SCOTT FITZGERSLD

10 hours ago, musiclover said:

Not true....can be done.    I got standard mortgage 15 years from Thai Bank. 

interesting...do you have a work permit / regular job ?

or just another PATTAYA bar owner?

11 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Irrelevant point.

relevant. thai - and chinese and singaporeans - can buy land in europe canada and USA, but

foreigners can't buy land in those countries...

because asians know - who owns the land owns the country !!

i wonder why this guy transfered to thailand so much money, from

an organised civillised country like holland.

it just does not make sense, propably also to thai courts, which made

them even more suspicious that he is trying to launder money.

having all this wealth in thailand makes you a direct target of both

criminal and authorities, corrupt or not.

i know some foreigners who run succesfull businesses here in thailand,

but move all their profits, legally, to other countries, just to stay safe.

they do it according to their thai wives advices, who tell them

they better not have "too much money" in thai bank.

this is true not only to thailand but to any corrupt third world country.

this dutch man was too naive...or under educated about how this

world works...or maybe too in love with his thai wife...???

3 hours ago, Netease said:

Whats going to happen when the Thai Government starts asking Retirees to prove where they got the Bht 800,000 needed in a Thai bank or for that matter where any of us got our money from to purchase properties in Thailand.

Will we need to show our tax records from our home country going back many years.

Don't laugh, it could happen

that is exactly the question here.

if thailand is jailing foreigners (for life !!) for tax offenses / money laundering

made abroad, it puts all investors / retirees in thailand in real life danger !!

if someone from your home country / any other country you worked at, want to

revenge you for some reason, and he has connection, all he or she need

to do is arrange a letter from law authorities in your country, and thai

authorities will be more than happy to throw you in jail and confiscate all your assets !!

very big danger for all foreigners in thailand !

17 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

Not correct per IO rules. What Imm office is this that is requiring this? Not been reported from anywhere that i have seen and is definitely not required by the rules as issued from Imm HQ including latest update.

i can confirm it from my experience.

you can;t just have 800K in your account.

you MUST prove the amount came from abroad.

all immigration offices in thailand will require that.

check this form for more details.

25 minutes ago, timendres said:

You will not get a loan from a Thai bank, but there are outfits like these: http://www.mbkg.co.th/en/home

No clue if the are reputable, or what you need to qualify, or if the terms are reasonable.

THEIR rate is kbank regular rate + 2.4%...total 8.65%...and minimum property

value 1 million baht...

few years ago i left thailand by air. the immigration officer stamped my

passport but handed me the seperate departure form (that time they used

to attach that departure form to the passport, AFTER the immigration check out).

so i thought i don't need that departure form any more and threw it away.

but on boarding the flight, they refused my entry because i do not have the form with me.

i told them i threw it away, and argues but politely. than a security man came out of nowhere,

and told me aggresively :"SHUT UP".

FROM there i was escorted to an immigration interrogation room, where a lady officer

told me : "if you can't remember in which flight you came to thailand 30 days ago, you

will be arrested". so i tried hard and remembered the flight company, the lady left

and came back with a piece of paper which she threw at me (!) - that was

the passengers list on that flight into thailand !

and the funny side of the story? today you don't need at all this departure form...the

immigration officers keep it with them...

2 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I'm not going to be a smart ass and try and explain what No Book means, cause I don't know. but what I can tell the O/P @SCOTT FITZGERSLD is that all of my pension payments and my TransferWise payments showed up on my account as no book (37 of them) and they were accepted by Immigration at my recent extension renewal. 

thanks, that's also what my banker explained to me.

what counts is not the "NO BOOK" but the remark on the side I/O

which means international transfer.

2 hours ago, Galactus said:

another act of aggression from Israel, a rogue state constantly presses over international rules and regulations.

such moves just creates more hate towards Israel.

 

 

oh yeah? then some might claim like, Israeli Army deep inside Palestinian occupied and stolen land is also a terror group then?

THE ones occupy israeli land ate the so called "palestinians", A bunch of arab invaders who were

created by arab and muslim countries to fight israel and chase jews away from their land.

this will change in the near future, when the "palestinians" will have to leave and go back

to one of the 22 arab countries they came from.

I wonder if a FARANG on retirement visa extention can get any kind

of mortgage loan , to buy an apartment in thailand, from a thai bank?

I know it is possible in other third world countries, where they give

around 50% of the property value as loans to foreigners...this

way the bank has almost no risk, because he can claim

the property back in case of default. i wonder if in Thailand

it is also possible...

well, i went to the bank and asked about this NO BOOK VALUE, and the banker

assured me that it is considered as INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER, because

besides this code there are the letters I/O while the I stands for

INTERNATIONAL.

when using the 800K method the immigration will care, a lot, if

the money came from abroad, and acctually no extention will be granted

if the applicant can't prove the amount came from abroad.

but now i have another question...the banker asked me if i can

transfer by WETRANSFER amounts large enough...and i said yes...but

not i wonder what did she mean? if for example i will transfer the 800K

in 10-15 payments of 2000-2500 USD EACH...will it be good enough

for them? damn...i can go ask her again...but maybe someone here

knows the answer...

11 hours ago, Pib said:

Maybe they thought you were saying that you "did not have a passbook" when you kept saying no book.

YES, they thought many things. and i kept on explaining to them,

until it was too much.

since i did predict that they will not understand such a "complicated" question,

i came with a copy of the "no book" page in my bank info, but that

did not help either.

so basically the only way to know for sure is to transfer the $$ and than

see if they accept it. and if not, than, well. i will have to find a way to spend

800K baht that i just transfered to my bank account in thailand.

i respectfully disaggree.

when i visited vietnam few years ago, all products in the airport duty free

where in on price  -2 USD.

CANDIES, PERFUME, DRINKS, SANDWICHES, SOUVENIERS - ALL SAME PRICE, 2 USD.

so in such a shop, if you buy smart, you can win.

1 hour ago, Mick501 said:

I'm really just looking to get pointed in the direction of sound legal advice so I can make decisions based on that.

I THINK THAT THE best thing for you to do is to stay away

from this case and not offering any help.

that is because if the police / criminals will see a farang involved, they

might complicate things just to extort money from you, because farang = money.

and remember, in a country where minimum wage is 9000 baht, even 10,000 baht

means money. which means, it will pay a police officer to arrest your girl

just for the chance to gain 10,000 baht.

the police is corrupt but quite efficient and proffesional. they don't fall on people

just like that, they know when and whom to attack.

so if your girlfriend is indeed not guilty, they will let her go. there is no

shortage of criminals in thailand for the police to investigate and arrest.

but if they will arrest your girl, they propably know some things that you

don't know or that she did not tell you.

either way you better stay away, and let the police do it's work.

On 8/12/2019 at 11:54 PM, Kaoboi Bebobp said:

I used my Thai driver's licence. No big deal, <deleted>.

THE big deal is that now they can follow all your movements,

or steal your identity.

check out the immigaration ad  - foreigners are still reffered to as "ALIENS"...

Japan allready changed this weird word all over it's airports.

when Thailand will grow up?

whaaat? must report to mummy every time i travel for more than 24 hours?

HHHAHAHAAA go stick it up your you know what.

just travel and be happy.

As more than one thai people explained to me, all laws in thailand

are merely reccomendations and breaking them can be forgiven with the

right amount of you know what.

THAI airways management should look at singapore airlines and cathay pacific, to

how to stay profitable even with low budgets airlines all around you.

but no, instead they are full of stupid excuses and pathetic stories.

as the old saying goes: "WHEN YOU PAY PEANUTS YOU GET MONKEYS". THAI

airways, like most employees in thailand, paid it's workers starvation third world

salaries while charging the customers first world prices.

you can't stay competitive when your workers can hardly feed

themselves.

aventually all goes down.

maybe this is the story of thailand. a country that gets more and more

expensive, even more expensive than USA and EUROPE, while most

of the work force gets paid around 9000-12000 baht a month.

no, you can't get too far with such greed and stinginess.

the transfer was made bu USD to my bangkok bank USD account, from overseas of course.

i went to the immigration office to ask about it.

they were not sure what i am talking about, and could hardly speak english.

after many explanations, they said something like: "no book cannot".

can someone explain what the hell does it mean?

NO BOOK CANNOT?

2 minutes ago, bluesofa said:

It's a transfer that was made without using the book at the time.

When I make transfers using online banking, it appears in my bank book (when updated) as 'no book transfer'.

SO...will the immigration accept it as a foreign transfer (FTT), for

visa extention purpose?

Recently i received a WETRANSFER payment , from overseas,

to my bangkok bank account.

the payment is classified as NO BOOK TRASFER.

the hell does this mean?

will the immigration accept it as a foreign transfer (FTT), for

visa extention purpose?

On 8/3/2019 at 5:47 PM, Justgrazing said:

Never mind Lucy in the Sky here's Binto in the Khazi with diamonds ..

jamal means camel in arabic

On 8/3/2019 at 5:30 PM, Puchaiyank said:

She's lucky someone did not abduct her...steal her money and jewelry, and toss her in a khlong...????

you look like someone who can do it

sooo...

the CSD (what a name for an authority...maybe soon they will develop

and mind reading machine that will stop people who even think about commiting a crime),

will arrest people who falsify sick notes,,,than they will get sick in the horrible thai

jails, and than...they can get a real sick note?

is that correct? DID I get it right?