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Peru sells citizenship for $400 USD. You can get dual citizenship with Peru. Once you are a citizen you have automatic residency and don't have to worry about visas. 

There are nations that sell citizenship. Once you buy citizenship the visa issue goes away. You are a dual national and safe from changing visa policies. 

Why not consider purchasing citizenship, becoming a dual national to avoid the visa issues altogether? 

My brother is married to a Peruvian. They plan to retire to Peru and live in the house she owns there. He is the one who told me, Peru citizenship is available for $400. I looked it up and saw he was telling the truth. 

Asia is not the only option. Latin America is also an option. 

I have a Himedia H8 lite smart android TV box. It hooks up to my internet router and TV. I use the remote for the android box to stream Netflix to my TV. It works great. 

2,390 Baht from TKParnit.com 

4 hours ago, Kaalle said:

My friend was on it until recently. He said it was every bit at smooth as advertised.

 

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Thanks so much. I wanted to verify it was as advertised before pursuing it. 

I have been in Chiang Mai on a tourist visa since July 2018 with visa extensions, border runs and new visas outside the country. I am planning on going to the Chiang Mai Hand to Hand Combat School to get a year long education visa. I will fly to Laos and apply for the education visa from there. 

Citizenship: American 

Does anyone have any experience with this kind of education visa? Does it go as smoothly as the school advertises? Are there any hiccups with the visa and visa renewals?

https://hand2handcombat.com/ed-visa-service/ 

33,000 Baht. Sat and Sun 3-5 for the class. No classes the rest of the week. The school tuition includes the visa renewal fees. The school does the visa renewals for you. 

Is everything as advertised? 

Any advice or feedback will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for all of your help you lovely people. 

Wash the jeans before shipping. No tags or anything to indicate they’re new. 

On customs form say “used clothing” and declared value $28 USD or lower. 

Abything above $28 means duties and taxes. 

USPS is fine. No problem with having clothes sent to me using USPS. 

19 hours ago, BritTim said:

Up until a couple of years ago, it would have been foolhardy to try for a tourist visa in Kuala Lumpur at all. The situation there has definitely improved, but I would be very surprised if they would waive any of the requirements on their checklist. The only question is whether they would accept one of the cheap international bus tickets (such as from Hat Yai to Butterworth) that you can book online instead of a flight reservation.

 

Lowest price air tickets change almost daily. All you can do is browse the websites of the budget airlines to see what you can find.

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1 hour ago, Jimbo1964 said:

Ice is a destroyer of lives. Both to the user and their families. Very few ever kick the habit.

Agreed. My sister has been addicted to meth for 32 years. I don't know how she is even alive, but she is. She ripped the entire family apart with her addiction. 

4 hours ago, Vacuum said:

Perhaps he was smoking it (if that's what you do with this drug) with one of those illegal vapor thingies.

Ice /methamphetamine is smoked in a small glass pipe. It is similar to smoking crack. 

The police would have found his pipe and it would have contained residue. Even if he flushed the ice/meth the pipe with residue was left behind. 

Anyone doing ice/meth is not exactly careful to hide what they are doing. They are too high to be careful to cover their tracks. They are sloppy and get caught. 

Why is his crime not considered:

1. Assault and Battery 

2. Sexual Assault

3. Rape

4. Attempted Murder - HIV+, this is the charge in other countries

5. Assault with a deadly weapon - HIV+, this is the charge in other countries

5. Murder - if anyone dies from HIV and it is proved the strain came from him

6. Extortion - you extort the person for sexual favors

7. Blackmail 

When the death penalty is in force there is an unintended consequence of the death penalty. The criminals don't leave behind any crime victims or witnesses who can ID them and cause them to be arrested or put to death. The witnesses are murdered. The crime victims are murdered. The murder rate goes up with the death penalty instead of down. 

No one is left behind who can ID the perpetrator to the police. This is the unintended consequences of the death penalty. They are all killed. This means the death penalty has an undesirable outcome of driving up the murder rates. 

When there is no death penalty there is no need to murder the witnesses or crime victims. The murder rate drops when there is no death penalty in play. 

Also, no witness is willing to speak to the police if they know they will be targeted for murder in a death penalty case. The person can put a hit out on you from jail while they await their trial. The witness won't live long enough to testify. Once the witness is dead the death penalty case falls apart. This means the wheels of justice grind to a halt. Self-preservation prevents a witness from cooperating. Who is going to risk being killed simply because they saw what happened to a stranger? This is especially true when gang related. 

Death penalty isn't as cut and dried as you would like to believe. It is very complicated, nuanced and has many factors that are undesirable. 

Also, due to the cost of the appeals process in the death penalty cases... the costs outweighs any benefits of putting someone to death. It actually costs the taxpayers far less money to put someone in prison for life than to put them on death row. The death row cases eat up tremendous amounts of court time and taxpayers money. The courts get clogged with death penalty case appeals. They go to court repeatedly, repeatedly with appeals and that clogs the courts and eats up taxpayer funds. The taxpayers pay more for death penalty cases than for life in prison. The cost v. benefit analysis means it is not worth it financially to put someone to death. It costs too much money and clogs the already overburdened courts. 

On 10/9/2018 at 1:40 AM, Rhys said:

Not sure if this the right section but here goes... For Social Security or IRS....I forgot does it make a difference in any aspect if you don't give your status?   For example, if you say your Single,  for Social Security, when you were divorced?  Or for IRS file single, but married.  Or file for SS and indicated Single, when you have a common law marriage?

 

Thanks mates

IRS - no need to show any proof. Just file “single”. 

Common law marriage doesn’t exit in California. There is no such thing in California. Either you’re married or you’re single. 

Social Security - submit divorce documents to unlink your accounts. They can’t draw on your account anymore and you can’t draw on theirs. Your accounts are now separate. 

The only time your divorce documents really matter in America is when you wish to marry again. The county clerk will ask you to submit documents to prove you are divorced and free to marry again. You must prove you are divorced to be allowed to marry someone new. That is when the divorce documents become mandatory. You don't have to file them with anyone. You simply show them to the county clerk when you apply for the marriage license for the new marriage. The clerk looks them over and issues the marriage license for the new marriage. 

You need the divorce documents to get a legal name change, but if no legal name change you don't have to bother with that part. 

You will want to remove your ex from any financial accounts: credit cards, bank accounts, investment accounts, pensions, 401K, IRAs, brokerage account, real estate holdings, etc. 

You would want to update your will and remove your ex from your will. I know someone who inherited her ex-husband's house. He forgot to write a new will. He left it to his ex-wife because he forgot to write a new will after the divorce. They had been divorced for 20 years when he died. She was quite shocked when notified she got a house from her ex-husband. 

When I got my divorce in California I only had to notify the following agencies:

1. My former and current employer to remove my ex-husband from inheriting any money from me in the event I die. He was removed from all of my investment accounts. 

2. Bank accounts and credit cards - he was removed as a person who could access them or inherit them. 

3. Social Security - I had to submit my divorce documents to remove my married name and take back my maiden name. He was removed from benefitting from my accounts. 

4. DMV - I had to submit the divorce documents to show a legal name change to change the name on my drivers license. 

5. State Department - I had to submit my divorce decree to get a new passport with my maiden name on it. 

Unless you are doing a legal name change you don't have to submit the documents to change your name. 

Unless you didn't name your ex as a beneficiary and a person who could access your financial accounts you don't have to do anything regarding investments, 401K accounts, pensions, brokerage accounts. 

There is no actual state agency to notify. You notify each agency individually depending upon what you need done. 

As far as I am aware of, there is no California state agency you must notify. You can check with the California State Attorney General to make sure. 

As far as the IRS and California Franchise Tax Board is concerned...I just filed single and they didn't ask any questions. You don't have to submit anything to the IRS or the California Franchise Tax Board (state taxes). You would not pay Cal state taxes anyway if you are not residing in the state. You only pay CA state tax when you reside in CA. The IRS doesn't care where you live. You still must pay taxes.