wolfmanjack

On 10/15/2018 at 1:47 AM, elviajero said:

• If you're looking for a visa/extension of stay to stay with a Thai child there is no age limit. The child can be any age. You would need an income of at least 40K pm, or have 400K in the bank on the day you apply for the extension.
• If you want a visa/extension of stay on the basis of being financially supported by a Thai child you need to be over 50. There isn't a set amount of income the Thai must earn, but immigration might ask for proof of their income.

What about this part?

(4) In the case of a child, adopted child or child of his/her spouse, the said person must not be married, must be living with the family, and must be less than 20 years of age;

It looks to me like they are saying that once the child reached 20 years old I can't get a visa to support the child.

3 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

There is a clause for retired people being supported by their Thai children, no need to show any amount of money. 

99% of immigration officers will not know this. 

I see this in a police order. Are you saying that since no income requirement is specified for the father under maintenance of children then there are no income requirements? I would think there would be some kind of income requirement for the children. Does anyone know if one has been posted or is it left up to the discretion of each immigration official.

2 hours ago, PoorSucker said:

There is a clause for retired people being supported by their Thai children, no need to show any amount of money. 

99% of immigration officers will not know this. 

Thank you for responding. Do you have a citation for this clause? It would help when talking with immigration.

All very interesting. Thank you all for responding. I suppose I need to check with immigration in Chiang mai to see what they are actually allowing.

31 minutes ago, elviajero said:

• If you're looking for a visa/extension of stay to stay with a Thai child there is no age limit. The child can be any age. You would need an income of at least 40K pm, or have 400K in the bank on the day you apply for the extension.
• If you want a visa/extension of stay on the basis of being financially supported by a Thai child you need to be over 50. There isn't a set amount of income the Thai must earn, but immigration might ask for proof of their income.

Thank you. I was wondering since both of my kids are approaching the age of 20 and leaving 400k in the bank is more appealing than leaving 800k in the bank.

I was wondering if there is an age limit for the Thai child for this type of visa?

If not is there an income limit on how much the Thai child can make?

On 9/5/2018 at 3:27 PM, FolkGuitar said:

 

Wolfman, I just dropped off five shirts this afternoon, so the place is definitely there and open.

HOWEVER... you'd never know it to look at it. They don't turn the lights on. There are half a dozen scooters parked up against the glass as if the place is abandoned. I stood in front of it, and wasn't sure it was open until I notice that the doors were slightly ajar.

Thank you. I will definitely check it out.

Is this the place?

20 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Can't say if they do sleeves or hats, but I have my shirt fronts and backs done by a shop on Khao Nawarat Rd, just at the corner before the turn for the bus station. They have recently enlarged their shop to be a double-wide shophouse, and to very nice work.

 

Thank you. I will check it out

Can anyone recommend a silkscreen shop in Chiang Mai that does tee shirts and hats? The one I am using now won't print on sleeves or do hats.

When I got divorced all we needed was wife's ID card, my passport and both original marriage certificates. It was done at a different amphur than where we were married.

17 hours ago, smedly said:

either drunk or on facebook or both, I can think of no other rational reason for this, the vehicle he was overtaking was also off the road so there was plenty of room

 

I honestly believe that Mobile Phone use is the number one cause of accidents in this country, drunk driving, careless driving and speeding come after in any order you like or a combination of all of them, the ultimate blame is lack of the police's ability or willingness to enforce traffic law

the driver may have fallen asleep. That is the only other possible reason I can think of for the continuous drifting towards the other truck.

1 minute ago, wavemanwww said:

So help them more to break even at least! To be a really really honest guy? :-)

I help them whenever I see they need help or if they ask for help. 

1 minute ago, wavemanwww said:

Really really honest people. Never heard of such people!

That is unfortunate for you. I have never had any problems with them and they have helped me a lot more than I have helped them. 

6 minutes ago, overherebc said:

No you didn't.

But many reading this thread will not put the Amity/Thai Company rules together and still believe as a 'oneman band' they can start a company and do what they want because the US expat on the next bar stool tells them so.

They've been saying this since the 90's and I still don't know one that's done it

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When I first came here I met a guy that had a company registered under the treaty and he recommended I do the same but when I checked into it the lawyer I spoke to said the government had made it much more difficult to do so I just went ahead and set up a Thai limited company with my sister in law and some friends. Before anyone comments about getting ripped off, I never had a problem with my Thai partners. They all had businesses of their own though and are really honest people.

2 hours ago, overherebc said:

Even under the treaty FBA rules still apply.

Each 'business'the company wants to do requires 3,000,000 on top of the minimum 2,000,000 to start.

It's intended for large companies to start a branch in Thailand not Joe Bubba from Texas who wants to open a bar in walking street.

For years I've been hearing from USA expats that they are going to open a business under this system and they are still talking about it years later.

Did I say anything about the treaty? 

hannity said fox confirmed the story after crying it was fake news then immediately switched to a car crash video.

1 hour ago, Misterwhisper said:

 

I assume that report only considers investors from the U.S., who are protected by an antiquated "friendship law" dating back to the Vietnam war and which allows U.S. citizens to actually own 100% of their business. 

 

As for the rest of us: Yes, it's perhaps easy to start a business with a sackful of money to invest - and lose once your 51% Thai partner smells the profits and saws you off like a dead tree branch; or because your greasy Thai lawyer failed to inform you that as a non-U.S. foreigner you were actually not legally permitted to engage in that sort of business in the first place.

 

I assume that report only considers investors from the U.S. 

Unless things have changed recently if you form a Thai company the restricted businesses do not apply since the company is considered a Thai juristic person. 

On 1/6/2018 at 12:22 PM, pegman said:

He inherited $200m from daddy. Self made $1b? Now your cred is in the gutter too.

More importantly, he had his father to teach him the real estate business, give him all his financial contacts and government contacts.  Then Mark Burnett built his brand for him and he has been capitalizing off of that brand ever since. 

16 hours ago, madusa said:

Of course the silencer is not for the shotgun pistol, oh no you can't really keep down the exploding noise of a shotgun pistol.

So I could find out from Youtube tutorial on how to make a silencer, if I do make one it would be for a pistol that fire normal bullet not shotgun bullet. I will have to make the pistol as well pistol is not difficult to make. Do I need a reinforced type of steel tube for my pistol? This is a question I need answer. I worry the whole thing explode in my face.

If I was you I would be googling all of this stuff instead of posting on here. 

18 hours ago, madusa said:

Nice to get your response to my questions. Is it difficult to make a silencer for a pistol?

It's not high tech is it? Why would I need a silencer? Well, I don't want to wake up the whole neighborhood & with police coming, then to court. You want to do the job quietly dispose of the cadaver. The present standard of police investigation I guess you could just about get away with it.

I am talking about protecting your family shooting an intruder who is armed with a  machete in your own home not about taking a pistol to the bar or pub.

there are plenty of videos on youtube how to make a silencer but I have to warn you that it isn't like in the movies and a shotgun it pretty loud even with a silencer.

On 8/20/2017 at 6:32 AM, Elkski said:

I've been told a degree from a Thai uni is not accepted in most Western countries.  

 

I know that universities in the USA accept Thai degrees because I met my first Thai girlfriend while she was attending University in the USA to get her masters degree.

1 hour ago, madusa said:

Really? I have never heard of that. Are you sure there are pistols that could fire shotgun shells? You familiar with guns? I hate to say this I think I need one of these to protect myself from robbers with machete. I would fire into their faces to make sure they die. Not because I am evil I just don't like to be chopped up.

Positive. I have fired one. Yes, I am familiar with guns. I grew up with guns and have owned many from black powder rifles to machine pistols. There are companies that manufacture pistols that fire shotgun shells and here in Thailand, they have converted pistols to be single shot shotguns.

I had my picture taken with Chuan Leekpai.

her neighbor says she was trying to break up but the girl's father says the groom was the one trying to break it off. did the author get it wrong or was someone telling fibs?