Garouda

Firstly, it's not a marriage visa, but a Thai spouse visa. In my passport, they wrote ภรรยาไทย ปีที่ 6 or Thai spouse, sixth year. Secondly, it often depends on the local immigration office, and of course on your home country. I come from Belgium, and the immigration office accepts an Affidavit from my embassy, the document is written in English. It all also depends on your revenue source. If you have a regular pension like me, you also could ask your bank to give you a certificate. In that case, it's recommended to have your bank agency close to the immigration office. Or, as someone suggested earlier on this thread, you can have a 400 k THB deposit on your bank account. I've never been asked to provide translated documents, except for my marriage.

You're 100% right, what I see beyond this is a kind of NGO subsidized by the alcohol lobby.

And by the way, in rural locations, you can buy beer and alcohol at any time…

You have to expect the beer and alcohol lobby to use the weapon of fear to protect its interests.

I do not care about the discounts I could get using their mobile application, this applies to Shopee likewise. On my desktop webpage, I have lots of messages I can't read, and I simply delete them now and then.

I meant home country, by the way Castle Malting (Malterie du Château) is in Beloeil where my grandfather was born.

And here in Thailand you can even buy malt from Vietnam… I prefer Castle Malting from my homcountry and also available here.

Cheater is the anagram of teacher... Just kidding...

I built a pizza oven following the Forno Bravo design and have decent pizzas to share with my family, and have baked bread for the third time now. I met with another expat here in Loei who made the same oven. cuisson de la pizza.MP4 version fumoir.MP4

The guy who published this survey is too lazy, or shows a poor knowledge of the country! Isaan... the largest region in Thailand, is not detailed. (e.g. Nakorn Ratchasima, Ubon Ratchathani, Kon Khaen, Udon Thani, Nong Khai, Buriram, other Isaan) About one third of the voters in this survey live in Isaan. Well, 30% of the Thai population live in these 20 (out of 77) provinces. I live in Loei, a remote place where people do not speak Isaan, but the Loei language (Laotian)… Until 2017, I lived and worked in Chonburi, my house was in Sri Racha and my university was not far from Jomtien (Pattaya)…

Because some 25 years ago I went to the Vietnam Embassy in Belgium and I felt an unbearable weight of communism. Now I've been living in Thailand for more than twenty years, worked for a University and live in my wife's village since I retired. I have my family here, and I do not regret my choice.

Immigration police officers do have different duties, that's why you're going to see different people. Besides this, there's a rotation and the staff can be moved to another province and replaced by new faces. It sounds normal to me, living in Thailand since 2003…

Well, sorry to be so straightforward, but you definitely seem knowing nothing about Thai people, of course they would kill that snake!

In a shop, when the Thais seem not to care about you, it's often simply because they cannot speak 'farang' (English). You are a guest in this country, make an effort to know their culture and values. Saitong nueng? What does that mean, may be 'sai toong dai mai krab'? ใส่ถุงได้ไหมครับ I've been living here, for more than twenty years now and earlier even when I came as a tourist, I started to learn some Thai. I arrived in 2003 and worked for a university until I retired in 2017. Now, the Thais regularly congratulate me for my pronunciation. Sometimes I also notice that Thais are reluctant to communicate with me, but once they hear I can speak Thai, they smile and are very friendly. What you describe is not that they look down at you or reject you, they just don’t know how to communicate, and may be there’s something in your dressing or behaviour that chocks them, who knows?

Either you have a multiple-entry visa, and you're on the safe side, otherwise, hopefully you applied for a re-entry permit before you left the country, otherwise your retirement visa will have been cancelled.