French mate

Im surprise to read your story. I mean i changed my pasport like 6 years ago already and i have never care to gp at the bank or anywhere but the imigration for update its information. With both of my bank (k-bank and SCB) i never got a problem and i did some operation at their office on ocasion with my actual passport. Only in SCB they asked me about it once and i just anwsered the old one expired. Their updated the information in their computer while doing the operation i come for, no extra delay or question. In the same idea i registred with my old passport my phone number more than 10 years ago (the idea at the time was for be able to keep that number if i forget to keep it valid while away as its prepaid), never updated, never got asked anything about. I was somehow expecting i may have to register again when they started talk about phone number linked to people name for bank app, but the issue havent come, so i believe my old registration its still in good standing.

Its mostly a matter of reciprocial arrengement. As french i can go without visa in Mexico 180 days Colombia 90 days Argentina 90 days Kosovo 90 days Albania 90 days Venezuela 90 days Thailand ? 60 days actualy, was 30 not long ago and could be 30 again tomorow. If someone is to blame there, its the Thai gouvernement who have no clue of what is a reciprocal agreement and cultivate the anytime ramdom turn around policy.

I dont know the situation, but does she have a Thai mother that could acompagny her? They probably want to see one Thai parent.

I think its a good idea. Of course in case (of miracle) its would become a law no one "important" would be sentenced to death. Also its would be surely used to con and make shut-up the most dangerous opposant. That say the simple idea that a capital punishment exist, its will certainly make think twice a fair number of officials, specialy the one who arent well connected engough and will be prime target for a show of virtue.

If the cable they remove are old copper cable, then its explain why they do it. Copper price are high and those cable have a market value. In France case of people stealing copper cable from public network have become comon outside of ours city (where the cable are all underground and not easy to stole)

If they start make game with the same imagination that some of their TV advertising i think Thai folk can really bring some originality and new ideas to the global game industry. But if they code their game like government website and app are.... well too bad 💀

Its look fine, but maybe the application dont show to the driver what he will really get. But since i have learn that its common with food delivery for cash to make the drivers pay if the customer not honor is command... i would not even be surprised to learn that the company promotion is passed down at the expense of the driver.

I think its because of an update they did when you was out. I got the same issue and its was because i needed to complete some new fields in the house owner information (i not remember what its was, but that was stupid as add Mr or Miss in front of the name) Check also the approved adress, but from my deficient memory its was field of the owner who was creating my trouble. Edit : ho well got beat at it. Finaly my memory wasnt so bad 🙂

That can happen, i have no doubt about it. Now if your acqaintance did have an usufruct, and was not willing to lets that offence go he did have option to sue she and reclain the home. Its can be a long and costly process but at the end he will get the home back and she will be asked to pay compensation money. Also during this time when she will start understand the trouble awaiting her, i doubt his ex somchai will sleep well every night. For the happen quite often, i think you misstake with the case where a farang buy a home for his lady out of love without making any prior legal arrangement. That a very classical story you often heard and im sure its have and will keep happen on a regular basis. But the same "happing often" with people having an usufruct his very unlikely. The first reason being its uncomon to have an usufrut, even among Thai its uncomon to the point most gouvermenent officer have no clue of what is it. When i did it in Sri Racha, i got told i was the first farang ever doing that at their office. That also why they was relutent to do it, they wasnt sure its was even legal to add a farang name on a land deed and wanted to check it out first with the upper (that where the brown envelope kicked in, as they wanted us to come back another day while they wait for the anwser). I highly doubt its have become something that comon in the last 8 years.

In my comment i forgot to say their was a legal point to make a usufruct with your GF before she become your wife : When you maried any legal agreement make with your wife during the marriage peroid can be broke upon divorce, a life usufrut could be considered to be done in a state of weakness (love) and declared null. This cant not happen with an agrrement done with your GF, and that why i did my usufruct before getting married. So whatever the OP plan for futur, its safer to do it with a GF than with a wife.

I did buy a townhouse to my GF (now wife) using a usufruct (life) agreement 8 years ago. My experience started at the land office where was with an expat lawer who have acompagny me to do the paperwork. The office (sri racha) was relutent to do it, specialy the for life version. At the end a few thousand bahts brown enveloppe and signing a paper all writte in thai saying that i have nothing to do with the money used to buy the home (no comment) make them accept it. Later, i find out that most thai havent ever heard about usufruct and have no idea of what its mean. Although from a legal point of view im the one who have autority on who can stay or not in the home (i can decide to rent it and get the money), at immigration people dont wanted me to complete myself the paper for my TM30, they say its my GF (at that time) who is the home boss and have to do it and my usufruct was something who have to do only with land office (they didnt understand at all what its was, and wasnt interested to do). Same story happen for get a yellow book, i couldnt get one without her approbal. Im actually happy in marriage, but if thing would get sour, its likely that my wife could call police to kick me out of the home, while the law say its me only who have this power. At the time after i was done with buying the home, my lawyer say me that one of his customer who did a ussufruct too got he police called by his wife to kick him out, but on show of the land deed, they offered him to take away his wife :) I have no reason to think he make up the story, but in exterme situation i think its would be all up to luck or good relation one of the partie may have with the local police. Off course if its turn wrong i could seek justice and utimatly after years an lots of bahts spend i may set foot again in the home, but that was never the idea of making an usufruct. I hope some people will sharing experience with lease contract, is it any better when its come to administration stuff and familly conflit ?

"denying treatment to a critically ill emergency patient could face a jail term of up to two years and/or fines of up to Bt40,000." That alone can explain why this kind of behavior can and will keep happen here. The financial penality for the hospital is meanless compared to the potential benefit to not be left with an huge unpaid bill. As for the 2 year jail, they will always have a low ranked scape goat to take the blame.

This repport dont look geniune to me. He combine a real stroke of very bad luck, unlikely event and a great deal of reapeted gullibility to not say stupidity. - Your bag with your credit card got snached, and you dont think to tell your bank about it? -> stupid - Fake policeman: this is a very serious offence in France, and doing that in the train where their have camera everywhere for try to collect fine from tourist wont get you far. -> unlikely to have happen like they said if happen at all. - They park the car a 100 m from a tourist spot and come back from the petrol station ??? was they going to visit the tourist spot or was taking a break in the petrol station who always have is own parking? In both case anyway you never leave your value in a parked car, even less in a place where many people come and go. -> gullibility.

Interesting, I remember not long ago a topic about some official claiming how totaly secure are the bank app in Thailand. And now we learn that ill intentioned peoples can freeze the real thing before you even talk anything to them? Working as intend i suppose !

Maybie they mistake digital nomad with remote employed for a big corporate entity who could claim a smart visa? but those dont seem to be many. I consider myself as a digital nomad, as im freelance, work 100% online and travel every year bettewen France and Thailand. Im also married with a Thai and 50+ so i dont lack of options for my visa. But i may be an exception.