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I guess you're not aware that the Biden administration has been chartering flights to the US from 'somewhere' in South America. Was in Venezuela"? Brazil? Colombia? or maybe it was Central America. Sadly, I don't remember the source, but for sure it is being done. They're not coming in by regular airline tickets. Correction, from AP: "Under a Biden policy in effect since January 2023, up to 30,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela can enter the country monthly if they apply online with a financial sponsor and arrive at a specified airport, paying their own way. Biden exercised his “parole” authority, which, under a 1952 law, allows him to admit people “only on a case-by-case basis for urgent humanitarian reasons or significant public benefit.”

Really...

There is a Visa agent located in the Queen Victoria Inn on Soi 6 in Pattaya. You should contact her. I think her name is Noi. I am confident that she can help you.

Hello Leslie Yew, I encountered a 'similar' situation earlier this year. I was being recruited for a job here and the company was interested in contracting a person already living here, because "they would already have the necessary Visa to work". As I explained to the recruiter I was able to work on my Non-O marriage visa, but that I would have to apply for a work permit and the company would need to support me with the necessary documents. This totally confused them and they eventually hired a Thai person. The GM is a Malaysian who's married to a Thai. I suspect (purely conjecture) that he comes in for a week or two or maybe in months on a Non-O marriage or even a tourist visa (or Visa Exempt. I don't know the requirements for the ASEAN entries) and has never gotten a work permit. In your case, I think you should be using on a Non-B and if you're actually teaching/training, you might need a work permit. I'm no expert, and the IO at the airport obviously wasn't either. I hope you've gotten the advise you need from some of our other members. Good Luck.

Yeah, I agree. I don't know why I kept getting the message that it wasn't posting.

No, I kept getting an error, so I continued to try to make the post. I finally closed the page and then reopened and saw that ALL of my post were saved. Something wrong with my 'interface' with AN. Sorry... I wish I could delete all but the 1st post, but I've never been able to do that.

I read a few of the naysayers. IMO, that's exactly what they need to do. Yes some people will just use it on cigarettes and booze, but there's a lot of debt and many people will use it to pay off some of it. Also, from a westerner's view point it will most likely devalue the baht for a time. Giving people money is inflationary and I would like to see the baht give up some of it's value on the currency exchange.

After the difficulties selling my first vehicle, I resorted to putting the vehicle titles in my wife's name. I regret it. While I was out of the country she sold my SUV and took me off the insurance for her car. We had big arguments about that. She won... She controls the house and the vehicle. She lets me live here. It's so much cheaper for me here and I'm 71. There are none of the great paying jobs I had available for me anymore. You need to maintain some control.

This just magnifies the elites and their self promotion. I wasn't aware that the US Ambassadors get to carry a title of "Excellency". I was sure that only referred to 'kingdoms'.

A similar thing happened to me on Sukhumvit near Soi 22. I wanted to go to Soi 2. I hailed the taxi on the street, but he wanted 200 baht. I told him to p-ss off and walked to the Sky Train. (I'd have preferred the taxi, but it is what it is).

Now why would any country import trouble? It's got nothing to do with race or skin color. Their culture is not your culture and multiculturism is just globalization as manifest by 'the elites'.

Oh, I forgot Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Jimmy Stewart, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Amanda Blake and Audie Murphy

John Wayne, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Hedi Lamarr, Sammy Davis Jr, James Dean, Katherine Ross, Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman.

I grew up in an area of the US with many scorpions. I've lived in Thailand for 27 years come this late August (or at least called it home even though I was working in another country). I've never seem a scorpion in Thailand...

Musk is only a proponent of free speech and that scares lefties who only want to tell 'their truths'. That's especially true of the Muslim faith followers.

Wow, nice to read a touching feel good story. I know there are many good stories, but bad things and controversy make better news for the most.

MSM, web content generators, AN commentors throw around labels like would mud and hope that it will stick. It's a sad commentary on civilized society.

I remember a similar discussion in the 1990's when I still lived in the US. It had much to do with the sediments the Gulf stream was picking up from all the sand that was being blown across the Atlantic from the Sahara and the even the Namib and Karoo deserts. So many models and conjectures... We should just forget about how the humans are able to adjust to changes in the climate and continue living the same way. As an example the Dutch will quit building dikes and levies and not teach anyone else to use them.

Won't happen. He'll appeal the NY conviction and win easily and the other 'show' charges will be dismissed.

Floods. Although that's not going to be supported by the Government like in the USA. Luckily I was still young (555🤣) in 2011 (63) and still working so the 3-4 million baht my wife spent replacing all the kitchen cabinets (inside and outside kitchen), fridge and stove, electrical appliances, wall paper in 4 room, removing all the rugs from the stairs and upstairs rooms (the mold from the flooded rooms floated upstairs and covered the exposed rugs), cleaning the floors upstairs and downstairs didn't knock us into poverty, but I've often worried every monsoon/typhon season what we'd do if we faced this again. (Luckily she move 90% of the downstairs furniture to a friend's new empty townhouse and saved some very expensive items). BTW, we still don't have insurance. I've never seen adverts for it (in English) and hope we've got 85 more years before the next 100 yrs storms & floods.

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The shops are in the baggage claim area after immigration. (but I'm sure someone else has already told you this)

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