CM Dad

I just received the form from SSA by mail. I have been sent this form before. I just fill it out and return it. It is a very short form where questions are asked and you just tick boxes yes or no then sign it. It's a simple form and nothing to worry about.

Your dispute is with BA, not Bangkok Bank. Only BA can sort this out.

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I fail to understand why so many are against using an agent. I did all my own extensions and 90-day reports for twenty years, but started using an agent when the US Consulate in Chiang Mai stopped doing income verification letters. After that, I began using an agent. I usually kept several hundred thousand baht in the bank here, so I just made sure to have the required 400,000 in one account all of the time. My agent charges me 9,900 baht per year to do my extensions. That price includes the extension fee of 1,900 and all of my 90-day reports. My agents fee of 8,000 baht is well worth it to me since I don't have to prepare anything and only have to go to Immigration once a year which takes me less than 15 minutes. I never pay any fines because I follow all the rules and everyone at Immigration treats me very well.

O G!

Get rid of double pricing and treat non Thai visitors and long-term expats with respect. Treat foreigners with Thai families the same way their Thai spouses are treated when living abroad. Clean up all the garbage and enforce traffic laws. I have lived here, worked here, and paid taxes here for more than thirty years, but I doubt I will ever see any of the improvements I mentioned during my lifetime.

Good! That means I can rest assured that you will not be on any flights I might chose to take.

Yes, miss Nancy.

I am not Thai and I will continue to wear a mask and distance myself from those who don't.

What a stupid comment. This man is enlightened. What exactly do you mean with that silly term "woke"?

Why UK excepted? Boris has certainly been a giant leap backwards.

But she only lasted a few days. To be totally honest, anyone named Shinawatra would be wrong for the job. Thailand does not need any more family dynasties.

I am a westerner who will continue wearing a mask, especially when I am anywhere near mindless foreigners who think they know it all and claim to have "god-given rights".

They are private companies and they can simply refuse service. Many businesses in the West have signs posted at their entrances saying "No shirt, no shoes, no service".

Actually, they are private companies that are open to the public - NOT public areas.

What is important is not the name of the delivery company as long as they have the correct colored plate on their delivery vehicle,

What do you expect from a guy named TOXIN?

When will the police begin to enforce traffic laws, especially speeding? Most people drive entirely too fast, The police only set up traffic stops to shake down motorcyclists not wearing helmets or having proper driving permits. Expensive vehicles are never stopped for fear that the drivers will be well-connected. Better yet, when will driver's education become a part of secondary school curriculum?

I have to admit that I am totally confused. I thought the purpose of attending a language school was to learn a language. Is immigration now involved in language learning?

I have lived in Thailand for more than 35 years, primarily in the North and the Northeast. I have also driven through all of the provinces to the north, east, and west of Bangkok. I don't understand how I could have missed the first listed "major" city of the Northeast - "Ubon Thai".

Chiang Mai is starting to see a trickle of tourists - most of them Australians judging by their accents - and none of them are wearing masks even though they are still required in Thailand.

The simple fact is that those over 75 cannot get health insurance. I am 75 and I have tried every company I could find to get insurance for the past 15 years and I have been denied every single time due to "...pre-existing chronic conditions". I have two of them and take one pill daily for one, nothing for the other, and I have never been hospitalized for either. Prior to age 60, I tried to get Thai social security insurance as an employee of a Thai government agency. I was initially told the the SS insurance was for Thais only. When I pointed out that the law said that was not true, I was told I was "too old" even though the law said that anyone up to age 60 was eligible. I eventually just gave up and have now set a few million baht aside to self insure as that is my only option. I have a Thai family and I spend more than a million baht a year in the country. There are many like me. If we left, the loss to the Thai economy would be catastrophic. I changed to a type O from a type B when I quit working at age 65.

I truly hope that Promenada is somehow able to reopen.

I fell in love with Thailand when I was stationed here during the wars in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. I was lucky to be stationed in a small NSA security post located next to a typical Thai rural village. I moved from the modern and very comfortable, self-contained military post to a teakwood house built on stilts with no running water in the village the first week I was there. I truly felt that I was at home. Once I finished my tour of duty and returned to life in the States, I dreamed of returning some day. It took me twenty years to get back and now I am very content. I have not been to my home country since the death of my mother fifteen years ago, and I am quite sure that I will never go back again. Though I have a Thai family for whom I am very grateful, I would choose to stay where I am even if I were alone. I speak Thai and spend most of my time with Thai people. While I know many westerners, I would call only three or four friends. Unlike many, I did not come here for sex or the party life. I don't go to bars. I avoid places where most westerners gather like Bangkok and beach areas. In short, I am content and I have no desire to leave. Thailand is not perfect, but then no place is. However, Thailand has been my home for more than thirty years and will remain my home until I die.

So how much time did you waste over just a few baht? Why don't you take your own bags like most of us do? I find your behavior petty and annoying.