jayceenik

Pension locked in Euro, so can only pray for better rates. And worry. Savings in foreign Euro account. I'd like to transfer savings in my Thai bank account and buy more land for my Thai wife but she says : No, wait, Baht will fall in future. Euro will too, I'm afraid. ????

A lot of hatred on this thread for Putin and all things Russian. A lot of ignoramuses too. Are you haters even aware of a place called Donbass in eastern Ukraine that, before Putin moved in, had been bombed relentlessly by the Ukrainian armed forces for the past eight years because the people there are Russian speaking and would like closer ties with Russia than with Ukraine? Be it, among other things, that the Russian language has been banned in Ukraine.

Thank you for your post

Zeit Geist: Hate Putin, Hate Russia, Hate Russians. Are we going to clear out our EU-US library and bookshop shelves of "hateful" Russian authors like Tolstoy and Gogol and make big public bonfires, Nazi-style, to show our strong moral disapproval of all things Russian? Already an Italian Uni has CXD a talk about Dostoyevsky (later re-instated after public outcry). An avowed pre-time pro-Putin guy, for sure. Let's go check our local Tops, Central and 7/11 and make sure they hide from view everything Russian like Russian salad dressing and, horror of horrors Chicken Kiev. And nobody should play "Russian Roulette" ever again! Nah!

Thanks to the OP and all those who have posted about this doomed project. Very interesting. For years I did travel by bus once a month between BKK and Pattaya by the expressway and always tried to have a look at that place wondering if I'd ever see a car or a boat there. BTW there is another sorry semi-abandoned lot of two double rows of shophouses also on that way. Not far after you leave BKK. Just after the industrial estates on the left. I saw these coming up and I just happened to ride by when one block that had just been constructed and was being finished inside tipped over scaring the devil of the painters inside. It made the BKK Post. Weak foundations that one. They must have presold some units because you can see some activity in the first row of three blocks and in the second intact with its four blocks. Some trees have been planted on the site of the tipped block but overall the place looks uncared for. I always wondered about the legal follow-up of that block collapse and also how the unlucky folks who had already pre bought a few units were authorized to occupy them. Worth a look next time you're on the way to Pattaya. About 20' from BKK, on the left.

Yes, no complaints about the Ubon Immigration office. Helpful, friendly, professional.

I recommend the Chulalonghorn University Translation Services in BKK - Thai to English; English to Thai. They do a quick and excellent job and your translation comes with a nice Uni stamp. Send your documents by PDF to them and they will tell you the translation cost. I did my Thai Marriage translations to English there. They are agreed by the BKK Belgian Consulate. Translation Services Unit, 13th Floor, Room No. 1310, Baromarachkumari Building, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University Tel. 0-2218-4636 Business hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM [email protected]    

Then will buggies allowed on the roads? The wife just got one yesterday. Made to order. 180k baht. The wife doesn't intend to drive it on roads and highways just to the local 7/11 and for having fun driving the small and rough roads around our village. But to get access to the countryside she has to go by the village and a blacktop road here and there. When she ordered it I asked about registration. No problem she said. Just avoid the Police! OK but I feel uneasy about it. Not that there are many cops in our quiet Issan village. ????

When I asked to open a Time Deposit account at Krung Thai Bank they requested a TIN and directed me to the nearest Thai Inland Revenue office where I got one immediately. I had to show them my Passport and my local rental contract (to certify my address). A TIN allowed me to claim back some of of the tax KTB had withheld from the interest received on the the time deposit at renewal. The Thai Revenue doesn't tax the farang on income from outside Thailand. like pensions, etc They're very friendly with the farang and will fill out the required forms for you. Note that it is a legal requirement to get a TIN if you stay in Thailand over a certain period of time in a year. I never bothered with one until the KTB required one for my intended time deposit.

UbonRatchathani. Got a notice stapled to my passport last year and again this year requesting to show up to Imm every three months with my updated bankbook. I keep well over the required amount so I didn't bother. Just to keep peace of mind I take my bankbook with me when I report the 90-day. Never been asked to show it. Anyway you're required to keep the stipulated amount. That's the basic legal requirement. Showing your bankbook every three months is just a notice.

I scanned the Certificate to my PC. From the download I selected the QR as image. Then transferred it to my Android Gallery from where I can show it to any inquiry. Not an elegant way to do it but good enough.

I have a legal Thai Will by lawyers giving all I have in TH to my TGF. We married a couple years after that Will was made. I didn't change it. We moved. I closed bank accounts and opened a new one in our present town. Yes, she is named in my original Will. Yes. she is now my legal Thai wife. Nevertheless, to be safe I wrote an update stating she is now my wife and naming my new (and only) bank account. Photocopy Bank Book, my Passport ID page, and her ID card. In Thai and in English. Signed before wo Thai witnesses. (names , signature and ID nr). I recommend a Thai Will.

I'm a senior so I probably have missed something ... The impression I get from all these talks about pricey Thailand imposed Covid-19 and "medical" Insurances is that Vaccines don't work and vaccinated or not you'll still risk getting struck by the dreaded Corona and end up in an atrociously expensive (for farangs) Thai hospital - so the necessity to subscribe a big $$$ health insurance before you set sails for the LOS. Just saying ... I'm all for vaccines, mind you. I have received a first Sinovac jab and will get an AstraSeneca booster in a matter of days at my local Isaan hospital.

I'm a senior Belgian. Not far in years from the Final Departure. As a citizen of another country things will be different for you but here is what it is for me. * I made a document in French-English-Thai stipulating that I have no relatives nor anybody to contact in Belgium or anywhere else when I die and naming my Thai wife as the sole person to take care of my funerals. This document has been notarized by the Belgian Consulate in BKK and a copy kept there in my file. * The Belgian Consulate will require three Death Certificates legalized by the MFA at ChaengWattana. They will keep two and give one back to my widow translated on request free in French by the Consulate. * My death will be made registered in the Belgium National Register by the Consulate. Of course I've made all the Final Wills necessary to make her the sole inheritor of whatever I'll leave behind.

If you get very early morning to Mochit you can board for a very modest fee the packed minibuses that take people working at CW. The busses unload their PAX at the corner of CW Rd and the avenue to the complex. From there a free CW shuttle bus takes the just offloaded PAX to the CW complex. But that free shuttle bus runs only at a set time when people arrive to work. Other time you'll have to walk. I did make that trip once and had a pleasant conversation with a seated next to me lady working at the complex. The best is still to take a taxi from Mochit to the complex.

Our ground level bathroom has two openings to the outside garden. I have squashed three of these creatures there but I let the last one I saw free to go on about its business after deciding that they're probably harmless. Didn't hear the wife scream so that spider went unnoticed by her. Last April I did get a nasty bite at my ankle by a mysterious beast while sitting outside at night. I didn't feel any pain but all of a sudden I felt feverish and was in bed with high fever for two weeks. The bite mark was by then obvious, and big red splatches appeared on my leg. I should have gone to a clinic but I thought Tylenol would be the only med I needed. Then two weeks after I thought it was over I woke up with a fever and, more dramatically a prostate blockage. This time I went to a clinic. It was over in a week but then a week later again fever, this time no prostate trouble as I was still on prostate med but this time my leg had doubled in size. No pain, I could walk normally. This time the clinic prescribed again anti biotics meds and also gave me double anti biotics injections in my behind for one week. I am now OK but my leg is still noticeably thicker than normal. What was it that bit me? A spider? Sometimes we have small scorpion in our yard ...

The legalization of my Thai marriage at the Belgian Consulate means that my marriage will be recognized in Belgium. Just like if I had married in Belgium. To do that the Consulate has asked that my Thai marriage Certificate be legalized by the MFA and then translated in French, Flemish or English. by approved translation service before submitting.

I got married last year in Isaan and now I'm thinking of legalizing for Belgium that marriage at the Consulate in BKK. I've collected all the documents for that already but I hesitate. The wife and I have zero intention of ever going to live in Belgium and a visit to Europe with a Schengen visa for wife is also of no interest to us so that legalization is really not necessary. I'm a Belgian taxpayer because of my Belgian pension on which I have to pay income tax and social security and I'm afraid that getting my Thai wife in the Belgium National Registry may brand her as a taxpayer too. I don't want to have to file an income tax return for her in addition to mine. I've spent time on the Internet on this but found no answer to my question which is simply : Is a Thai wife living in Thailand liable for income tax by the country of nationality of her husband even if she doesn't live in that foreign country and never has? I'd think not but you never know with those tax ogres!