007 RED

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

Thanks for your post. Think the power outlet is exactly what the electrician is suggesting. He has done all the electrical in the make over. So there is 5 fans in total hence thought I would see what Thaivisa had to offer re advice.

I never thought of vibration to neighbors that another poster pointed out and will copy your pad idea.

Ta 

Edit: just noticed no pull cords on your fan. Did you buy it with remote?

 

If I remember correctly, Hatari do 2 versions of the same model of wall fan, one operated by 'pull strings' and the other by IR handheld remote as per the photo I posted above.  No way am I going to get up in the middle of the night to turn the fan off if necessary using a 'pull string'... remote is by the side of the bed.... no not the wife????.

 

I've seen both models available in Homepro and Global House.  If I remember correctly the price for the remote version is about 1,700THB... the 'pull string' version being cheaper.  Have a look on the internet for correct price

1 hour ago, recom273 said:

If possible, get an IR remote control.

 

They seemed to be popular a few years back and now Mitsubishi seem to be the only ones producing them, I don’t understand why.

 

With a bit of jittery pokery they can be linked to Alexa and apple home. 

Sorry but not actually correct....  The Hatari wall fan that I have (as shown above) is remote controlled - see photo below. 

 

3 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Is the - [email protected] - email address still the one to use?

 

I emailed them a few times to book an appointment to renew my daughter's passport but never get any reply.

 

2 hours ago, 007 RED said:

Yes.... [email protected]    is correct.

 

I emailed them last week for an appointment and still waiting for a response.  They seem a little slower than previously reported in this thread e.g. response same day.

Update..... Having posted the above 2 hours ago, I have just received a response from VFS confirming appointment date/time to attend Trendy.  As I said, their response is a little slower than had been previously reported.... but as they say, better late than never.

48 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

Is the - [email protected] - email address still the one to use?

 

I emailed them a few times to book an appointment to renew my daughter's passport but never get any reply.

Yes.... [email protected]    is correct.

 

I emailed them last week for an appointment and still waiting for a response.  They seem a little slower than previously reported in this thread e.g. response same day.

4 hours ago, jayboy said:

Perhaps a silly question.I see that one's existing passport needs every page to be photocopied.Is it expected that these copies are cut to size of passport or is it okay to have the pages copied on to A4 paper?

Not a silly question at all.

 

FYI..... I contacted VSF be email some time ago and asked the question: "In order to save paper, is it possible to have 4 pages of the passport scanned and printed onto a sheet of A4?" I attached a sample in PDF ..... They replied very quickly and confirmed that it is acceptable.

 

Hope this helps.

4 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

........

Apparently that is Bangkok Bank since they are the only one needing a week to get them as far as I know. If it is Bangkok Bank and he is near Bangkok he could go the to the main office on Silom Road and get it while he waits.

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Joe…. Normally your spot on with your advice/information, but sorry to advise you that on this occasion the part of your statement which I have highlighted above is not correct.

 

Bangkok bank HQ (on the Silom Road in Bangkok) are not able to issue a statement covering the past years transaction while you wait.  Like their branches, you must order the statement and then collect it, which in the case of HQ is two days later - cost 200 THB.

 

I have a foreign deposit account and a standard THB savings account registered with Bangkok bank’s HQ.  Last year for my extension of stay I requested the past year’s statement for my foreign deposit account in order to show transfer of funds from overseas.  I was surprised that they could not produce the statement there and then, it had to be ordered and the request sent to another department within HQ to be process.  I had to collect it two days later.

 

As someone has already pointed out, Bangkok bank HQ can produce a statement covering the previous six months while you wait – cost 100 THB.  So, for this year’s renewal I obtained two statements, one six months before the extension renewal date and a second statement covering the previous six months a couple of weeks before I submitted my renewal of extension.  My local immigration office (Nakhon Pathom) accepted the two statements without any questions.

 

There is an alternative for those who have a foreign deposit account with Bangkok bank HQ.  If you have signed up for notification of deposit of funds from overseas you will receive an email from the bank confirming receipt of transferred funds.  Attached to the email there is a pdf copy of your credit advice note which provides all the details of the transfer.  If you save the twelve months credit advice notes and then print these out and take them to the bank (HQ), they will produce a letter/statement itemising the twelve transaction which is also accepted by my local immigration office – cost 200 THB.

 

FYI – Bangkok bank HQ will also provide you with a letter for immigration confirming the account holder’s details and balance at that date – cost 100 THB.

9 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

There is : Minor charges are not a reason for deportation , minor charges are regarded as anything that doesnt have a six month prison sentence . 

  Anything less than a served six month jail term is regarded as a minor offence and not liable for deportation .

  Suspended sentences do not count as served jail time  

I’m not disputing that you saw this information posted on the wall in the CM immigration office, but the statement is not correct. 

 

There have been many cases posted here on TV were individuals have not severed any jail time and have been deported.  Here’s just a few past examples:

 

People who have been caught on long term overstay, in some cases for many years, have rapidly found themselves in IDC and deported.  No jail time.

 

A person was arrested by immigration for busking in the market in Ranong.  Just fined 10K BHT and deported.  No jail time.

 

Young man caught with small quantity of cannabis on Koh Tao spent 3 months on bail waiting for his Court case.  Fined 6K BHT and deported.  No jail time.

 

I tend to agree with @BriTim in so far it is very much up to the immigration officer and which side of the bed he/she got out of that morning.

A couple of questions:

 

Will a doctor withdraw blood from a conscious person who has not given their consent to such a procedure?  My understanding is that they won’t unless it’s a matter of life or death.  Normally the doctor/hospital needs the person’s consent before undertaking such a procedure.

 

Who is going to pay the hospital bill, suspect or police?  Again, my understanding is that most, if not all, private hospitals need proof of ability to pay e.g. insurance or credit card, before they start even booking a person in. 

 

So, if the suspect refuses to give consent for blood to be taken, or to pay the hospital bill, what then? No blood test = walk or possibly stagger free?

18 minutes ago, hanuman2 said:

I hope this isn't off topic but I need to have my 'passport translated into Thai by the UK Embassy'. I think this means getting the UK Embassy to produce a certified translation or certify someone else's translation. It's needed for applying for a yellow Tabien Baan book.

 

Question is, can this be done at Trendy House at the moment?

 

Thanks for any advice you can give.

Sorry but the British Embassy will not translate your passport for you.  For a price, they will produce a certified copy of the data (photo) page of your passport.  You will then need to have the Embassy certified copy translated by a so called ‘certified translator’.  There are a few located near the old British Embassy premisses on Wireless Road and I believe there are some in Trendy Building.

 

What I’m not sure is whether your local Amphor will accept the Embassy certified copy with the Thai translation.  They may want to put some more hoops for you to jump through namely, you may have to get the translation certified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Department of Consular Affairs.

 

Good luck.

On ‎9‎/‎30‎/‎2020 at 2:59 PM, ubonjoe said:

Two pages per sheet will be accepted.

 

21 hours ago, kwak250 said:

I have to go to Trendy soon and want to be sure 2 pages on 1 A4 are accepted?

Is this correct ?

I will need to renew my passport shortly, so I emailed the VSF helpline in July to enquired if they will accept 4 passport pages, in colour, on one sheet of A4.  They replied within a few hours confirming that 4 pages on one sheet of A4 is acceptable, so if you have only 2 pages per sheet of A4 that is definitely going to be OK.

See attached email & response.

BKK HMPO Email_Redacted.pdf

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

How do you check when the website domain was registered?

Simple.... go to https://lookup.icann.org/lookup  type in the URL of the website and press enter.  Low and behold you will see the website data includind date first registered.

 

FYI... In some cases, not all (because of Data Protection regulations), it will even give the name and address of the website owner.

On ‎8‎/‎18‎/‎2020 at 4:31 PM, poohy said:

NO! 

well not at this stage i sail 2 RC yachts near Prachuap

Many thanks for your input.  Several other sources have also indicated that a licence to operate RC equipment for model boats is not required, so it looks as though I may well rekindle an old hobby.  I just need to find somewhere near where I live that has sufficient water to accommodate the model I'm proposing to build and will allow me to use their facility.  That said, I expect that it'll be at least a year before needing a big pond though.

 

Your models look nice.  Do you have a club nearby, so that you can compete?

34 minutes ago, dingdongrb said:

I think the 800k THB in the bank would be much easier......  and less stressful 

That option is available to me and would have been plan 'Y' if all else failed.

FYI... There is also a plan 'Z', but I'd have to kill you if I told you what it involves

I am aware that this is the Chang Mai forum, but I hope that my recent experience in renewing my permission to stay based upon retirement, using 12 monthly deposits, at the Nakhon Pathom Immigartion Office will be of interest and useful.

 

FYI…. I bank with Bangkok Bank HQ, Silom Road, Bangkok.

 

As a ‘belt and braces’ person who likes to cover all angles when dealing with Immigration especially, I decided to have in my ‘back pocket’ range of documents to support my application.  I would only submit those documents that the IO asked for.

 

1.  Letter from the bank confirming I was the holder of a foreign currency deposit account and the date/amount of foreign currency deposited each month.

 

2.  Copy of each page of my foreign currency deposit account passbook showing date/amount of funds received.

 

Note: the code shown against each deposit (I/R) is not easily read as coming from overseas even though the amount is in GBP.

 

3.  Copies of all 12 Credit Advice Notes (CAN) which were attached to the email sent to me by the bank on the day they received my funds from overseas – this clearly showed funds transferred via SWIFT.

 

4.  A bank statement for my foreign currency deposit account showing all transactions for the last 12 months.

 

5.  A statement from my UK bank showing my 12 monthly transfers to Thailand.

 

OK, may be its ‘over kill, but as I said I like to be prepared and not have to come back another day because I needed a document.

 

As I indicated in my earlier post (# 22), I automatically receive an email from the BKK bank informing me that my transferred funds have been received.  Attached to the email is a PDF copy of the Credit Advice Note (CAN) which clearly shows the origin of the funds and that they have been transferred from overseas by SWIFT. 

 

These CANs also facilitated me obtaining a letter from the bank confirming me as the holder of the foreign currency deposit account and dates/amounts deposited.

 

My statement from my UK bank showing my previous 12 months transfers was obtained/printed via my UK bank’s online facility.  Interestingly, I can access/print statements going back 6 years.

 

The ‘fun’ (if I can call it that) came when I went to BKK Bank HQ, Silom Road, Bangkok last week and asked for a statement showing the previous 12 months transaction on my account.  No problem I was informed, it will cost 200THB and I will have to collect the following day.  I asked why it cannot be printed there and then?  The cashier advised me that she only has access to the last 6 months statements and anything beyond that period she has too request the statement be printed out by a different department.  Nothing I could do but smile and grit my teeth.

 

Ok, so I go back home (2 hours plus on the bus).  As I arrive home I get a phone call from the bank to say that my request for the statement had been received too late in the day, so it would not be ready for me to collect the next day (Thursday).  The customer service agent apologised and said it would be ready on Friday after lunch.  As per the phone call, last Friday, I travelled back into Bangkok on the bus to collect my statement.  Another 4 hours plus getting there and back on the bus.  Great experience with the Covid-19 situation and no social distancing.

 

This is Thailand 4.0 ?  Really!!

 

Lesson learned….. Make a note in diary at 6 monthly intervals to request print out of bank statement as this can be done while you wait.  Cost 100THB a ‘shot’.

 

On Monday, this week, after lunch, my wife and I went to my local Immigration Office in Nakhon Pathom to apply for my extension of permission to stay, based upon retirement, using 12 monthly deposits of 65K THB. 

 

Apart from a receptionist and 4 IOs sitting at their desks the place was totally deserted.  The receptionist took our temperature, did a cursory check of my documentation and indicated which IO I should go to.

 

After a wai and smile, I sat down and handed the IO my TM7 together with copies of the required pages of my passport.  He immediately opened my passport at the photo page and put it into his desktop scanner which would have displayed on his computer screen the content of the biographical data held on the microchip that's embedded in my passport.  He then compared that information with my photo page of my passport and then obviously compared the photo on his screen with me.

 

He went through the application form and each copy page of my passport with a ‘fine tooth comb’ highlighting relevant dates etc.  and comparing each page with my actual passport.  No problem, so far.

 

He then asked how I was financially supporting my application.  I advised him the 12 monthly 65K THB/month method, and I then handed him the bank letter together with the 12 months bank statement.  Again, he went through the bank statement with a ‘magnifying glass’ highlighting each deposit.  He then asked for my passbook which I gave him, and he compared entries in the passbook against those in the bank statement.  Fine I thought.  Wrong, he then said he needed a copy of my every passbook page.  No problem, plan ‘B’ came into operation and I produced the copy which I had scanned and printed off at home.  Once again, he highlighted each of the deposits and it checked against the statement.

 

Great I thought, having checked the statement and my passbook he must have everything he needs to approve my request.  Again, I was wrong.  He said that the neither the statement or my passbook showed that the fund had come from overseas and that I need to provide proof that the funds had come from overseas. 

 

I could have sworn at that point, but somehow managed to smile and ‘grit my teeth’.  Time for plan ‘C’ to swing into action.  The 12 Credit Advice Notes (CANs) were handed over as these clearly show the amount transferred in GB, where the funds originated from (UK bank) and how it was transferred to BKK Bank via SWIFT.  As before he closely examined each CAN highlighting dates, amounts etc.

 

Blow me down as soon as he finished examining the CANs, he said he needed a certificate from my government confirming that I receive a government pension.  What?  This was not in my plan ‘D’, or a requirement in the Police Regulations. 

 

I politely explained to him that I do not have such a certificate as my income is derived from private pensions and investment dividends.  He said that I should go to my Embassy and get a letter confirming my income.  What!!! The British Embassy stopped issuing such letters 2 years ago. 

 

Rather than trying to argue the point it was time for plan ‘E’.  Copies of my UK bank statements which showed details of my UK income providers and my transfers to BKK Bank.  He quickly looked at the first page of the statement and handed it back.  What next?

 

He could have knocked me down with a feather.  He smiled and asked for 1,900THB.  I was in a state of shock but somehow managed handed over the cash.  The IO then stamped and initialled my application form and passport and then disappeared with everything into the back office.  He returned a few minutes later with my permission to stay stamp in my passport duly authorised by his senior officer.

 

Time to exit stage right, promptly, after a wai and a smile.

 

The whole process took about 50 minutes, 30 minutes to long in my opinion, but thankfully I’m good to stay for another year.  I just wonder which ‘goalpost’ they will move by this time next year?

8 hours ago, Dave0206 said:

qatar are still flying cheapest 1 way ticket(which is all he needs) 16.500 baht 23hrs or 31.000 for shorter flight times so not so bad

Dave…. Like you’re thinking, but unfortunately it isn’t quite that simple. 

 

Air transportation of deportees is governed by international regulations which are laid down by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), who operate under the auspices of the United Nations (UN).

 

Firstly, the deportee should be transported back to their home country by the most direct route, and whenever possible by the national carrier of the deportee’s home country, if there is one.  It should be noted that if a national carrier is available they cannot refuse to transport the deportee unless there are serious concerns about the deportee (as given below). 

 

In cases where there is no direct route, or no national carrier, and a stop over and/or a change of carrier is involved, the carriers involved in transporting the individual back to their home country will need to agree to transport the deportee. In this situation non-national carrier(s) can refuse to transport the deportee because of the additional costs that they will incur due to providing security, accommodation etc during the stop over (risk of the deportee doing a runner during the stop over).

 

Secondly Immigration must carry out a comprehensive risk assessment of the individual and this must be submitted to the carrier(s) before they agree to transport the individual.  If the deportee has shown any tendency towards violence, abusive behaviour or have serious mental health issues the airline (even the national carrier) can refuse to transport the person if they are not escorted.

 

Obviously if an escort(s) is/are required the deportee will also bear the additional cost involved with providing the escort(s) e.g. return airfares, accommodation and possibly salary etc.

 

Thirdly, Immigration will need to approve any proposed transportation/routing of the deportee as they (Immigration) will notify their counterparts in the deportees home country (and stop over if applicable) of the pending arrival of the deportee and reasons for the deportation, so that a ‘welcoming party’ can be arranged.