Thee_Rak

www.usimmigrationsupport.org/dual-citizenship.html

$59.95 a download and they have the nerve to use a .org domain!!!

Thanks for your reply Biff... I have found the thread that talked about this and it seems that we'll be able to apply for Thai citizenship for our little boy just as soon as we have his US Birth Certificate in hand.

Hi,

My wife (Thai) who came to the US on a fiancée visa (we are current with USCIS and have just filed I-751 to remove conditions) and I (US Citizen) have just had a baby!!!! We are living in the US. I am sure that he has US Citizenship but am wondering if he is also considered "Thai" and can he get a Thai passport. I realize that the US doesn't recognize "dual citizenship" but haven't the first clue about Thailand.

Any thoughts out there?

Thanks

Thanks everyone... Sounds like ATM it is.

BTW we have used paypal to send money to a Thai bank b/4 and the last time it seemd like the rate was very unfavorable. Moving $300 seemed to "cost" about as much as a wire transfer from a bank.

Last time we used pp to move $250 to a pp account that is set up with a Thai bank and it turned into $239.95 but both accounts showed no "fees". Then we did a pp withdrawal to the Thai bank and the amount was 7,971.40 baht

Everytime b/4 that if I move $200 they receive $200 if $600 they receive $600

Hi,

okay my Thai Wife is going back to Thailand for the first time in a year and I've just started thinking about cash issues.

First question... if she walks into Bangkok Bank or Thailand Farmers Bank and writes a check from our US Bank account and deposits it into an account are there fees or costs involved in that? We want to give some money to her Khun Mae but I don't want to deal with travelers checks or atm w/d fees or anything like that.

Okay so that's really the only question I guess... she has a Chase Bank (US) "debit" visa card so she can just use that like a Visa anywhere they accept cards and if she needs cash in hand she can make an atm withdrawal for that (plus she'll have maybe 600usd cash in hand when she arrives to change into baht when she gets there.

Thoughts?

Thanks everyone... we decided on Davinci Suites on Suk soi 31.

Hi all...

Okay I remember the last time I used to spend any time here (a few years ago and b/4 I married my TGF) that there was always some very good discussion about the state of the lower priced hotels around town.

So my wife has been here in the US with me for just about a year now and it's time to go back and visit her mom (near Roi-et) but first she needs a hotel in BKK for a week to do a bunch of the shopping that we've been talking about.

So I remember something about some place called "guest house something-or-other" anyone know the place I'm thinking about???

We are thinking someplace along Suk but NO WHERE NEAR NANA or anything like that okay.

I'm thinking less than 1,500 / night

Thoughts...

Thanks

I would say the resulting strong Baht isn't helping exports too much

I would say that 34+ Baht per dollar is hella' fat.

sorry to be so late getting here... it's not "strong baht" it's "weak dollar"

What about Roi-Et and At-Samat and Yasothan...??

100K in a month?

Yeah, that sounds like 'normal' Thais.

Well, since they don't hang around Sukhumvit and don't have anything to do with the tourist industry, you probably have never seen "normal" middle class Thais.

TH

ain't that the truth.

Nice, unjustified attack on character by a poster (against the rules) and cheered on by the admin.

Really do expect more out of the "admins" That was quite a rude thing to say about someone...

100K in a month?

Yeah, that sounds like 'normal' Thais.

hel_l... 100K THB a month is 1/2 what I make in the US working for one of the "Big 3"

I thought the "avg" Thai earned about twice that IN A YEAR?

Okay we got the Visa and now we are making plans for a few weeks vacation in Sept b/4 moving her to the States... she is living in a 1 room apartment (doesn't have much... a tv is the biggest thing) and we need to move her stuff to the family home outside of Roi-et.

Any suggestions for how we can do this. I'm thinking 1 guy with a small pick-up truck to make the trip.

This is a very intresting topic... what are the groups thoughts on what the average amount is that sent every month by boy-friends/fiancee's to their thai girl-friends/fiancee's to support the gf & family?

I don't just mean the OP but everyone that you know about.

She wants to explain about why her new job doesn't make her happy. I think I understand what she means but want to understand the phrase exactly.

Thanks very much

Oh she's a good girl... ;-)

I think it's Panthip. Dual keys and thai OS are the biggest consideration I think. If I can find her a nice new "branded" one (not Acer or some smalltime oem) for between 15 & 20K I'll be happy.

She won't need the baddest machine out there just a bit of hdd space and the ability to run wifi (that way I can point her to the free hot-spots in town or see if there's an unsecured network within range of her apartment). I guess I'd like it to have a dvd drive and that's about it.

Santa is going to be nice to her this x-mass that's for sure...

That's what I thought too... about the taxi that is. She just got me worried about it and said she thought she should pick me up. I think that is much to much hassle though and one or both of us end up waiting more and more.

Thanks

I want to get my TGF a decent laptop (nothing new just decent) and am wondering what the prices are like at Pantip Plaza or if I should try to sort one out in the US in the next few days (I leave on the 15th.)

What does 20,000 baht buy in BKK these days?

Taxi or have a friend pick me up upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi?

In talking with my friend in BKK they say that the TV news still talks about what a pain a taxi is from the airport and how there are no taxis at arrivals but that you have to take a bus to the transportation hub.

The posts above say that this isn't true... what's the deal?

Also does anyone know if it's pretty easy for someone with private car to just pick someone up? In the US picking someone up at the airport is a big pain because we are not allowed to get anywhere near the terminals with a car (so it's hard to arrange a time and a place to meet).

What's the best plan?

Okay here's my arrangement...

I (us) send sms to thai number (1-2-call) using my US cell phone (t-mobile) and it costs me 15 cents for every outgoing international sms.

She sends sms's to me using her thai cell (1-2-call) at a cost of 10 baht each.

Sometimes I use yahoo or msn. since i've paid for that service already there's no unit cost to send the sms but for your friend in thailand that doesn't help much since what you want to do is sms and not e-mail.

I probably send anywhere from 2 to 10 a day so yes it does add up. There is no really cheap way so send unlimited sms messages to and from LOS

Okay I'm in the US and speak most every day (since January) with someone on a cell in BKK. I've been using Cloncom "Super Quick Card" $20usd gives me 4 hours and 4 minutes. The service is reasonably good but sometimes I've got to call back once to get a good line. This doesn't happen that often and if it does I only have to call one more time. Basically the service is on par with what I'd expect using a cell phone in the us to call a cell phone in thailand. Oh they advertise that card rate at 6 cents a minute but at 244 minutes for $20 that's actually 8.2 cents a minute... anyway

Over the past months I'd say I average 4 cards a month ($80) plus I have to keep an eye on my cell phone minutes so I don't go over!! Okay so I don't have a land-line phone at home and at work I don't have a private office (so can't use my desk phone all that often)

We SMS about 5 times a day too. With T-Mobile I pay for both the sent (15 cents) and the received (10 cents) so there's another $1.25 a day (let's say another $35 a month). This only applies to international SMS. I have unlimited domestic but it seems no US providers have unlimited international SMS packages.

THIS IS NEARLY $1,400 A YEAR

Here's where I think I am...

Reduce cell phone SMS by using ThaiVisa SMS (although only slightly cheaper) as I'm at a computer more than I'm not and it's also easier to type on a keyboard than a phone.

Reduce cost for voice calls by using Yahoo IM with Voice. I just installed it and bought $10 worth. My first call was pretty good. My friend said they could hear me about the same as the cell and since I had a headset on I'd have to say that I could hear them better. So a 30 minute call was $1.47 or 4.9 cents a minute. That same call on the Super Quick Card would have cost $2.46

Any other ideas...

At this rate if I could find a totally free way to have this same level of communication I could pay for another US-BKK return ticket a year.

Must have been operator error... I tried it again today and it worked fine. Oh and I should have said "only a bit less expensive" not more.

Okay I sent two messages yesterday and they were not received. As the cost of this service isn't that much higher than what my cell phone company charges for international sms I don't think that I'll be "recharging".

Has anyone had good experience with this service?

Okay thanks... I've registered and sent out a test one to see if they get it. I'm a bit confused though. It says "free user" but then it says I have 8 credits. What's up with this. Is there a limit to how many I can send?

Okay here in the US you can send text messages to cell-phones via e-mail accounts so for example if I want to send an sms to my friends phone and their number is 212-555-1212 and the cell provider they use is Sprint I could send the sms from my e-mail account by addressing the note to [email protected]

So what is the address to send an sms to a AIS pre-paid sim?

This cd software was bought in BKK and will not run. Has anyone managed to get this to work? It's a 32 bit program so I tried running it on my WinXP Pro system in emulation (win 95 & win 98) mode but same thing. It gives a "Script error: Handler not defined" error with #DirUtl under it.

Any suggestions about this or for any good software to help learn Thai Script?

I've Thai Language support on my Windows XP Pro system here in the US and when I send an e-mail with Thai Script in it the characters viewed in Thailand (at a cafe) are gibberish. Ideas? I don't think it's the Thai computer set-up as it's in Thailand so you'd think it's capable of displaying Thai.

Same question for SMS via my phone or the one in Thailand. When she sends sms to me in Thai Script it's gibberish on my phone. My phone was bought in BKK and is a Thai version. I can send to her in Thai Script (even if I don't know what I'm typing ;-) Is this a limitation of my cell phone network?