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On 4/13/2021 at 1:09 PM, placnx said:
Hydroxychloroquine was debunked in clinical trials a while ago.
Hydroxychloroquine got "trumpized" by the left. I suggest you go to Wikipedia, read the heavily censored article, then click the Talk page where you will discover the real hydroxychloroquine debate, and an interesting quote from Larry Sanger, Wikipedia founder, on the "neutrality" of Wikipedia articles.
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10 hours ago, jacko45k said:
Odd, mine ends in .co.uk and has not given me problems.
Do you mean via the App particularly as I use my laptop.
This was at the 90-day page on the government immigration website on the Phangnga Immigration laptop - no app involved. The official said that I must have a .com email so I took her word for it. Didn't try .co.uk or .co.th, but for sure, .in.th doesn't work.
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Two more tips regarding the dysfunctional 90-day online system:
1. An email address is a required field. Any email address that DOES NOT end with .com is NOT accepted, and the field reverts to blank with NO explanation. My email address ends ".in.th" Fail.
2. The roll boxes for address fields work OK in Thai (great if the expat applicant can read and write Thai) but not OK in English. So if you try to enter the accepted English spelling for the sub-district Bangmuang, the field reverts to blank when you hit the "g", with NO explanation.
Despite the 200km round trip, I prefer to do the 90-day reporting in person to save all this faff. However, today (03Nov20) at Phangnga Immigration, a very pleasant and friendly junior official insisted that online was the way to go, and offered to take me through it. What with the stops and starts outlined above, it took us 20 minutes. I would never have succeeded if I had tried to do it remotely.
Satisfaction score at the local immigration office so far this year:
February (90-day report) - 10/10,
August (retirement extension) - 0/10 (my worst nightmare, documented in an earlier post),
Today, November - 8/10.
Suggestions for improvement: get someone with IT experience to sort out the 90-day app.
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Something smells here. The above picture and story have been published by Khaosod but the perp's name - Police Captain Akarawin Taechaubol, has NOT been mentioned, yet, in either of the main English language papers. That's not all. Earlier today, I posted as a "related topic" the question of omission of the entire story in Bangkok Post, and my post got moderated out. This latest rich kid atrocity looks like a potential Red Bull - Part 2 epic, with one difference... Is the story being covered up by order from above?
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14 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:
The Royal Thai Police Order 35/2562 you referred to, dates from January 2019.
In an attachment to that order issued October 31, 2019 < see attached file > the mandatory thai IO-approved health-insurance requirement was introduced for 1-year extensions of stay based on a Non Imm O-A Visa for reason of retirement.
Thank you. The revised order you usefully provide still refers exclusively to Type O-A visas. I am on retirement extensions of a plain vanilla Type O visa, so I hope I am exempt.
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On 8/9/2020 at 12:52 PM, Peter Denis said:
That quote is from a non-official commercial website. And it is not correct as it fails to mention that when you apply for a 1-year extension based on your original Non Imm O-A Visa (even if that dates from yesteryear) that the thai IO-approved mandatory health-insurance requirement is ONLY applicable when applying for reason of RETIREMENT.
A Non Imm O-A 1-year extension for any other reason that retirement does NOT require the mandatory health-insurance requirement.
As this is Thailand some Immigration officers are confused by their own rules/regulations and may want to impose the health-insurance requirement when applying for the 1-year Non Imm O-A extension for reason of marriage. In that case a call to the IO Helpdesk (1178) should quickly solve the matter and confirm that it is not applicable in that case.
Royal Thai Police Order 35/2562 section 2.22 item 6 refers only to O-A visas with regard to health insurance
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Clarification re: health insurance... "According to the order [the Jan 2019 police order], health insurance is not required for those applying for an extension of stay of a non-immigrant category O visa based on retirement or Thai wife." Seems like it's just Type O-A.
Source: https://www.thaiembassy.com/travel/health-insurance-thailand-new-requirement-for-retirees.php
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I'm sorry to ask this macabre question, but what happens to the married visa if one's Thai spouse dies first? Does it remain valid and extendable? If not, then the misery of the bereavement will be compounded big-time.
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3 hours ago, OJAS said:
So are we to infer from this and points 3 & 4 in your OP that you are a Brit who has recently had to endure the bureaucratically tedious process of getting your passport renewed from Thailand, thanks, in particular, to the requirement for 2 enforced route marches to an office building with an exceedingly silly name somewhere in deepest darkest Bangkok - which presumably had to be undertaken all the way from Phang Nga in your case? IMHO the ridiculously cumbersome procedures which those incompetent fools at HMPO have inflicted on us Brits in LOS at passport renewal time since 2014 are far more worthy of complaint than anything that Immigration here has imposed on us retirees!
Yes, yes, yes, and yes. AND the Liverpool office rejected my photo without saying what was wrong with it - I had followed all their guidelines and measurements to the nearest millimetre. I sent several photos back printed with different contrast, brightness, and weights of paper, and I incorporated in my letter a checklist of photographic parameters for them to tick or cross if none of the new set was satisfactory. That shut them up. But here's a question - why couldn't the minions at the "office building with an exceedingly silly name in deepest Bangkok" accept or reject the photo at the time of submission??
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1 hour ago, Scott Tracy said:
What does 'act British' mean?
Not to refer to the contract...? why have a contract?
Acting British: in this case, how about pedantic, righteous and pompous?
Why have a contract? When designing and constructing mass transit railways, they are generally required.
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4 hours ago, nobodysfriend said:
And what about health insurance for retirement ( O-A ) Visa extensions ?
As you did not mention it , I think it is not needed ....?
Last year it was not necessary ...
This is item (6) on Police order 35/2562 of 18 January 2018. It does NOT appear on the current Phang Nga list of required documents... yet. That will be a real killer if it is ever implemented. Getting health insurance over the age of 70 is either prohibitively expensive or refused.
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4 hours ago, jackdd said:He said "two double pages", meaning 4 passport pages on one sheet of paper, are not accepted by them.
Correct. Even though they are not reduced. I have never tried copying them on both sides of the sheet - probably an arrestable offence.
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21 minutes ago, Matzzon said:You really let them handle you as they wish. ????????????????????????
If you read what you wrote yourself, you will understand how much they had fun with you.
Oh yes!! They had a TERRIFIC time! But having dealt with govt departments when I was working as an engineer, I am only too aware of how doors slam shut around you if you lose your rag or act British. I was even told by one Thai colleague, when I was suffering breach of contract from a govt department, that it is considered "impolite" to refer to the contract! So yes - sickly smile around gritted teeth - they handled me to their satisfaction... but I got my extension.
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For the second time in a year, the team at Phang Nga Immigration has changed. When extending a retirement visa, applicants should now bear in mind the following:
1. Passport copies showing TWO double pages per sheet of A4, despite no photographic reduction, will be REJECTED. They only accept one double page per sheet.
2. Bank book copies in landscape format will be REJECTED. They only accept PORTRAIT format.
3. The conventional wisdom expressed on this site that it is not necessary to get visas transferred to a new passport, even if they are about to expire, DOES NOT APPLY at Phang Nga.
4. Previous retirement extensions stamped in the old passport are NOT ACCEPTABLE to enable transfer. They require the ORIGINAL VISA in the ORIGINAL PASSPORT, which in my case was issued fourteen years ago.
5. An expiring extension of stay that was stamped on a passport page that previously held a stick-on visa (e.g. Cambodia) that fell out is deemed ILLEGAL, despite the fact the department was responsible for putting it there.
6. When presenting your sheaf of documents, be sure to arrange them in EXACTLY the same order as the "Required Documents" information form, or they will be REJECTED and handed back to you.
7. 90-day reports sent by mail ARE NOT ACCEPTED. My registered letter sent during Covid was handed back to me.
8. They do NOT ACCEPT CASH any more; you have to pay by debit/credit card, and they add 2 per cent to the fee.In a previous trip last February, the Immigration staff offered me a cup of coffee, and one of the staff took a selfie of herself, me and the coffee. Those happy days are gone. At a time when the tourist industry has collapsed, I respectfully suggest that Thailand should be falling over itself to attract long-stay residents, and that naked hostility to existing residents who wish to stay, may be counter-productive.
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Tourism should never have been allowed to grow beyond 10 per cent of GDP. Tourism demand is too frothy - subject to pandemics, Gulf wars, failing western economies, unsatisfactory investigations of island murders, nose-diving tour boats, and all the rest. For the future, Thailand should focus on wooing long-term residents and retirees as Khun Abhisit suggested when he was PM. Unfortunately, the increasingly arduous visa conditions for long-stayers are achieving the opposite.
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56 minutes ago, Bipolar said:
Sorry can someone tell me if the Nation is still in existence or they died! Their website ie online news is not updated for the last few days...except for one of 2 small stories but some trash stories by some of their garbage journalists can be found on other sites? What is happening? Am I left to only read the newsletter of the Central Group ie Bangkok Post?
I'm afraid The Nation committed suicide. It had a great investigative reporter, Piyaporn Wongruang; her fate is unknown.
Try Khaosod english at http://www.khaosodenglish.com/
Not a huge amount of news, but two good reporters, Pravit and Teeranai.
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The new Nation is getting worse. Today, adverts for a Toyota are obliterating the text so you can't read the articles. There are still no Opinion columns.
The Have Your Say index page has been removed so you can no longer access the letters archives. But the old letters up to June 28 are still online, now under www.nationthailand.com/your_say/
instead of www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/your_say/
But without the index page, you have to rely on an external search engine... and know what you're looking for.
This is very sad. Time to move on, I guess. Khaosod English anyone?
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7 hours ago, Lungstib said:
My two attempts to open the Nation this morning have failed. So much for a new platform.
Agreed. Pravit of Khao Sot say The Nation got rid of 75% of its editorial staff. And what's happened to Have Your Say? Where are you sending your letters now, Uncle Steve? I miss Nigel, JC, Dr Frank, Eric.
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Only Baht 200k is needed in the bank for retirement visa extension if your visa has been continuously extended for retirement since 21 October 1998. This is according to the Immigration Dept website (Criteria for retirement, para 6a).
Two questions: 1) has anyone managed to pull this off? 2) what happens if you have been here continuously for 20+ years but initially on a different kind of visa (e.g. Non-Imm + work permit)?
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Thanks for a useful post. Two questions:
1. What happens if one has repatriated all his worldly wealth in Thailand and is using the proceeds as pension income?
2. The health insurance providers offer "private hospital care". I don't want to use the private hospitals any more, having been ripped big time - now I use the public hospitals. Is anyone aware of a "public hospital only" health insurance at an affordable price?
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If anyone sees him before he gets kicked out, kindly douse him in liquid nitrogen, lock him in a room with some scorpions, and then stick him to a railway track to see how his strength compares to those of the coins.
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Age-related inflation makes health insurance a no-brainer once you're over 60. Best advice is to pay as you go, and use the public hospitals, not the private ones. I stopped paying BUPA's annual premiums eight years ago and put the equivalent of that last 2009 premium in the bank each year. Despite a 600k (private hospital) operation in 2012 , I am currently Baht1.1million in the black. I will be using public hospitals from now on. Some are better than others - I recommend the teaching hospitals.
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This year I shall bring personal effects, mainly worthless cr@p, into Thailand (Khao Lak), and thanks to the posts on this topic under Visa & Immigration Forums > Thai visas, residency and work permits, I know what to expect regarding documents, customs clearance, using agents, bribes, etc, etc.
My questions are as follows:
1 Has anyone imported stuff through Phuket sea port (if this is indeed possible), and how was the experience?
2 Does anyone have any views on whether it's preferable (i.e. cheaper and less hassle) to import through Bangkok or Songkhla rather than Phuket?
3. Does anyone have experience of the following import agents based in Phuket: Global GEO, Connex, SMBP Phuket, or T&M Express?
I want to sort this end out before I leave for UK and send the stuff.
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dear Jayboy, I really get the impression you can't conceive how somebody migth not always agree with you. You can't convince us, we can't convince you, so let's leave this to rest.
I thought this thread was about helping potential PR applicants with the process, not about winning or not winning arguments (which I feely admit is the case in the political forums).However if you insist I would point out that those that believe that "influence'' of one sort or another can trump or make irrelevant all or any of the well established PR rules have completely failed to prove their case.So the advice to PR applicants remains the same - follow the rules well set out in Camerata's guide.
Perax,
May jayboy continue to misinterpret postings on this site and may he believe what he wants to believe. And may the rest of us ignore him and move on...
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Wise told me a month ago that it can longer send more than THB 49,999 in one go to any bank except BB, SCB and Kasikorn (I use Krungsri). Now it tells me it can't send more than Baht 200,000 in one go to Bangkok Bank. I have tried xe.com, but it won't accept Thailand as country of residence. They say banking regs have changed. Can anyone advise on this?