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It is definitely absolutely better to rent a condo in Thailand than buy. Condo purchases are no bargain. List prices are very high, and when dealing with a foreigner, they will stick to those inflated prices. Thais don't normally buy used condos. They will always prefer to buy a new condo, so it is incredibly difficult to sell a used condo. Building maintenance usually gets worse and worse as a building ages. Your home will be in a steady state of decline. Things can change very quickly in Thailand--a new construction project can appear next to your once quiet home, new noisy neighbors can move in next door. Rentals are very reasonably priced and available in just about every building.

When any country implements this kind of system, it becomes one of the requirements you need to complete before you can board your flight. They would need to have some kind of backup plan to communicate to all the dozens of airlines that the system crashed and its no longer required. It certainly wouldn't be simple, and there would be a lot of panicked passengers trying to complete it worried they would not able to get on their flight.

My best guess--never. Considering how bad their IT systems are, I doubt they can ever succesfully implenent a system that can handle the 100,000+ people arriving daily.

She had a tourist visa, overstayed and worked. That's definitely not legal. Very common and exactly the reason it's so hard for Thais to get a tourist visa.

You are paying for a booking reference, not a ticket. There is never any ticket. The company never pays for anything. They are just creating a booking reference with an airline for free and charging you for that booking reference.

You certainly can buy refundable tickets. That's my normal strategy to get an onward ticket. I buy and refund 5 -10 tickets every year and never pay anything for it. Most here don't like that stragey and prefer to pay for a fake ticket instead. I still don't understand why.

Where are they checking onward flights at the planes door??? I am a frequent flier and almost always using one way tickets to many different countries. I am frequently asked for an onward ticket, but that has always been done during check in, and never while boarding.

I think that rule is for doing non immigrant visa extensions which can take some time. I don't think it applies to extending to visa exempt entries like the OP has. Most offices will only allow that a couple of weeks before expiration.

If you are living in the USA, you can renew online, but if you are living in a foreign country you cannot. In Thailand you have to mail your current passport to the embassy when you apply.

It's a Atlas Moth, Emperor Moth, or a close relative. So it's definitely a MAGAmoth then.

The beach in that top section gets worse and worse every year. The land is either sinking or the sand is getting washed away. There is now only beach at low tide--usually in the middle of the night or very early morning. The rest of the time the beach is gone and the water goes all the way to the seawalls in most places. There is better more usable beach further north past blue port.

Sorry, I'm not sure about that.

There is a comfortable overnight ac sleeper on that route. I've done it. It's really not so bad. I'd much prefer it to any mini van border run from bangkok.

Whether or not you are asked for an onward flight can be quite random. I find that the same airline will sometimes ask for it and sometimes not ask. It probably depends on how busy or competent the check in staff is. In Korea and Japan it probably also depends on how well the staff speaks English. If they can't speak english well, they may just not bother asking a foreigner for it.

Lithuania is visa exempt 60 days.

He will get 60 day visa exempt whether entering by land or air. There is no visa on arrival if your country qualifies for visa exemption. There is no advantage to a visa on arrival anyway--the visa exempt entry can be converted to a retirement visa.

I plan on just ignoring it. I don't see any reason to bother doing it as I am sure I will never need anything from imigration.

No way to know what will happen in the us over the next year. It will probably be quite a sh_t show. Best to just extend your current Thai visa for another year and see what happens before committing 100% to the US. I certainly wouldn't want to be relying on public assistance in anyway. You did sign an affidavit of support for your wife, and be very careful not to violate that.

Many businesses are so desperate for workers they will hire anyone with a pulse. It's quite easy for even the homeless to find work in the US.

If you look at the bottom of your screenshot you will see the Thai soft power category of the DTV. If you select that category you will see there is no requirement for work of any kind.

Those of us with businesses based in our home country don't have to worry about taxes in Thailand. Business income is generally only taxed in the country where the business is physically located, and that is clearly stated in my county's tax treaty with Thailand.

I guess if you really never leave the country, you might prefer a retirement visa. But for those of us who leave the country at least a couple of times a year anyway, the DTV has quite a lot of advantages.

Why would you assume that? No other visa requires anything remotely similar. So you think immigration is going to start denying people entry without warning if they aren't carrying all the documents they used to apply for the visa? Absolutely ridiculous.

I didn't say they are exempt from 90 day reports, but who is going to fine you if you never visit immigration? Just leave the country at least once every 180 days, which I assume many people do anyway, and you never need to visit immigration for 5 years.

You would have to be crazy to choose a retirement visa over a DTV. The DTV has way too many advantages -- no money in a Thai bank required, no re-entry permit needed, no fines for missing a 90 day report, no new ridiculous hoops to jump through every year, no need to visit immigration at all for 5 years.