your feedback!