Liverpool Lou

I don't know why you would suggest that the airbag had been disconnected.

On the face of it, there's no reason why you couldn't get a bank loan, whether you could get one for just B10k would be up to your bank. If you've only been here five minutes, though, that would not help. Why have you not asked them, no one here knows how you stack up financially or what your bank's requirements are, do they?

The points come into effect when he's been found guilty of the charges, not when the accident happened.

What? "Pay up" for what?

Ever heard of a figure of speech? Of course I have but on Thaivisa most posters who use the term are not using it as a figure of speech, they irritatingly use it as a factual statement and, so far, with this case, most have been wrong with their "we all know" suggestions.

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Please give me just 1 halfway reasonable explanation, why something as straightforward as a blood-alcohol test takes 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 days for results to be known. I underwent the very same test in Australia at 3am with the results coming back at 5:30am the same day. For f#@s sake get real just once for a change and take your rose-coloured glasses off. As long as the results are known what does it matter if they take a couple of days? He was tested, that is what is important. He was arrested, that is what is important. He has been charged with initial offences, that is what is important. How quickly a blood/alcohol test was done in Australia is completely irrelevant for. to quote you, f#@s sake.

You think that you know, "we all" do not. So far most posters have been wrong!

From his post He has plenty of funds but is not prepared to tie it up in a very low interest bearing account with only 50% available to use for 7 months of the year. Exactly, he didn't say that it "bothers" him, he said that he wasn't prepared to.

WRL's website says that they are brokers.

They could use Russian bank accounts. I really don't understand your logic, they're in Thailand with the cash, why would they want to put the cash in their Russian accounts and how would they do it from here? Do these tourists have UnionPay cards?

Huh?

Did anyone say that it wasn't?

Fanciful garbage, in the extreme, designed to get paid by The Sun for another over-dramatic, embellished, left-out-a-lot story. Just my opinion but I'd put money on it.

Exactly.

Without that you won't get the extension.

My question is it legal? Officially, IOs have the authority and discretion to decide which applications are approved and on what basis, so, yes, it's 'legal' even though some applications may not meet normal requirements.

Exactly. Some people don't realise that IOs have the authority to decide who gets issued an extension. and on what terms, based on the discretion that their position affords them.

Money isn't put in your account Yes, it is, maybe not actual cash but bank transactions are made on the account. Every time I use an agent B800k goes in and out of my account the same day.

Why would Immigration give anyone a problem for a service that they provide "officially" and benefit from? I've been here the best part of 30 years and I've never read, or heard of, any reports of anyone using agents for retirement extensions ever being prosecuted for it. Who has ever had the validity of the issuance of their extension queried after the fact? Maybe you know of some?

But not being able to use 400k for 7 months bothers him, eh? You're just making that up, where did he post that that was the case?

So why does he not put the meagre 800k in the bank, at low interest but at least SOME. How do you know that he doesn't? Many people who use agents have more than enough in the bank to do their own extensions if they had the inclination.

Is "brianthainess" an anagram of "personification of perfection"?!

Yes it's called corruption. Do you know what holier-then-though means?! Have you ever taken advantage of the "advantageous systems" in Thailand in any way at all, however small and in whatever sector...ever?

Not everyone is as fit, 'young', patient and lacking in physical discomfort as you may be. Neither is everyone as desperate to find saving about B50 per day worth the hassle!