Mike Teavee

One of the major points in your insurance policy is to check the FCO site before travelling if for no other reason than if there is a travel advisory against travelling there then your insurance is void. But I guess if people don’t buy insurance or can’t be arsed to even 1/2 read their policy then they’ll not know & it will all be somebody else’s fault for not putting it in flashing lights for them.

The FCO puts out a pretty strict warning about riding a motorcycle in Thailand https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/thailand/safety-and-security

Tourism fee doesn’t come in to effect until June 1st but even if it were I’m sure there are limits to how much cover it will provide. Maybe emergency/stabilising assistance but after that you’ll need to pay yourself.

No problem in Vientiane with AIS, recommend purchasing the “Ready2Fly” package before you go… https://www.ais.th/ready2fly/en/

For the $10,000 + pension option it now seems you need to invest in property or a long term lease (I’m sure pre-Covid you didn’t & it was purely > 50yrs old + $10,000 in the bank) but for the >35yrs old + $20,000 in the bank that (+ processing fees) is all you need to pay. Also worth mentioning getting an SRRV entitles you to Phil Health coverage which whilst no where near as good as a private plan is better than nothing.

If you have a Single 90 Day “Retirement Visa” or are on extension of a visa then entering without a re-entry permit will mean you will get a 30 day visa exempt which could be converted to a new 90 Day Single Entry Visa but is a lot more work than just extending your current permission to stay. Unless you are exiting on a Non-IMM OA visa with a view to moving to a Non-IMM O visa (to avoid Health Insurance Requirement) then I would recommend doing your extension before you leave & getting a re-entry permit to protect this (reason being you can do both in 1 trip to Immigration). If you can’t do this then get the re-entry permit before you go (either at Immigration Office or Airport) & then do your extension as soon as you get back.

Are we talking about the same thing only When I looked at it the only cost (minus a couple hundred $ processing fees) was I had to put $20,000 into a Government Bank (was < 50 at the time, believe I could use $10,000 + a pension if I was old enough to get my pension ) which is less than the 800,000b I keep in a Thai bank for annual extensions. Accredited Agent fees were free (same with Thai Elite Visas), no need for a solicitor.

If you click on the link https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/04/06/pension-reform-in-france-which-countries-have-the-lowest-and-highest-retirement-ages-in-eu it shows a table of Retirement ages across a number of European Countries (why not all I don’t know, I thought maybe just EU countries but Switzerland is in the list) and the move to 64 would see France becoming top of that list with the Germans at 63.7 in second place. Wasn’t the national retirement age for Greece 55 before they had their financial meltdown? It’s now 62.

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If you just want to watch the video, there’s no need to click the Thaiger Link, click the clip link in the OP (or in this post ???? ).

I personally don’t think you’ll have a problem as you’re within the grace period (NB I doubt you’d have a problem in the future if you were over) but if you do have a problem, it’s a 2k fine.

A lot of people had major issues with 3rd parties & travel cancellations at the start of Covid so since then have sworn off using an Agent to book travel. I used to have no problem doing it either way but would lean towards using the airlines own website as I found it easier to add luggage, choose meals, reserve seats etc… Fortunately at that time I’d booked my UK Trip directly with Qatar so when I had to cancel it due to Covid, I had the choice of a refund or vouchers +10%, took the latter & used these 2 years later. Nowadays I only ever use the airlines own site.

And where would they stamp the extension?

The answer is once you leave Thailand the clock stops ticking & is reset to Day 1 on arrival but even if it weren’t It doesn’t matter, if a fine is due it’s 2,000b whether you’re 1 day over the grace period or 60 days.

Had a similar experience with a Russian kid (approx 5-6) running down the condo corridor shouting/screaming a couple of times a day then 1 day I got in the lift with the family & it was very obvious that the kid had mental problems (am guessing autism but I’m no expert). Not easy for parents of any nationality to control a kid like that. Lucky we never heard a peep from them before 9am or after 9pm.

https://www.google.com/travel/flights then once you’ve selected the best option use the airline’s site to book

In Short No, you can either extend your Non-IMM O for 1 year, attempt an extension, fail & be given 7 days to leave or do a border bounce at the end of your current permission to stay & get 30 days visa exempt which can be extended. BTW, I assume you have a re-entry permit on your current permission to stay otherwise you’ll be given 30 days visa exempt which, again, can be extended for 30 days.

Maybe teaching grandma to suck eggs but… If you can receive sms from somebody locally check what number you have given the banks including (& especially) the country code either +66 or 0066… (Oh & don’t forget to remove the leading zero from your number) If you can’t receive SMS then talk to your Provider (actually if you can you might want to ask them whether your phone is set-up to receive international SMS).

Surely the people who attended the scene of the accident or the attending DRs can give an opinion as to whether he was wearing a helmet or not. Of course it could have come off at the moment of impact with the net result being the same as if he wasn’t wearing a helmet but the insurance company could argue wearing a helmet “Improperly” is the same as not wearing a helmet at all on the basis the claim is likely to be higher as a result. Other reasons for denying the claim could be no motorcycle license, no IDP or the bike was 125+ & required separate motorcycle insurance.

As others have said it’s easy to stay in Phillipines for up to 3 years (after that you leave & re-enter to do another 3) but if you’re interested in a longer term stay check out SRRV. https://pra.gov.ph/srrv/ If I were to move there I would avoid Manila & look for one of the Southern places (I really like Davao, Cebu & Bohol).

It’s exactly that (my mate did it a couple of months ago… NB it’s not just the Conversion to a Non-IMM O but includes the 1st years extension (so you get 15 months permission to stay)

Same story, different Brit (am assuming you’re referring to the guy from Manchester who recently died). Edit: Apologies it seems this accident happened Feb 3rd so you may well have read about it before … https://ukdaily.news/yorkshire/josh-richardson-in-serious-condition-after-crash-in-thailand-70089.html

An Agent can help you convert your Visa Exempt to a Non-IMM O (90 Days) + 1st year extension (so you would get 15 months permission to stay) without having the 800K in the bank. I can’t recommend one in Bangkok (my old agent there wouldn’t do an extension for me if I didn’t have the money in the bank, never mind a conversion) but Maneerat in Pattaya (Soi Post Office / Soi 13/2) can sort it out for you in a few days if you don’t mind a short holiday… costs approx. 23,500b. Alternatively you might be able to get a Non-IMM O in your home country or a neighbouring country to Thailand (I got mine in Penang, Malaysia) where using the equivalent of 800K in your home/another country bank account might be possible. But you’ll almost certainly only get 90 days after which you’ll need to do an extension for which you’ll either need to use an agent (>12.5K) or have the money in the bank or xfer 65k+ every month or a combination of the 2..

Same here & (maybe naively) I just assumed that I only needed to show that the funds came from overseas so have been using the “Funds For Long Term Living in Thailand” reason with Wise (am pretty sure “Property Purchase” wasn’t an option when I 1st started using them but at that time had no interest in buying anything so probably wouldn’t have noticed it if there were). End of the day of it doesn’t work that way I’ll just send the money to the UK (or Singapore depending on FX rates) & transfer it back with the correct information. There no longer seems to be restrictions on sending money outside of Thailand but I have proof that I brought it in from overseas if there were. .

Could use a time delayed email (say 1 week, which you would move forward by 1 week each week until you couldn’t) to store the information that way it’s easy to change if anything needs updating (including who should receive the instructions) For GMail… https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/google-death-a-tool-to-take-care-of-your-gmail-when-youre-gone/274934/ Outlook… https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/delay-or-schedule-sending-email-messages-026af69f-c287-490a-a72f-6c65793744ba