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15 minutes ago, Wake Up said:

During my 30 plus years in business I bought thousands of lunches. To buy these guys lunch and eat with them would have been worth your time and money. Ask for their card when you say goodbye and one day who knows they may be able to help you when you need it. They don’t make any money. Buying a lunch would have benefited you and your wife more than you know. Assuming you can afford it. ????

Like having a stack of donuts and a pot of coffee to welcome an American cop, and yes, I was one. 

On 7/9/2019 at 5:02 PM, dbrenn said:

I would have bought them lunch. It pays off in the long run to be hospitable.

Or at least have a fresh pot of coffee made.  You're so right, be polite and welcome them in, they're just doing their job. 

On 8/8/2018 at 10:52 AM, jgarbo said:

I remember getting day passes for Tachileik, over the bridge at Mae Sai, and passes at Three Pagodas Pass to poke around in Burma for the day. Surprised they don't offer the same service to Poipet.

Please don't take this as a challenge, but do you have a citation backing this?  The casinos are in no-man's land before the point you need a visa to be.  The damn visa and stamp waste 1 1/2 passport pages and the stupid American Embassy won't add pages any longer. 

On 8/8/2018 at 7:52 AM, thecyclist said:

The casinos are in no-man's land, and hundreds of Thais do it every day anyway, but doubt it is possible for foreigners :Once you are stamped out of Thailand, you need to officially enter Cambodia to reenter Thailand. Maybe your Thai wife can persuade one the IO to keep your passport and let you through for a few hours or you could sneak in. 

Yes, they are and therefore you're not sneaking into Cambodia since the casinos are in no-man's land. 

Does anyone have a cite  NOT AN OPINION FOR WHICH THEY HAVE NO VERIFICATION on the claim that Thai Immigration will not let you in without a Cambodian visa/stamp? 

The problem with the Cambodian stamp is not just the cost but the stupid thing takes a full passbook page and the stamps half of another page.   Cambodia isn't likely to complain since not only are you in no-man's land, but you are patronizing the casinos.

On 3/29/2013 at 10:39 AM, Langsuan Man said:

Also tell your folks to never use one of the private carriers, such as FEDEX, UPS, DHL etc. again. Regular post mail is unlikely to attract Royal Thai Customs scrutiny, where these private carriers are a Customs magnet

Unfortunately, now that you are in the loop you will have to have FEDEX solve the problem

Regular mail goes through a different office in Lak Ai Bangkok.

22 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

That's exactly what I do. When you say retirement visa do you O-A? If so the money can remain in au bank. If non O visa based on retirement..that is a 90 day visa and you apply for you 12 month extension based on retirement. If non o is applied for outside of Thailand no need to show where money came from. If a conversion from say a tourist visa to non o is done inside los you will need to show money came from abroad.

You don't need to show where it came from here either, the 800 k balance is all they look at. It's bureaucratic horror stories like that which have made this change worse than it needed to be.

^  It's redundant for anyone who has foreign medical insurance that covers them here.  You can only collect ones, more than that is fraud.

8 hours ago, Rally123 said:

I didn't argue. I just told him and another officer, that butted in, that I wasn't going to pay the 500 baht, no receipt, pure and simple. They then just said 'okay' and did it free of charge. Also the farang who went after me went for the same reason as me but was not asked to pay. They just did his.   

 

It would have been nice if that info was available. I've Googled high and low trying to find when it was introduced. By not knowing, my monies in the bank for my next visa/extension has had no time to season. The officer gave me 2 choices. First, get a 60 day visa/extension which would sort out my dilemma. Second, was to pay 30,000 under the table. Guess which one I took?  

Now if only other farangs will stand their ground when visiting immigration. May be all this corruption siht would fade away?

 

 

Get off your moral high-horse.  I personally like having an option to a bureaucratic nightmare even if that means petty-corruption.  I don't know what rights you think you're protecting because you have none here.  

Just renewed my retirement at Jomtien and they were not at all interested in seeing the health insurance I had.  Suggest anyone concerned about whether or not they'll be asked for it renews early and before they spend money on redundant health insurance locally. 

On 2/6/2019 at 2:38 PM, jacko45k said:

Any mention of when you do the 90 day report you will need to prove you still have the 800,000 baht?

Haven't they ever heard of the concepts of auditing and using telephones?  Select retirees at random and checking to see if they have the 800,000 Baht correctly deposited,  If there's any question, call the bank instead of making the expat run back and forth with one of those silly letters.  

Signing a document giving Immigration blanket permission to check with your bank by phone at any time would be more efficient for them and easier for us. 

America and Israel which controls it might as well killed these people directly.  Iran is forced to fly garbage airplanes because of silly sanctions.  

Does pulling at least 65,000 a month out of a Thai bank through a Thai ATM machine count as having money in a Thai bank?

They just don't seem to get it, many pensions will not deposit benefits directly into a foreign bank. 

Unfortunately those thermal printed slips most ATM machines spit out fade and become unreadable within a few months. 

Whether here or at home there is nothing worse than trying to deal with a god damned government bureaucracy.  

What would one expect the family to say?  America certainly whines, bitches, pisses and moans when anyone spies on them, but they are the worst on the planet for snooping on others. 

Sad how all the Snowden disclosures have been absorbed and forgotten and the stinking Government is free to go about its dirty work as if nothing had ever happened.

On 12/26/2018 at 3:47 PM, bbi1 said:

I guess you don't live under Jomtien Immigration then. Apparently Jomtien is fining everyone they can. I've seen it in person and lots of reports have been mentioned here as well. A 1,600 baht fine to the tenant (foreigner), not to the owner of the condo.

I am, but I probably won't be for long.  I've had enough of this xenophobic crap.  The biggest thing keeping me here is a couple of 10 year old dogs I could not bring myself to abandon and which will be hard to ship elsewhere.    

Are you American?  I ask because the FATCA legislation passed a few years back imposed ridiculous reporting requirements on foreign banks that deal with Americans.  Many responded by refusing American clients. 

Some banks have decided to comply and will accept Americans now. I opened an account with Krung Thai Bank with no problem when this nightmare started 2 months ago.

Google FATCA for mire information, it's so absurd as to deny belief.

11 hours ago, LomSak27 said:

Come on, if you are putting money in seasoning for R, you don't make mistakes, you don't pare it down to save a quid or two ................. ????

Just as absurd, they could have let him go to the bank, deposit 100 Baht then come back.  When someone in authority behaves in the manner claimed by the OP it has little to do with the requirements.  If a cop cites you for 26 in a 25 zone, there's something wrong with the cop, not you.  

9 minutes ago, yannee4u said:

Yes, that's true but while exit from suwarnbhumi airport immigration officer didn't any cancellation stamp on my passport.

Sorry, just an opinion but that sounds pretty weak.  I expect they pay more attention to the information in their computer than what's on paper in your passport.  Good luck to you.