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2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Download: TM30 Form Notification of aliens staying at a residence

Proof of residence which can be rental agreement with signed copies of owners house book and ID card or if you own your own condo proof of ownership for it.

The funny thing is that in May, when I went to do this at the Jomtien office when moving into a rented condo, I filled in the form with my details as "possessor" on the first page and listed myself on the second page as being the person arriving. No problem with that. Maybe the saucy Immigration lady just liked me. I was a day late in reporting and she said in a most pouty way, "why you wait to come to see me?" No fine for the delay, by the way. She also said there was no need to come to see her again after a trip unless I had a change of address. 

Thanks for the responses, all. It's a relief to know that the income letter date isn't terribly essential (in my case). I'm getting a letter with seal from the juristic person and see how that works out.

Hi, I am due to renew my permission to stay in Jomtien soon(ish). I have questions unresolved by googling around the net,  

1) How recent does the income letter have to be? Some places say six months, some three, and in at least one reference says 30 days. 

2a) Will the current TM30 serve as the evidence of residence?

2b) Will a letter from the juristic person at the condo I rent suffice? It did at last year's renewal, when the sheaf of documents, contract copies and so on were rejected.

2c) Will the fact that they must have a record of the certificates of residence I got last month serve as residence evidence?

2d) If I still had one, would a certificate of residence satisfy the renewal requirement about residence? 

Thanks for reading!

It makes sense for Prayut backers to want to splinter the Democrats. The only possible roadblock to his appointment as an outsider PM is a (highly-unlikely) power-sharing agreement between the Democrats and PTP.

PTP is unlikely on its own to get enough seats to choose one of their own as PM, and a splintered Democrat party is even less likely to do so, which means that a coalition is the only way to prevent PM Prayut from re-occurring. So, the fewer seats the Ds win, the more likely it is that a coalition would fail to have enough seats to choose their own PM, and the Thai people will get to enjoy more years of song-writing, homilies, and watch-ignoring from the continuing head of government.

I'd not be surprised to see further splinter groups formed.

There I was, hoping that this was going to be their theme song (cue protests about cultural appropriation, racism, and sexism):

Even if the loan story is true, the loan a gift of some not insignificant value.

A quick look round the internet shows it is possible to rent watches for a monthly fee. For instance, a  Rolex Submariner Date "50th Anniversary Edition" goes at one site (elevenjames.com) for US$300 a month. The cheapest watch goes for $200 a month. Well above he stated allowed government limit, especially considering the the "loans" lasted much more than a month, supposedly.

3 hours ago, inThailand said:

Never seen any govt office excepting a document for residency from the condo JP Mgr.

 

Earlier this month Jomtien immigration accepted a letter from the JP of the condo where I was staying as residence proof when I went to extend my permission to stay. Two days later, they issued a residence certificate based on only a photocopy of the original JP letter!

I noticed yesterday that their station near Pattaya Klang seemed to be closed. And at least one on-line booking site no longer lists any of the Rayong-Nong Khai or Bung Kan routes as being purchasable. Neither of the two numbers I have for their Pattaya office seem to work, either.

Does this mean that travel to these destinations now must be through Bangkok?

Concrete info gratefully received!

In fact, if you reinvest the monthly gains, 100 baht at 30% per month would give you 2329.81 baht at the end of the year -- more than 2000% gain, not 360%. The power of compound interest!

Several years ago I worked with a friend who did HVAC and domestic aircon/heating. And I have seen how the local techs went about the replacement of a compressor. Just bolt it in and connect the lines, bung in some gas, and it was all over in 30  minutes. Properly speaking, the system should have been evacuated with a vacuum pump before the refrigerant was introduced. In systems he really cared about, he'd run the pump for 24 hours. And yes it made a difference. 

That's just one thing those techs didn't do that they should have done. I mentioned to the rental rep that he could expect problems within two or three years. It was 2.5 years, actually.

A Thai friend suggested this to me: place a hand flat on your head with some hair sticking up between your fingers to show how much you want cut off. Adjust to your preferred length and tell the barber this is how you like it. Has worked every time since then for me. Of course, if your preferred length is less than your finger thickness, the method won't work, but in that case, you're could just mention the number of the shaver head you want for your buzz cut. :)

On 12/17/2016 at 8:49 PM, Oxx said:

Not clear what your friend's objective is here.  Is he/she trying to learn to read Thai, . . .

The goal is learn the Thai alphabet "painlessly", I guess. He does the typing using in-screen keyboards, so the thought of a speaking KB came to mind. In my 'net searches I ran across such things for Thai learners of English meant, I think, for children, but not the reverse.

I did mention thai-language.com to him before, but thai-notes is new to me. And, so far, at least harmless.

Thanks to all!

A friend is beginning to learn Thai and was wondering if there is an Android app or windows program that pronounces the letters as they are typed. He looks up printed material frequently by using a Thai keyboard, so it seems that having an app that would speak the letters would be a fairly painless way for him to learn. He's good a recognizing the shapes, but he doesn't know what to call them.

Anyone know of such a thing?

Thanks!

Google "replace ubuntu with windows on Dell laptpop"  , no quotes. Lots of information there. If you need model-specific info for some reason add that into the search query. 
 

 

An Honest, statement by the PM, Who i think will be glad to walk away from the cesspit, being a blunt abrupt person is his military training and dealings,taking the uniform off and having to suddenly be a statesmen dealing with all manner of the problems that were already taking place, plus the intervention of military rule to quell the violence, and then ( try ) and gover

Time will tell if all his efforts have been for zilch. He has tried to the best of ( his ) capabilities, limited they may be,debatable if the next one does any better,

Well educated military officers with a respect for the concepts of separation of duties and the independence of government institutions do not talk in this fashion. Please look closely at the conduct of the military in the UK, USA, Denmark, Australia, Israel, Netherlands, Germany etc. and you will understand.

Not one Asian country

Malaysia.

Singapore.

The Singaporeans have a word for it: kiasu, (check it out online) and the behavior in the video was common there until charges on leftovers went into effect there. (in the late 80's, I believe) So it's not just the new mailnland tourists who demonstrate tend to act this way.

And those calling racism might to well to look at Bo Yang's book The Ugly Chinaman. In it he decries many of the behaviors mentioned in this thread and also explains their origin.

Showing my lack of aptitude for hotel management, I guess, but questions like these always bother me.

Of 5, 10, 50, and 100,

5 is the only odd number;

10 is the smallest that can be written using exactly two decimal digits;

50 is the one that is closest to the average of the other three; and

100 is the only one that is evenly divisible by the other three.

Of Husband. Wife. Son. Nephew.

Husband takes more letters to write than the others;

Using traditional definitions, Wife is the only female;

Son has fewest letters; and

Nephew is not immediate family.

Of 1, 2 , 3, 5

1 is the only one listed that is not prime,

2 is the only even one listed,

3 is the largest number still written with as many lines as the number represents.

5 is not a proper divisor of any perfect number; the others are.

Lots more reasons that each of the choices is odd one, though playing on words does suggest that 5 is, indeed, uniquely odd. These questions really seem to boil down to "what was the test setter thnking of as the odd one out?"

Asked 2nd year hotel management students odd one out questions in mid term exam.

5. 10. 50. 100.

1 out of 40 got it right.

Husband. Wife. Son. Nephew.


Half the class chose correctly.

So vendor had net loss of 100 baht. . . .

Not exactly. From the article: "the foreign man presented, what appeared to be a 1000 Baht note, and he was given 900 Baht in change."

Interesting: Jeff Koyen did not write "Pattaya is a shxxhole."; he wrote "Pattaya is a hellhole." Are Admin's prejudices perhaps showing?

When I worked in Malaysia I was friends with a Chinese family, one of whose sons was regularly "possessed" by one of the Taoist "gods". In his case, it was an intentional possession, i.e., he could decide when and where to be possessed, which he did on a regular basis. Inhabitants in his shanty-town neighborhood would come to see the god for advice.

A nice little earner for him, I thought. Play the possessed person for a bit, get plus points for face and status, what's not to like about it? Not to mention the gifts his petitioners would offer.

I was invited to witness one of the "visitations". The god in question, his name escapes me at the moment, is the one who is really fond of alcohol. There was a bit of ritual involved as he became possessed, and his voice, posture, and demeanor changed. One of the neighbors, come to consult, offered the "god" a sealed litre bottle of Johnny (the color escapes me (at the time I didn't know JW comes in colors). The "god" drank the bottle dry within ten minutes, and this, combined with lesser offerings of stout and beer, soon had him acting really, really drunk. (I checked the empty bottle afterwards; it wasn't tea that he had been drinking.)

When the consultations ended, there was another bit of ritual to bring him out of the trance, after which he was completely sober! Sat around, talked, watched TV, ate dinner just like the episode had never happened. No evidence that he had so much as sipped a even a beer.

So, in short, I didn't witness the scam I had been expecting to see, and I saw something that I cannot explain, to this day.

Thanks so much for the encouraging information. Seems like things can work out as I have hoped.

Hooray for experts!

I presently hold an multiple-entry non-O visa, issued for purposes of investigating retirement; its use-before date is May 8, 2013. I understand that if I enter Thailand on, say May 5, I will be granted permission to stay of 90 days. My question is whether I should be able to get a multiple-entry endorsement to preserve this permission to stay. (After three hours checking here and on the web in general, the answer is not clear, to me, at least. )

I intend to apply for an extension of stay for purposes of retirement, but, for reasons irrelevant here, I want to do this in June or July, and I need to travel in SEAsia before then. I know that I could get a tourist visa, but that would entail changing to an O here, or getting one in another country, so the idea of preserving the permission to stay seems simplest, if it is even possible.

And thanks to the board for having mentioned the need to check the immigration stamp when entering. I June I was only given the 30-day stamp at Don Muang. I had entered my visa number, but it got ignored. When I mentioned this to the officer he checked and peered and looked very confused. Finally, he asked me if 90 days was the appropriate period. I assured him that it was, corrections were made, and I went happily on my way, having dodged a nasty complication, thanks to TV.

I thought I'd check on some of the "facts" asserted in some of the previous postings and discovered that the reasons for US visa denial related to crimes involves "crimes involving moral turpitude".

Googling shows many sites which explain this. A site for US visa lawyers in the UK says: "Moral turpitude refers generally to conduct which is inherently base, vile, or depraved, and contrary to the accepted rules of morality and the duties owed between persons or to society in general. [Citations omitted] Moral turpitude has been defined as an act which is per se morally reprehensible and intrinsically wrong, or malum in se, so it is the nature of the act itself and not the statutory prohibition of it which renders a crime one of moral turpitude." Elsewhere, one learns that the decision in such cases is within the discretion of the officer evaluating the application. There are no clear-cut lines.

But, even in the case that one is so convicted, it is always possible to apply for a waiver of this requirement; see US immigration forms I-601 and I-192.

In short, there are pleny of ways that a visa could have been issued legally, without any special contrivances, plots, or external influences.

Just sayin' . . .

Amazingly, I think I am beginning to understand, thanks so much. I will contact Mary at the Portland CG as suggested. The complexities of this are, to me, stupefying, but I am beginning to see. Thanks again to all, especially Jim Gant and wayned.