Khaeng Mak

14 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

If that's your idea of trolling, I suggest you read all the thousands of posts that have been going on this subject since before you joined TV and you will see that I too am trying to help with this situation.

 

If you never told a child how to spell, the English language would be disastrous. So why not tell an adult as well?

Your conduct is in breach of the rules of this forum:

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...be aware that not every member is a native English speaker and excessive posts regarding others spelling and grammar not only hijacks the topic but is poor netiquette.

Something very interesting to note here from this story:

A sugar cane truck driver from Nakon Nowhere is more concerned about his social media image than Boss Yoovidhya.

To the OP:

There is currently no expat holding a retirement visa.  They would have a Non O visa and be on a current extension of that based on retirement.

A blanket 12 monthly moratorium on financial for extensions applications would assist in alleviated the confusion and hardship created by the new rules.

Hopefully the moratorium would not only cover new applicants but also individuals like myself and Sheryl who have recently obtained an extension, but do not know whether or not we have to top up our bank accounts with 400K prior to March 1.

I am not sure what impact a moratorium would have on illegal agent activity. There are very few impediments to corrupt activity here. So it would be easy for agents to swing back into action in full force once the moratorium is lifted.

29 minutes ago, wgdanson said:

And other posters suggest, probably correctly, that Thai Imm Officers would not be able to decipher a Bank statement in English.

So how the f*** would they read and understand some of the sh**e written here.   LOL

Sigh

Disappointing to see you are also trolling this poster as well.

Some people are trying to help with the current situation.

You on the other hand chose to make a snide comment about the OP's misuse of THERE.

Scamming is a protected occupation in Thailand.

33 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Already a report from a major agent saying fees will be MUCH higher. 

I agree of course nobody knows exactly what will happen yet. I wouldn't even be shocked if they call the whole thing off. It's obviously a train wreck.

The timing of this is no coincidence, just before the election. Trying to win electoral brownie points for sticking to them evil foreigners. So no they can't call the whole thing off, too much loss of face, and certainly not before the election, which is set for next month, but may never occur as well.

32 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

 

I hear there are groups springing up in rural areas. One is called "Don't take our husbands". They are groups of Thai women, who have foreign husbands who are not rich, and they are all just getting by, doing what they can to make a living, or living on a modest pensions or savings. The women are afraid these requirements may make it far harder for their men to be able to stay here. 

Is this not then a human rights issue?

I am interested in this as well.

On 2/4/2019 at 11:12 AM, ubonjoe said:

You will have to have your marriage certificate legalized and then translated to Thai. Then the  translation will have to be certified by the Department of Consular Affairs of the MFA in Bangkok. Then you will need to go to a Amphoe to register your foreign marriage to get a Kor Ror 22 marriage registry that immigration requires to apply for the extension of stay based upon marriage.

That does not sound easier than a retirement extension.  Can you re-use all these documents each year?

3 hours ago, Roy Baht said:

Tips for getting your IO's phone number and making your first phone call:

 

1. When you ask your IO for his/her phone number, speak slowly and clearly but not loudly. Make sure to make eye contact. After your IO has given you his/her phone number, simply say Thank you, and wai deeply.

 

2. Don’t call your IO immediately after getting his/her number: that will make you seem too eager. Wait a few days. On the other hand, don’t wait too long either: that will make you seem aloof and uninterested. Your IO doesn’t have time for games.

 

3. When you do call your IO for the first time, introduce yourself by your full name (middle name too) as it appears on your passport. Then ask: “Do you remember me?” Your IO will most likely say yes, out of shyness, even if he/she has no memory of you. Now is a good time to recite your passport number, slowly but clearly, one digit at a time.

 

4. After it has been established that your IO indeed remembers you (he/she has probably looked up your info and found your photo), remind your IO that you two have your next “date” in less than 90 days and that you can’t wait to see him/her again. If your IO feels the same way, he/she will remind you that you may report up to 15 days before your 90-day period expires.

 

5. Don’t keep your IO on the phone too long. Your IO has important work to do. And he/she may be hungry. Simply say, Good-bye, and wai deeply.

 

Good luck!

 

I just ask if I can have their number so that I can call to check if there is any Thai public holidays before I make the long drive to their office.

Can't ever remember giving a wai to an immigration officer.

Lots of snide and poisonous remarks on this forum. Terrible really.

Probably paid writers employed to generate conflict among members to keep the post count and page view numbers rolling along.

This is the end

My only friend, the end

On 2/3/2019 at 9:14 AM, wgdanson said:

1.7M - 150k = 1.55M / 9k+2k = 141 months = 11.5 years. But that's without deducting any maintenance etc charges.

Did the 1.7M include fees and tax for the transfer.

In my youth I volunteered in Mother Teresa's street hospital in Calcutta.

Saw a lot of stuff in the slums that has stuck with me for life.

The one image that pops into my head whenever there is talk of beggars is that of a young teenage girl.

Nothing from the waist down and placed in the top of a red ten litre plastic bucket.

Her two arms were both stumps no longer that a few inches.

She was gnawing at a small piece of a corn cob, cradling it as best she could between her two stumps.

She was also blind. A further disability no doubt inflicted upon her by her keepers.

A couple of photos back in this thread just prompted me to watch The Wild One.

Never seen it before.

Why is it revered as an all time classic.

Seem trite, camp and pointless to me.

And what is the big deal about Brando.

He just look like a fat Serbian kid in a gay hat.

16 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

I would much rather be perceived as overly negative than to be seen among the smug expat Stockholm syndrome brigade, cheerleading at each and every increasingly onerous and throw the baby out with the bath water over the top new rule (often with the clarity of muddy mud), mocking and insulting any fellow expat that finds such new rules painful, irrational, or impossible.

 

Frogs in slowly boiling water we are. 

Not me.

I have family here so I am stuck in the pot.

But I am crystal clear who keeps turning the gas up.

1 hour ago, marcusarelus said:

I'm a long stay expat.  I have kept at least 800,000 in a Thai bank for the past 20 years.  What has changed for me? 

You can no longer withdraw 400,000 of it.

9 hours ago, JLCrab said:

In a recent Khaosod article, it said that the nickname came from his father when he liked to use the Joker in card games. Not rice gruel.

Oh.  Playing cards are illegal in Thailand.

2 hours ago, wgdanson said:

I have never had the IOs phone number because I never asked or needed it.

 

I am not a boss or expert on his issue, but using my intelligence and experience, I try to help other members.

I am surprised you refer to the poisonous and troll posts when you've only been a member since last Wednesday.

 

And finally, I am NOT married, and usually go to the Immigration Office alone, and have a very good relationship with all the staff there.

How do you know you have a "very good relationship" with all the staff there if you don't speak Thai?

Because they smile at you?

Good Lord.

5 hours ago, LivinLOS said:

Never lost a deposit in 18 years, god knows how many homes.. 

 

hardest 2 to get were both farangs..

 

Mixed bag for me over the years. Had one wealthy lady (head mistress at private school) rent me the house next door to hers.  I stayed for several years and ended up quiet close with her family. Would pick her son up from school and piano lessons sometimes when her and her husband had to go to Bangkok. Helped them sell 2 of their cars (and one motorbike) to farang buyers, posted ads for their other rental properties on farang websites to help them find tenants, etc ... etc.

When I finally left I hired professional cleaners and gardeners to tidy the place up better than when I first moved in.

She tried to keep my deposit, and when I asked why, no response. I had a lawyer call her and threaten litigation and she finally paid me.

Not sure what the problem was.  Maybe just in too much debt and quite simply didn't have the money to pay me.