Mel52

Honestly I’m gonna bow out of these political discussions because they often get me in trouble lol [emoji38]

Even though my political opinions are actually very moderate

I'm on board with your outlook re: Trump - don't like how he comports himself or all that he does but, in broad strokes, support the various objectives on Immigration.
 
To my ear, doing away with 14th Ammendment isn't going overboard at all.  Be like someone crawling into your house at night through an open window, without your consent or knowledge.  They give birth to a kid in the bedroom. You discover all this the next morning, but by law, the kid, and the parents, are now your houseguests for life.
 
The tail is definitely wagging the dog on this one, although I'm sure it made sense in the 1860s, as the country was re-building after a bloody civil war.

Well actually I said “maybe”. I don’t like politics and I don’t like being labeled as either a Republican or a Democrat. I believe in right and wrong.

Libertarians and Independents don't take specific stands on issues? And Libertarian would hardly qualify as "moderate" in American politics.

Yeah like I said I’m not a political guy I was just brainstorming what kind of politics I believe in I said might be.

I definitely have not drank the Trump cool aid though whether I agree with him or not on any issues. And you’ll never see me wearing a maga hat lol [emoji23]

is nt thier a fine for blocking traffic on the sidewalk?

Not to mention it also saves me a trip from Korat to Bangkok once a year just to pay $50 dollars for their stupid letter at the United States Embassy. So of course someone like me likes their new income verification procedures a lot better than the old way with the income affidavits. It made me nervous at first last year but once the new procedures were announced by immigration I was very glad because they never moved the goal post as some people like to say or changed their rules they merely just changed the income verification procedures for the 3 embassies actually that stopped providing the income letters. It’s the United States Embassy, the British Embassy, and it was the Australian Embassy of course. The Denmark Embassy I think they do still provide the income letters. I’m just over all satisfied with my personal situation though. And I do understand that it might not work out so nicely for everyone.

Don't forget that only 4 embassies stopped issuing income letters. 

But that’s just my point of view some people might not share my enthusiasm.

If you live in Thailand full time the new income verification procedures and using a Thai bank account is really a win win situation for us foreigners and the Thai economy. I actually prefer it this way better than the old way.

And my VA pension payments are monthly same as my military retirement pay.

I have upgraded my Crystal Ball and Ouija Board to the latest water-cooled, high performance models...and even this cutting edge technology still gets the prediction wrong approximately 50% of the time regardless of the future date I'm interested in.   Still no better that the coin I use to flip to base my prediction on.

 

 

I’m not sure what you’re referring to but I’m sure eventually all the banks will be in sync with Immigration’s rules and they’re already getting there now as far as I can see after I spoke to my local immigration office about it a few times. I go to my bank once a month after payday to update my passbook, get my credit advices, and my bank statements. In January before I do my next extension I’ll probably have to get another letter from my local SCB branch as well to verify my monthly deposits from the VA coming from the United States. My military retirement pay still goes to our bank in the states with my wife’s Social Security payments but I have my VA Disability pension set up on the IDD program which is awesome I absolutely love the IDD program and that’s like 102,000 baht a month give or take a few thousand baht depending on the current months exchange rate which has been holding pretty steady lately. The exchange rate isn’t as good as it used to be but it’s still pretty good and it’s at least holding steady I’m happy with it. I’ve heard bad things about the British pound and the Australian Dollar though hopefully their currency will pickup some steam as well for our European and Australian friends as well.

Hoping for third world status?

It's not about the children, or punishment for would-be foreign parents. 
 
IMO, a country's immigration needs change over time, influenced by economic factors, geo-political issues and even issues stemming from current and future climate change, etc... 
 
This suggests, quite obviously in my view, that immigration demands, quota if you will, must be managed with flexible polices, not rigid articles of constitution, which serve a country well, but can also paralyze it from acting in its own best interests.   Characterized by needing a cup of water but forced to drink from a firehose, without the ability to adjust pressure, or shut it off, without an act of congress - literally and figuratively.  That's just dumb policy, and no way to run a ship.
 
Dysfunction breeds ineffeciency and attracts lawlessness and more dysfunction.  Thailand is a close-to-home example of what it looks like when you let things slide for too long, and then decide to reassert control and discipline.  A hard slog, bad press, gnashing of teeth, allegations of racism, and no doubt, some folks in the margins who aren't "bad guys" per se, get jettisoned in the impersonal process. 
 
Scrub the 14th, get a sensible guest worker policy in place, be shot of the Visa Lottery, for a start, and I reckon a lot of this hopped up SW border drama will sort itself out.

 
You do realize that you can bookmark this thread? 
 
No need to keep posting to keep at the top of the forum so you can "find" it.
 
And calendars often work well for determining today's date.
 
 
 
 

If more people did this we would get the idiots off the sidewalk.
it isn't a case of live and let live......if I walk in the street I will probably last about five minutes. I applaud this woman.....I am guessing she speaks Thai.
i have maintained for a long time that laws are for the guidance of fools......the fools are riding on the sidewalks. If they hit me is it live and let live? Bloody stupid point of view.

 
You do realize that you can bookmark this thread? 
 
No need to keep posting to keep at the top of the forum so you can "find" it.
 
And calendars often work well for determining today's date.
 
 
 
 

 
You do realize that you can bookmark this thread? 
 
No need to keep posting to keep at the top of the forum so you can "find" it.
 
And calendars often work well for determining today's date.
 
 
 
 

You really gotta be careful out there on the roads here.

Very good information but today is still not the 28th [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]

I just realized something today is the 22nd [emoji38]. Anyway good info I’ll save this information.

So this is good information to keep stored on my iPhone and I took screenshots of the important information like I always do when it’s something important.