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On 2/14/2020 at 8:17 PM, Boomer6969 said:

But they'll never catch me.

You can run but you can't hide from this formidable BMW

43 minutes ago, Brer said:

Just rambling, however In this country the brown envelopes exist everywhere.

And it makes my life so much easier to spend my 6-month Thailad stay on a retirment visa. When posters complain in this forrum about ordeal of getting a retirment visa, I sip pina collada on the beach and laugh reading those posts. 

12 hours ago, shootrrdave said:

It's only 13 baht total.

Wow 13 baht. No wonder my GF who is also my daugther's mother always complain "farangs buy so much gold for their wife why you don't buy me gold" I say but farangs get "marriage visa", yellow book, and pink id card from their wife but I don't want any of those useless stuff.  

On 2/14/2020 at 1:10 AM, wealthychef said:

 I used a "helper" for this which, omitting the gory and sketchy details, cost me $950 this year to extend permission to stay with multiple re-entry permission.

If you're using an agent to get your visa, you can opt for a cheaper service that will cost you around 300/400 USD. Surprisngly agent prices have dropped after they went with the monthly income in the bank for the four consulates and modification of keeping 400K through out the year for 800K method, contrary to what most posters had anticipated. Myy be more people have switched to agents and now agents can make a decent incomes and the IOs can send their children to good private schools and buy a car due to the increased in volumes. 

On 2/13/2020 at 12:30 AM, spidermike007 said:

his recent massacre is extremely rare in Thailand. I am far more fearful of violence and being shot in the US,

Unless you're an African American, you can even threaten police with guns and they won't shoot you. 

I am in Thailand now and I have Permitted to Stamp till 22 March, 2020.
Got a new retirement extension that is stamped Extension of Stay Permitted Upto 20 MAR 2021.
I am leaving Thailand on March 18, 2020 (before my current Permitted to Stay date).

Come back again in October for my Thailand stay (I stay only 6-month in Thailand Oct-March) using my retirement extension.
If I go to the Chonburi office and get a single re-entry permit, what will be the valid until date of the permit? (expecting it to be 20 MAR, 2021).
I know I can get one in the Airport, but want to get it in the Chonburi office in case I forget to get one at the Airport in a rush. 

22 hours ago, Maestro said:

If your wife gets confirmation that she can get added in the book for her Chiang Mai address, her mother should first get her name deleted on the book in Tak and then the holder of the book in Chiang Mai should get her added in his book.

My GF says don't need to delete or add anything. It is all automatic through computer. She has a condo in Bangkok, a House in Bangla Mung, and her mother's house in Sisaket. My daughter went through all the blue books becuase of her schooling in Bangkok, Sisaket, and Chonburi. 

Military should compensate to the tune of at least one million but knowing Thailand it won't happen.

On 2/12/2020 at 5:46 AM, daiwill60 said:

Which begs the question, how many more are infected now? 

Far less than millions infected by H1N1 virus that killed almost 300K. 

3 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

58 countries have so far closed their borders to China, but not Thailand, oh well, my protest is not to go out and spend until they do,

I don't think Thais care if you spend or not. You've option to go back to where you came from and post your rants from your home country. 

On 2/10/2020 at 3:25 AM, PoorSucker said:

Chef is not on the prohibited occupation list. 

All the chefs I have seen in Indian Resturants are Indians. They are on work visa becuase not easy to find Thais who could cook Indian foods. Same for in the USA also. All the servers (most) are also Indians in Indan restaurnats becuase they need to interact with customers using Indian languages and not easy to find Thai workers talkng in native Indian languages. Same for the USA also. All the priests in Indian Hindu temples in the USA are on work visa becuase they could not find local priests for hindu temples. And I don't think servers in Indian restuarants are making 80K. 

There is an Indian food stall at the cornet of South Pataya and the 2nd road. The owner serves, hence working, has a few Thai (Looks like Burmese, may be Burmese Thais) and Indian workers. I don't think any one them make 80K

17 hours ago, Ventenio said:

Question:  OK, say you get rejected but you have a motorbike and a good amount of luggage still in Thailand.  Do you normally get 7 days to get your stuff, or are you really stuck?  I wish I had only a small bag, but that's impossible for me.  

 

I don't think I'll to worry about this until at least May, and likely not until August....BUT I would leave my stuff in Thailand before going to Laos.

You can always enter through most land borders witout any problem.  

1 hour ago, keith101 said:

Why are people from Wuhan still being allowed into the country

I am not sure if they are allowed or not but I  read somewhere that if they're already in Thailand, they can overstay without incurring overstay fine or arrest. 

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

Again with agents?

I think I'm getting into your nerves with this agent thingy but I want to become an expert with the modus operandi of agents in Thailand. Agents for various offcial activities like DL, real estate, TM -30, 90-day, immigration extension, opening bank accounts, getting a yellow book, etc. They have made my life so much enjoyable in Thailand and freed me from all those hassles and horror stories  people post in this forum while I sip pina collada on the beach and laugh at those posts. 

On 2/10/2020 at 1:01 AM, ubonjoe said:

It is not required for any extension of stay at a immigration office.

Do you mean it's not required for a retirment extension if your original entry into the country is with an O-A visa? If so, I understand why agents don't require insurance for a retirment  extension of an original entry with an O-A. 

On 2/8/2020 at 7:41 PM, ubonjoe said:

If you have a valid visa a return or onward ticket is not needed for entry.

But an IO has every right to deny entry and the person cant do anything. Yes he could lodge a complain from the holding cell in the airport but it will amount ot nothing. Can you give a link where it says onward ticket is not needed for  with a valid visa. 

22 hours ago, cauldlad said:

I did mine at Jomtien 10 days ago. They accepted my state pension award notice which was dated

16.11.2016

You mean they accepted this as monthly income witout showing monthly money transfer to a Thai bank?

21 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

In Thailand there is NO guarantee you can sell a used house

I think Thai people don't prefer to buy used house for the fear of ghost in the house as they don't know if someone died there or not. When I was buying a house for my GF, she said she would live in rented place but won't buy a used house. Of course, with the maount of new construction and easy bank loan, I wonder why somebody would buy a used house.

21 hours ago, Max69xl said:

First of all, it's not Buddha's birthday on Monday.

It's Makha Bucha Day (or Magha Puja Day in some countries). It is the day when Buddha delivered his first sermons to a gathhering of 1200 monks in Rajgir, India. 

On 2/7/2020 at 6:04 PM, ubonjoe said:

Savannakhet has accepted pension statements and etc without them being stamped by an embassy.

Everybody does not get pension when they reach the age of 50. So, this is irrelevant

On 1/20/2020 at 10:44 PM, MarcB said:

But thanks for letting us know you always pay in $

Does it mean somebody has to buy dollar in a currency exchage in Thailand?

On 2/6/2020 at 9:25 AM, champers said:

he Baht has moved from 39 to 40 against the pound. I won't be dancing in the streets till it gets to 50. Hope I'm still around to see it.

For thousand pound British pensioners, it is a gain of 1,000 baht a month or just over their wife visa requirement and an additional 40 BHT pork soup.

On 2/6/2020 at 6:40 PM, tgeezer said:

In all dealings with Immigration, if there is doubt, then there is no doubt.  You should always plan for the worst case.  The issue is length of time, longer being worse than shorter, so assume ‘longer’.  Know Immigration as you know your investments, past performance is no guarantee of future performance.  

And if you want consistancy, use an agent if you can afford it and willing to hire an agent. Thailand is a great country becuase you can do every thing smoothly using an agent. Have used agent for DL, buying and selling cars, immigration and could not beleive how smooth and consistant the process is. They even fill up the form (Mostly written in Thai) for you and you just sign. I was a fool to not use an agent for opening a bank acount and lesson learned. Never again I deal with Thai government officials without an agent.