Thefinn

Immigration officer on the spot refused to enter her on her expired Thai passport. Everyone says she "could" have and I thought she "could"  have .  Where can you go and what can you do facing this situation at the airport?  

Easy enough to discuss on a forum at a later date, but on the spot?

This shouldn't have happened, but now that it has....  the child can get a one year extension at immigration on the foreign passport for a B1900 fee and proof of being a Thai, ie, birth certificate, ID card and possibly the house book. If there is any over stay the fine is payable at the same time, no other action taken.  This requires the 90 day reporting until they leave on the foreign passport again.

My daughter arrived in BKK with her Thai PP just expired and was told to come in on another foreign passport she also has and this was what she had to go through to stay.

My wife has had Australian PR since 1995. When her initial 5 year RRV expired, we were no longer living in Australia. My wife is now on her third 5 year RRV issued outside of Australia (all issued by the Australian Embassy in Bangkok). As she hasn't met the "2 of the last 5 years in Australia" requirement on any of the three occasions, we have had to demonstrate that she (i) has ongoing ties to Australia (bank account, occasional visits, Australian husband and Australian kids), (ii) that there are reasonable grounds for her extended absence from Australia (my employment) and (iii) that we intend to return to reside in Australia at some point in the future (which we do).

My situation is exactly the same, a RRV has been issued to my wife 4 times now, 3 of them in Bangkok. Showing ties is as you say Australian children,real estate, bank accounts, Aust drivers licence. You can do it all yourself, follow the form on the internet. gather the evidence, submit in Bangkok, they mail it back to you once complete. You need to keep good records and have copies of all the old visas etc.

you need a visa except you are a citizens from an ASEAN member country.

Here I always order my visa, already 9 times and it is fast and cheap.

Here you get all information on a easy and simple way

www.myvietnam.info/

Not quite right, citizens of Finland do not require a visa for stays less than 14 days.

There may also be similar agreements for former communist and east block countries.

One of the maintenance ships on normally on station in Taiwan (C.S.Lodbrog) is in Canada on a special project. So don't expect quick action on any cables in Taiwan area (Japan down to PI). She is due back on station for repairs in mid to late September. It takes her 18 days to transit across the Pacific, then a few days to load the cable and spares kits to to repair cables (in Taichung).Tyco vessels are responsible for repairs out of Keelung in Taiwan at the moment.

Can you please advise at which border crossing you have been using, I have been continually been refused exit from Thailand in a car, either by the customs or the the Army.(I haven't tried in the last 4 months). Yet I have crossed multiple times on a motorcycle at the same crossings.

Second the advise on parking at hotels with security in the larger towns. In remote areas I don't even take the GPS off the bike and leave the keys in, I would say outside the major towns it is more secure than Thailand.

My experience is that if there is no "ATM charge " at home then you get a lesser exchange rate to your home currency. If you are lucky and have no ATM charge and can withdraw in the currency of your home account then you are usually stuck with the local "ATM fee" at the place of withdrawal.

Any one who can say they have a USD,AUD or GBP account with no local or overseas ATM fees, no monthly fees,a competetive rate of exchange at the time of the transaction, no restrictions, please lets us know so we can all get an account there. The banks give you nothing for free these days.

Hi,

The Aussies have a "business travellers" option for a passport and it has 64 useable pages for visa stamps.

71 pages total inside the covers, never seen a 48 page Aussie one.

Harry the Finn

Seems a lot of hassle to get a car registered. Just go to immigration with your passport (with visa) + 2 photos and get them to type up a residence letter. This costs 200B use your licence as the address in Thai.Done in 10 minutes and works at the motor registry as good as a Tabien Bahn.

Harry the Finn

Also check the nationalities for no visa required, like for some Scandinavian countries, ie. Finland, allowed 15 days entry with no preapplied visa. May save some money on a short trip.

I would do as you plan , but don't tell anyone, go to Malaysia and change everything out. The border doesn't care as long as the numbers match, they don't even look normally. Just remember that when the bike goes for a registration renewal in Thailand they place some paper tape over the frame number and rub it with a pencil to get the "shape of the numbers" allowing forgeries and changes to be found.These are kept somewhere?? for reference?? In Thailand the Green Book for motorcycles is based on the Frame number, you can change an engine number if you have a customs paid engine to put in a frame.If the frame and engine number is the same nobody will know or care.They don't take picture or anything as you leave. Ideally get the old numbers stamped /transferred to the new bike exactly the same and dump/sell the old bike in Malaysia.Might be better to work with a bike shop rather than a dealer.It's no doubt illegal but it doesn't hurt anyone.

Hello

Question here: I drive an old Yamaha RXZ, a 135cc two-stroke. Those have not been sold in Thailand after 1995, and spare parts are getting rare, accessories are totally unavailable and decent service is impossible to get as Yamaha-dealers prefer to sell me one of those all-plastic automatic toys.

I found that in Malaysia, the RXZ is still available since Yamaha actually still makes this model, and the 2007 generation is even outfitted with a catalytic converter (yes it's still the same 135cc two stroke engine but now with six gears). Also there are plenty of accessories for this bike around in Malaysia.

Now is it possible for a private person to import a whole motorbike (either a new one or a second-hand not-too-old one) from there? How about "serious" spare parts such as an entire engine or exhaust, wheels etc? I always read about "ASEAN" stuff and lower import duties from such countries, but that's for dealers i understand. I haven't found a Yamaha dealer that would import one for me

The RXZ sold in Malaysia is "Made In Malaysia" tough they also have "Made In Japan" which cost more but has more power.

Last, i know it's not legal, but how about driving my old RXZ into Malaysia, buying a new one, and change frame/engine numbers to mine old one, then coming back? After all it's still an RXZ and wasn't stolen either. I could even use my old '94 original frame since they have not been changed at all during the years, only the plastic parts have changed (look). But thing is, my frame is broken and that's why i am interested in such "deal" (and tell the guy at the border "well, complete overhaul").

Kind regards....

Thanh

There are Thai military maps available in 1:50,000 scale somewhere, but check these out:

http://www.nexus.net/~911gfx/sea-ao.html

They are available from the Thai Army Map shop in Bangkok (Tel.02-222 8844 a couple of years ago), they have an index as the whole country is 41 sheets , ask for the series L. Some sensitive areas like at the Burmese border are "out of stock". Under B100 per map. Korat is #5438 I,II,III and IV. If there have been any new roads built they will not appear on this series.

Harri. Korat.

At Osmach they have a copy of an e-mail from someone complaining about the USD20/B1000 and extra fee business and the Cambodian Ministry reply that it is not legal or necessary to pay extra. The problems is that it is taped up at the Cambodian arrivals booth AFTER you have just paid the extra to get a visa! Mind they don't want a photo or extra if you can show you are staying longer than 10 minutes.

They don't care, I've been changing passports ever since the 90 in 180 days (or whatever reg) came in. Do 2 entries on one and then change to the other for a couple, they do not cross reference on names or DOB.

(otherwise they wouldn't do a manual count of entry days at the airport, the computer should be able to tell them,ie. nothing is cross referenced)

Remember you can only change passports when travelling by air and not at land borders.When applying for visas etc the nationality on the documents also doesn''t matter as long as the name is the same. So use the best of both worlds until they get their computer systems sorted.

If you apply for the Non Im "o" in Savanhket make sure you have the "Thai original" of the marriage certificate. I was refused it and given only a Tourist visa with all the other mentioned documents. They said no problems if I had the original.