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On 06/09/2016 at 6:34 AM, lemonjelly said:

Private companies testing = licence for sale..... You can bet on that.

A lot of government testing centres in the provinces sell licences too.

Hair dresseng salons are also the big thing. It's easy to open a business with someone else's money.

9 hours ago, beano2274 said:

no chance for PR without having paid taxes, but you can stay long term with Ed Visas or the Elite card.

 

Right. Working legally and paying tax for the past three years, while living here on unbroken non-immigrant visa extensions, is a fundamental requirement for both PR and citizenship. 

On 05/09/2016 at 7:52 AM, JAG said:

One more thought occurs - the source of the " Baramee" which Prem enjoyed is no longer active. ..

 

Look up "Baramee", it is the root of a very pertinent phrase.

The army will make its own baramee and anyone who disagrees will 'disappear'.

Shame. I bought my first computer from Pantip back in 1996. It was always going wrong and my determination to keep tweaking and fixing it set me on course for a successful career in the IT industry. One thing led to another and I became a citizen of Thailand and Australia thanks to all the IT skills that I learned. 

All dumbed down now, just like cars that we can't service ourselves anymore. At least we now have time to play Pokemon. 

1 hour ago, sweatalot said:

not only you

 

some people are so desperate that they make  every move (regardless how good and useful it might be)  of this government look bad

High profile arrests are covered by the media in most countries and this is a good thing: it gives the media a starting point to cover what happens to suspects as and after they are arrested. 

So yes, refusing media access when people are arrested and thrown in jail, putting a veil of secrecy around the judicial process, is indeed yet .another move by the government that looks bad.

This will also make it easier to make 'suspects' who upset the junta 'disappear'

Prayuth is a complete hypocrite. 

Thai nationals can apply for Australian visitor visas online and upload supporting documents here: https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Visa-1/600-/Visitor-e600-visa-online-applications

Generally, visas allow for three months stay on each entry. At the (varying) discretion of the immigration officer who processes the application, the visa may be valid for single or multiple entries, and may be valid for use up to one year following the date of grant - it's hard to predict.

When the visa is granted, it is electronically linked to the applicants passport, meaning that there is no need to go to the visa centre to get a visa sticker. All very convenient.

Better knock it down then.

He had no intention of staging a coup either. 

Running out of cash to fund all those lucrative projects, essential submarines and the like. ...

Reminds me of Suicidal Syd from Viz magazine. ..

Good for her and so what? She was joking. 

God forbid that the totalitarian scourge of western style political correctness should take hold here in Thailand. All those pathetically fragile humourless people hiding behind Twitter and getting offended on other people's behalf. 

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

You don't normally die of high blood pressure alone, this sounds very strange. What kind of Doctor says someone died of high blood pressure, that's just not normal.

 

 

Well spotted. Some Thai doctors are very good, but others are quacks of the kind that give you dozens of pretty coloured pills for a minor ailment.

Good people go bad sometimes, usually when they run into personal problems or over commit themselves financially. I just had to fire an employee of many years good service because she had started fiddling money out of the company - small amounts on a regular basis and carefully trying to cover her tracks. When caught, the only reason she gave was that she had run into recent financial problems. She worked in a position of trust, so we sadly had to dismiss her.

25 minutes ago, samran said:

I'll search him out next time I go up and have a bit of fun. Will bring my blond haired blue eyed wife and kids as well just for added effect. 

Nice one. Make sure you let him know how easy it is for foreigners to get Thai nationality too, and that more and more westerners are getting Thai passports these days - he'll really hate that.

54 minutes ago, poohy said:

As you have a thai passport you could have wound this guy up completely as i assume you are fluent in Thai

 

and what could he do ?

 

errr .....ok probably shot you !

I was rather too taken aback to say anything much, aside from calling this pig of a man an idiot. Next time, I'll have my riposte carefully prepared. 

Or, better still, I'll skip Nong Khai and fly to Vientiane.

20 minutes ago, BritTim said:

 

To those thinking of using this line, resist the temptation even if it is factually true. That kind of a-hole official is just the kind to try to turn it into some kind of lèse-majesté case. He might even succeed.

Right - whilst it's perfectly true that HMK approves  applications for citizenship, any reference to that fact may be misinterpreted in the current political climate. The officer could distort the meaning, turn it against me, and get me thrown in the slammer for 15 years.

No law against calling him an idiot, which I did. Next time I'll ask him when he will be replaced by one of those robotic electronic gates. They have them at Suvarnabhumi, and it's so nice not to have to face those dullards.

I wouldn't worry about it. Thai immigration will not know anything about your deportation from the UK back to India. Get a new passport if you are worried about the comment that UK immigration made on it.

The keystone cops and the paranoid generals will surely blame Thaksin for this. The recent earthquake in Italy was also Thaksin's evil work.

Most countries, including those of the western world, don't have clear rules on how long repeat tourists can stay either. It's discretionary, and depends on both the circumstances of the individual and the opinion of 'balanced probabilities' formed by the immigration officer.

Thailand seems to lack legal wording around what constitutes bona fide tourists, hence the rather loose categorisation of the OP as someone with 'insufficient funds' or 'intention to work' as has been used to refuse entry to others. 

1 hour ago, Maestro said:

 

Neither of the two would apply to a foreigner who has, in the opinion of the immigration officer, made too many entries into Thailand or spent too much time in the country for the purpose of tourism, ie with tourist visas or visa-exempt. Only Section 12(3) would suit the purpose and has been used by immigration in the past for this.

I see, and you are right - 12(3) would be harder to refute, as it states: "Having entered into the Kingdom to take occupation as a laborer or to take employment by using physical without skills training or to work in violation of the Ministerial Regulations."

I presume that the onus of proof of no intention to work would be on the 'too frequent' tourist?

1 hour ago, elviajero said:

There is. They could use Sections 12.1 or 12.10.

I don't see how 12(1) or 12(10) could apply in the case of someone doing too many in-outs ....

12(1)  Having no genuine and valid passport or document used in lieu of passport ; or having a genuine and valid passport or document used in lieu of a passport without Visaing by the Royal Thai Embassies or Consulates in Foreign countries ; or from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , excepting if a visa is not required for certain types of aliens in special instances.

12(10)  Being a person prohibited by the Minister under Section 16

And section 16 states:  In the instance where for reason of national welfare or safeguarding the public peace , culture , morality , or welfare , or when the Minister considers it improper to allow any alien or any group of alien to enter into the Kingdom , the Minister shall have power to exclude said alien or group aliens from entering into the Kingdom.

http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/en/doc/Immigration_Act.pdf