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2 minutes ago, Presnock said:

nothing needs to be paid until we reside over 180 daysin Thailand this year, but it would be nice to be able to make any necessary plans prior to then.

and in most cases nothing needs to be done (apart from getting a tax no if you are so inclined) or paid until January 2025, unless you wish to make a part submission circa July '24.

17 hours ago, Moonlover said:

 

Give me one good reason why the answer from an official source at the DLT should not be correct.

Here's two.

I was told foreigners cannot have Pink Card ID No. on your driving license, must be Passport Number, have friends who have received licenses from same office showing Pink Card No.

Friend was told that Yellow Book could not be used as proof of address, must get a Certificate of Residence from Immigration, I have been in the Yellow book for over 18years and have always used it without problem at the same office.

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

Here's a very simple question @Cricky. Why not ask the DLT? You're only going to get one answer from them. The correct one.

 

It may not be the correct (legal) one, but it will be the one applied by that office/officer.

5 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

People that do not have a licence are not allowed to own a car ?

Totally false in Thailand, my wife owns our car but has never held a car license and has no intention of getting one.

PM Note - She doesn't drive it either before anyone gets anty.

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

It's supposed to be a drought, but nature is saying otherwise.

Nature will always win, it always does what it want's when it want's. Science has very limited effect on nature (e.g. cloud seeding).

1 hour ago, Stocky said:

Only the photos of the happy couple need to be in colour, everything else can just be scanned and printer out in black & white.

As you said office dependent, and as I'm on a Retirement Extension the photos are not required, although I have been asked for them and where is your wife more than once (being married I could have supplied them, but this would raise another query), shows how much attention they were paying to the application.

4 hours ago, Mike Teavee said:

But If I haven't remitted anything (from overseas) to myself, why would they bother looking into my account?

 

 

Your original comment related to the lack of an FTT marker when funds were deposited by Wise. As the FTT marker would only be of interest to the RD and Immigration, I answered on that basis.

1 hour ago, Mike Teavee said:

I did a Wise transfer yesterday (mate has had his bank account closed in the UK so wanted me to pass the money he had in it on to him) & it struck me that as the money shows up as an Intra-Bank transfer (not FTT / Foreign Transfer) have I really remitted it to Thailand? 

 

I gave the money to Wise in the UK and they paid me the money from their account in Thailand so technically no money has been remitted into Thailand. 

Interesting question, but you'd still be "caught" by being potentially asked where did the money come from and did you earn it working.

21 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

despite looking left and right.

Wrong directions, you're supposed to look to the heavens and pray to Buddha or whoever

13 hours ago, Moonlover said:

Mind you we did have a new gal this year.

 

Perhaps it's time I changed my tactics next year. After all how much does a set of photos cost?

 Hope it's not the one we've just recently lost.

Just a hassle going to the shop in my nearest town, getting the photo taken, stooging around for 30-60 minutes depending on how busy they are, and driving home again. Took my daughter to the shop a couple of weeks back, set of photo's + digital copy on her phone 170 Baht if I remember right.

23 hours ago, DJ54 said:

If the IO requires a 12 month statement the same day it’s impossible if your bank is in NE branch it takes 1-2 weeks to get from bank headquarter in Bangkok. 6 months can be done same day at branch but may take hours

if bank is busy. But 12 months is required.

 

You can download a 12 month statement from bank which is password protected to open but prior visits to IO will not accept. Even if you download in front of them at office.

Solution with Bangkok Bank get two 6 month statements.

SCB can produce a 12 month statement on request, but it will not have the "Transaction on the Day" listed.

2 hours ago, Moonlover said:

So has ours up in Sakon Nakhon. In the old, very crammed building a visit to the loo meant walking through a veritable canyon of paper, all stacked up in boxes up to head height on both sides. Gawd knows how many years of applications were stacked up in there.

 

It's one of the reasons I never bother taking new photos of us around the house each year. They would never be able to find last year's to be able to compare.

A few years back when doing my annual extension (retirement) the IO was having difficulty telling me what was missing so she turned to a filing cabinet behind her opened a drawer and produced last years submission in seconds, pointed out a sheet and said that.

That was when I noticed another fault, I'd used the same photo 2 years running, she never noticed, or at least didn't comment, which would have been very unusual for her, she liked to nitpick and reject things for the slightest reason.

5 hours ago, Sheryl said:

they take my handwritten form and then type up their own and have me sign that.

Mine does the same but with very little info, the difference is the inclusion of their digital photo not the one I supply.

Error in original poster of comment

5 minutes ago, BigStar said:

Just hand him your form, neatly typed and signed in blue ink.

As happened before, hands it back with a new blank form and says "copy info here needs to be handwritten", why I stopped using the online blank.

What I do now is accumulation of all the "issues" I've had, the application has sailed through the last 2 years, so I can expect to have problems this year.

3 minutes ago, BigStar said:

and the IO can add the stamps to that.

and there the problem lies the IO needs to do something

3 hours ago, KhunLA said:

That's IO office location dependent.

As is most things you do, like the need for a 12 month bank statement, when you've already given them a copy of your bank book and there not happy with pages covering the last 2 years they need the whole book which goes all the way back to 2014.

2 hours ago, BigStar said:

I dunno what stamps you're talking about. The TM.7 you download here has no stamps.

Correct the TM7 download has no stamps on it, they are added by the IO while processing your application, there are 3 I think, as they are for the IO I've not paid much attention.

13 hours ago, BigStar said:

 

Yes, I am for my yearly retirement extension.

 

1. The  forms I use are the computer forms downloaded from Immigration. They have drop down menus and blanks to fill in. All black-and-white.

2. No handwriting required except the sig. I use blue ink.

3. No house location map required.

 

 

On retirement too.

1. My office will not accept them, think they've lost the stamps & pads

3. Hand-drawn house map is definitely needed, had google maps printout one year which was rejected another year they insisted on the GPS location being added, I kind of forgot next year and nobody said anything.

15 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:

You have a printer that doesn't print colour?

 

Who is it made by, Fred  Flintstone Printers. Inc?

Henry Ford, you can have any color so long as it's black, or something like that.

364 days of the year I don't need color.

6 hours ago, BigStar said:

Forms are all neatly completed, typewritten, on my computer.

Not allowed to do that, reasons

1) They have their own pre-printed forms with the color stamps already appended.

2) They insist on handwritten in blue ink, and I'm not spending money on a color printer that will be used once a year.

3) The house location map must be hand drawn too.

Items 1 and 2 I'm going to let others answer, I'm married and live in our house, with a yellow book, have only left the country once and that was to change visa type, so anything I say would not apply.

Item 3 in 18 years of extensions at 5 different offices, I've never submitted the day before always about 2/3 weeks before (admittedly never used Jomtien), I've never had the passport retained overnight for the Retirement stamps to be added, it's always been done at the time, as was Non-B extensions, married extensions take extra approval time (under consideration period). Given some of the requests I've had for additional paperwork, submitting the day before would have caused serious problems.

None of my friends who live in Pattaya and use Jomtien have alluded to this problem.

Maybe you just got the wrong IO at the wrong time.