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JBChiangRai

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Everything posted by JBChiangRai

  1. Then it depends on your nationality, you will need your divorce certificate and have to swear a statutory declaration, if you're British, you'll have to pretend you're getting married again.
  2. It is possible, it's easy if you're married to a Thai.
  3. Been there, got the T-shirt, I am reminded of the definition of stupidity "Doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result".
  4. Then I am guessing you were married at the time you adopted your adult daughter? And your wife must have gone with you? The guy at the Tessaban says it is very easy if you get your ducks in a row, My daughter really wants this.
  5. 15 years ago I adopted my first Thai child, actually she was my Thai partner's child and having shown her a good life and sent her to an international school, it would have been very unfair of me to send her back to abject poverty because the relationship broke down. Her grandma who brought her up prior to living with me, told my (ex)partner to get real and realise that I could give her by far the best start in life. Three years later, her cousin who was 8 spent her summer holiday with us, her parents went to Korea to work illegally whilst she was with us and I was told to take her to a school specialising in hill tribe kids where she would board at the state's expense. Unsurprisingly, she was distraught over this and so I gained another daughter and she gained a sister. Fast forward to today, they are now 20 and 19 years old, completed their education at a private school and are now in the 2nd year at Payap University (we call it payup because it's expensive). I have tried years ago to properly adopt, it's practically impossible for anyone living in Thailand unless you are married and a permanent resident, I am neither. There are 2 routes, you either go by the adoption center which used to be run out of some convent in Bangkok, or your provincial governor can sign it off, ours was asked by my lawyer whilst playing golf with him and he refused. It's pretty much ridiculous, because as far as the school was concerned, I paid the fees so I was the father. Properly adopting them would have got them a UK Passport if it was before their 16th birthday. I stood to gain nothing. We recently went to the Tessaban, now the oldest is 20, she's an adult and it's simply a matter of signing paperwork at the Tessaban to adopt an adult. Now comes problem two. Because I was divorced 25 years ago, I had to ask the court in the UK for my Decree Absolute, so I got that. Now I have to prove I have not remarried. How do you prove a negative? Well it turns out, I MUST have a statutory declaration made at the UK Embassy in Bangkok. The UK Embassy ONLY do it if I am getting remarried and for no other reason. So back to the Tessaban who told me "Pretend your getting married", a typical solution to a Thai bureaucratic problem, so that is in process. I appreciate the need for being careful in the adoption process, but in my case they threw the baby out with the bathwater.
  6. The insurance site Auto Insurance EZ compiled sales and accident data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the National Transportation Safety Board. The site found that hybrid vehicles had the most fires per 100,000 sales at 3474.5. There were 1529.9 fires per 100k for gas vehicles and just 25.1 fires per 100k sales for electric vehicles. Source Gas Vs Electric Accident and Fire Safety | NextBigFuture.com
  7. 16 amp (around 3.5Kw) is the most you can plug into a wall socket, but I wouldn't advise it. I would stick to around 10 amps, the reason being that wall sockets are rated for a short time at 16 amps, but you risk a fire if you do it longer. Your car probably comes with a charger rated about 10 amps. I had a Feyree and it failed the first day, local guy took it apart and couldn't fix it. If you want 16 amps then ask your electrician to fit a blue industrial 16 amp socket and buy a charger with a 16 amp plug on it, but if your supply is adequate, might as well fit a 32 amp blue industrial socket and go for a 7.2kw charger with plug on it (cables/breaker etc to match, i.e. one size larger on the breaker)
  8. Having watched the video and read the top gear review, my advice to anyone thinking about the Dolphin would be don't be one of the first ordering it. Wait and see how the market reacts. Thai's love performance, if it delivers pedestrian performance it's going to be bad news on the second-hand car market. I'm reminded of the Suzuki Ciaz versus the Honda City, both almost identical to look at, one of them only has 90 hp, the other 120 hp, the low powered one loses 50% of it's value in year 1 because the Thai's don't want it.
  9. Every owner of a pit bull is a bad owner. It's for good reason they are a banned breed in the UK.
  10. 'Tis but a scratch
  11. I’m sure the OP has his reasons.
  12. The point is how you tell if internet or power is lost at location A when you are at location B. The OP did say “Recently the electricity was off in a place which I don't visit regularly and because of that the internet was off. I didn't notice for a few days.” Further, what you are suggesting won’t actually work for anyone whose router is separate from their modem. At my home if we lose internet, my laptop and smartphone will still display a strong WiFi signal and I can still access the file servers on my local network.

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