NanLaew

Is there any clarity on the "other suitable areas" beyond Bangkok and Pattaya? At the moment, I have no real interest in a 1 rai plot in either the lower bowel of Thailand or it's colostomy bag.

Revisiting this thread. Have you bought a SIM router yet or still evaluating data packages via a smartphone? I am down in Australia at the moment and there's a better choice of SIM router but I would need to burrow deep into the specs to see if they're totally compatible with the Thai networks.

To be honest, if one types Air Asia into a blind Google search, the top-half of the response have many links to other, non-AirAsia sites. Agreed that most of them are flagged as "Ad" for advertisement but if someone isn't too browser savvy, they can click on any one of these and waste their time. AirAsia is a low-cost carrier and that ethos appears to include their attitude to SEO.

Why do you think the OP should tell you why he wants to do this? Is it even relevant?

Just making the point that its gets rather tiresome when people keep posting the same slogans over and over again . Gordon Brown selling the gold , Mohamad marrying Aisha , You mean the same irrelevant and deflective stuff recycled by the same person? Like the irrelevant and deflective 'but Corbyn' jibe? (Jibes not slogans)

I did . "Far right", "extreme right" are often used as a descriptive word for Neo Nazis Only by the less well read and the Daily Mail copy writers.

Yes. And I am even older!

This will be in my Christmas stocking after I get back from work. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/i3974129935-s15376608395.html

I used the same login as the website for the app and never had to enter it in the app since. I am logged in as soon as I open the app.

Themselves.

Now now, try and stay focused. Did you vote for four Tory chancellors in as many months?

While all the home-grown, 'intelligent' white kids will be down the pub, obliterating their brain cells. Been there, done that.

OK, thanks for clarifying this. I apologize for bringing it up on the Savanakhet visa thread. Hopefully an HCMC visa thread will pop up before I make that decision next February.

Nope. But some do appear to need hand-holding every little step of the way.

I thought the "standard 20k baht or the equivalent of it in a foreign currency" was the criteria of an examining RTP immigration officer on arriving in the country. Is there any recent evidence that the RTCG in HCMC which issues visas on behalf of the MFA uses the same criteria as the RTP? My understanding is that theses two entities have little in common in that MFA dictates what's required to apply for entry while overseas wheres the RTP decides what's needed for actual entry on arrival. Similarly for the wife's signature being accepted as "certification". This appears rather arbitrary and lax when one considers the bureaucratic hoop-jump that even the simplest of tasks requested of a Thai government entity typically demands. I'm not doubting your advice and the vagaries of their decision making isn't unknown but if there's a recent link to a successful Non-O multi (Thai spouse) visa application at HCMC that only required evidence the 20k baht (equivalent) and the spouse's "self-certification" of the support documentation, that may be handy.

I have been a forum member for a long time and I have never heard any member who offers advice being asserted as infallible or claiming to be infallible themselves. Yes, seriously.

Just for information, looking at the visa information page for the Royal Thai Consulate General in HCMC, they require proof of financials. 2.4.1. Thai spouse: Guarantee letter from Thai Spouse, can be Thai or English Copy of Thai marriage certificate - If an applicant has another national marriage certificate, the document will need to be translated in English by a notary public - For Vietnamese marriage certificate need to be legalized by Department of External Relation in Ho chi Minh City (Address: 6 Alexandre De Rhodes, Quận 1, TP.HCM) Certified copy of Thai spouse’s ID card Certified copy of house registration book Other relevant document, for example copy of Thai child’s birth certificate with their passport/Id card 2.4.2. Thai child(ren) Copy of Thai child’s birth certificate with their passport/Id card Certified copy of house registration book 2.5. Applicant’s financial statement of adequate finance is required. Also note the need for "certified"copies of ID card and Tibian Bahn without any suggestion as to what is considered an acceptable body to do that certification. https://hochiminh.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/non-immigrant-o-accompanying-thai-spouse-and-family-members

I have a City & Guilds in Planning and Scheduling.

A signed copy of the wife's passport is on the official list of required documents but it was not requested when I submitted my application two days ago. The official list says ONLY a signed Thai passport copy or does it include ID card? Seems bizarre as it assumes that all Thai spouses will have a passport.

A bit like what now? Count? Is this a competition? You're funny. Strange funny I mean. What I read from all this is don't put all your CSI eggs in one basket solely based on the mangled translation of single news source being quoted on an English-language forum. You appear to find this "contrast" between reports over +24 hours as something quite remarkable and suggesting that it's hitherto unknown in the annals of crime busting (armchair and otherwise). Someone once told me that solving a crime is an evolving process of sometimes endless discovery. It'll come to me, bear with me. Bonus Tip, no charge: Are you aware that the most unreliable witnesses in any crime investigation are those claiming to be eye witnesses? Typically they are the first to be discounted due to being notoriously unreliable. They are also too easily picked apart by any half-decent defence or prosecuting lawyer if they ever get on a witness stand. Stick with me on this. You may learn something. PS: It was Holmes that told me.

Accept what now? When a foreigner repeatedly denigrates Thailand, its people, its culture and everything else Thai like the RTP, usually with the derisory 'Thainess' label, that's anti-Thai. It isn't unique to alleged murders. LOL You mean when a spouse is allegedly murdered don't you? Not sure where you pulled that man-hater 'argument' from but it's so patently ill-formed, I guess you aren't in the same league as Clouseau and Poirot after all. You honestly haven't a Watson's do you? Virtue signalling? @Liverpool Lou and I (and probably a few others) are simply having a jolly good wheeze at your armchair theatrics. They're almost as bad as your armchair sleuthing. PS: It's an alleged murder now. Try and keep up.

Orgy? Hardly. I just quietly thought he may have topped himself.

Not considered by you of course but I did. However, I kept my own counsel while others blamed evil, cheating Thai womenfolk and the like.

Makes sense to whom? You "probably" need a new shovel by now, no?

Yes, anti-Thai, anti-Thailand and usually drenched in misogyny. All quite tedious.