faranglopburi

Thanks for all the responses everyone! I now have an idea of what to do. Now waiting for the move to happen hopefully January next year should give me plenty of time to organise things.

21 minutes ago, scorecard said:

 

I use several Thai banks, all set up for Internet banking and I use the internet banking to pay all my bills, transfer funds to my Thai son etc. All very easy to set up and use. No bank charges for local funds transfers. 

 

I downsized to 1 bank in Oz, with limited funds in the account and with  internet banking, just in case I need to make a payment in Australia. 

 

I have 2 regular monthly payments from Australia to 1 bank in Thailand, both incur very minimal transfer charges out of Australia. 

 

When funds hit my Thai bank (usually next day, occasionally same day as transfer from Australia) I instantly get an SMS message alert connected to my Thai mobile number. No charge for the SMS for alert from my Thai bank.

 

Moving to LOS you need a Thai mobile no., why bother to keep using Telstra? Service and call charges quite low compared to Telstra. 

 

Once here get a Thai phone number, install the free LINE chat and videochat app, transfer the contacts from your Telstra list and then you can chat and do videochat with all your contacts world wide totally free on LINE and no time limit on calls or videochats, no peak period restrictions. And good voice and videochat quality. 

 

So easy, no need for any complications.

 

 

 

 

 

Ok thanks for the tip. The problem I have is I receive an incapacity pension from my Super fund and they will only make payments to an Aussie bank, so I am stuck with having to leave the Commbank account open. Here is where I am having an imagined problem of trying to transfer between Commbank and my Thai acct (when I open one that is). That is why why think I will have to leave Telstra active so I can receive the SMS or maybe they will send the SMS to a Thai mobile as another poster has suggested. But how do I open a Thai mobile phone before moving overseas?

46 minutes ago, Old Croc said:

I've given them my Thai mobile phone number. The SMS's appear there without problems whenever I do a transaction. 

Is this CommBank or MyGov? Or both? Did you give just the Thai mobile no. alone or the international prefix as well?

Hopefully moving to Thailand in the near future and have a query;

I'm with Commonwealth Bank and they have this security feature where they send you a code via SMS the first time you transfer money to a new account. How will this work in Thailand if I'm transferring 400000THB to my Thai bank account? The mobile phone is with Telstra and won't work unless I have international roaming activated which would be expensive in the long term.

I'm also thinking of MyGov website as well. Same deal to login you have to receive a code via SMS. I can't imagine it would be cheap to have international roaming active on a long term basis. So what do you guys do? 

50 minutes ago, mtls2005 said:

I'm with J.K. Rowling on this one...

 

Author J.K. Rowling wrote on Twitter: “Well done on reducing one of the greatest sportswomen alive to racist and sexist tropes and turning a second great sportswoman into a faceless prop.”

 

 

Oh. please. Were was your outrage when he drew Nick Kygrios last week...

8 hours ago, ripstanley said:

Have you had a look at the Insurance forum?

 

https://www.thaivisa.com/forum/forum/121-insurance-in-thailand/

No I didn't know about that forum. Thanks!

27 minutes ago, stud858 said:

I'm hunting down some nembutal. That's my insurance.

Ah yes, nembutal I heard that's not easy to find anymore.

Anyway hoping to hear about international medical insurance policies which I assume is what people are using.

Sorry to change the subject but I'm curious what do expats do for medical coverage while on a spouse visa? I don't suppose farangs can join the Thai "gold card" scheme, so I'm assuming you take out some sort of insurance? Is it a policy from a company based in Thailand or Aus?

14 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

It can be done at any immigration office.

The application will be approved at division 3 headquarters in Bangkok during the 30 day under consideration period you will get after your extension application is accepted at Lopburi immigration.

So technically we can do it all in LopBuri and there is no need to go to Bangkok? That would be very handy if so.

And also do they affix a visa label inside the passport or do they just hand you a document saying here is your extension?

35 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

There is a immigration office in Lopburi.
Amphoe Muang 
Lopburi 15000 ด่านตรวจคนเข้าเมือง 
ภ.จว.ลพบุรี 
อ.เมือง 
จ.ลพบุรี15000
GPS: 14.798684,100.651116
Phone: 0-3642-2909, 0-3642-4686

 

You cannot pick and choose which immigration office you use. You have to apply at the designated office for where you are living.

Ok great! So can the office in LopBuri handle requests for marriage stay extension? The reason why I ask is because I initially thought that we would have to go to Bangkok to do it (Chaengwattana sp?)...

Just a question for those who have to deal with marriage extension stay, which is the closest office to Lop Buri?

Also I've read that some offices are easier to deal with than others. Is this true and any suggestions on which are the easier offices to deal with?

11 minutes ago, Bagwain said:

I used my sisters address for a couple of yrs. Now I just don't bother. Non res!!

Ok. What did you end up doing with furniture etc? What about any bills etc? Did you have a PO Box and redirect the mail to Thailand?

For you Aussies who live in LOS long term, ie retirement visa or marriage visa, what do you use for an address back in Australia?

I'm thinking about heading over with my Thai wife and doing the marriage visa but we don't own a house here in Aus. I'm thinking I'd just have to rent a self-storage shed and dump all the furniture & car in that, but what would I use as an address for drivers licence etc?