Thai Ron

Easy way to solve your problem is to .....

Tell her you'll go to the tax office, give them her name and the address on the new contract and report her for not paying tax on the income she receives from her tenant and for not informing the authorities that she's renting to a foreigner.

The revenue services here are rabid and will come down on her like a ton of bricks.

Who knows? Maybe she does pay her taxes but I suspect that she lied about owning the condo because she doesn't.

2 hours ago, NanLaew said:

I reckon anyone who can easily spring for a quarter mill and has the connections to make a deportation order disappear wasn't simply meeting a friend in a boiler room.

250,000 baht isn't a large sum of money.

At the time, it would've been about GBP5,000 but I suppose it's all relative.

If he had the kind of connections I suspect you're alluding to, he'd have been able to avoid the ban in the first place.

47 minutes ago, bobalolo said:

Do you know where and who can set it up?

 

I wasn't charged by court, just paid 20,000 fine and was stamped and received a letter that says I am banned from Thailand for 3 years. there was no court.

I'm not going to discuss the details of something illegal on the open forum.

7 minutes ago, 007 RED said:

I'm sorry but that is just hear say... court officials have nothing to do with immigration and they certainly no access to the immigration system to be able to expunge such a ban.

It's not hearsay at all.

The court had plenty to do with his blacklisting since he appeared before one prior to being whisked off to the airport with the court order instructing immigration to blacklist him for working in the kingdom without permission nestling in the back pocket of the police escort.

Immigration have the power to blacklist you for overstay or to deny you entry into the country but you can only be blacklisted for working illegally by a court order.

6 minutes ago, 007 RED said:

You mentioned in a later post that you would be willing to pay to be able to return to Thailand.  If you were able to find a Mr Fix-it, you will be talking in the order of 10 million Baht plus. 

Won't even begin to imagine which part of your person you pulled that comedy number from.

Last i heard (the anecdote I provided in an earlier post happened in 2014) a blacklisting can be removed for 250,000 baht.

This won't even be a talking point once biometrics come in but, for now, a change of name and a new passport will likely sort him out.

Personally, I think he should man up, take his lumps and serve out his ban; it's only been 3 months.

Is life really that bad in his country?

The authorities gave people ages to step up before they pulled the trigger on the blacklisting.

Dunno about this bloke but some people seem to think "it's only Thailand so we don't really have to take their laws seriously, do we?"

I know a fella who got deported for being in the wrong place at the wrong time (Police conducted a raid on an office and charged everyone with working without a permit even though he was just meeting a friend)

He paid 250000 baht to a fixer (who I presume bribed a court official to remove the blacklisting) and was back in the country 2 months later like nothing had happened.

Going back to immigration this week after the 30 day "under consideration" period, hopefully to get the 1 year extension stamp

Do I have to bring my daughter and her mum with me again?

Went yesterday. Got "under consideration" stamp in my passport; gotta go back next month.

Thought I'd share the little nuances with anyone who might be in a similar boat

Expect the IO to ask you bring a photo of you and your kid standing in front of any school/kindergarten he/she might attend together with a letter from the school showing the child being registered there.

Although, according to the rules, the 400K doesn't have to be seasoned for 2 months like retirement extensions, the IO asked if i had any other statements from other accounts to show because I only transferred 250k from another Thai account 2 days before the trip to CW.

Last time I went, it was refused because I didn't have the room in my passport (Duh!) The IO at the time said I should bring the letter from the embassy that comes with the new passport.

I brought it yesterday - IO says "What's this?" and tosses it back to me.

I've got a contact who can do all this nonsense for 25k - No income proof, all you need is the birth certificate, mother's ID, house book stuff. Passport comes back with the "under consideration" stamp and the extension stamp at the same time.

I just want to be 100% legal but I can see why he's making a mint.

Personally, I don't mind the hoops - it's only once a year, after all - but you don't know which IO has which criteria.

I'm going to CW to do my annual extension of stay based on having a Thai child but I've left it late as far as my "admitted until" date is concerned.

According to that, I need to leave the country on the13th September but I don't think they give you the extension stamp there and then even if you satisfy the criteria.

I'm told the immigration officer gives you a 30 day waiting stamp and then you return 30 days later and then they stamp your passport with the extension.

Do I still need to leave the country on the 13th or does the "waiting" stamp give me a 30 day extension of sorts?

Truly gutted

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18 hours ago, bberrythailand said:

 

 

yes, sure, most of them are honest ! But what I am sure also, is that you seem to know nothing but keep speaking...

 

 

Oh really? What exactly do you disagree with?

Or do you just feel like you have to say something - anything - to keep yourself in the conversation....even if it's drivel.

37 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Not all Thai cops are corrupt...

 

I'd agree, but one of the back pedaling explanations from the higher ups (after piss testing around Asoke hit social media- all the way to Europe) was to explain that the cops who were piss testing people in that area were doing so against their own policy.  Which is a pretty good indication that they were in the corrupt subset.

 

For "drugs in your system", have a look at all the common, innocent things you eat, drink and take that can yield a false positive and ask yourself if you want to spend a few days or weeks as a guest of the local jail while they wait for the more expensive tests that will eventually exonerate you.  Maybe.  Or would you just pony up the 10K, 20K or whatever it costs to put it behind you?

 

 

 

Point me to instances where a farang has been carted off to jail to await the more expensive tests.

3 hours ago, impulse said:

 

If only the guys doing the testing had stellar reputations for honesty and fair dealing...

 

Just because it's unavoidable today doesn't mean it's acceptable- or can't change.  Have you noticed some about faces recently on the part of the government when crap hits the social media fan?  Including scaling way back on random piss tests in the Asoke area, with some pretty contrite back pedaling explanations from higher level officials.  Reforms have to start somewhere.  Bitching about the unacceptable on social media seems to be a good catalyst.

 

Not all Thai cops are corrupt.

All that matters is the following

Do you have drugs on your person?

Do you have drugs in your system?

IMHO, the searches and the tests were justified.

A lot of farangs are really indignant and offended by random searches and drug testing but I can't figure out why

It's perfectly logical for the police to search and piss test farangs because they're the African drug dealers' number one customers regardless of how honest and law-abiding some of the more hypocritical among us purport to be

It's called "racial profiling" and it works on white people as well as non-white people.

If you've not bought or taken any drugs, what have you got to be worried about?

Rights?? What rights??

You left those at the airport; your PC, enshrined in law rights don't mean shit here.

Don't like it? Tough.

Nothing you can do about it except, of course, the obvious.

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Just now, sanemax said:

Maybe the person in question  had a ticket back to his Country, from where he came and he asked whether he could buy a new ticket and fly somewhere else, which was refused ?

Nope

He had to buy a ticket back to the UK or he would be sent to IDC

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

You cannot be deported if you never were allowed to enter the country. It is simply a denial of entry not deportation.

You can fly to anywhere with a denial of entry.

I know from 2nd hand experience that this is not true.

They have to ship you back to your country of origin because that is the only country guaranteed to let you in.

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A JustGiving page has been set up to raise funds to “buy” a drug mule out of a Thai jail after he was busted by police.

The crowdfunding page has been circulating on Facebook with plenty of som nam na replies to those sharing the story.

OK so definitely not the best source for news by any stretch but the facts are what they are.

I'm sure someone will be along momentarily to question the perp's heritage (his nose might be a little too big to be a true Brit) but as far as I can see, there's no question he's a son of Angkrit

I reckon he ought to get the same sentencing as any other drug mule - 10-20 years

No mitigating circumstances here; just another loser who fell on rough times and thought he could bazooka his way out of it transporting contraband.

Just now, Here It Is said:

You need help, too.  Sort of agree but it's not the be all.

Why do I need help for stating the truth?

Thai women with farang men are almost always from poor backgrounds.

That should tell you absolutely everything you need to know about how we're thought of.

Women with education, money and good looks don't look at farang men unless they're younger and attractive.

Yer typical Thaivisa bloke isn't in that category

11 hours ago, kenk24 said:

 

And most Thai ladies would prefer to stay in Thailand, but will relocate for a decent husband. 

...................prefer to stay in Thailand, but will relocate for a decent husband stipend.

5 hours ago, al007 said:

So I want to identify someone to rob, I watch Siam Secure and follow you home, and add you too my list of possibles

 

We have no safe, we do not need a safe, however I often think about a cheap safe, with very weak bolts not too well hidden, and a lot of fake jewellery inside, if some one came with a gun and said open they would probably grab and run, it would also make them mad later but still ok

 

We have four Alsatians plus the wife, and also closed circuit TV, and many lights on PIRs

 

Wife wants a gun but I say no unless she is properly trained and has all the liciences

 

If anyone comes to the house for money I normally say please wait for ten minutes while I go to the ATM even if we have the money, so people moan he never has money we have to wait while he goes to the ATM, word soon spreads

Yeah you add him to your list of possibilities, set a date, turn up and find the lift won't work without a key card.

Stay in a higher end building and you don't have to worry about crap like this. Stay in a backwater McMansion with deadbeats for neighbors and you may very well have to worry about it. 

I use CB Lockers in the Interchange building at Asoke Junction. Efficient storage for some.gold baht bars and an emergency stash of cash.

On 5/26/2017 at 8:49 AM, bert bloggs said:

Its always easy to hit the good immegrants , so they do it ,at the end of the day when the govt comes out and says "we have cut immegration " it looks good , but nobody asks "who were the ones you stopped"  invariably it was the ones that were no problem ,while the usual suspects just waltz in .

Can you define a "good" immigrant? Anyone vouched for by a white male??

I don't see any government being stupid enough to place the responsibility for determining whether or not someone is a good immigrant in the hands of the typical Brit in Thailand.

On 5/26/2017 at 1:34 AM, seancbk said:

 

Rabbit Hole, J. Boroski and Evil Man Blues - all in Thonglor

Ma-Rum-bar - in W District
 

All worth a visit if you enjoy a good cocktail

Yeah but all those places charge upwards of 150 baht for a drink. Rather more than many of these guys are comfortable paying.