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His point was that he didn't want to keep skirting around the rules.

Guess I lucked out. Same thing happened to me at Laos-Thailand border (didn't get re-entry before crossing). Woman officer took me to private room and told me she'd give me a tourist visa and to go to my local Immigration Office and straighten this out. Not every Thai officer is corrupt.

I'm no fan of the PM, but she got this right: its nothing, it's misinformation, just move on.

2. You can work. Not necessarily Work permits are in the domain of the Ministry of Labor, not Immigration (who handles the Visa). See Work Eligibility and Work Permit https://thaivisaexpert.com/is-it-possible-to-work-on-a-marriage-visa/#:~:text=While the Thai Marriage Visa,and evaluation determine the outcome.

The Cars. Moving In Stereo is unquestionably the best song of it's Genre, and they created plenty of other excellent music. Boston, Rush - fine backup bands for the Cars.

A single-entry permit is around 1200b, multiple-entry around twice that. Unless you are CERTAIN you will only need the permit one time before your visa expires I strongly advise you get the multi, and when and if you renew your visa get a multi at the same time. And as to the advice you get here (including mine) I very much advise you to ask your local Immigration office - at the end of the day what they say is what matters.

Mark Zuckerberg as quoted by Indian Defence Review, telling us the replacement for smart phones. I suspect Apple and Google wake up shivering at these pronouncements of their demise. Mark, sorry to tell ya, but you stopped being relevant a loooong time ago.

You have a lot of good, intelligent responses here. But if it was up to me I would head to my local Immigration Office and ask them. Understand that every immigration office has the latitude to shape the policies and procedures for their office, and a baby hippo is what your local office says it is 🦛

In Udon Thani there are a number of good restaurants, 2 that stand out are Country Grille and Irish Clock. But really there are a ton of good recipes on Youtube/Facebook/etc. Toss out your microwave, get an oven and a couple of cooking plates, stock up on good supplies at cheese2meatu and/or ud villa. The final step is to let your woman see what a disaster you are chopping most anything; she'll kick you out of the kitchen and learn to use YouTube to make those meals your inner WesternMan™️ craves. Make sure and compliment her liberally - I find what works best is "you even cook better than my mom".

How long have you been waiting to use that one?

My Thai wife will often go to Youtube and find a recipe I like, like a meatloaf my mom made. Or a Thai dish (rice, pork and chilies) that I pimp up (like top it off with a gooey egg). Im in the USA right now, I cant wait to get home to eat her.

About 5 years ago I bought one of these cheapie tablets in USA and was definitely satisfied with it. The wifi was on the slow side but what do you expect for 5 years ago? I strongly recommend you buy from Lazada instead of Shopee. They have the 2100b versions you refer to, or you can toss in another 1200b and get a Samsung Galaxy plus you get it shipped from within Thailand, and if something goes wrong you get decent customer service. Expect shipped from China and a long wait from Shopee.

Try Cheese2MeatU (real name) in Udon Thani.

I always buy used company desktops, preferably thinkpads or dell. SSDs are so cheap the first thing I do is put in a new SSD and load it with a clean OS (google Windows 11, Ive found it for $10 us). You can never have too much RAM; sooner or later bloatware happens and 8G memory is just not enough. DONT buy hp laptops; the amount of bloatware they cram in is incredible. Finally DONT DONT DONT buy a Windows 10 machine.

You are kidding yourself if you think there is one western woman who would have chosen a man with an empty bank account. Its definitely not exclusive to Thais, it's how men and women play the game.

Apocalypse Now Although I feel guilty as hell watching it. I've made some friends in Saigon with Vietnamese, great people.

My Thai wife has lite hair on her tanned legs, and I've never noticed her shaving them. At first I was appropriately shocked and scandalized. Now I think they are damned cute. Dude, let it go. Really.

Well he wished you a happy life and sent you a necklace of Buddha you can wear after your conversion. Those Chinese can be so spiritual and thoughtful, whoever said they were inscrutable.

You have a time sensitive matter, spending time on the internet listening to "experts" is not your wisest idea. 1. go to the canadian embassy in bangkok and ask them what to do. Document what they tell you and follow their instructions. Ive found my countries embassy to be very helpful when "issues" arise. Try to get the email address of a person there who can help you; make copies of your emails regarding this and save everything in a dedicated folder. 2. go to your local Thai Immigration office and ask them what to do. You really need to bring a person fluent in Thai along with you. Document and email (if necessary just email to yourself). Using email for this is preferable to line. Dont forget to attach relevant documents. Good luck

@Lolothai Take your wife to your local Immigration office and ask them, ideally meticulously documenting what they tell you, and do what they tell you to do. You are just asking for trouble using anything else as your source of information. You want people helping you who have seen your face, who make decisions, and know that in the future they will deal with you and your visa. I know this from painful experience.

A woman who enjoys handjobs+gel+marijuana. I figured I was done in my 60s. Tried the above in my 70s, and I've never enjoyed sex so much.

.. He didn't have his pension frozen. He just .. doesn't get cost-of-living increases. Big .. difference. he still gets his money, so I'm not . sure how that is a "financial nightmare." Exactly. This situation doesn't show how "bad" the UK is, it shows how some people are unable to show financial discipline. Typical disgusting western entitled attitude.

@HermosaBeachGuy in Bangkok Integrity Legal is good but pricy. I also used PVTS on a different matter, good enough and affordable (for a vanilla visa my guess is 14,000b). Or you can always go to your local immigration office (I suggest you bring a thai female friend who isnt intimidated by thai government workers). Good luck. BTW I grew up in Torrance; my dad drove us down Artesia Blvd and let us out to surf HB 25th St. Lathered up in smelly SPF 8 Coppertone suntan lotion, whose afraid of a little sunburn. Were those the good old days or what.

@spidermike007 ... it will certainly demonstrate to the nation how spectacularly corrupt, and how morally bankrupt they truly are .... Perhaps. Or its a young, immature democracy doing what a young, immature democracy does. Just when you see someone doing something in a mature, legal, logical way, they go entirely off road reverting back to old ways. As exciting as he was Pita was a bridge too far.

I drove by this around 2:45am Sun morning in a grab taxi. What I remember was how far down the street the car was. Had to have been a hell of a violent collision.