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On 1/20/2020 at 8:31 AM, ubonjoe said:

It will not be easy for her to stay long term. About the only option is tourist visas and she may soon get to the point that she will have problems getting them and entering the country.

If possible starting out with a multiple entry tourist visa (METV) would be good. It would allow at total stay of almost 9 months by using the visa just before it expires to get a new 60 day entry and then extend it.

See page 14 here. https://www.thaiembassymnl.ph/images/ThaiVisaRequirementsAndProcedure.pdf

Another option is to enroll in a school to get a non-ed visa and then extensions of stay at immigration.

Or if you are willing to spend the money for a Thai Elite membership to get her a 5 year PE multiple entry visa. 

Thank you ubonjoe. I think it is easier for me to move to the Philippines. I like Thailand a lot but I need her with me so one more USA expat and my 800 k baht in the bank in Thailand will depart. Too bad but I understand the issues. Spent a lot of time learning Thai language but it helped me mentally. Not upset just more difficult to live in Thailand than prior years. Appreciate all your advice and help. ???? no regrets except I wish I could live peacefully in Thailand but I don’t want to buy her an elite visa. 

Hello 

I have a one year extension is stay. I want to bring a Filipina woman under age 50 to Bangkok to live with me. I do not want her to work in Thailand.  
 

If you have Thailand  visa experience for a Filipina woman please give me some advice on what is needed and options. We are not married. 
 

I can google this issue but I am hoping for advice, guidance and help from someone who actually has done this process before. 
 

thank you 

3 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

Hi, obviously option (c) is the preferred route to go for you.  Note: When you are using the 800K money in bank method to prove your financials when applying for an extension of stay, switching to reason of marriage when your extension is due, will have the advantage of halving that requirement, and freeing 400K THB.  Such a Bonus might convince your wife to register your marriage also in Thailand.

Option (b) is definitely out > it would be madness to dump your present generous health-insurance policy, for the expensive and basically worthless bogus thai-approved health-insurance scam.

When you consider option (a), just PM me and I will send you a comprehensive roadmap to embark on the surprisingly easy and not expensive OA > O transition.

Thanks for your posts. One question. When I end my O-A extension of stay and return to Thailand with 30 day USA visa exempt and then change at CW to Non-O visa extension of stay. —- can I use the 800 k I already have in my Bangkok Bank account for the Non O extension of stay? Or do I I have to transfer another 800 k to Bangkok Bank to show the funds came from abroad. My current 800 K was not from an overseas transfer but cash dollars brought to Thailand and converted to baht.  Thank you ???? 

3 hours ago, mittheimp said:

Very odd. Probably the worse insult you can give.. and then doubled down on it in several ways.. given by someone with a global reach of millions. If that is not defamation then i dont know what is.

Not worth 190 million dollars. Or anywhere close to that. I bet the jury was not impressed with either of these “grown men” but we all screw up. Most of us don’t sue each other for 190 million dollars just because one of us is rich. Both overreacted IMO and wasted a lot of time and money on lawyers. Happy the jury told the grown men to walk away from this pissin$ matc$

2 hours ago, MarineEquine said:

One law for the rich and another for the poor. 

Suing for a 190 million dollar for being called a pedo is ridiculous. Vern saw dollar signs and thankfully the jury saw it what it was. Musk was wrong and should apologize and maybe buy Vern a case of beer. But suing for 190 million dollars of damages is bs greed. 

On 9/26/2019 at 2:17 PM, Swen said:

Just used Transferwise to transfer euro to baht. It took less than 10 seconds to get it into my Kasikorn bank. On top of that, a lot better rate than official bank rates.

Easy to use app.

Yes but you do pay a .08 transfer fee or almost 1 percent. So if you transfer 1000 USA dollars on transferwise then transferwise actually transfers 992 of your 1000 dollars into thai baht and keeps 8 USA dollars. For some transferwise makes sense. Much better than western union who is the worst option. 
 

For those of us that do it free with a Charles Schwab atm card and/or bring cash into Thailand and/or use a Capital One credit card that pays us 1.5 percent to make credit card charges ——transferwise is not cheap for us. 
 

For USA Americans Charles Schwab atm card and capital one credit cards are the best way to get baht for dollar. Or bring cash over in an airplane if you are visiting USA or Cambodia. 

On 12/3/2019 at 6:09 PM, ripstanley said:

They must have not checked the Pharmacies at Private Hospitals.

Even the most expensive hospitals in Bangkok are cheap for medicine and health care compared to USA. A bargain 

On 12/1/2019 at 9:38 AM, BertM said:

If the money was reported and came from your TD Ameritrade account, then I don't understand why you would want to bring $27,000 in cash when you can simply make an international wire xfer for less that $50 USD after your Thai bank account/s are open. I don't pay any wire xfer fees with Chase bank. I send USD to my Citibank Thailand USD account and then convert to THB at my convenience. So, I don't understand your reasoning, but you must have one for risking bringing that much cash when it's not necessary.

It is not just the 50 dollar fee it is also the exchange rate. Do the math and OP is correct he would lose almost 500 USA dollars on the fee and poor exchange rate. Guys do this every day from USA to Thailand and other places and fill out the forms and no problems. Glad someone answered the non O issue as I may do a non O in the future also. Money launderers don’t laundry 25 to 50 k as that is not  a significant amount of  money for someone doing illegal activities.  

12 hours ago, ezzra said:

I always wondered, while often standing in those long, long queues, why have they ever erected many more immigration counters than the number of officers manning them? i have been coming and going to this country for 30 year, and never ever saw all the counters manned no matter how long the wait was...

Unfortunately true at a lot of large airports all over the world. Worst airport by a large margin is Heathrow.  Best airport is Singapore. But seems like bureaucrats at airports all over the world (except a limited few)  do not work. It must be a horrible job to do every day.  

A friend of mine went to the immigration at the moon and was told that when expats leave Thailand they will never be allowed back into Thailand. Cheers. OP is trying to stir up the pot of Anxiety. ????

Troll 

22 hours ago, MeePeeMai said:

 

Why not?  Silly attitude?   30K, is far less than leaving the country and going through the process?

 

I don't know your spending habits (maybe you only stay in 5 star resorts, fly business class and hire private limos) but some of us don't fancy flushing money down the toilet like that.  One can take a short vacation to a nearby embassy or consulate, see a nearby country that we have not yet been and get a Non-O for far less than 30k (flying, not riding in a death van with a meth crazed driver).

 

Good reputation or not, some of us don't use agents and never will... especially at that price!!

 

 

 

 

Silly attitude is being unfair. 
 

You do have to transfer 800 k baht to a Thai bank from overseas for a Non-O extension of stay and the transfer out of pocket costs will exceed 250 USA  dollars and up depending on how you transfer the money and the exchange rate you receive. The travel costs to an Asia country for a couple of days can be cheap. So the 30,000 baht or 1000 USA dollars for an agent could be more expensive than getting a Non-O in Asia and a extension of stay if you get a bad exchange rate or pay high fees to transfer the 800 k to a Thai bank. Plus the hassle of traveling if you don’t like airplanes and cheap hotels. 
 

???? ???? ???? 

What do you expect this girl to do when she has no money and has to send cash home?  Work in a factory for 300 baht a day and get sexual abuse from her bosses. Dude this girl is from a different culture and has no advantages that 20 year old women have in other western countries. That does not make her a bad girl. Wake up and enjoy the sex. If you care about her then take care of her or at least talk to her about it. But if I was her dad I would say you are not worth it as you have way too much to learn and your guilt “western traditional relationship” foundation needs too much work. I hope she does not care about you as you are not right or good for this girl. She is looking for a way out and you are looking to date a young pretty Thai girl that will work in a factory and hope and wait for you and not be influenced by her family, friends, culture and money. Good luck to you young  man and I hope this girl finds a good guy to take her out of the bar business if she really hates working at a bar and they understand each other and their different worlds. You are not that person. 

On 11/28/2019 at 10:32 PM, Max69xl said:

Why not try TransferWise? Cheap,easy to use and reliable. 

 

https://transferwise.com/

 

I know people claim Transferwise is cheap but it is only cheap compared to western union and others.
 Transferwise charges you  almost one percent in fees To transfer your money. For 1000 USA dollars transferwise charges a fee of 8 USA dollars or 80 percent of one percent.  They charge 80 dollars per 10,000 USA dollars.  If that sounds cheap to you then we simply disagree.  To get 8 dollars for every 1000 dollars to transfer other people’s money and have them say It is cheap Is a great profit making business. 
 

Why not get a Charles Schwab atm card and take out 25,000 baht a day in the Bangkok atm for free. And get a capital one credit card and get 1.5 percent cash back on all the credit card charges in Thailand with no annual fee. And bring cash back with you if you travel to the USA or Cambodia and exchange it at SuperRich Green (not SuperRich Orange) or Vasu? 

13 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—

     Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
     Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Wow man either you are trying to be funny using a very serious subject of history or you should get out of Thailand now. Hope this was simply a drunken brain freeze comment by you. ????

On 11/20/2019 at 8:28 AM, Ventenio said:

they made it clear they don't care about you and will play whatever games they want.   they have all the power, but one.... you can leave.  

Don’t take everything personal. If we do then no one will travel anywhere. Thailand immigration is not a lot different than other countries immigration in 2019. No one is out to get you or discriminate against you personally. 
 

  OP is in Thailand so I agree with his wife we should forget about it and have a pleasant day. 

29 minutes ago, BenBen23 said:

 

11 hours ago, Sticky Wicket said:

A contingent of immigration?? What the <deleted>!!

Treated like a criminal over 26 days.

Disgraceful stuff

And I am sure the feel the  same way about the man from Nigeria that is in your home country. ????????

4 hours ago, LivinLOS said:

yes.. you are confused.. 

 

It is for obtaining the visa.. It is for extending the visa. 

 

The only part which is currently confused is that despite the orders clearly stating people should be only admitted to the kingdom up to the end date of the policy of insurance, airport IOs are apparently giving the full year entry. 

Has anyone on this forum been required to show health insurance at CW for an extension of stay when they initially entered Thailand on an old O-A expired visa?  Speak up if you have as hundreds have been to CW since November 1. 

On 11/15/2019 at 11:52 PM, Matzzon said:

Oh dear, for crying out load! It´s an Embassy that represents UK in a foreign country. They are not there to create a better life for UK citizens that wish to settle down in Thailand.

They are there for exactly the main reasons the man is kindly expressing, as well as creating, develop and maintain the diplomatic relationship between UK and Thailand.

It´s horrendous! First you all complain about Thai Immigration and they are so bad. When that doesn´t work. Yeah, then you are looking down at your own Embassy that represents your own country in Thailand.

Whenever will you people come to the conclusion that you might be wrong instead of Thai Immigration, your Embassy and everything else you can look down on and shuffle the blame to?

I agree it is called saving money for retirement.  Leave your parents after your education and youth, Get a job, save some money so one day you don’t have to work. Spend less than you make when you work. Don’t rely on governments or others to take care of you.  If you don’t have enough money in retirement then accept you screwed up and if possible get a job.
 

Thailand is not your home birth country and never will be unless you make the effort to become a Thai permanent resident or citizen. I don’t care how many Thai wives and Thai kids you chose to have and pay for you are still and always will be an immigrant temporarily staying in a foreign country. The Thai government has told you that every year you get an extension of stay. No one lied or deceived you and no one is to blame for where you are right now and where you will wake up tomorrow.  
 

Apologize to the men and women on this forum who do not need this information as they have a nice retirement. 
 

 But clearly a lot of posters think they are victims and are entitled to special treatment because they are barely surviving financially in a foreign country and others are to blame for their life choices. 

6 hours ago, Emdog said:

Prudent strategy is to not have oral sex with mosquito, just to be on the safe side...

LMAO ????????????????????