Mel52

Has anyone ever heard of a Thai landlord - house/condo owner getting fined for not filing a TM.30?

your not thai, accept the situation or move on to a different country. little thai school children would have a better chance of influencing thai authorities than any foreign person. 

Very different for Brits. We just provided evidence of our income IN THE UK, to the British embassy, by post and recieved an income verification letter in return.  

Although I did normally bring in more than 65k every month, I used a far more convenient and cheaper method of bringing cash in. Also if I returned for a visit to the UK, no need to send money to Thailand that month.

 

Far cheaper and easier before. I do miss the British Embassy's income letters.

 

They really need to be careful about angering immigration because immigration is providing a good service at least from my experience anyway and they need to STOP RIGHT NOW creating a potential us against them type of scenario. I always get along really good with my local immigration office and I’d like to keep it that way thank you. I hope this expat group isn’t claiming that they are the voice of all foreigners living in Thailand because they ARE NOT!

The insurgency in southern Thailand is probably one of the reasons why they have had an address reporting system for God knows how long definitely longer than I’ve lived in Thailand and I’ve only been here for 5 years. Thailand has honestly been trying to get rid of all the foreign criminals as well and it really looks like they have been making a good legitimate effort on that as well.

I really don’t want some expat group talking to immigration on my behalf and demanding that they stop doing things because they definitely do not represent me. They can hire all the lawyers they want but they are not going to change anything at immigration or anything at all in the Thai government. In case they haven’t noticed this isn’t exactly a Democracy at the moment and even if it was we foreigners here don’t get a vote because we aren’t citizens no matter how long you’ve lived here and I’m honestly surprised that immigration even took this group seriously enough to even have a formal meeting with them.

If I was in charge of Thai immigration I probably would have just told them to go fill out a comment card or something. I’m surprised immigration even gave this group the time of day.

If anything they are just drawing to much attention to the rest of us who just want to live our lives, follow the rules and go with the program because they really are not asking us to do very much to live here legally and it really isn’t that hard at all reporting your address and neither is the rest of the paperwork we have to do most of which is just once a year. They should be happy that Thailand has a good immigration system in place because if they didn’t then anyone would be able to just come here and just stay which I think is probably what some of these people want is no rules at all just anarchy I guess. This is one of those things where I would like to tell immigration “hey those guys don’t represent me and I’m not in their little club” but I seriously doubt that my local immigration office here in Korat even knows about that petition they filed at their headquarters because it’s probably no where near as significant as they think it is, people can huff and puff about it on Thai Visas all they want but it doesn’t change a thing. They think immigration is listening to them just because they had a formal meeting with immigration in Bangkok or wherever but if anything they’re just creating a scenario where it’s immigration against us which is definitely not the case but they are creating that appearance and this group needs to stop that because it could potentially cause some REAL problems. The attorneys they apparently hired they know that and they know that they are never gonna change anything but they don’t care as long as they’re getting paid.

 
Unfortunately not all of the offices offer such a "service".

 
Unfortunately not all of the offices offer such a "service".

They may have good intentions but I honestly don’t want some united expat group speaking to immigration on my behalf demanding things as if they actually speak for all of us because they don’t.

Yes it was I’m gonna copy this message traffic.

I went to Chiang Mai from Hua Hin and back again. I didn’t bother with the form and nothing was said as they didn’t know. I suppose that if you don’t tell them they won’t know.

Takes a few minutes eh, are you special, they come to your house..?

You staying up in the hills is very different to most of us. The thread is not for you is it..?

LMAO [emoji38] I knew it now even immigration is getting fed up with all the whining and complaining and now even immigration is saying “jeez it’s not that hard to do” and it’s really not this has been a rule for years. Immigration didn’t start enforcing the rules very strictly till this year. In fact I just did my most recent 90 day report this morning and again it still wasn’t a problem and last week we spent almost a week traveling up north. Although I never had to show my passport to anyone for hotel or lodging the people who ran the cabin up in the Hill Tribes Villages didn’t ask and obviously our family didn’t ask either when we stayed at their house up in the mountains. But that was not my first road trip around here. It’s just business as usual with immigration right now I don’t understand all the hype about the TM-30.

I definitely want to save this topic it has a lot of really good information.

Fyi. I was told that I couldn't do the 40k a month by ones officer and needed the 400 k in the bank for a marriage visa.
This is pure laziness as far as I can make out.
 

It’s just crazy because I read more about this case and it turns out that the shooter wasn’t even arrested inside the Walmart he was arrested driving away apparently. So that means he not only had 20 minutes to pop off several rounds enough to shoot 46 people and kill 26 I think it was and he had time to reload at least twice but no that’s not even the worst part he also actually had time to get back in his car and drive away before he surrendered. Something is wrong with that picture it’s time to start hiring more armed security guards for crowded public places like that, at least that’s a start anyway for the short term.

Yes obviously he’s a domestic terrorist that’s been firmly established.

I think it’s pretty safe to say this guy is done.

The criminal justice system is slow but at least he’s not going anywhere ever again, and the case has already been designated as domestic terrorism that’s a fact. The criminal charges on this level are going to take a little time because they have to get it right.

What will probably happen eventually is the federal government will charge him with federal domestic terrorism charges but there’s still a whole long process they have to go through first of coordinating between the state of Texas and the United States Department of Justice as far as who’s gonna charge him with what on state or federal charges as well as the whole investigation that I’m sure is still pending in fact the investigators both state and federal are probably extremely busy right now. Before he’s arraigned in court they have to produce the extremely long list of capital charges and it’s probably going to take a little time before he’s officially formerly charged with federal charges. But the case has already been designated as domestic terrorism that’s a fact. The criminal charges on this level are going to take a little time because they have to get it right.

The El Paso shooting has already been designated as an act of domestic terrorism but it just depends on what news channels you watch to get accurate information.

At SCB it’s called the Advice for Customer.

This is good information I’m saving this article. This is why I always pull a copy of my credit advices from my local SCB branch every month the day after payday as well as my monthly bank statements after I receive my monthly pension payments.