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I don't know abut registering but I have always done my TM.30 at CM immigration. I do have to take the blue book owners copies, with copy of wife's ID etc but no problem as I used to have to be at immigration anyway.

Yeah knowledge of the LTR still has not filtered to the Thai government other than the BOI and a few of the immigration folks but even they unless they are senior (in my visit anyway when tralveling) still haven't gotten the word. Once they do begin to pass it on it does make them seem to pass us along saying that if I have any problems then just come to the immigration office and they will take care of it whatever that means but that is what they told me.

well, I feel I am doing my share as since my daughter went to an international school plus now in local university, buying a couple of cars, motorcycle, house, etc I spend over 200K a month. If drastic changes to the tax laws already on the books were to ever affect me, then my share of spending US dollars here would drop big time if not totally.

I agree, if these are really official, then they won't be in effect until they are published in the Royal Gazette and then i would assume we would see more newspapers printing it. Until then, we wait until the "new" government begins to deal with another shortcoming in revenue collected versus spending next year for possible changes.

the cost over a 10-year period is actually less if leaving and returning each year due to return permit and no income tax worry as foreign funds are exempt too. just saying if one does meet the requirements.

or do an LTR if you meet the requirements - 50K for ten years, no 90-day reports, in and out of country without getting having any problem returning..only need to provide local address once a year and no sitting deposits in bank.

Well I am always amazed as how "easy" our government is when making decisions like this because I have seen how the other country forbid our building even anywhere near a possible hint of revealing any intelligence from that foreign country. The US allows these other countries to always get great turf near our sensitive agencies yet makes us stay no where near theirs!

Amen to this, I have spoken Thai for many years and often struggle to listen totally when someone tries to tell me something when I can easily know how they are droning on trying to get to the end of their spiel so to speak. But, it is their language here and we should accept that is how they are taught and it won't change for us no matter how long we live here. Sometime when I do speak with them, when I would normally go with them and draw something out, i just go ahead and cut to the chase so to speak and then look at me like why was it so quick?

Actually the instructions say one can do it prior to the last three days prior to entry but that it might get lost in the shuffle so the 3days prior is best!. It is just too easy to do and then print out that one sent in to immigration and retain a copy if asked upon entrance into Thailand. On an LTR and they were interested in insuring the P/P number matched and address where I would be staying and with the previous TM>30 in my P/P matching all went smoothly and quickly too.

Well hard too not believe that the president owes Putin for some reason IMHO anyway as we see Moscow seems ahead of Trump every time.

totally agree that if you are just getting another or a 1-year extension then at CM it is fairly simple and no agent needed.

my wife had a restaurant when I first met her, was the cook too and said although she had older sisters, they hated cooking so from a young age her mother taught her about mixing herbs to make food tasty as they were a poor family. Her meals are always exceptional in my opinion and I have been eating them for over 20 years. She still comes up with different dishes but always, they are very tasty and usually healthy too. Her restaurant was failing because she only bought good quality foods daily from the markets and the restaurant catered to a college of rich kids who were going home on weekends so she just couldn't make a go of it and after I showed her the bottom line, she closed that restaurant and the regular students kept after her to stay open as her meals were really good quality.

agree but the Republicans have tried but have not had any success in coming up with something to replace it, while letting medical and big pharma costs to zoom.

Those responsible for allowing children to be placed with sex traffickers or smugglers should be arrested, put on trial and in prison IMHO!

fill out the location on the TDAC form

after twice taking that oath to the upholding of the US Constitutional rights

yup. a country developed after stealing it from the Indian tribes. But then developed its own constitution, got rid of KINGS and had an elected leadership of the government. Very successful after a while and have always had one of the widest allowed immigration as it was seen as needed. But then for some reason and not only to the USA but from sh^%hole countries they began pouring into the western countries. I am for some immigration but we need to maintain our laws too. Illegal immigrants are criminals and our government should change the laws to indicate to those illegals that they can never become citizens unless they leave and become legal immigrants IMHO. As long as we allow unlimited numbers to pour into the country without adequate immigration judges, we will never catch all the bad guys. We should not allow illegals to send children to US schools nor let them become citizens either. Maybe birther rights should be looked at too from some stories of the past few years.

fairly obvious if you have been around at all since CLINTONs were regulars at his island! and am sure more Dems too as well as plenty of Republicans are now also concerned with the possible release of the files. Rich guys playground and weren't thinking that someday ...

Yeah and last week or so he signed an agreement with Hungary to prevent them from going broke too. A-hole for Amcits but any foreign leader that he might get to "praise" him or nominate him for a Nobel Peace prize can get a signed check. imho anyway

well a lot different than it was in the 70's. I was here with my family, didn't see any xmas decorations, nor hear xmas music. I do think that the Central Dept store on LangSuan had a xmas scene but that was the only Xmas thing I can recall. We bought a scrawny pine tree for our daughter to decorate.

Not at all like that here in Sankamphaeng. Cooler a tad, sunny almost every day all day. pollution less than BKK for sure.

I watched a recent video on Youtube and then googled it to see if the data was also included in other searches , not for "smart water" but for fake ripoffs and this time was Extra Virgin Olive Oil. From everything I have recently read, 70% of the EVOO sold today in the stores is not actually Extra Virgin Olive Oil at all. 15 Brands were mentions as failing the laboratory tests for true EVOO, 2 of which I have purchased at RImPing and Topps. One of these previously sold s pure olive oil from Italy has been bought out by a Chinese company and what was previously tested as good quality EVOO but now fails all the lab tests. I won't mention and brand names here but one can search on Youtube for the 15 fake EVOO or google the same and included is a way to tell if it is in fact ceritified (by a lable on the bottle, not a clear bottle. Australian, Spanish and some California EVOO are named as good quality. The testers advised one not to buy blended olive oils. Their bottom line fits the above also - "you get what you pay for" and usually quality EVOO are seldom sold on sale cheaper than the other oils.

I took a trip to Seoul last week, at the CM airport, the first IO didn't understand what an LTR visa was so he sent me to the senior most IO there. He and another senior IO checked my PP and then the only thing they ever asked was why I had not left Thailand for so many years. I answered that my family is Thai so they then stamped my P/P out and on I went to Korea. I also had all the necessary extensions for many years and TM.30 was uptodate as I do whatever is necessary to satisfy the immigration folks. Thanks to the LTR that is now pretty easy to do.

at the same time, I also am read the Europen expat forums and they too are getting more and more problems with staying away from their home countries; as well too I get a regular email from Digital Nomad and they too mention that the doors are closing to many of those previous nations begging for retirees. Japan is inundated with tourists so is considering a 3000yen exit fee . Some European countries also tired of tourists. World is changing just about everywhere it seems IMHO.

well he sure "waved that magic wand" from the beginning of this term IMHO and thus it has driven the costs of everything necessary in a citizen 's life to survive.