Caldera

Government House might soon get a new head janitor.

That just means that you haven't seen Cambodian workmanship yet.

As there's a staff member present, they were already aware of the problem. Much ado about nothing? They do warn not to lean against doors anyway. On every single train, at every single door.

The most interesting tidbit of the story is missing. Why Narathiwat? What was he doing there, of all places? He overstayed by 4-5 months and still has money left over. That sounds a bit suspicious, too. Maybe he worked illegally, maybe he told family back home a sob story to send him more.

I'd say you'll need to hire a new attorney to get this resolved. Step #1, your new attorney will contact your immigration office to check what exactly they are after. They speak the same language, so this should be straightforward. Step #2, your new attorney will contact the court in question and get whatever letter you need, explaining why you need it. Assuming it's really just a formality and there's no material obstacle to your ongoing stay in Thailand, that should get things sorted.

Seriously, you've foregone years of rental income just because a counter clerk at your local immigration office didn't let you do a TM30 notification? I'm sure something could have worked out with the help of an agent to everyone's satisfaction.

... reluctantly and with daddy's help. ????

If they cater exclusively to Laotians and Burmese, they don't need to deal with getting a Cambodian "visa on arrival" for their customers as part of the border bounce procedure. They are exempt. Not sure if they would take someone along who needs one, but of course, then the price would be quite a bit higher to pay for the required visa.

Couldn't you or anyone else just type that whole document manually (making a copy of sorts), with just that one bit changed, and have it signed by whoever needs to sign it? I understand that the process can't be changed, but can it be circumvented? Would be quite an effort to get a new visa otherwise.

My prediction is that the influx of visa exempt Kazakhs will totally overwhelm them for months. ????

The farce continues.

Unethical Thai police doctors? Who would have thought they exist. ????

It's hopeless, I've heard it so many times and it never leads to anything substantial.

That's pretty much nonsensical. They'll be sent back to Cambodia, then pay someone to traffic them to Thailand again, helped by corrupt Thai officials at the border. Rinse and repeat.

This will upset quite some high-rollers who moved to Thailand specifically to take advantage of the tax regulations for foreign-sourced income brought into Thailand later.

Surely that must be a joke, as Thailand is abysmally bad in 3 out of those 5 categories.

That's a good point. I won't use the new website until I would have otherwise used the old website again. It's not like still current notifications need to be redone just because there's a new website.

They've sent your for questioning and you received your eVisa while you were waiting for your turn to get questioned? Did I understand that correctly? Excellent timing if that's the case. Then what happened? Did they choose not to question you once you told them about the newly arrived eVisa? Regarding the onward ticket, the official requirement is just a "ticket out" to any other country within the time your visa exempt is valid. That's what the airline flying you in would check (if they do). In case of immigration questioning you, all bets are off, people have reported that airport IOs haven't been happy with tickets to nearby countries before. Probably because they suspect the obvious.

So they created this shiny new website and there's STILL no option to download a notification receipt? You still need to take a screenshot, just like with the shoddy old website?

They never miss an opportunity to create completely unnecessary hassle. How difficult can it he to copy the user accounts over from the old system?

It's not like you can sue them if you feel like it's taking too long.

Yes (I realize that's true), but the question remains, why should the Thais allow someone who isn't "loaded" (by their standards anyway) to retire in their country? Those minimum requirements were put in place for a reason.

Yeah but if you don't meet those requirements, it could be argued that you don't qualify and should retire elsewhere.

I'd love to see some statistics released. How many prisoners have been helicoptered from prison to hospital this year? How many of those in the middle of the night? How many of those prisoners who have reported that they feel sick have been given the opportunity to see a doctor within say 24 hours? How many of those prisoners who did get to see a doctor were taken to hospital? How many were fobbed off with a bag of paracetamol or the likes? That would go a long way to establish that it's standard procedure for a sick inmate to be helicoptered to hospital in the middle of the night. Or not.

This new government has neither brains nor shame, they'll rob the country blind.