meaowma

The best way to get the money to the right people fast is to add Baht 300 to the bar fine and let the bar donate it to the hospitals - that works

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Come on guys that is 30,000 tablets and 4 kikos of heroin that are not on the streets anymore and unless you are a user you should be happy and congratulate the achievement no matter how it came about. Happy Christmas

Too many people here are noting or commenting or even complaining about "tea money" or corruption. So do something about it like stopping the overstaying and cutting off the sources of this corruption. It is the farang who overstays and not the systenm that feeds this corruption.

Why give an amnesty - if you overstay then you have broken the law. You do not do it accidentally you set out to do it so take the punishment. I am all for the law being applied fairly and firmly. A period in the slammer would at least go some way to making sure these people do not do it again but I think it should be a day for day punishment overstay 50 days then 50 days inside. Blacklisting is pointless as it only ensures that the passport does not return to the kingdom it does nothing to stop the person getting a new passport and re-entering under a new name etc etc.

As soon as Thailand does something positriver everyone thinks they do it for money - well I can asure you that most countries have strict immigration laws and they apply them - Thailand tolerates foreigners and we should never forget we are mere visitors in the kingdom and should act accordingly.

Put them in the slammer day for day.

if you overstay then you have broken the law......... Did you hear about corruption?Some people get a good pay rise when you overstay.Money is the key here.

Well lets see maybe he did get the notes from a bank in Uk and maybe they were real notes.

Maybe he handed over the real notes to the in the Nakorn Luang Thai Bank and as he was probably unable to track the movements of the notes from the time of handing them over who is to say that he was not a victim of yet another scam in Thailand with the bank replacing his real notes with fakes they had inadvertently taken from another customer.

There is no mention of him posessing any other fake notes or otherwise and as has been posted many times already where did he get the bail money.

This is noy making sense really - I guess another case of tourist or farang beware.

My wife ............

Does anyone have any ideas what to do with the company "four Hands" who I have a contract with for the provision of furniture within 80 days of first payment.

Now we are at day 210 and still I do not have all my furniture yet I have paid for around Baht 1.1 million out of Baht 1.2 million but the outstanding items are worth much more than the 100,000 I hold.

Is there any quick way to get him to complete the job as my family will come down to Pattaya for a two week break and the dining table has no top, no chairs I only have one bed (I need four).

I NOW understand that "Four Hands" always do this sort of thing and so far have got away with it - am I just to add my name to the list or is there a quick fix

HELP

Does anyone know of a place near Pattaya or in Bangkok where I can buy some grass seed.

Is it legal to take photographs in the immigrations area in Thailand?

I know it is verboten in the USA and I recall seeing the old "no camera" (graphic of a camera with a red slashed circle) in other airports' immigrations and customs areas.

I was thinking that myself, but let's not worry about it. He proved a point by posting the photographic evidence.

I will be com ing through immigration again tomorrow - anything I should look out for let me know.

As for taking photos - hmmmmm well better not say but there are signs prohibiting it but lets not go there

u may have posted in wrong section.

tell me more. why build house on outskirts of pattaya? girlfriend?

Yes girlfriend but would trade her in for a good internet connection

I am just completing the construction of a house on the outskirts of Pattaya and we can expect a telephone line to be installed within this century but until then I will need to have internet services.

Does anyone know if I can get internet via satellite dish or micro wave or something else other than telephone line.

And if you do can you recommend someone I can get the service from and give an idea on the reliability of the provider and the connection.

Ok the signs are up as follows:

One yellow sign that requires “outbound ticket” is posted on the background window of each set of two immigration booths, on A4 size paper and clearly visible to anyone queuing up. (see photos)

The second sign is on the counter of each immigration booth and requires the same things.

These signs were on every booth I could see (about 20 or so).

Of the five of us only two were asked to show a ticket and had it examined or looked at the others merely had to wave the ticket in the air – the important thing was everyone was asked to show something. We all hold British passports and use the 30 day chop in the passport at the airport ass the means to enter the kingdom.

This was generally the case for the people queuing.

As usual I get pulled away to count the days in my passport and while at the desk I took the opportunity to chat with the supervisor.

He revealed that the signs are there to allow the immigration to “selectively” require an onward ticket if they suspected that the person trying to enter the kingdom may overstay. It would soon become mandatory for all “tourists/visitors” to show an onward ticket. He stressed “tourists/visitors” – I did not ask about those with valid visas in their passports.

He said the immigration would require all “tourists/visitors” to show an actual air ticket or e-ticket and not a reservation and that it must be an air ticket so bus ticket or train ticket would not be good enough (?????). If they did not possess the required document then entry could be refused on a case by case basis.

He said the ticket would need to be with a validity to suit the immigration rules so a “one year ticket or open” may be rejected

While in the queue it seems that most people were asked to show a ticket of some kind and in only a few cases was it inspected – usually just to wave something in front of the counter seemed to be OK.

I will come back again on Friday so if the situation changes I will keep you posted – my advice though is to bring along an outbound ticket as it seems that the requirement may soon be applied more vigorously.

They were definately there at 4.30am on the 2nd, they are (were?) stuck to the glass behind the immgration official, pink, listing 4 items as previously detailed.

Interestingly, the big signs detailing the 90 day / 6 month rules seem to have gone.

Perhaps the immigration at BKK airport are putting up signs and pulling them down daily just to confuse us ? :-)

I came through on 4th June and there were no 4 items lists (just 3 items pp, imm card & boarding card) and I did see the 90 day / 6 month rules signs clearly! The complete opposite of above posters observations!

I will be coming into BKK again tomorrow night on the same flight as always Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong. I do not have any visa and will get a 30 day stamp on arrival.

I will look out again for the requirement of an onward ticket at arrival and report back to the forum. I will come in with several friends and will ask each to go to separate immigration booths to see if the policy is enforced selectively or is generally enforced.

I stress that I did not see any signs requiring an onward ticket but was asked to show one at the immigration desk at the time of getting the 30 day stamp in the passport.

I do not know whether the other individuals I saw on last Friday night had any type of visas, tried to enter as a visitor or what but the fact is that the immigration are enforcing a policy of wanting to see an onward flight in my case.

It is certain that from my passport the immigration can see that I come in every Friday and leave every Sunday but they still were insistent on the outbound ticket .....

I will return .............

Meaowma

It has been reported in another forum that all immigration booths at Bangkok airport have a pink paper saying 'present passport, lading form and onward ticket'

Anybody can confirm this ?

I travel into BKK every Friday and out every Sunday for the last nine months.

Last Friday it seemed to be mandatory that you showed an outbound ticket and this was the case for everyone I could see approach an immigration booth. If you did not have the ticket (ie you use e-ticket and dont print it out) then I heard one man who was advised by the immigration officials to return to the airside and print it out from the internet computers ....... for the time I was in in the queue he was not admitted. The next thing I noticed was a chap whose ticket was for an outbound date 60 days after arriving was having a major problem with the immigration officials but I am not sure if it was because it exceeded the 30 days visa validity or because he would go over the ninety days....... he did not get admitted during my period of waiting in the queues and baggage collection time

It was also confirmed that the second six months starts on your first visit after the first six months has expired ie if you first arrived on October 11th then your first six months expired on April 10th and if you then next travelled to any port of entry in Thailand on 22nd April then your second six months starts on that date.

hope this helps ..........

Greetings,

Hope i can find some useful info from someone with knowledge of marrying a Thai Lady.

My friend holding a UK passport and currently working in Saudi will be marrying his Thai gf but is unsure what is needed.

Could anyone kindly let me know which documents are required.

Again please post only helpful comments.

Thanks in advance for any info,

Rgds.

I recently engaged a builder to construct a 500m2 house for me in Pattaya and it is nearing completion. The builder did the usual thing of getting the plans approved by the authorities quickly and work started.

I have made a rather big change by adding an extra room which changes the external shape and size of the house by about 10% and made some changes to the locations of external house walls – all in all it is quite different to the approved plans.

Can anyone tell me what may happen if the authorities get to hear of this and rather more important what can I now do to make sure there are no comebacks or penalties or as the builder told me “the government may knock the house down as it is not like the approved drawings”