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I know your post was meant to be a joke but allow me to chime in, Make sure you do the Cambodian first, not only it is a shorter wait, 3 years versus 5. But also recently a fairly recent law was promulgated which prevents foreigners older than 50 getting married to underage, very young girls in Cambodia. From what I understood, a lot of middle aged or aged Chinese and Koreans males were travelling to Cambodia with the sole purpose and intent of marrying improverished very young villager Khmer women, said women were then brought back to China and South Korea and brought into modern slavery. So the Cambodian government saw a pattern and cracked down on those "sham" marriages. If you're older than 50 then the Laotian citizenship is the key with fast/unlimited/relatively easy access to Thailand. (Besides most of the girls you will find in Pattaya or other seedy places are actually of Khmer mixed decent, they speak Lao at home, not Thai). So you could in theory, given you're extremely patient and no older than 49, first get married in Cambodia, wait 3 years, get naturalized by the age of 52'ish as a Cambodian citizen, divorce, head for Laos, get remarried, wait another 5 years, get naturalized by the age of 57'ish then divorced again, by that time you'd have the Cambodian and Laotian citizenships, you'd be "untouchable" by the boys in brown... And if you get "connections", with the rampant corruption going in those two countries, corrupting the right officials you might even be able to shorten those respective 3 and 5 years. But in Thailand, get married as much as you want, wait for the next 250 years if you could, they'll never grant you the Thai citizenships. Pigs.

Not much actually. I buy pre-builds from HP and Dell, rip the cards apart and resell the complete PC with either no GPUs or <deleted> AMD GPUs or stuff like GTX 1050, people buy.

Much less than that actually. I buy pre-builds from HP and Dell, rip the cards apart and resell the complete PC with either no GPUs or <deleted> AMD GPUs or stuff like GTX 1050, people buy.

If Thai visas really such a major issue to you; If you're not married and are under 50 there's also another option: Cambodia. One can ask for the Cambodian citizenship only after 3 years of marriage/romance with a Cambodian citizen and living together. Once you get naturalized you get a Cambodian passport which allows you roaming to the entire ASEAN region with an easy unlimited access to Thailand. Laos is another option but it's 5 years of marriage, which is why I would recommend a Cambodian bride instead.

Welcome to Portugal! By the way the residency card is issued after 3 months and the full citizenship can be gotten with little as 2 years. Do your own research. Also once you get your Portuguese citizenship, stay 1 year in Brazil and... look at my post in this thread at the top of page 4. You'll understand, it's all explained.

Definitely a hobby, not a crypto expert at all, never claimed to be one either, but it sure generates extra passive income doing nothing and that's what matters; making money in my sleep knowing the next day's meal is already paid up.

Read above.

I... usually stay away from revealing personal stuff but here goes, this is how I have achieved what I describe as "permanent residence" in Thailand: Step 1) First off I got the Portuguese citizenship, earned it from my Father lineage. (This step is important). If you weren't as lucky as I was to get that citizenship but you are coming from any of the 26 EU countries (sorry doesn't work for the Brits (shouldn't have left the EU!) or the Yankees), I would advise you to settle in Portugal for 2 years then ask for the citizenship, you will understand later why this is important for it to work. - I got my Portuguese Birth Certificate, ID card, and Passport with me then with those documents I flew to Brasil to an "extended holiday". Step 2) Once you get to Brasil for the very first time and enter the country with your Portuguese passport, you will be flagged in the Brasilian immigration database as a citizen of Portugal (equally important as well). Step 3) Find a girl, any girl will do that isn't either married or already in a civil partnership with another dude, apply within your first initial 3 months of stay for a "Civil partnership visa" which then allows you to stay in Brasil more than 3 months at a time, usually one year and that is perfect, it is one year we need. Step 4) The Brazilian Nationality code states a few key points: To be eligible for the Brazilian citizenship one must: a) Spend 5 years uninterrupted in the country. b) The 5 years are reduced to 3 years only if you marry a Brazilian citizen. c) The 5 or 3 years are further reduced to only 1 single year if you are coming from a Lusophone speaking country (such as you guessed it; Portugal), bits are now falling into place Step 5) Now that you have spent one year in Brazil you are now eligible and applying for the Brazilian citizenship immediately. Step 6) Now that you have been naturalized, get your Brazilian Birth Certificate, ID card, and Passport with you, this is the Passport you are going to use from now on, to enter Thailand with that passport and that passport ONLY. A little bit of explanation: Unbeknownst to most people, the average Joe tend to believe that entering Thailand with any of the 26 EU countries passports or with the UK passport or US or Canadian passports are the "strongest" passports when it comes to the Thai immigration, wrongfully so. Very few are aware there is a bilateral agreement that has been signed since 19XX between Thailand and 5 countries being (don't quote me on that part), Brasil, Peru, Argentina, South Korea and a 5th one I forgot, 555. Basically what that agreement states is that any passport holder of these 5 nationalities may enter Thailand without the need for a visa with 90 days on arrival each time. That's right; three months on arrival, every single damn time. As this is a bilateral agreement as you've guessed it, it also works for the other way around for Thai citizens, a Thai passport holder is allowed to fly into Brasil, Peru, Argentina and South Korea with only his/her passport, no visas required, no questions asked and stay 90 days per entry (which coincidently explains why there's so many Thai hookers working in South Korea). The agreements are a little bit different per countries, like for the Peruvians they can enter only once per calendar year, while the Brazilians have unlimited access to the Kingdom including by land (this is very important for the next part). So now that we have clearly established that a Brazilian passport holder may enter Thailand for 3 months at a time, no visas required, no paperwork to do, no endless photocopies of the same <deleted> over and over again over the years, let's move onto the next part and let's play a game: Step 7) With your beautiful Brazilian passport you show up at Swampy let's say in January 2022 for the sake of simplicity. You get a 90 days stamp, you spend your initial three months, worry free in the Kingdom: - January 2022. - February 2022. - March 2022. At the end of March you go to your local immigration office accompanied with your wife/partner and your Thai kids and ask for your first extension of 1900 baht. Very few people know that the visa extension you are getting for an extra month for 1900 baht is actually a TWO MONTHS extension in case you happen to be a parent of a Thai citizen. So there, your local immigration office shall grant you a two months extension: That gives you: - April 2022. - May 2022. If you have followed this far, you've already been in the Kingdom for 5 months, worry free, visa free. Now it's time to do your first (and only) visa run of the year. Head for Nong Kai, spend a day in Laos and return to Thailand on the next day. At the border show up with your Brazilian passport again and make sure they give you another 90 days again (they might initially give you 30 days because they are not familiar with these passports, not many Brazilians are showing up at the Nongkhai border, explain to them that you are entitled to 90 days, they'll raise an eyebrow, they'll look up in their documentation and they'll give you 90 days again as stated by law). That gives you: - June 2022. - July 2022. - August 2022. From that point, pop back in again at your local immigration office for another 1900 baht extension for your TWO LAST months as a parent of a Thai citizen. That gives you: - September 2022. - October 2022. By the end of October your second extension, you've reached your limits of how far you can stretch this out per calendar year, you must now leave the Kingdom, which by most people's standards would be fine; two months to fly back home, visit the family, the siblings, etc... then rince and repeat the next calendar year. Now I understand this is very situational and not for everyone and clearly not as equal as having a true "permanent residency" but being able to stay in the Kingdom 10 months out of 12 per calendar year is damn close to it. The beauty of it? - You shall never have to visit a Thai embassy or Consulate. - You shall never have to rely on a dodgy visa agent. - You shall never have to pay a bribe to a crooked immigration officer. And most importantly: - You shall not submit endless copies of the same documents, the same pictures of you, year after year. - You won't ever have to open a bank account or wire 400k baht or 800k baht or whatever amount they will require increasing year after year. - You'll never have to subscribe to a gouging insurance package. Basically following this guide, I have come to the conclusion over the years, that the best visa for Thailand is... a visa on arrival (or no visa at all) if you have the proper nationality/citizenship. Now, what are the odds this loophole will ever be fixed? Well, in my honest opinion this is very unlikely because as I said; it is a reciprocical bilateral agreement between Thailand and five other countries around the globe, if the Thais were to close this, it would then become very detrimental to the Thais themselves and prevent them access to 5 other visa-free countries around the World. So it's very safe to assume this loophole is here to stay. If you made it this far, get the Portuguese citizenship so you can get the Brazilian citizenship after only a year spent in Brazil so you can enter Thailand (almost) anytime you want without being harassed by the goons in brown. Honestly if you like Thailand for all the perks it has to offer; warm climate, tropical beaches, cheap booze, working girls working around the clock in touristic areas, there are very good chances you'll like Brazil as well and won't mind this stop-gap for a year in your life. Don't let the boys in brown play with you, play along with them, beat them at their game with their rules. Hope you enjoyed this read, do your own research.

Few months. Think like since mid-July. I started being all dubious about it, "meh bitcoin must be a ponzi scheme", so I had a worthless GTX 1060 laying around on my desk, popped it back in on my motherboard, fired up NiceHash and I was like "nah? THAT easy? wait what? I just made 25 euros in a few days?", opened up a coinbase account, added my bank account and got a SEPA payment within minutes, the 25 euros were on my bank account. When I realized the potential; I almost instantly upgraded to 4x 3060 Ti, projected income in about 10 days left for this month is about 480 euros. I can't wait. But again I'm the skeptical kind, I'll believe it when I'll see it in my main account, better yet, I'll believe it when I'll have it withdrawn from the ATM with the bills in my paw, better yet, I'll believe it when I'll have pizzas slice bought with those ETH in my mouth, then yeah that'll feel real. Until then, it's all... virtually non existent to me. That's my approach to cryptocurrencies.

I don't LOSE on anything, I earn 120e/week doing nothing from the way I see it (I don't even pay the utility bill, my government does it for me) and again better have "some" money in my bank account that I can withdraw and spend on real things I can actually feel (think groceries) tax free rather than have some digital currency in a virtual wallet that might crash, die out and not being worth zlitch at any whim of some third party developers (no matter how talented they might be) at any given time.

4x3060 Ti, that's all.

You're making it sound like getting Permanent Residency is a walk in the park to get. Maybe it was super easy for you and again if that's the case, all kudos to you, but more many of us for a plethora of different reasons it just isn't realisticly doable.

This country is fubar'ed beyond belief. The Chinese masters will be pleased.

Enlight us, Oh Great One.

This.

Sorry then I'm afraid I can't be of any assistance...

May I ask you which citizenships do you hold at the moment? I might have an easy for solution for you... Edit: Also which languages are you fluent in?

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This is one of the reasons why I mine only ETH with 4 GPUs and I cash out to my bank account every week. Currently generating 120€ every week, and every single week I use coinbase and turn them ETH into BTC then BTC into EUR and cash it out immediately. Because again you never know when all this digital currency stuff might crash and die out. As we speak, this is 120€x4 per month, undeclared, tax free cash and I'll be cashing in until ETH dies and no alt coins are deemed profitable any longer but I'm very well aware this could all disappear anytime right underneath my very feet. With that being said, what is already in my bank account is mine and what I mine and is mine... is mine(d).

Because there's no incentive for them to do so?

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That's right. It is regrettable, unfortunate, uncalled for, whatever you want to call it but: My point stays and remains unchanged; this is the mindset of 99.99% of the Thais. This is akin to walking into Tukcom Pattaya buying a cheap phone or cheap accessories and expect any kind of warranty whatsoever. As soon as you've parted with your money, the very minute you walk away from the booth, you now are of ZERO interest whatsoever to the Thais in general. Now bringing this analogy into the Elite Visa scheme, it is exactly the same mindset kicking in; you've already paid them everything you owed them, you parted with your money willingfully, money exchanged hands and in return you got your (useless) gold flashy Elite Visa card. As you now are worthless to them, you can sod off into the sunset. Thai mindset 101; Money first, talk later (maybe).

There you have it. The Thai Elite Visa program has always been considered as an obvious scam, paying XXX hundreds of thousands of bahts just to get a gold colored (useless) flashy card. I'm sorry for those who got suckered in but that's all the Thai Elite Visa scheme was about and that's all it'll ever be. Think of it for a second, if the roles were switched and the tables were turned around, do you really think the Thais (stingy as they are) would fall for a, say "British Elite Visa" scheme? or a "French Elite Visa" program? or a "Belgian Elite Visa" path? There goes the saying: "In Rome, do as the Romans", In Thailand, do as the Thais. The only way to survive in this Kingdom is to be as stingy as they can be. The Thais would never fall for that, why would YOU?