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Hospital directors don't queue in CW. It is only farangs who queue in order to save a few bahts. Most people who are fortunate to earn money do spend to reduce their drudgery.

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Since the new work permits issued dont have any workplace address or a home address at the back of the book, Is there any way I can fill up a form plead to the labor to specifically add a workplace address or a home address?   It used to be such in the older days .
 
Certificate of residence is not an option as I hold two licenses for motorbike and car renewing and buying and selling vehicles and registering them is quite frequent in my case. Getting it from the embassy so many times a year will result in thousands of baht lost just for paper. So does doing it at the immigration as visits to the immigration is not that cheap nor convenient plus the TM 30 hassle. 

Gazillions of threads on this, have a look.
 
Some recommendations:
 
walk around
 
find a person to reference/sponsor you, who is already a BBL customer
 
choose a branch near where you might live
 
choose a branch in a major mall - they'e open more days/hours
 
 
 
 
 

8 hours ago, timendres said:

Your guarantee aside, I have looked at the passport and seen the stamps. I mentioned it simply to indicate that he seems to be dodging the bullet at CNX, and that may be of interest to the OP.

Shouldn't that stamp (assumed extension stamp) tell you why the extension was given. Most probably to visit family (wife, children, parents) which is for 60-day. So, 30 (exempt entry) + 60 (family extension) = 90 day per entry. 

6 hours ago, Martyp said:

I believe you can get an -O in a Consulate in a nearby country. 

I think one can get O (not retirement O) visa for US consulates also if the person has a Thai family (wife, husband, mother, father, sons, daughters)

22 hours ago, donnacha said:

All they are doing is magically generating money from the not-Thailand universe and, then, merrily spunking it into the Thai economy.

If a wealthy Chinese or Indian go to USA and tell the immigration that I would be merrily spending my own money that average Americans earn in their life time, they won't allow him to stay in the USA for indefinite time. They will ask him to buy an E5 visa. If somebody is wealthy, there are ways to stay legally in any country one wishes. 

22 hours ago, donnacha said:

So, exactly what jobs, that could be performed by Thais, are being taken by people on Education visas?

You see how you're twisting the sentence. I said without a work permit and you're saying performed by Thais. Any job you do in a foreign country needs a work permit. Thailand does not have any obligation or has signed any international treaty to allow foreigners to stay long-term on Tourist/ED visas. 

 

On 8/24/2019 at 7:04 AM, JandT said:

What doesnt make any sense is that the people are getting the documents from the Thai Ministry of Education giving them permission to study in Thailand and yet are still being denied at the embassy when they go to apply. If they don't want people to study in Thailand why are they even approving those documents in the first place?

Education ministry and immigration have different goals. Education does not care about your history of living in Thailand. We all know that Thai language learning is a ruse for staying long-term in Thailand which immigration has a goal of reducing. People just don't wake up 10,000 miles from Thailand and decide that they would learn Thai and come to Thailand on a tourist a visa and then try to get an ED visa in a neighboring country. 

I don't see any issue for SETV. O-A and METVs have home country/residency restrictions.

No problem. They are targeting people who live in Thailand on tourist visa. Thai immigration officers can spot them from their entry patterns and visa history. These people are mostly remote workers, some earn good amount of money and others dabble in various online businesses.

I buy from US Amazon and tells me approximate custom and collects and pays. I had to register once with the custom on my shipment. Amazon returns the custom balance if any.

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From all the posts I have read here, I think IOs are only refusing entry to people who live here on tourist visa and probably working remotely also. By now they have figured it out who are those people from their entry and visa pattern. As there is no specific laws to deny then entry, IOs use the ruse of not having money to survive.

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10 hours ago, SteveK said:

Rubbish. Many people met their Thai wives on tourist visas.

I'm wondering how many 50+ years old tourists meet their Chinese wife, Greek wife, Swiss wife 30 years younger than themselves in tourist visas in bars. Give me a break. 

Let's not forget the reality that ED visa is a ruse for staying in Thailand. Nobody really wants to learn Thai just for the sake of learning the language. If they want to learn, they can learn Chinese. I understand the reason for learning Thai if you're in other type of visa like Business, retirement, etc. The ED visa for learning Thai  by itself is a farce and embassies have started to realize that. 

6 hours ago, fforest1 said:

99.9% of farangs DO NOT take jobs from Thais...Never have....

But they do work without a work permit. 

Just boggles my mind how an elite visa holder does not know the difference between visa validity and permission to stay date. 

On 8/14/2019 at 3:30 AM, Max69xl said:

o be honest, there are quite a few people here with reading problems.????

They have reading problems, comprehension problems, reasoning problems, lacks analytical ability, and much more as evidenced by their posts and recent example is numerous posts about TM30, not able to distinguish between validity of a visa and permission of stay, visa and extension, etc. 

Allowing China and India passport holders visa exempt entry

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Things I can think of
1. Increased in Visa fees
2. Some kind of restrictions for perpetual toursits
3. Health insurance requirement
4 increase in extension fee
5. Eliminating 90 day reporting
6. Increasing 72 hours for TM 30


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Unless it is in one of their partner bank, (Bangkok and kk bank), selecting long term stay in Thailand option does not change the transfer code, I think

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16 hours ago, Brigand said:

From what I hear from the few teachers I know, many tell me new teachers shouldn't bother teaching high school or elementary here as the MoE, rules and regs make it barely worth it. Better to look at tertiary education here as the rules aren't so strict as these facilities are much freer to do as they wilt without interfering nonsense from the MoE. However, not a teacher these days so maybe others are more up-to-speed but I have noticed a marked decline in the number of western teachers over the last 8 years or so. If you want to teach high school and below then Vietnam would probably be less hassle, especially with the current immigration nonsense being enforced for long stayers now.

Accidentally met with my college gf in the US after almost 30-year. She was telling me her story about teachings in more than 10 countries - Middle East, Japan, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Dubai, etc. She has a PhD in education and very widely traveled, almost all the countries throughout the World. Now she has retired and live in the USA. I asked he if she has ever worked in Thailand. She said no and but she has visited Thailand. I asked her why? She said Thailand mostly offers low paid teaching jobs and people  go there to meet girls.

4 hours ago, wobalt said:

Definitely border run in the wake of a TM30 BS

TM 30 BS costs only 1600 max, a border run is a wastage of time, more money and inconvenience for many people. I don't need to do TM 30 because I don't need to go to immigration office, but if I had to do, I would have preferred a fine of 1600 (max) baht over a border run. 

1 hour ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Again I didn't do anything wrong 

Wrong and right does not mean anything to immigration. They can prevent any person to enter Thailand on any pretext as evidence by numerous entry denial report. 

17 hours ago, hobz said:

Notice how immigration didn't respond to him pointing out that terrorists etc will not report their address anyway..

I think most of the terrorists are home grown and they have Thai IDs (real or fake) and don't need TM 30 BS. Did they release the names of those caught in the recent Bangkok bombings?