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5 hours ago, dbrenn said:

She should report the official to higher ups. Thais cannot be refused entry to Thailand. 

She wasn't refused entry, she had an alternative and she entered the only legal way she could have!  Immigration can refuse if a Thai tries to enter using a passport that hasn't left the country.

5 hours ago, dbrenn said:

She should report the official to higher ups. Thais cannot be refused entry to Thailand. 

She wasn't refused entry 'because she was using a Thai passport', she was refused entry on a Thai passport that showed that she had not left the country, she had her UK passport that she was not refused entry with.

On 11/03/2017 at 11:00 PM, elviajero said:

Yes it is.

Thanks.

Is the current monthly income requirement 65,000 baht when not taking into consideration lump sum deposits?

17 hours ago, Flanno said:

Interestingly there were 46 pages of comments on another thread here re POTY yet there were only 160 eligible votes registered. Somehow I think not  many of us take this 'popularity' contest too seriously.

That was 160 votes for just 2 nominees, there were more.

On 23/12/2016 at 2:05 PM, dbrenn said:

 

You're back, and so soon?

 

I think that the last thing that the OP wanted was holier-than-thou lectures on how selfish he's been from perfect people like your good self. He came here to look at his limited options.

 

And I'm sure he also wanted to avoid advice that gave him the perfect  opportunity to get arrested and deported.  One of the options I suggested, and the only one to make real sense, was to remain closed down until he could work legally. 

By the way, isn't discussing illegal activities, such as you are suggesting, a transgression of forum rules.   Maybe the rules have been changed to accommodate this thread, who knows?

On 23/12/2016 at 2:01 PM, tomacht8 said:

Obviously, the OP has problems to "legalize" his Business.
Try again to read the OP.

No need for me to do that, I was expressing an opinion on what he should have done based on your misguided sympathy for an illegal worker.

On 23/12/2016 at 1:06 PM, dbrenn said:

. Like I said, he has no options other than to negotiate a solution - doing it the Thai way, that is.

He has another option, the second option is to stay closed.

2 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

So why hang around this thread, if you've got better things to do than read its posts?  Of course he could stop working, but as others here have said, where might that leave him and his family financially? Maybe he has to work to support them.

 

Anyway, I hope you have a very good job, one that provides you and your loved ones with sufficient funds for your Christmas turkey.

 

I said that I had better things to do than to re-read your bad advice posts, don't you read English too well?  A lot of the other posts make sense and contain good advice that steers the OP away from bribing IOs.

As others have also said, if he has responsibilities to a family then he should not have been so selfish as to put them at risk by working in an illegal business for the past 16 years with no back up.

Thanks for your good wishes, though I suspect that they may be tinged with a little sarcasm.

13 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

I'll second that - not many of the people who rail against wrongdoers are perfect themselves. I've met lots of them too.

 

A long time ago, in the early 90's, I too ran a small language school for a while. It was amazing how much I was allowed to do, simply by being nice and respectful to people.

 

Ah, that explains everything, you seem to be suggesting that you were an illegal foreign worker also and you reckon that because you got away with it you should advise the OP to try too.  Bad advice.

4 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

Read my posts again, please. At no point did I say that he should admit any wrongdoing. All I'm saying is that his wife should engage with the informer (the wife of the immigration officer), offering a nice New Year gift (expensive whisky always works) to the nice folks at immigration - for all the hard and excellent work that they do. See where the conversation goes from there.

 

Delaying might prove fatal too. They are casing him out and the longer the OP leaves this, the more likely other government departments will be involved in the investigation. Right now, it's only immigration he has to deal with ....

Sorry, I've got better things to do than re-read your dodgy advice posts. 

If offering a bribe to Immigration, in whatever form, what else would he be doing but admitting wrongdoing, particularly as Immigration obviously knows now that he's committing a number of offences if he continues?  

But you're wrong, again; at the moment he has closed the business and stopped working and as long as he doesn't start again and get caught, he hasn't even got Immigration to deal with.  He won't get arrested for not operating a business and not working which is what he's apparently chosen to do for the time being.

3 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

Of course I'd advise him to open a school, jump through the hoops and all that, but he has already indicated that this is not possible. Like I said, he has no options other than to negotiate a solution - doing it the Thai way, that is.

He should thank his lucky stars that you're not his lawyer with your continued short-sighted, bad advice.   Like you didn't say, he should stop what he's doing (as he's done already temporarily) before he's arrested.

Just now, dbrenn said:

You don't seem to get it. He has immigration casing out his illegal operation, so it's safe to say they'll make a move soon in closing him down and kicking him out - that's the part where he loses the work, wife and kids.

 

By offering an olive branch now - just a New Year present with no admission of wrongdoing - playing his cards smartly to get them onside, he has more chance of being allowed to continue on.

No, it's you that doesn't get it. 

He's closed down for the holiday already so he's no longer working, if the place is raided he won't be there and won't be working illegally.  To go to Immigration and admit he's running an illegal business, violating his visa conditions and attempt to bribe them would be absolute madness.  That is where he could lose everything.

16 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

 

That's what I think. The OP's only chance is to offer some nice gifts or negotiate a cut of the action. If they like him personally, and if the community likes him and values his services, then he might be allowed to continue on. Small places in the provinces are more likely to turn a blind eye.

 

I don't see that he has any other options. 

Talk about myopic, bad advice!

3 minutes ago, dbrenn said:

Nonsense. What has he to lose?

His freedom.  His wife.  His home.  His life as it has been for the last 16 years here in Thailand.  Need more?

Chronic offenders such as the OP do nothing but feather their own nest and make life more difficult for the rest of us who do not operate illegally.   

The answer to his self-imposed problem is to stop working illegally, simple.  To consider taking daft advice from posters here suggesting that he compounds the issue by offering thinly disguised bribes to Immigration to join his business or ask them "what he needs to do" is madness.

1 minute ago, geronimo said:

Anyone with more than 5 dots

So the number of dots is an indication of the degree of dislike that member has?  I don't think so.

2 minutes ago, Ron19 said:

Got any brown envelopes ?

Don't reckon I'd need any, who else could beat me?  Unless you're admitting, heaven forbid, that your polls are rigged?

Just now, geronimo said:

Too many dots!

Dots?

Any chance of The Most Intensely Disliked And Despised Poster Of The Year poll?   I'd like to win a title too and I'm pretty sure I'd win.

36 minutes ago, gdgbb said:

Spell check wasn't working.

 gdgbb certainly did not say that and I have never used those juvenile emoticons.  Someone is posting under my name, can Admin explain that please as presumably you are the only ones who can post false quotes and attribute them to whom you choose?

I wonder how many other posts have been made under poster's names without their involvement or their knowledge?

On 14/12/2016 at 8:04 PM, geronimo said:

Membership of TV is something that can be approved, but never given up. The only way out is to get banned I'm afraid!

Even the banned ones are included in membership figures, there is no way out!

22 hours ago, Asiantravel said:

 

" It's not common as you seem to be suggesting "

 

Thailand’s fake police

http://www.thebigchilli.com/features/thailands-fake-police

 

So you have no links to examples of all the fake police incidents that you suggested were common.  

The Big Chilli article didn't refer to any so I don't know why you included it.   Police paraphernalia being available isn't an example of a fake police incident.