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Foreign owner, old guy, I'm helping out ...., putting Google Translate on condo Chonote even character by character not match the passport name correctly, so I thought condo sales contract might be needed... (his name is not on blue book at all)... Or maybe Thai officials somehow match up Thai characters with farang names without issue ...! There must be doing this forever...!? 🤔 To be honest they should use Latin characters for foreign owners on Chanotes, and/or add their date of birth, ID/passport number, something..., even for Thai people, don't they have a lot of John Smith....??? There is nothing except name...🙄

Every year there's a new game for us to play, thanks for the heads up, I will ask them about what you said, to be sure what's the current trend ...! 🤔

That's very strange, in Phuket they would want a bank statement..., no way they do extension without it, for any visa type... Of course if we want to criticise the system, an updated bank book (and copy) should really be sufficient for any fund proof - if anybody can fake that then can fake a bank statement...! But here they are proud of their paperwork and bureaucracy, it's their number one pass time...! 😉

As far as I know it's not possible to order a Bangkok Bank statement for a foreign currency account and pick it up from the bank itself. The options are either email or post to owner's address... ! As l mentioned physical printed posting could take 5 working days (that's practically 1 week), could mean immigration not accepting it, but I like to hear from people who have gone this route...? Yes I have been looking to move to another bank, can't believe the various documents they now require, but that's on the plans going forward...

As you may know Bangkok Bank needs to order a foreign currency account statement from their head office, this takes like a week to be posted as printed version, but usually a couple of days to be emailed. Over many years I had a good relationship with the girls in my bank branch and I would opt for email, then go to the bank and emailed them the statement I received as email and they would print it and stamp it for me, then off to the immigration office with only a few days old bank statement. I never used the post of physical prints because I thought it could come too late, lost or mis-delivered by postman, and maybe not accepted by immigration as it'll be too old...!? Unfortunately the girls I knew all gone from my branch and the evil new ones + a horrible new lady bank manager totally refuse printing my email last year - even for tip...! I reluctantly had to go to a print/copy shop, then take it back to them to stamp it...! Now this is doable but I am thinking in the long run it's asking for trouble as I don't trust these print shops for one minute having my bank statements on their computers or phones, this is prime data that has paying hacker customers on the dark web, this kind of data could easily get to the wrong hand, name, address, bank account number, transactions etc. etc. So what do you guys do, if no printer at home, I'm sure a few other people should have to deal with the same dilemma... - in this beautiful land of smiles with mountains of paperworks, copies and queues and office visits ..! Imagine if we could do all of this online one day...!!! 😯 P.S. this is just the first part of course, I have to also get another letter from the bank confirming I'm the account holder AND update my bank books on the "same" day as going to the immigration office with all of the copies and the rest that you know..., quite a hectic day. Lucky those who get their bank print their statement right there and then in a matter of minutes, what luxury that is, count your boessing...! 😔

I think CoR also depends on what visa he's coming on here, that makes a difference..., if you mention that, can get better responses...?

What docs are needed to register as house master of "condo" to do the TM30, for foreigners and Thais..., a bit different: -- Blue book , I think only locals get their names in there, so why needed for farangs -- Chanote (both sides), I have seen these and all is in Thai, so how do they match farang names to English character by character...!? -- Sales contract , these are in English, but not mentioned much...? And of course Thai ID or passport for foreigners (just photo page !? Or visa page and entry stamp...) Anything else...?

Be careful if you even go for a day trip or something in another town, or even same town, in Thailand and stay in a hotel or guest house, they register guests and update their TM30 for that place, even for one night...! Once back to your usual resident, must update the TM30 again. I once went for 90 day reporting and forgot that 2 months ago I stayed in a hotel outside Phuket, they told me the address was changed. Had to contact landlady to update TM30..., she has an app, did it right away and officer saw it updated on his computer live... (vow ! 😃) and all was good after that...!

So is it automatically processed...!? I thought the documents scanned and sent, like blue book, chanote etc. needs to be seen by a person to confirm that all the name and addreses match up...! Also how do they match up foreigners Thai character written name in chanote to English characters in passport...!? Is it just an approximate...

Not new, it's been like this for ages, those who have it usually fold it away and never use it...! Girls usually point it at themselves, so they can see if they look good and the hair is not messed up...! ? I heard many years ago one reason was it can easily be dismantled and taken and/or damaged, so they prefer to keep it in pristine condition back home in the cupboard...😉

No idea, some people like to stand out..., but when we were on tour though, I could always see him coming from behind in my mirrors from far, day or night ....😜

Plus smoke coming out of them worse than any chimney you've ever seen, then they wonder why there is such a bad pollution...😯, still a long way to go...!

My friend had blue light as dim light only on his Aerox, they always failed him at inspection every year, so he had to replace and go back ...! Then you see all these bikes and cars with no lights, no proper brakes or legal tires, and loud exhaust all over Thai roads...!? 🥴

Don't hold me to this but years ago someone sent a power of attorney form all filled up in Thai to the guy abroad and he signed and returned it - knowing his signature and his permission, you could try it yourself without sending...! (Shhhh...don't even mention it...). Then the other problem will be his Thai visa stamp in his passport that is old and shows he's out of country, but some provinces apparently don't car much...! No idea which ones... Ultimately the best is to take that signed power of attorney form and passport copy to an agent (dealer shop have or know of one), then see if he can help, and how much it cost..., most things can be done in LOS at the right price... It's not easy or khoshar, but I think it has been done before - specially if Thai wife or girlfriend does it...😯😉 (P.S. I wouldn't ride it around, because if police stop you and want to be a pain, they take the bike away and you never see it again, as it is maybe can sell it under the price to some dealer/Thai person...)

Despite what the authorities do to try to stop them (or not really....!), it's getting worse every day..., we have hell in Phuket..., even after midnight when everybody sleeps...!!!? 🥴