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3 hours ago, MadMac said:

Well, any corrupt agent would have to fork out at least 80mTHB to only run a small customer base. Hope they will get filtered out.

Yeah, I think that's the goal. If you look carefully, a lot of Big Joke's actions are done to weed out Thai corruption, but he can't do that using Thais so he has to use foreigners.

Thanks, guys

For a "certified true copy" of a U.S. passport at the US Embassy in Bangkok, must I bring my own photocopy of my passport or will the US Embassy make it?  Some (like ubonjoe) say, they will make the copy for me; some (like hdkane) say I must bring my own. What's the deal?

On 12/24/2018 at 10:21 AM, Suradit69 said:

But, I then had the embassy certify a copy of my US passport ID page and I filled out a blank affidavit form (that is provided on the embassy website), not mentioning anything about banks, brokers or transfers. I just wrote out my US address on the affidavit and signed it in front of the consular officer in order to get something with my signature guaranteed.

 

 

 

I don't understand. What exactly did your blank affidavit affirm? What did you write after: "The purpose of this affidavit is to affirm:"? Also, I don't have a US address. Just a Thai one. Is that ok?

On 12/23/2018 at 12:54 AM, Suradit69 said:

 

On the form supplied to me by my broker I indicated that transfers would be going to Bangkok Bank Thailand and included my Bangkok Bank account number and the SWIFT code for Bangkok Bank Thailand.

 

 

 

 

What is the name of the form your broker supplied you? What form should I ask for?

Thanks in advance

10 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

Pension income at 55 years old? This info IS wrong.

Yeah TI has no way to distinguish between pension and investment income, just that it came from abroad. Hell, with 401k accounts in the US many pensions ARE investment income. But the point stands that the lump sum, 800K baht deposit, made 3 months in advance, will still be acceptable.

BTW, the Samila Mermaid is one of the oldest and most beloved symbols of Songkhla, which draws thousands of tourists every year. It's on all the T-shirts. To say that the attackers "only damaged the tail" of the mermaid is like saying to Parisians, "Terrorists only destroyed the tip of the Eiffel Tower". (And "damaged" is inaccurate. The mermaid has no <deleted> tail now.) Obviously, the scale is different--Songkhla is just a small city in south Thailand--but the feeling is the same. I live in Songkhla and people here are very pissed off.

41 minutes ago, BigBadGeordie said:

 

Make your mind up, please.

 

Pure coincidence.

 

Confused, you should be. He clearly is.

Well perhaps he's saying (and I'm guessing here) is that the attackers were local insurgents (i.e., from Songkhla Province) and not "deep south" insurgents (i.e., from Yala, Pattani or Narathiwat). Technically, Songkhla is not in the deep south. So Prawit is saying Songkhla was attacked by local separatists (not deep south separatists) who saw Prawit's visit as an opportunity to make trouble.