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1 hour ago, Grauwulf said:

Well if you can’t adapt to Thai rules and the way of life and the procedure for legal paperwork off you go to Cambodia....kindly shut the door on the way out...

Unfortunately for you, you are not in position to decide anything for me, so I do what I want, and I could even pay and elite visa because 500k is kind of free for me. So as you can see, the one who will first shut he door behind him is you, not me...

1 hour ago, MaeJoMTB said:

It doesn't cover preventative medicine, so no free check ups. But it does cover illness and accident.

Payment is around 500bht/month (cheaper if you start young, more if you start old) but once in you can keep up the payments for live no matter what your employment status.

 

It isn't government hospital, or private hospital but an intermediate level of hospital, you get to choose from a list.

Some government and private hospitals participate, your choice from the list.

But anybody can use it ? Even someone who never worked in Thailand ?

On 6/2/2017 at 9:37 AM, TerryLH said:

"Yes it is very helpful since it will be used in transacting business and personal matters."

 

What kind of business or personal matters?  Thanks.

 

After you've been in the system for a year, if you become ineligible for soc security through work you can pay 432 baht a month on your own and keep the health benefits.

They cover pre-existing health issues.

There is a retirement plan within soc sec.

 

 

Is it the same price for a Thai who does not work ? How much to pay monthly ?

Thank you.

49 minutes ago, BritTim said:

He is doing the following:

• Once every 12-15 months, he is applying for a multiple entry Non O visa at a consulate outside Thailand (perhaps, Savannakhet).
• Every 90 days, he is doing a border hop to get a new 90-day permission to stay

This approach means that he never needs to visit an immigration office to request an extension.

And before that I was 15 years on a tourist visa !

Love the rules here ! they are so easy to fuxx ! Only people who follow them get troubles !

5 hours ago, Tanoshi said:

Your Visa is for 'visiting' Thai wife, not for 'staying' in Thailand, so you could be accused of circumventing the system, by not using your Visa for the purpose it was issued.

 

If your Immigration office enforces the requirement to submit a new TM30 after re-entering the Country, then you should be complying every 3 months. You should check with their requirements. You are also 'reporting' to Immigration every 3 months whether you like it or not.

 

One of the differences having an extension of 'stay' based on marriage (not to 'visit' as per a Non Imm O ME) is that my 90 day reports can be filed by post, online or by another person. Should I not comply, at worst I receive a 2,000 baht fine for 'late' filing.

In your situation, if you were sick, or somehow otherwise unable to make your 90 day trip, you are on 'overstay' having no other means, or persons to make the trip on your behalf/

 

I comply with what I want and certainly not with stupid rules. Yes, I have something between my legs that many foreigners seem to miss in this country. And yes, I also don't care to have to leave the country if the rats are becoming too noisy.

Hello,

Does the government offers a good health check for Thai ? Something cheap or free for unemployed Thai ?

Do you have link of checks list or first hand experience ?

If you just know that government does not offer anything good and that it's better to pay somewhere, please also tell me.

Thank you.

5 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

What kind of problems?

I am on my 10th extension of stay based upon marriage and have had no problems.

Yes and you perfectly read all the posts from the people who had to spend a full day at least at immigration for something that should be done in 10 mns.

I also do not like that any uniform visits me or even speaks to me when I have not decided.

Life is so much easier by just leaving the country for a short trip 4 times a years. I never and will never report anything, better live in Cambodia.

11 hours ago, jojothai said:

Good for you.

If its been 20 years without any contact, by all means enjoy the 10 year ban when they find you.

Find what ? My visa is perfectly legit, but going out of the country every 3 months I do not have to report anything anywhere. Enjoy you paroled prisoner life !

1 hour ago, Peter Aherne said:

Hmm, I will have to extend it next year, immigration for me I guess will be Chang Wattana as I'm living on the west side of BKK. So 90 day reporting and address reporting within 48 hours are different things right?

Why extending when it's so easy to make a new visa next year ? Extending means looking for problems.

Really? Doing this to avoid leaving the country for few days vacation every 3 months ? You deserve it !

Never reported anything within 20 years and still fine !

Any contact with these people can cause problems, just avoid them like plague !

Maybe you can find an insurance company using LINE or any online messenger, even Facebook ?

Another option would be that YOU tell the teacher exactly what and how you want to learn. Are you a man ? How funny it is that you just follow her stupidity ?

Ask Sunbelt Asia.

11 hours ago, BAYBOY said:

i have used several Thai public hospitals over the last 10 years...apart from the waiting time(perhaps on 10% of my time) I have only praise how well they are run.

Remember Thais are "morning people" so they get to the hospital well before opening time. Try going mid afternoon and the place is empty of patients.

our Amphur has approx 20,000 adults and 1 public hospital. The only private clinics available are closed during the day as those doctors are working in the Public hospitals. Every Tuesday morning is the Diabetic clinic and the place is humming, again mid afternoon it is empty. 

Last week I had my medical for extending my work permit...blood test ,urine test, chest xray, and a brief talk with the doctor. Went at 3pm, in out 30 minutes cost 500 baht.....wonderful.

 

Cheers BAYBOY?

It's far to be always true !

Sometimes the queue is so long that if you do not show in the morning they won't give you any queue ticket !

15 hours ago, TunnelRat69 said:

True story  -  my farang neighbor had a motorcycle accident, drove into a huge hole in the middle of the street at night - Ambulance came and took him to a Hospital in Chon Buri, his accident was in Jomtien - they kept him for 2 nights and 3 days - he felt fine, so asked when he could go home, they said five more days , he called his GF and told her to call the hospital and tell them his insurance had expired and he had no money - they released him that day .... his story not mine.  When she asked why they took him to the Chon Buri hospital, the company said "thats our hospital, we take all farang there" 

When it's not a life emergency (or even...) ambulances bring you to the hospital that pay them the most, of course private. So anybody with a brain who is not in coma must tell that he wants to go to a public hospital.

So useless for Thai to go to hospital so often, and they actually mostly die because of the food that they eat !

Koh chang has no nice beach on the east coast, and it is not even cheaper.

7 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said:

South Pattaya Rd. directly opposite Friendship.

Is it DTG printing ? Thank you.

4 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Note I said "presumably" in front of my comment above.

 

I do know that's certainly the case with Sealy Posturepedic, as that (local manufacturing) was confirmed to us when we made the recent mattress purchase I mentioned above.

 

More broadly, needless to say, mattresses are big and tend to be heavy, so the cost of sending them long distances from country to country isn't going to be cheap.  There may be some actually "imported" mattresses available here, presumably at very high prices. But I'd wager that vast majority, regardless of the brand name they're being sold under, are being manufactured right here in good ole' LOS.

 

Also correct. Nice to meet someone who understands this world. Doesn't happen often.

1 hour ago, johng said:

 

I looked at IKEA website too all very good and went to pay.......errrm can't pay online you have to physically go to the shop ...they will deliver for an extra cost....someone please tell me that's not true anymore and they now take credit and debit cards online ?

 

Or you can use Bangkok personal shopper service.

Any help ?

19 hours ago, whoareyou said:

I looked at Ikea but all their mattress can be carried or deliverd as they are rolled up! I struggled understanding how a mattress of any quality can be rolled up.

Do you know anything called internet ? Then you could understand that buying a standard mattress is what people were doing last century, but now many startup around the world sell rolled mattress that are as good or even better than what most people think is good.

20 hours ago, balo said:

If you live in Bangkok , why don't you buy one at IKEA?   You'll get a very comfortable matress from 10000 baht. Half price compared with others if you compare the quality . 

 

You can get a pocket sprung mattress from 7990 . 

http://www.ikea.com/th/en/catalog/categories/departments/bedroom/24828/

And it's already expensive for what it is.

On 3/29/2017 at 4:59 PM, whoareyou said:

Doubt it

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