Bobbie Davies

Understand. I’m 56 so 20 years good for me.

Yeah, but even Thai could not get in for a period there. Kinda sucks though. Buuut those same people if they had used them for their stated purpose and had bought a condo, so had an official Thai address, or were married to a Thai, got in faster.

True 20 years down the road is a long time. But it is unlikely that they will invalidate it given the costs. Aaand you don’t have to deal with the ever changing, on a daily basis requirements for the visas. Any of them are good I would think.

The applicant can make payment only after receiving approval which usually takes about 1 to 3 months from the submission date. Once the application has been approved, the Thailand Elite will provide with bank account details for making a payment. The Thailand Elite Visa fee varies from THB 600,000 to THB 2 million depending on the Elite Visa type the applicant applied for. Payment must be made only directly to the Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd through the following methods:
• Wire transfer from an overseas bank account. (5 business days)
• Wire transfer from a local bank account. (2-3 business days)
• Online payment by credit card via the link provided. (1 business day)
Once payment has been made, the proof of payment will need to be submitted to Thailand Privilege Card Co., Ltd for confirmation

54000 dollars is not much for 20 years of come and go when and how you want.

Well if you are seriously considering it, soonest is best. Don’t waste too much money on other visas if the Elite card is what you really want.

I’m sure they get a commission, from where I do not know. It’s probably part of the price scheme. If you are asking if you can do a run around these agents and pay cheaper prices, no that is not possible. Only official agents of Thailand Elite Privilege Card, ltd. Can sell these. And approval is not automatic either, they will vet you.

Yeah, the elite card is not technically an official visa. It is a wink and a nod side run for those with enough money so investors are encouraged. Just so you know. I a tourist Visa mock up. Cannot be used to apply for permanent residence or citizenship. And can not be used for work permit. Must apply for Non-B then work permit.

Technically both work. They are sales agents. There is no official, official, page as in Thai government.

Thailand Elite, is operated by Thailand Elite Privilege card., ltd., a state-owned enterprise status within the Tourism Authority of Thailand (“TAT”), its sole shareholder.

https://thailand-elite.com/member-application-process/

here it is.

Depends on where you’re from originally, Some places 15 days, some 30, and some 45

What is up with the flee the scene stuff? He did wait until medical services showed up and she was taken to the hospital. I don’t see any politician from anywhere or even normal people who were not the driver doing more. And he sent the driver to the hospital to check on her, but she had already died. Come on what else do you want him to do? He also offered compensation to the family Which will probably include funeral costs. If you were in a taxi would you always stick around and go to the hospital? Would you pay costs for an accident if the taxi driver ran over someone or their pet. I can tell you in the United States she wouldn’t have even gotten the stick around except for galkers. Would have left name, address and phone number with driver or witness and been gone on the quickest ride out.

Buy a condo don’t build. In the country and on ground level in villages and cities you will not escape them.

Perhaps they should have built closer in. My house is right in the village and have mother in law uncles brothers aunt and sisters living around it. And two dogs. Lights everywhere. Not likely to get robbed there. Though my fiancé and I did get mugged once by yaba teens just outside of UD town.

Geisha, quite correct on the usage of VOA, and yes it is visa exempt status. And yes’s 30 days 2 extensions then run. Beyond that not rubbish. If you don’t meet qualifications at any embassy you go to, you don’t get visa. You don’t want to be caught gaming the system. Yes people get away with it for long time, but I personally don’t want to deal with the hassles when luck runs out. And standing your ground to a principal is not a successful strategy in Thailand, and Baht doesn’t mean much when Face is involved. You’ll notice, I said do whatever you want. Central thesis was that yes at the KL Embassy they mean it.

Most foreigners and 100% of Farang are already in their uniform. Just look in the mirror. And on Farang teacher status, I don’t know where you teach, sounds like you maybe got a raw deal, but everyone, except my fiancé and fiancés mother, (dad died last year), monks, and superiors in school and uppity ups don’t wait for my wai but do one every time, students included. It’s khru Bobbie this, khru Bobbie that. That said, everyone knows my fiancé and mother in the village she owns a cooking supply shop and sells lao khao and his brother owns a 7-11. And I am always being hit up for private English classes. I socialize with my fellow teachers, friends, the headman of our village etc… So not sure why you are being disrespected.

Mmm, about teachers uniforms. Again there is the idea of uniformity within the group. Further, they are actually part of the government, they are considered civil servants. Their teachers are not laymen, and the history of schools and the development of an education system is not the same as in Western  countries. Westerners do not see teachers as part of the actual government, we’re used to “lay” teachers let’s say. In Thailand they are part of a very longstanding hierarchical system that does not exist in the West. A pyramid that has the King at the top, then monks, then the highly educated, then the wealthy, then the poor. There are some other gradations but this is basically the bones. Schools were formed fairly recently in history for the poor and almost all have royal patronage, without which they would not exist. Thailand does not necessarily have universal education. Oh they need to attend school to learn to read and write but that’s about it. If a family cannot afford to send their kid to school, he or she does not go to school. The main thrust of secondary school is to prepare for college entrance exams, which can make or break a family. It jumps the child to the highly educated class, and can potentially raise the family to a higher level of status. The uniforms of everyone from office worker, to professional man, to policeman, teacher etc… shows everyone their status.

No joke, my fiancé and I were mugged by a group of teenagers we think were on yaba. No one was hurt but they got 6000 Baht off of us. This would have never happened before.

 News flash, my fiancé lives in a village outside of UD town. He had this old clunker of a cell phone and no home internet, no money to buy internet on that fossil except he’d get a week every month and he shared that with his nephew, mother, and uncle. and he was 45 years old. That was his reality. Internet is not universal. Took care of that and now he has up to date phone and internet in our house. His nephew comes to our house to watch television because he doesn’t even have that. Many people simply don’t have the means to keep up with phones and internet.

OMG, I remember my dad catching me taking a puff from a cigarette at 6. He put me in the closet with an entire pack and said I couldn’t leave until they were done. Sick as a dog. Didn’t smoke again until I was 19.

Only reason I wasn’t bullied as much at school, and yes I do remember being six and do remember school then, was I was big for my age and not afraid to use it.

Well in this case, it had nothing to do with the school uniform and everything to do with some special outfit for Thai Day. My little nephew, I call my fiancés nephew, nephew, would be embarrassed to show up to school and not be dressed like his friends. That is not even counting the pointing and jibing he would take for wearing his regular uniform that day. Kids gotta love ‘em, and do, really can be less than pleasant with the odd man out. Says the gay man who always knew it.

And again with the likelies. Give me facts not projections. Now it has gone from embarrassment to frightening the kid and putting him in fear of his life. Because of the dangerous stapler. Anyone else here play telephone as a kid? Give me facts baby. The article says nothing, zero, zip, nada, about the kids reaction to this. We can’t even see his face in the picture to judge an expression.

Umm, obviously she was unthinking of the possible effect on the kid or parents. Not the action itself. That is taking my comment waaaay beyond its meaning.

In response to the law, it was a rhetorical question to lead to thought, I already knew the corporal punishment law. But nowhere in the law does it mention pinning a note to the child’s shirt. If you have ever dealt with a Court of Law, it is all about the details and meeting the specifics of the crime. That is not regardless of personal opinion of “mental trauma” the same physical act. Neither was it meant as a form of corporal punishment. For Gods sake, she wasn’t trying to punish the child, she was trying to get a message to the family. She could never be charged under that.