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On 2/9/2021 at 8:57 AM, UncleMhee said:

@Chang2 Please note:- I've deleted my post because of misquoted info. I checked my bank book and recent transfers haven't shown as International.  Time to contact TransferWise again regarding this anomaly.

Make a print of the TW transfer.

It shows the amount transferred to TW, shows the exchange rate and the THB to transfer into your Thai Bank including account number.

On 2/9/2021 at 8:29 AM, Chang2 said:

Say that you are here on a tourist visa/visa exempt entry and you want to convert to a Non-Immigrant visa.  In order to convert, you have to show that the money came from abroad.

 

This is easy if you wire the money over using SWIFT.  A little code shows up in your bankbook that says FCT.

 

I was hoping that maybe using a Bitcoin exchange like Bitkub or coins.co.th would show up as an overseas transfer.  Alas it does not.  I'm guessing using something like TransferWise is the same thing; the money does come from overseas but it shows up as a domestic transfer because it's routed through their own network of banks.

 

Does anyone have experience using some kind of supplemental evidence that the money did indeed come from overseas when using a method other than SWIFT?  Say a screenshot of a Bitkub transfer?  Or a confirmation email from TransferWise?

 

My situation is that I am a U.S. citizen but living in another country and want to send the money from the bank here and doing it via my U.S. bank is really expensive given the double-exchange rate conversation as well as the fees.

 As for TransferWise make a copy of your transfer to TW, make a copy of the TW transfer and make a copy of the arrival in your Thai account.

It is a paper trail acceptable in KK immigration and tax office.

On 2/6/2021 at 9:36 PM, Leaver said:

The realization that the vaccination of farang in their home country is not the only part of reviving tourism to Thailand. 

 

The vaccine has to roll out across Thailand also, before vaccinated farang will be allowed to visit, and obviously Thai's here don't have confidence in their government to expedite that.  

You have confidence in your own government, then?

Of course those from the grey areas are not counted, probably the official numbers were always flattered.

The question is if the tourism will come back, and when.

Doubtful.

On 1/17/2021 at 6:25 AM, richard_smith237 said:

 

How is it either ???

For them.

Any vegetable, fruit or potatoe I buy and eat in Thailand is thoroughly washed and peeled before consumption.

Too much poison.

On 1/13/2021 at 2:10 PM, jacko45k said:

The same as would happen to locals....

And there are many more of them.

Partying, drinking, loud music, the works......

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

IMO another Civil War could be starting in America. In the middle of a pandemic to boot, no less.

Trump is just an excuse for thugs posing as patriots to riot. They need to be sent home with a few bloody noses and broken heads. The wheels of justice grind too slowly.

Like they did about the BLM/Antifa havoc?

Short or selective memory seems to be rife.

Were they also so alert when BLM and Antifa wreaked havoc all around the country?

Or is this another journalistic foul up?

On 1/16/2021 at 6:16 PM, rooster59 said:

British maestro Rattle seeking German citizenship after Brexit

By Thomas Escritt

 

FILE PHOTO: Conductor Simon Rattle takes part in the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium July 27, 2012. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Star conductor Simon Rattle, who this week announced he was cutting short his tenure at Britain's leading orchestra to return to Germany, said on Friday he had applied for German citizenship after Brexit.

 

The Liverpool-born musician, 65, lamented the barriers thrown up by Britain's departure from the European Union to the careers of young musicians who had grown used to performing freely to the continent's music-hungry public.

 

"My passport is on the way," Rattle told a news conference when asked if he had followed many EU-based Britons in applying for the citizenship that will let them continue to work freely around the bloc. "Like for many, this was an absolute necessity."

 

Britain's music scene was taken by surprise when Rattle announced he would end his tenure at the London Symphony Orchestra in 2023 to become music director of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich.

 

Rattle said his decision to return to Germany, where for 16 years he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, was taken so that he could be close to his family in the German capital, but he made his frustration with Britain's political direction clear.

 

"The fact that musicians and artists in general suddenly have to get visas for Europe is absolutely not the Brexit bonus we were talking about," he said, in apparent reference to promises made by Brexit campaigners during the 2016 EU membership referendum. "We will have to fight it."

 

Rattle, who lives with his wife, Czech soprano Magdalena Kozena, in Berlin, said spending more time there and cooking for their children during the past year of coronavirus lockdown had helped crystalise his desire to work nearer to home.

 

(Editing by Janet Lawrence)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2021-01-16

 

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In short, he got a job offer which he liked, his family lives in Germany, so that are the real reasons for getting a German passport.

Of course he blames Brexit.

But I wonder if he will give up his UK passport?

Don't think so.

6 hours ago, flossie35 said:

Brexiters never have arguments!

Remainers have?

5 hours ago, digger70 said:

I bet they use them as bank Vaults for the big stash THB.

It simply is the slow turnaround of containers, transporters stash them in the hope for higher rental or buying prices.

Also, there is a shortage of shipping.

13 hours ago, estnet said:

Any doctor who discharged a patient with ectopic pregnancy should also go to jail - or at least have their license revoked!!!!

Yes, quite so.

I seem to remember there is already an entrance and exit fee included in the ticket prices.

And now another fee.

That is a nearly 1000 baht fee for the "right" to enter Thailand.

Strange......

20 hours ago, kotsak said:

 

I guess they are trying to show they are Übermensch. ????

That said, what impact have these migrant workers on unpaid state hospital bills and what will that mean for the western tourists and expats?

12 hours ago, Tanlic said:

BUT why the hell should you have to make such plans? If you worked all your days, paid your stamps, then you are as entitled as the guy living in Hackney.....Are you British or not?

 

49th highest paid pension in the world Brits are from the 6th richest country on the planet

 

There are probably countries where less is required to live there........A person on a full pension can afford to stay there of it, in the sun, for health reasons. In 20 years he/she will barely afford a postage stamp because of inflation.

 

No doubt living in Thailand you are treated like  <deleted>....in the UK if your pension is due on Xmas day they get paid early around the 23rd but if you live in Thailand........its a  big <deleted> and you'll probably get it around the 28th or 29th and too bad if it was going to pay for your 80 year old Mother''s xmas lunch.

 

The UK couldn't care less about their pensioners and are a the disgrace of the western world

 

The worst thing is the public accept it in the USA millions take to the streets for less.......

Pensioners are third rate citizens in most western countries, and when they go to live abroad........

Google knock down houses Udon Thani

I know there is a company located on the Mitraparp road from Udon to Khonkaen that sells houses like these, and if my memory serves me right there was also a seller on the other side of the road.

14 hours ago, djayz said:

So, do these "heroes" qualify for any of these new government initiatives or do we still have to get our Thai partner's to book hotels in their names while we pay and take a back seat? Is it now easier for us to get credit cards at Thai banks so we, too, can rack up debt? 

Probably not! 

 

Better, do we now qualify for Thai pricing and not Farang pricing?

Or are we now exempt from double pricing in State Hospitals?

4 hours ago, AlfHuy said:

Come on, don't be shy.

Make it 7 Million a month. Looks better and most probably, a billion Chi.... are sitting on their luggages and wait for the green light to come to paradise.

While the Chinese government is curbing foreign travel.