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NotReallyHere

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  1. Went to IO. Paid the fine. In and out in 10 minutes. New date, Christmas eve. Should be easy to remember, but just in case, I will set up several reminders using different media. Hopefully the redundancy will help prevent this from happening again. Will set the reminders for the earliest possible day to give myself leeway if anything comes up that might delay me. I need to find some way of incorporating this rhythm into my life since I might be doing this every 90 days until I die.
  2. Ok, glad I checked back in at the forum. Will show up in person today, pay the likely fine, and report online in the future. Thank you to everyone who kept commenting despite the fact that I appeared to sign off.
  3. Thank you for the advice, everyone. This is the first of three 90 day reports for this extension. Since the general consensus is that this is not a big deal, I have decided to report online today. I will report online again the next two times as well and then see if they catch me when I do my next extension. Maybe I will intentionally file on the 5th or 6th day for the next two, so that this 9 day slip is less obvious/glaring. I appreciate everyone taking the time to respond!
  4. I'm on a Non- O retirement visa extension. As the title says, I missed my report date. 9 days overdue. First time this has happened. Will go into the office today to report. What will be the likely response from the immigration officer. I assume there is a fine. How much money do I need to bring? What's a realistic worse case scenario? Thanks in advance...
  5. This is something I have considered doing also. Stay on the retirement visa in Thailand with longer stays out of country (90 days Malaysia with a single Thailand reentry permit?) in which I am not paying rent in Thailand. So what did you do to get around it?
  6. I made my comments based on information from my landlord. Her family runs a group of hotels in town with many long term residents. She said she didn't think a cancellation clause was legal, but she would ask her lawyer about it. Good to know there are contracts with release clauses out there. Maybe I can get one drawn up and signed before my visa extension deadline. Not the perfect solution, considering I would lose the deposit, but better than last minute running around looking for a new room in a new province. Thanks.
  7. In my country, immigrants run amok. Just cross the border, legally or illegally, and sign a document promising to appear in court some time in the future. My country will even put immigrants on a bus or plane to their desired location of disappearance. Define "permanent address". As others have mentioned, a 90 day report serves as my declaration of location. To my knowledge, there is no requirement that two consecutive 90 day reports be from the same location.
  8. Advice is not impossible. Two easy questions: 1 year rental contract requirement "normal"? Is there an appeals process? Please don't take my comment the wrong way. I appreciate the "indirect" advice I've been given and will act accordingly. Thanks, sincerely...
  9. I am not aware of the things you tell me I "should already know" because I do not, (unlike you, apparently) spend my free time reading visa forums. As the OP, I set the topic. The majority of the posts have been about retaliation from immigration officers, not direct answers to my questions. So, yes, this thread has gotten off topic.
  10. As is often the case with this forum, posts have gotten way off topic, very fast... What I'm gathering is that if I move quickly, I'm unlikely to face the same 1 year rental contract requirement elsewhere. Also, there is no appeals process, otherwise someone would have mentioned it by now.
  11. Seriously? The point of not disclosing is to avoid potential retaliation for the disclosure. Saving face, etc. Don't you think immigration officers read this forum? It would not be difficult to determine who I am if they know the office.
  12. A year ago, I received my first retirement visa extension in Hua Hin based, in part, on a 3 month rental contract. I extended my rental contract for an additional 3 months in Hua Hin once, then I moved to my current province. I appropriately updated my address in my new province based on a 3 month rental contract. I extended my three month rental contract once in the new province and here we are, it's time to renew my annual retirement visa extension. My current landlord is unfamiliar with the visa renewal process, so I took the paperwork to Immigration to verify everything is correct before I went and gathered all the bank account documents. I was happy when they told me that the house registration and ID card were correct (that was my primary concern), but then they told me they could not extend my retirement visa based on a 3 month rental contract (my third, 3 month contract in the new province). They require that I have a 1 year rental contract. I told them that it was my plan, in retirement, to travel around Thailand, changing locations every 3, 6 or 9 months based on how much or little I liked my current location. My current location is becoming a bit boring, so I thought I'd extend my rental contract for 3 months one last time and then move on to some place new. They told me my rental contract has to be for one year and that I could just cancel the rental contract if I wanted to leave early. I pointed out that the rental contract is between me and the property owner. Whether I can cancel my current rental contract was not up to immigration, but would be the landlord's option to approve or decline. If they decline, I am on the hook for a year's worth of rent. There is no early cancellation provision in my rental agreement. I am told an early cancellation provision in rental contracts is not common in Thailand. When I asked why I was able to extend my retirement visa in Hua Hin based on a 3 month rental contract, but not at my current province, I was smiled at and told that if I do not like their rules, I was free to pursue my retirement visa extension elsewhere. I do not want to disclose which immigration office is holding me to this standard. I am wondering if other people are experiencing this. Do I have any recourse other than quickly changing provinces within the next two weeks? Will I run into the same 1 year rental contract requirement wherever I end up? Was my first and only other retirement extension process in Hua Hin just a fluke? Though I don't think it would be to my advantage to make a big official stink about this, still I'm wondering if there is an official complaint or appeals process that would raise the issue to a higher than provincial level authority. Any advice/insight anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. My visa extension deadline is rapidly approaching...
  13. Surely so. Now you've seen it. First time for everything... Snippet from Thai Airways page. Somewhat limited in what I show because I don't want to reveal my name or ticket info.
  14. I'm flying Europe to Bangkok. I decided after I booked my flight that I'd like to take some extra items. Total extra weight 11kg. Extra baggage cost on Thai Airways is 650 Euros for 10 - 15 kg of extra baggage. The flight costs 490 Euros including 30kg baggage allowance. Can I just buy a second ticket for myself and get an additional baggage allowance of 30kg for "only" 490 Euros? Has anyone tried this? I know that in the States, obese people can book two tickets on a domestic flight to accommodate their girth (in fact, I think on some airlines they are required to), but I wonder if I can pull it off to circumvent the (in my opinion) exorbitant extra baggage fee. I am attempting to call Thai Airways, but their customer service line has a very long wait time. I've had difficulties reaching them by telephone before. I almost think the office is empty after a certain time in the evening and they just allow us callers from outside of SE Asia to stay on hold indefinitely. Thanks in advance...
  15. The algorithm doesn't just work by searching and liking something. Searching is the fastest way to influence the algorithm. The app also records how often you watch something. Those videos automatically repeat. If you watch a woman's sexy dance video and let it repeat 5 times and then fast forward through a male's video that is some prank or a cooking video, the app picks up on it. The app also has access to your cookies. If you've watched a bunch of heterosexual content, the app knows. Your "random" feed is obviously not random. Your non-random feed content proves it. This is the primary point. Do you seriously think there are no transgender dancers on TikTok?
  16. Pull you head out of you a$$... Do you seriously think anyone in the LGBT community would shun the biggest social media platform that highlights dancing? It just defies common sense. I don't have TikTok, so I can't test this myself, but the solution is obvious. Use the search engine to search "LGBT" or "transgender". Like any content that pops up by clicking whatever button you need to click to show approval. After you have given enough transgender content positive reviews, you will be inundated with transgender content. Can't believe this needs to be explained to any adult in 2023. This is the type of guy that believes conspiracy theories because all his content comes from algorithm suggestions and he doesn't believe or look for any other information out there. Or maybe this is some bizarre form of "humblebrag". He's showing us that he's so macho, transgender content would never appear on his feed. Pathetic trying to anonymously brag to other anonymous people on the internet.
  17. More info. From the linked article in the Detroit Free Press. https://eu.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/oakland/2023/03/17/msu-student-hit-run-benjamin-kable-tubtim-howson/70021538007/ ""The Thai authorities didn't feel she needed to be in custody. She returned (to the U.S.) on her own. The federal (extradition) case has been dropped," he said. Soon after Howson arrived in Thailand, her husband flew back to the U.S. and told law enforcers that she would turn herself in, her lawyer said." Soon? Why did it take over 6 weeks to come back? Why did the police find her close to the Myanmar border when she had been spending all her time prior to the US official extradition request on February 6th in her house in Chonburi? Did she get special treatment? Why?
  18. For those also interested in this case. Here is a link to a news article about the latest developments. Includes satisfying mugshot. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/michigan-woman-who-fled-to-thailand-after-college-students-hit-and-run-death-hit-with-1-million-bond/ar-AA18M2HI Tubtim Howson, Thai-American who ran over and killed a US college student then fled to Thailand, was arraigned on Friday. Given $1M cash bail order (no 10% surety) which I assume she cannot pay. If she is able to pay it, she will be on house arrest with a GPS ankle belt. Article also states she was not extradited (Knuckleheads who keep insisting this, you know who you are) She used the fact that she turned herself into the police and came back on her own as justification to have the bail set lower (Prosecution asked for $5 Million bail).
  19. Jesus H. Christ... This is coming from the guy who in a prior post compared DeSantis to HItler and Putin. Wake up.
  20. I don't speak in code. Woke crowd is always looking for enemies. Hearing "dog whistles" that don't exist. Victim mentality. "Oppression" is part of the identity. Sad, really.
  21. Not anti-gay. Couldn't care less who focks who. I'm anti-woke. The woke crowd identifies as the "rainbow coalition". A little pathetic that I have to point that out to you, of all people. This has been going on for decades. https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/the-first-rainbow-coalition/ Poorly informed, as usual.
  22. I never said I hated your posts. I routinely check them to see what type of nonsense the "rainbow coalition" is wasting their time with now. You never disappoint.
  23. If your topic had more merit and was presented with less bias and left leaning political spin, people would stay on topic. I've enjoyed reading the comments much more than your original post, especially your cringe-worthy attempts at humor towards the end.
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