Date Masamune

In case you choose to submit the form T.M.30 by mail there is mailbox at the airport where you can drop it off. 

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1 hour ago, Date Masamune said:

That is why I'm saying getting it now. If staying in Thailand you get an extension at Imm once a year for 1900 baht. You would have to leave Thailand once a year and reenter but with the visa in you passport it would be 6 years not having to worry about extensions and shifting goalposts.

Why would somebody respond "confused" to this? 

53 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The only problem I have with your suggestion - and I'm not knocking it - is for all we know the Thai bureaucracy will declare it as a rort, and impose more requirements. It's called shifting the goalposts.

That is why I'm saying getting it now. If staying in Thailand you get an extension at Imm once a year for 1900 baht. You would have to leave Thailand once a year and reenter but with the visa in you passport it would be 6 years not having to worry about extensions and shifting goalposts.

A constructive suggestion.

IF you qualify, apply for the Thailand Elite 5 year easy access programme now for 500,000 Baht. If you enter near the end of the visa you can get 6 years out of it working out to approximately 228 bahts per day no need for bank balances of proof of insurance.

You should NEVER use either of those products! They are EXTREMELY DANGEROUS! Stick to branded Viagra or address the reason why you can't perform sexually by taking steps to improve your overall health... For example, lose weight, take regular exercise, stop smoking and drinking, etc., and your potency should return to how it was in your younger days. 

The privileges have not changed.
Everybody on Elite with less than one year remaining has been getting one year permit to stay upon entry.

You cannot get a work-permit for a non-Thai job or offshore passive-income.  You do not owe any taxes on income remitted to Thailand which was earned in previous years. 
 
The Thai tax authorities would not complain if you paid taxes w/o a work-permit and, in fact, tax-payments are required if earned income is remitted to Thailand in the year earned - subject to dual-taxation agreements which prevent double-taxation (there is one between the USA and Thailand).
 
I am also married to a Thai, and have considered sending my income here in the year earned, and paying taxes on it, then deducting that from my USA taxes (on worldwide income) - doing this extra paperwork as a way to provide "proof of income" to immigration (as our embassy-letters are gone).  But I am doubtful if that would work, as immigration might demand a work-permit as a condition of accepting a Thai tax-receipt as proof of income.  A work-permit would not be applicable in my case, either (offshore business income). 

Oh that’s interesting. I am American. Traveling internationally for decades the US only stamped me in once and I got upset and protested because the guy opening up and stamping randomly wasting half a page in the middle of the passport. The CBP agent said “ I have to stamp you unless you ask me not to”.

I told him this is not true and he silently looked at me with a facial expression lacking any care or concern. It was Newark International Airport.

If a standing member was adjudicated Bankrupt that would not be justification for cancellation of Membership, under Thai law. That is a term of application. Even the elite who was overstay blacklisted wasn‘t kicked out of the program.

Why would US immigration stamp your passport are you not American?

1. I have told you you can easily find proof for yourself, yet you keep asking me to provide proof for you on a silver plate and spoon feed you. This would not work anyways, as you say, you don't believe in what others tell you. 
2. I'm not your personal google. If your thirst for knowledge were genuine, you would get off your lazy ass and actually do something about it. 
3. Whatever you decide you do with your life, have fun, respect and and be kind to others.

In a real anti-farang bug out situation to escape riots and checkpoints you would need money and a nonstandard backup plan. It would take serious conflict to close major airports, but how to get there? To be to be arrested for illegal entry to Laos and deported to Hong Kong would be better than lynched.

So how do Amphurs benefit by not issuing the Yellow Tabien Baan to aliens?

Wish I could tip up seven card, used only for convenience. No tottering heaps of small
coins on bills. Now the staff get to count the bags of small coins I bring in to buy snacks and they don’t seem irritated by it.

The chances of a Muslim turning to another form of religion is quite low, because apostasy is dealt with in many Muslim countries under criminal law, ranging in penalties up to the death sentence in more conservative nations. I'm not aware of any other religion that penalises conversion to another religion.

The Jews, Amish, Mormons, Catholics, and even Muslims in my country etc., can shun excommunicate and banish (other than the honor killings of the religion of peace) but cannot deprive your freedom or impose any legal penalty. Freedom of religion = freedom from religion too.

You must go to the Amphoe in your area and talk to whoever is in charge.It could be as easy as providing a few photocopies of passports, visas,chanote, and a single witness, or actually impossible, based on your circumstances.

Quite right. And almost always...perhaps every time...when a person has a revelation or a vision, it is the deity they were indoctrinated with. A Christian sees and/or hears Jesus. A Muslim sees or hears Allah and/or Muhammad. A Hindu...Vishnu, Krishna and/or Ganesha.
 
Don't hear of any cases where a Christian has a revelation and says...WOW, HAD IT WRONG ALL THIS TIME! THE REAL TRUTH IS ISLAM and the Holy Koran or HINDUISM and The Vedas and then converted.  Nor the Muslim turning to Christianity or Hinduism. Nor the Hindu changing sides. It always seems to be their own flavor of superstition. 

Scientists to this day, use the best and finest instruments at their disposal to understand the universe, but they can only go as far as making educated guesses. Or are you happy with the Big Bang explanation? The theory tries to describe something, but it doesn't really explain how everything came out of nothing. 

When I was young, I learned that matter was made of atoms, atoms made of electrons, neutrons, protons and the smaller particles where just being discovered. After that, even smaller particles were discovered. Now it seams that everything is in a state of flux, quantuum physics says that there is entanglement among particles, meaning 2 entangled particles can instantly affect each other even if they are on the opposite sides of the universe. 

This to show that science evolves and with it the understanding we have of the universe.

People look back at the dark ages and deride the geocentric worldview, yet treat science as the ultimate holder of truth now, as if we have reached a point where everything has been explained. Far from it.

So you still need a good dose of belief in what others tell you.

 

Has science explained the rising of the kundalini for example? It's the force/energy that resides at the base of the spine and can be released through meditation, or a strong trauma or psychotropic substances.

No it hasn't. Yet this energy has been described for thousands of years in India and is as real as it gets.

 

Science draws maps of the outer world.

Zen, all the different types of Yoga, contemplative meditation, shamanism etc, have drawn maps of the inner worlds. 

Just like the experiments in science, the stages of development one passes when meditating, are repeatable over time and different individuals, and the experience gained can be scrutinized by those who have walked the path before them (peer review). 

 

One is not better than the other, both hold a piece of the puzzle and both should work together instead of being divided.

 

A great post. best argument god believers have is old strawman. “There are complicated unexplained things so there must be a magic creator”.

Truth is not a single bit of evidence in all of human history has indicated the existence of any gods, Then they’ll give you another strawman “Well then it isn’t disproven either” You see, I don’t ask the question. Considering the existence of god is an indulgence of primitive people I don’t bother with. I see it has already been considered by Philosophers over thousands over years? Who do I think I am Plato, Pascal? People follow religions for social reasons and to fit in, most just taking up the sect where there parents are. Let’s just say Christianity is right and Islam is wrong. Go to Pakistan, millions and millions of innocent children born to go to Hell. All rubbish and utter tosh!

No. Not the slightest evidence has ever been shown to prove the existence of any Dieties or supernatural processes.

Which has been demonstrated to be utterly ineffective way of funding a park.

Many countries national heritage attractions museums parks etc are FREE to nationals and foreigners alike as the benefits are seen to come with the numbers of visitors extra spending not by charging them. The contribution that entrance fees make to most national parks is minimal.

I wouldn’t know where I’m from we have unlimited resources for Military, Police and surveillance but State and National Parks are funded mostly by high user fees.

 
If you stay 5 years of less you can claim all your income tax back, it is not a fallacy that foreigners pay hardly any income tax.  Anyway, this is not about who has already and will continue to contribute, this is about a way for the parks to raise much needed funds without excluding poorer locals.  What can they do, if they give us the cheaper rate then have less funds and if they up the prices for Thai's then they exclude some local people, I have respect for the people and the environment of the country I have chosen to live in, so personally I am proud to make my contributions to the parks.

A great post above in the US if any business was publicly charging more for visitors because they were not Citizens, people would be really outraged!

There are some fundamentally flawed arguments being presented trying to dress up Double Charging as something other than what it is... 
 
It is not comparable to pensioner discounts. 
It is not comparable to residents discounts.
It is not an issue of money, the money amount is irrelevant to the principle. 
 
When someone is charged extra because they are not from a specific nation the policy is xenophobic.
 
Other fundamentally flawed arguments listed on this forum: 
It happens in other countries. So does kidnapping ! - the fact that it happens elsewhere doesn't make it ok. Using such an argument is flawed.
 
'If you don't like it go home' was one argument used earlier, again, highly flawed, it brings nothing to the debate and quite clearly people wouldn't go home because of a silly double pricing policy. 
 
 
The fact of the matter is that when people are Double Charged it leaves a poor impression especially when that double charged is based on nationality. Especially when the excuses for Double Charging are extremely flawed.  
 
A Westerner Working in Thailand paying taxes should not be double charged at parks.
A Westerner Retiree on anyone on a Non-Immigration Visa should not be double charged at parks.
 
I can't even see a very weak justification for Tourists to be Double Charged for without these very tourists these attractions / parks etc would have significantly less revenue - its akin to biting the hand that feeds you. 
 
 
Now... this Double Charging is not a show stopper... It doesn't stop me from going to Khao Yai or Koh Samet etc...  But, it does leave a poor impression when I'm charged 10x what my Wife is Charged.
 
This also happened to me a Chiang Mai Night Safari - traveling with Thai friends. 
The staff at the gate tried to double charged me. I showed my Thai Driving License and they still wanted to Double Charge me. My friend showed his Police ID and told them it is Illegal for a Private Company to Double Charge foreigners and requested to speak with the Supervisor (Double Charging is actually against the law in Thailand except for a decree which permits double charging at parks) - I was let in for the Thai Price but they were still trying to stiff all the other tourists. 
 
They try the same at Safari World in Bangkok, but they let foreigners with a Thai Driving License in for the Thai Price. 
 
Ultimately - the whole idea of Double Pricing is wrong.... There are no excuses which can dress this up.