MrPatrickThai

Does anyone know if the pension age is still 55?

I gave a British embassy worker(Thai) a telling off(in Thai) for shouting 'you, you phone' at the gate. 

Totally going downhill there. 

I don't think we're allowed to discuss political things here.

Damn, it isn't my mate Nate.

"he ADMITS to being 59"

nothing to be ashamed of

12 minutes ago, mikebell said:

So yes I am looking at alternatives where the natives are friendly

Typical colonial attitude. 

4 minutes ago, Kenchamp said:

Many of us with retirement extensions are actually here because we are married with kids and have used the retirement  route to stay because it was always easier and were encouraged to do so by immigration.

I think for most I've met, that should read, "many retired guys come to Thailand because of the young desperate women" and get hooked in by one with stepkids.

They blow all their savings on the woman and her family, who won't ever contemplate selling her gold or father's pickup truck to help their loved husband get a visa easily.

19 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

True and see my previous post.

 

Another member wrote that he was sent by DLT to "update" his yellow book which he did.

I asked about details but the member did not come back to the thread.

So unclear what this could mean.

DLT?

You get a form from the old amphur, who stamp it finished. You take the form and old book to the new amphur to get a new one. 

4 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Even then you have to apply at the office where the house is and they want a proof that you live there.

Sure you can move and let the yellow book become void.

Maybe a reason why some offices do not accept it as proof of residence.

 

The yellow book doesn't become void, unless you get a form from the amphur to move it. Most/most Thais don't live where there Tabien Baan shows. 

On 2/16/2019 at 8:31 PM, KhunBENQ said:

if you move to new location/house, new yellow house book required.

No, your yellow book can be anywhere, you don't have to live there.

Very similar question asked last week.

8 minutes ago, Mavideol said:

and carabao & pad thai (or something like that)...but we are helping marketing here555

Yes, Pad Thai was invented by "Paw" Piboonsongkram around 1932, when it was hip to be Nationalistic in many European countries that he hung out in. The Germans got the VW, Thailand Pad Thai(the food of the people). The last foreign diplomat to meet Hitler was the Thai ambassador. 

1 minute ago, lipflipper said:

From birth to the grave Thais are thought that their country is the best and places like Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam are beneath them. They cannot understand nor will they ever accept the fact that in this Asean Community they are now a part off Thailand comes off fourth best. With their inability to understand that Thailand is a third world country is it any wonder why they treat Expats the way they do?? We are white skin devils.

Sent from my CMR-AL19 using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

Thailand is a developing country. I have been treated very well, as an expat over the last 3 decades. 

14 minutes ago, Chicago Bull said:

Wasn't this due to the fact that Britain & France decided that Thailand should be left neutral to allow free trade between Europe & Indochina?

 

Not really something to be proud about when your fate was decided by two other nations.

They are proud of the negotiating skills of their former king, who was instrumental in this decision.

Working online, through a company not based in Thailand is legal. So is gambling, if the site is outside Thailand. 

I suggest that moderators/owners of ThaiVisa arrange a meeting with the heads of Immigration and find out exactly what is needed for the retirees. This seems to be where most of the affected retirees hang out. Luckily, I won't be needing a visa in a year or so but have lots of older friends worrying about this. So how about it UbonJoe and co.? 

2 hours ago, forrwhat said:

I was going for work and I have a heavy work bag and an overnighter and a briefcase. It's a pain to lug it around. Plus in the 5 plus years, I have lived here I have never had this problem.

Did you speak to him in English?

2 minutes ago, wobalt said:

If expats have to leave, who is to blame, TI or the embassies

The expat is at fault for not planning his life properly. 

4 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Glad to see you used the word THEIR.

Why?

19 hours ago, glegolo said:

You should be careful when trying to speak for other people. You shall NOT talk i.e. for ALL THESE NATIONS THAT STILL DO THE INCOME-LETTER.... We do NOT need what you are suggesting. We are just fine.

 

The ONLY people you can speak to and include is people from AUSTRALIA UK DENMARK AND USA.. NO ONE ELSE.....

 

glegolo

indeed, he should spend his time writing to his own government to tell them represent their citizens properly. 

15 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

A Residence certificate normally comes from Immigration and is 300 baht. Not sure why the BE are involved

This is a free service. if they ask you to pay, make a formal complaint. there is a number to call in every immigration..

1 hour ago, JackThompson said:

Now, many more good folks, who could meet the former standard honestly, will be forced to the agents.

Nothing to do with if they are good or not.

They are like the immigrants coming into the USA to seek a better standard of living. Build a wall Prayud! 

3 hours ago, Brunolem said:

In Thailand, if you have 800,000 baht in a bank account, all the doors are open, but if you own a 20 million baht house and carry a black Amex card provided in your home country, well, sorry sir, but let me show you the door. 

 

In Thailand, if you have a phd in gender studies from the university of Podunk, then the universities will gladly let you "teach" their students. 

But if you are Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, or another of these failures who skipped university, then too bad for you, you are incompetent and the local academics won't even want to speak to you. 

Give it a rest. Who owns a 20 million baht house and can't put 800k in a bank for a few months?

Universities all round the world require their professors to have a degree. 

16 minutes ago, connda said:

Thailand should also welcome foreigners who marry and then support their spouses.  By the way, I wear two hats here: one as a retiree and another as a foreign man married to a Thai national.

 

Ironically, that's the way it works for foreigner females married to a Thai man.  And their is no expectation that the foreigner female even provide any support.  The onus of support is entirely on the Thai man, and the foreigner female spouse does not have to show any financial supporting documents in order to remain in Thailand until they die or choose to leave.  So essentially marrying a Thai man leads to permanent residency - as it should.

Foreign men married to a Thai national wife?  Lordy!  You are simply a walking ATM with the same status as a tourist and as such your stay is only year to year and can end on the whim of the Thai government.  I took my Thai wife and her family out of poverty, built them a good home which is the foundation for my wife's retirement, my son, and his children, provide for them, sent my stepson to private school, and paid off my family's debt in order to unburden them.  The money I bring is multiples of what the average indebted Thai earns.

But:

Foreign woman married to Thai man - good.
Foreign man married to Thai woman - bad (and you're probably married to game the immigration system as well).
That's the perception.  Even my own wife holds this perception, although it will be a sad day for her and the rest of my family if the Thai government eventually make it a bureaucratic nightmare to remain here, because the Thai perception is that we are all "Takers" who are potential criminals when if fact most of us are "Givers" who support our families as well as our communities.
Most other countries have their eyes open and see that both retirees and men supporting a native wife of the host country are net 'givers' who add to the economies and in the case of men married to native wives, raise the standard of living for their families. 
Why Thais can not wrap their collective heads around that concept boggles the mind.
Imho, given the trajectory of this stupidity, eventually this leads to an exodus of both retirees and men married to Thai women.  No doubt the exodus will be cheered and jeered on with glee by the elitists among the expat community who will join in a farewell banter of, "Don't let the door hit ya in your butts Cheap Charlies!" <laughs all around>.  But if those of us who support Thai families are forced out, well - there goes the support that has kept the wife and family solidly in the Thai middle-class and out of poverty and out of debt.  Then what? 

Do the math. 

Do you ever wonder how many foreign women come here and encourage the sex trade? How many retired Western woman come here and marry a rice farmer toy boy. It's bloody obvious that the government has had enough of the retired sexpats coming here and participating in the sex trade, especially in Pattaya, where poor farming girls are forced into prostitution. Can you imagine the uproar if this happened in your country? Thailand is growing up. 

Retired men that don't marry gold-digging bar-girls will have no problem finding the cash. The ones that do, should be ashamed of themselves, an embarrassment to those of us who have lived her for many years and also to their children and grand children in their home countries.