Jen65

5 hours ago, MasterBaker said:

these test are not 100% accurate

Quite correct, Singapore has done away with this type of test because it is unreliable and so have a few other countries .

I remember in Spain long time ago ,  when packs of wild dogs started roaming the beaches , the guardia would occasionally have a shooting session to rid the nuisance dogs ,some of which carried rabies !!  Problem solved !! 

6 hours ago, oxforddiver said:

GROYNES my dear, that's the answer.

Get with some Groynes.

Quite right , I wrote about this long time ago !  Without Groynes the cross current will wash away the sand in a matter of time and back to square one !!   It's not rocket science !!  

9 hours ago, HampiK said:

have you received your Tax no before you become your yellow book?
because this could be maybe a reason that this are different. I had the yellow book first, and then gone for a tax no.. and for me this numbers are equal.

I have my company tax ID but now am considering the advantages of a Yellow Book. As I have property in both Rayong Province and Chonburi , I am wondering if one may be easier than the other . I realize it is the local amphur I have to visit / apply !

Some places they give you the run around and put as many obstacles as they can in the way to discourage you yet others appear to be relatively straightforward and my understanding is that it is a legal right to obtain one if one is resident . I have been told one needs the approval of at least two Thai neighbours to vouch for you .  I'm getting used to being given the "run around" here in order to get anything that is legal and normally straightforward done !!  

Can anyone confirm that the tax ID number is same as Yellow Book number ???  This would very useful to know 

8 hours ago, Surelynot said:

Could that be their escape route ?

no no no , this will only be a test flight - we want to send a Ghecko to the moon !!!

34 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

They may not of understood what you wanted or are not aware a clause in the immigration order for the insurance requirement clause that states this.

That is shown on the last page of the order here in Thai and English. Immigration order for OA insurance.pdf

You could try again but I suspect you may have to apply for a extension of stay based upon retirement (it is not a visa)

 

 

Thanks for sending me the full text of the order . I reckon exactly what you said - they don't understand what I am trying to do (synchronize my visa/extension of stay with my insurance .    I know it will be extension of stay if I stay in the country but if I went out just before the expiry of my visa and returned before it expired , then I get another year on my visa .

Why does Chonburi Immigration always give me a headache , sometimes give wrong information and this time it appears they do not understand their own directive  ( attached )

I was in to Chonburi Immigration the other day to sort out an issue on my Immigration entry stamp .

I produced my passport with my O-A visa showing expiry in November and the entry stamp with the annotation "up to 31st August 2021"  which is the date my current Health / Covid insurance expires .  Since I wished to synchronize my Visa and Insurance renewal dates , I produced a new Insurance document with valid insurance to the date of expiry of my visa and asked them to delete/amend the annotation on the entry stamp .

The reply was " you have to get a new visa on 31st August " !!!!!!!   They produced the attached directive !!!  Didn't want to listen to me to explain what I was trying to do  ,  so I just left .

After carefully reading exactly what it states "  Note that visa expiration date will not exceed the insurance coverage period (maximum of 1 year )

That is exactly what is written on the entry stamp .

The directive does not mention anything about having to obtain a new Visa or having the existing one cancelled ,it only states that the expiration can not exceed the Insurance validity ( granted ) .

Insurance companies do NOT issue policies for more than one year .  In addition to having the required Insurance up to the expiry of my O-A visa ,I also have the next 12 months Insurance policy from the expiry of my Visa and the expiry of the new Insurance up to the expiry of my visa.

Immigration is not allowed to write on or cancel my O-A visa since it is issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (nothing to do with Immigration)  unless I did something totally illegal or committed a crime and being deported !!

SO ,   I am not going to get a new visa / retirement or extension of stay (whatever) on 31st August as I have a valid Visa and valid Insurance !!     What are Immigration going to do ??  arrest me ?? 

I have no faith in Chonburi Immigration and especially their dictatorial attitude .  ( Prior to obtaining my O-A visa in Portugal ,Chonburi Immigration gave me wrong information and had to be corrected by the Embassy )  

Welcome to Thailand , oh dear , just a minute while we clean the beach !!

9 hours ago, malcolminthemiddle said:

Many thanks for your reply Jen65. I was looking for any specific rule or regulation that would safeguard the uniformity of houses within a licensed development before the development is handed over by the Developer to a JP. For example a specific requirement/restriction of the development license or the requirement to update the original building permit to get approval of the change/modification. Again thanks.

 

I think you need specialist legal advise on that one !!!

7 hours ago, malcolminthemiddle said:

Are there any specific building controls applicable to a Moo Baan as opposed to a single, private build? Thanks in advance.

As far as I am aware there are no government made controls for a Moo Baan .  When the Condominium Laws were made Moo Baan's  were never included so some Moo Baan's have a Juristic and some do not !!  I would never buy into a Moo Baan with no appointed Juristic since there is no legal representation or control .   In a Moo Baan with a Juristic and having a Committee , then rules and regulations for that Moo Baan can be made and if approved by majority , they can be registered at Land Office and once that is done then they are legally enforceable .   Such things as dividing walls and heights etc could be included .   For example on Moo Baan rules , in my Moo Baan one is not allowed to have dogs (as pets) roaming freely outside ones property - they must be on a lead . 

So to answer your question , the current Building Controls apply equally to a Moo Baan or Private build with the addition that a Moo Baan with a Juristic may have additional rules and regulations specifically applicable to that Moo Baan . 

If I keep my mask on all the time my glasses fog up !!!  I'll just keep round my chin unless I see a bib or checkpoint then easy to pull it up !

7 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Very weak considering the situation.  Will mostly do much of nothing.

So Bangkokians will be flocking to Pattaya for one month and spreading the virus around a bit more ??  They need to restrict the interprovincial travel for any hope of reducing and stopping the spread of Covid further .

When the daily figures are announced they never categorize just which variant is found in the new cases . The Delta variant will be the prominent one in Europe by August but we don't get the information to understand which variants are present and spreading ??

Is the government too afraid to publish for fear of panic ?? 

2 hours ago, kennw said:

I think we all know that lack of law enforcement is a key factor in the carnage. Was'nt this one of the principal reforms promised by the new government? Probably still in the too hard basket.   

Law enforcement is one factor but Insurance is another !!  Until the whole system of government insurance is scrapped ( they hand it out like Candy at DLT with no background checks , history or proper vehicle checks ) the carnage will continue with jumped up idiots able to buy an Izuzu pick up - lower the suspension, fit wide wheels and a go faster exhaust then blast down Sukhumvit belching black smoke and weaving from inside to outside lanes ( in a city zone speed limit )  . All on the feeble government insurance !!   There's no hope for change as long as this system exists so my advise is for farangs is to drive a tank !!      

14 hours ago, Scott Tracy said:

With the possible soon to be 3,000,000 baht health insurance, including Civic cover requirement for NIV O-A extensions, I did some quick research. For me, it would be a premium of around 70,000 annually. If I exclude the outpatient cover of up to 3000 per day 'unlimited number of vists, it is 56,000 baht. 300,000 baht deductibles for both scenarios, it's 35,000 and 28,000 respectively. Im 63.

 

At 65, same prices quoted.

At 66...93,000, 83,000 with no deductibles, for 3,5000,000 coverage, outpatient coverage up to 40,000 per year. Only bigger and more expensive cover available.

At 71, 133,600 & 123,600 respectively...

At 76...48,000,000 minimum coverage, cost 337,000, 160,000 deductibles takes it to 253,000.

 

Figures are rounded, for convenience. Info from:

https://misterprakan.com/en/main

The 3M figure has already been revoked / rubbished as an error / misunderstanding .     The whole question of Health Insurance (especially for retirees) is under revision and sooner or later , as stated , we will all have to have medical insurance but just what type , what policy and how much will be promulgated in the near future .  The Thai Hospitals have had enough of unpaid medical bills !   Anyone here on an O or O-A needs to have proper medical insurance .

It is being mooted that one proposition is that all those that stay here over six months pay into the Thai Social Security Scheme .

Hopefully the Covid Insurance will go away once we are vaccinated although I have a feeling that Covid vaccinations may become an annual thing like the flue jab !

I am keeping my O-A as I am over 70 and if one does away with it and applies/obtains the O visa , with reduced insurance requirements , then in the future if Health Insurance is required ,it may be difficult to "get on the ladder" for insurance as many companies have a stipulated maximum age for joining PLUS I have now built up my no-claims bonus .

My advise would be to wait and see how things pan out with the government looking into this and changes very likely .       

11 hours ago, Tanoshi said:

You were still an EU citizen regardless, it stated so on your Passport.

Get a new Passport now and your a British national, O-A Visas only from London.

 

so what you really meant was "citizen or nationality" status NOT resident status ! 

On 6/18/2021 at 1:38 AM, Tanoshi said:

 

What @ubonjoe meant was you can only obtain a Non Imm O-A Visa from your Home Country or a Country where you have residency status.

Previously as a UK national you were also an EU citizen and had the right of residence anywhere within the EU. Since Brexit, you are no longer an EU citizen and unless you have 'permanent residency' status in Portugal, you'll now find the Non Imm O-A Visa is only available from the Thai Embassy in London.

Not quite correct !  I was previously a " resident tax payer in France " but I "officially" gave up my residence status in France when I moved to Thailand and thus became a " non resident of France " .   I had already become a "non resident of the UK " previous to that .  As a UK "National " ,I do of course still have the "right of residency "in the UK and before Brexit , the right of residency in the EU.

So when you state one can only obtain a Non Imm O-A from a country where one has residency status ie the EU prior to Brexit , that is therefore incorrect for myself since I officially became "non resident " several years ago .    

oh <deleted> ! 

On 6/16/2021 at 7:53 PM, ubonjoe said:

A Non-OA visa can only be applied for at a Thai embassy or official consulate in your home country and it allows a one year entry when used.

A non-o visa can be issued at any embassy or official consulate or a honorary consulate. It only allows a 90 day entry.

Since you have certainly gotten a new passport since you started your stay here there should be a stamp on the first page of your passport that states the type of visa you used and the old passport you had.

Here is an example of the stamp.

 

Once again , wrong information .  O-A visa does not have to be obtained in your "home" country .   I am a UK national and both I and several other UK Nationals have obtained O-A visas at the Thai Embassy in Portugal .    It's possible some Embassy's are more flexible than others but it does  not seem to be "fixed in stone "   .   If you don't ask , you don't get !!!

9 hours ago, samtam said:

 

I haven't been able to get to a hospital choice because the "registration" keeps telling me it is incomplete. When I go back to edit/check details, the system has "dropped" 5 items:

1) Nationality

2) Province

3) District

4) Sub-district

5) Organisation

repeatedly. When I try and re-register it tells me I'm already registered. So I'm both registered and my registration is incomplete. Ergo, I cannot to proceed to make a booking....at any hospital in Bangkok, or choose vax, or choose date, or choose time.

The issue is the information keyed in is not being retained. I have tried Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and yesterday until it closed at 3.00 pm. In between all that time it has had tweaks, so the "faults" vary.

"ditto"

3 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

For the brief time the Intervac site was up and running after noon today, it actually was FUNCTIONAL and numerous folks here were able to make appointments for the AZ vaccine toward the end of June at Phyathai II hospital in BKK.... 

 

So if you haven't already, give it a try again tomorrow.  They appear to have fixed the prior problem about the pulldown boxes for nationality and province not working, and thus blocking people from being able to complete their personal information data.

 

 

 

 

no they haven't ! I did manage to get all my details into all the menus today , clicked register then waited , waited and waited until it came back and said "failed , please try again " !!! .  So, trying again we go back into the menu and Lo and behold ( not really surprising ) it again would not accept my nationality or parts of my address .   Am just amazed at how disorganized and now, how desperate this government is !! They have finally realized they HAVE to open up the purchase of vaccines to private hospitals and enterprises if they are ever going to have a chance of keeping the lid on this 2nd wave and the mutating variants of Covid .

11 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

Taking the Mrs to Europe a few times i have driven in snow on numerous occassions in Winter.   She always says that if snow comes to Thailand there would be nobody lefy alive on the roads within 48 hours !

Love to see how Thai's would get on driving in -40 deg C and in a blizzard where one can hardly make out the road - in Canada !!

On 6/7/2021 at 10:47 AM, jomtienisgood said:

Don't worry too much. If you manage to go back that far in time, nobody even heard of Covid.....19. ????????????

I'm just building a "Tardis" so I can go back and get my jab !

11 hours ago, sirineou said:

Is being in your car considered being in public? 

I am a proponent of wearing a facemask, and even though both the wife and me are fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine, we always wear masks while in public, but not in our car, (we are in Khon Kaen), We drive through the police check point on the ring road  almost every day without wearing a mask, and the police has never stop as or said a word.  

I find it difficult to wear a mask , especially when I am driving, because the breath escaping from the top of my mask makes my eyes water.  

If I wear a mask in the car ,I find the exhaled breath fogs up my glasses so I can't see properly !!!   So wearing a mask whilst driving could cause an accident ??   I'm sure others would agree with that ??? 

3 hours ago, papersource said:

You can book a vaccine and make an appointment at this website:

 

http://thailandintervac.com

 

 

no you can't !  It just says :-

Please be advised that the reservation system for the vaccination appointment is being updated. You cannot make a reservation for a certain amount of time. Please try registration after 5:00 p.m. We have to apologize for all the inconvenience.

nothing to click on , no "green" bar -  more fake news