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36 minutes ago, F Groenen said:

How does AOW know ? Isn't it only because you had the marriage registered in NL ?
How would one un-register a marriage in NL ? Does that require divorce papers ?
How official/legal are those Thai divorce papers ?
Does anyone have experience of un-registering a Thai marriage in NL ?

Being married or not is not the issue. One gets the lower amount for sharing a household with another adult.

1 hour ago, bubblegum said:

You will get 920- only! And yes it sucks and is not fair.

Yes, 920€ only. Even if you are not married, but live/share a household together. 

The visa exemption is no longer 45, but 30 days.

Very happy with Remitly.com - good rates, 2,99€ fee. Money arrives within minutes. Shown as a domestic transfer in you Thai account, though,

The RTP isn’t enforcing any sort of traffic rule right now. You can drive like an idiot, on the wrong side of the road, without helmets, using telephones while driving, without driving license, no safety belts etc.: you name it and they don’t enforce it. So what would change after the introduction of this new system? 
Too many people have no driving license at all, so why would they bother about loosing points that they don’t have…..

From what I see daily on Thai roads, quite a lot of people would burn all the points they have in a single day. Riding against traffic on a motorbike, no helmet, while looking af the phone instead of the roads and probably under influence of alcohol or oder ‘enhancers’ is quite a common sight, and that is just one example. Travel on a hilly and winding road and count the number of people overtaking on the wrong side of the double yellow line just before a blind corner or the top of a steep hill, and you’ll be short of fingers to count on within a couple of minutes.

No policing, no enforcement, so nothing will change. Very sad!

3 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Pay the money owing on the condition the property is immediately transferred to your wife, but he can live there for the rest of his life. Else walk away, it's not your business.

 

That's what I did for my MiL playing the same game.

Any of your wife's brothers/sisters don't need to know.

Cost me 100kbht, my wife gained a property worth 500kbht.

Not a bad idea at all. Worth consideration!

My father-in-law borrowed money from an agency, with the title to his land and house as collateral. To that end he signed a mortgage contract, stating that the interest would be 15% per year (the legal interest limit in Thailand). The contract itself does not contain anything regarding the duration of the loan or the terms of repayment, other than that the interest should be paid monthly. 

Apparently he was told - outside the contract so he didn’t sign for it - to repay in 36 months, with the total amount to be repaid being the borrowed amount plus 3x the yearly interest. I’m not sure this is legal, as in my view it raises the actual interest above the legal limit, but he didn’t contest this at the time. His financial/legal insight/knowledge is close to zero.

Now, at the end of the first year, it appears he is four months behind and he got a letter from a lawyer hired by the agency that the contract is to be canceled . He is given the choice between paying the remaining 28 months in full within 60 days or loose his house and land.

It was only at that point that I learned about it. He didn’t really understand the situation he got himself into, he hadn’t understood the consequences of the contract, nor had he read any of it. He had just signed where they told him to sign.

I’m looking for ways to help him out of this mess and to avoid him loosing his land and house. One option is that I just pay the demanded amount in full and subsequently arrange for him to repay me over a much longer time and without interest.

However, that raises some questions as to the correctness of the sum to be repaid. Seeing that the actual contract doesn’t say anything on duration, or on the terms of repayment or on cancellation/early settlement, it doesn’t seem right to have to pay 3 years interest when settled and fully repaid after one year. Of course there will be a legal default interest for the four missing installments, I do understand that, but it’s the 2x 15% interest I’m having problems with to accept.

Anyone out there able to shed their light on this? Grateful for any constructive comments!

30 million, yeah, right. And I target 30 million baht income! Both targets unrealistic……

EVA offers PE in their 777’s inly. Apparently they are using the 787 on the Taipei - Bkk - AMS route,

9 minutes ago, transam said:

Being controlled by outside decision makers. 

Well, you’ve obviously missed a few details about the EU decision-making processes, but in the EU decisions are being made by the Member States, including the UK when it was still in.

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Passports have always been checked , people from all over the World on various passports travel between U.K and France 

True. UK has never been part of the Schengen Agreement, so travellers between the UK and the other EU countries have always been subject to passport checks.

1 hour ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I don't recall there any delays in Brits obtaining entry to France in 1944 when 150 000 Brits  went across the Channel , dont recall ever hearing about the French authorities checking everyones passports back then

 

 

Blame the Germans instead of the French…….

1 hour ago, nauseus said:

Nothing to do with what I said but that's true, I suppose. The creation of the EU has resulted in an increased security threat to the UK, member or not. The Schengen system was both poorly designed and abused.

The EU a ‘security threat’ to the UK???? 

If you have a single ticket for both legs you should be able to have your luggage checked through, as Bangkok Airways and Austrian are ‘participating carriers for through check baggage’.

See: https://www.bangkokair.com/through-check-in

When your luggage is checked through you’ll get through Immigration at Suvarnabhumi, and Customs in Chiang Mai.

On 2/22/2022 at 10:52 PM, EricTh said:

So what are the most important improvement of this new model over last year's model?

 

A disc brake instead of a drum brake in the rear wheel.

On 2/22/2022 at 10:52 PM, EricTh said:

So what are the most important improvement of this new model over last year's model?

 

A disc brake instead of a drum brake in the rear wheel.

1 hour ago, sqwakvfr said:

Kind of Ironic because recently the Philippines announced it’s opening based upon the following conditions:

 

1. Fully Vaccinated

2. PCR test before departure

3. Arrivals from 157 countries are allowed to enter.

 

No Quarantine.  Also, no mention of mandatory insurance(but I suspect it will be?)

 

 

35k USD insurance required for The Philippines.