jstumbo

Clearly it was AEA. He had the rope around his neck, over the rod in the closet and then around his hands. I bet if they measured, if he was sitting on the bottom of the closet with his arms raised over his head, the rope would not be tight. It would take him folding his arms over his head like throwing in a football (soccer ball) to make the length shorter (his arms and the rope). If he passed out, he would fall, his arms would stretch out making the length longer again, and relaxing the rope. Maybe the knot did not loosen due to the type of rope, or some other problem.

You say that you will be out of the country every year during this time. If it was me, I would not try to get the extension early, because they will extend it from your current permitted to stay stamp. That means that every year you will have to work on getting an extension early before your trip.

Since your visa has expired and you cannot make a border run to get another one year stay, I would just put the money in the bank prior to leaving on your trip. Then get a non-o visa from the US prior to coming back and then extend it based on retirement. That would make your annual renewal date somewhere in April instead, so you do not have to worry about your annual trip back to the US getting in the way of your renewal.

Or you could get another O-A visa while in the US for the holidays, and then you could go a couple of years before you had to put your money in a Thai bank and would also change your renewal date.

I do not think you will have a problem with either visa.

Being married usually makes it easier for a US visa. If you are both living in Thailand that is. If you were living in the US, and he was living in Thailand, it would make it more difficult. Because you are both living in Thailand and married it should make it more likely that he would return to Thailand because you are married and not just boyfriend and girlfriend.

Key for the US visa will be showing that he has had Canadian visas before and did not overstay. That you are married. That both of your homes are in Thailand. That you have lived in Thailand for a while and that you plan to continue to live in Thailand and that you have connections to Thailand. Emphasize your reasons for returning to Thailand, and your husband will return with you.

As for the US visa if you do not stay in the US, he would need a C-1 transit visa.

Note that under Gull Island off the USA NW coast, and under Colorado there is more oil that of Saudi and Iraq.

If this is true, then leave it there. Then when the rest of the world runs out of oil, then the US can nationalize these oil reserves and we will have plenty of oil while the rest of the world goes back to the stone age.

People that are still getting these scams need to update their spam filters. No way something like this should have gotten through a spam filter.

You have to figure that the average person in Nigeria probably make around $1 a day. So if they could just get one person for $1000 a year, they would already be 3x the average salary for a person in Nigeria.

Higher oil prices will probably lead to them searching and drilling for oil in areas that were to environmentally sensitive before.

Reason it is affecting the US hard, is twofold. Other countries whose currency has increased against the dollar do not have to pay as much of their currency. If prices are now twice what they were a year ago, then the US has to come up with twice the money. If the Euro has appreciated by 50% in the last few years against the dollar, then that would help when buying oil in dollars. Second reason is that the price of gas has doubled in the US. Even though gas is more expensive in Europe, I do not think it has doubled in the last year. Hard to absorb a doubling of the cost of anything.

Back in 1990 a friend had a Honda CRX HF car. He got around 50mpg in it. That was in the days before the hybrid. I wonder what it would get if they put hybrid technology into it. Actually thinking about getting a used one for commuting to work with. It will be about 200 mile round trip to the office from home, and I do not want put that many miles on the Z3, and at half the mpg.

It is not like there is not enough oil to go around. When is the last time you went to a gas station and it was out of oil? We would have the same amount of oil if they were only paying $80 a barrel for it. They are not even re-investing the huge profits they are making in finding more as far as I can tell. Why find more oil reserves or increase production, it will only lower the price you are getting. If the world uses 100,000,000 barrels of oil a day, then if you produce 100,000,000 barrels of oil a day, it will sell at a high price. But if you produce 150,000,000 million barrels a day, and the world uses only 100,000,000 barrels of it a day, then your price is going to drop. You will still sell the same amount, just get a lot less for it.

The US government should definitely suspend or just outright cancel the subsidies that they give to oil companies. Why do companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars in profits need subsidies?

They have to be careful though because if the price goes up too much, you create a world wide depression, which cuts usage of oil. So they would sell less. But then again, they would just reduce production, and keep the price high, instead of the price going down because of surplus. Why do companies get hit with big fines when they work together to fix prices or manipulate the market, but when countries (OPEC) work together, it is OK? Maybe the rest of the world should get together and charge the OPEC countries a surcharge on every product they purchase?

Most people in the US do not think anything about Thailand. Most could not tell you where it was and anything about it. People in the US have many other places they could go for beaches and sun that are much closer for vacation. Even with as many Americans that are here, it just is not popular in the US. Mexico, Hawaii and the Caribbean are all much more popular.

Dogs will respond to the pack leader. One way to deal with these mongrels is to catch them and bring them down to your house for an afternoon. Should be fun, "picnic at Tony's" we could call it!! At the moment they have their pack and your an outsider. Short of pissing around there yard here is a way to deal with it. Catch them all, I mean get them all a leash. Take them down to your house. Feed them some good meat, wait 2 or three hours, feed them some milk. Get close to them. Once a little friendly, put them on a collar, walk them a bit and carry that stick. Give them a light jab it they horse around. 20 minutes of this and you will find them licking at your feet........

I think he is more concerned with them biting his feet instead of licking them. I doubt very much that this would change a dog's long term behavior unless it was regularly practiced. Plus I imagine he would be ripped to shreds while trying to teach this pack of dogs how to behave.

The local consulates seem to be pushing people towards getting extensions of stay instead of one year multiple entry visas.

An extension of stay is basically a permit to remain in the country longer than you were given when you entered originally. They can be for many reasons. If you are on a tourist visa of 60 days, you could get an extension for 30 more days to enjoy your vacation longer. If you were working here, you can get a 1 year extension based on being employed here. If you are married to a Thai person, you can get a 1 year extension based on being married to a Thai person. You would need to go every year to immigration during the last 30 days on your extension of stay and apply for another one for the next year.

If you want to leave Thailand while on this extension of stay, you need to get a re-entry permit from immigration. Re-entry permits cost 1000 baht for a single re-entry permit, or 3800 baht for a multiple re-entry permit. If you do not get a re-entry permit prior to leaving Thailand, then you would lose you permission to stay and have to start over with a new visa.

Extension of stay cost 1900 baht at immigration.

In order to qualify for an extension of stay based on your employment, you will need to take the needed paperwork to immigration and apply. You will need to make a salary over a certain amount depending on which country you are from. The company you work for will need to be showing a profit, it will need to have the appropriate number of Thai nationals working for it. It takes more to qualify for an extension of stay compared to what it used to qualify for the multi B visa.

I would figure that pretty much everyone that purchased a TE card is happy with it, and feels that it was worth it, otherwise they would not have purchased it in the first place. They had the money to spend, probably not even a real concern for them. They may use all of the services or none of the services, but they knew what they were getting into when they purchased it, so there were not many surprises.

I think you are pretty safe, depending on who you keep company with. If you use drugs or hang around people that use drugs then you might run into some problems.

Maybe they figure they can get more people transiting through Dubai.

At Fortune Tower, they do not have the DVDs in the store. You pay and then they go get it.

The boyfriend of the girl in the apartment next to me used to run a DVD pirating operation for a guy from Singapore. When he was caught at the facility that made the DVDs, he was sent away for 2 years.

If you are going to Laos before, it sounds like you are in the NE? If so, you could go to Nongkhai and go across there. That is a popular border run. Probably can find border run services in the NE that go there.

Every so often somebody posts that immigration wanted to see movement on the account. Seems like it is just an added thing that some office asks for sometimes, but not from everybody.

The reason they would like to see you using the money for expenses is because if you do not use the money, and you are here on a retirement extension, they wonder where you are getting your money for expenses from. Are you working illegally? That is the question. If they asked about this and you could show records from a foreign account that showed withdrawals from ATMs, then they would probably not have a problem.

I had my handbag stolen in Bangkok with my passport in it and even though I had a police report and a letter from the British embassy requesting that they (Thai immigration) re-issue the visa status I already had in my old passport (and I had copies of it) they would not do it. Apparently it is not possible to have a non-immigrant B 1 year multi entry visa issued in Thailand. I had to leave the country and re-apply for my non-immigrant B visa from the beginning. I have never had so much hassle and it cost me a fortune to get the same visa I had in my old passport.

Not being able to reissue the visa is not that uncommon. Many countries cannot do it. I know that if you have a visa for the US, and you lose your passport or it is stolen, then you need to reapply for a new one. They cannot reissue it.

In the future (at least with the way the regulations are written right now) if you were to adopt her child and live with the daughter, and you were over 50, then you could get a visa based on living with your daughter. No financial requirements to qualify. Or if you were married, you could get an extension of stay based on marriage, but you would need to show a combined family income of 40K baht per month to qualify.

Overstays do not seem to affect getting future visas. But if you are on overstay you are at risk of being arrested, detained and deported if caught.

Cambodia may refuse you entry if they see an overstay (very, very small chance). If that happens, you would be arrested, detained and deported.

You can extend a tourist visa entry at immigration for an additional 30 days for 1900 baht. I would hope that if you went there and explained why you were a few days overstay that they would let you get the extension.

I would not go there with 30 day overstay though.

I wonder do Elite Card members on a 5 year visa still have to get a re-entry permit every time they want to leave the country?

No.

They are allowed 90 day stays on each entry. The stays can be extended at immigration for 90 days at a time at a cost of 1900 baht.

As I said above - he did not renter Thailand with a re-entry permit so the extension of stay is lost - the same for anyone not using a re-entry permit when on an extension of stay. If he had lost passport already in Thailand they could have transferred the stamps - but without the re-entry permit entry believe there hands are tied.

But what if he did have a re-entry permit? I do not see anywhere, where he says that he did not have one. I would hope that someone that has been here on extensions of stay for 10 years would know to get a re-entry permit prior to leaving.

Sure he did not come back in on it, but with the circumstances, it seems like immigration should know that he had an extension of stay, and a re-entry permit.

If a person goes back to their own country and gets a new passport, they do not make them start all over. Probably because they have the old passport to show, but being that it was stolen, seems like they could put them into his new passport. That is what they do when a passport is stolen in Thailand.

I think he needs to work his way up the chain of command.

If he is married to a Thai, he could get one from Penang or KL. If he is not married to a Thai, it is a lot harder, and would probably have to go to the UK, to Hull to get one.

Why would the Thai Embassy in Hanoi care what you are doing in Vietnam and how you are leaving? They should only be concerned that you had a ticket leaving Thailand, after all, you could not use the Thai Visa unless you left Vietnam and went to Thailand.

You are not married unless you file the paperwork with the government. The wedding ceremony is just that, a ceremony. They are two distinct things. One is a ceremony, and the other is filing the paperwork for being married. Many people do not have the ceremony, or have multiple ceremonies, but to be legally married, you need to file the paperwork.

It does not sound like your girlfriend's child is also your child (at least the way you worded it). If that is the case, then you would not qualify because of the child and being over 50. You have to be the father. You could adopt the child and then qualify if over 50.

Everything for the visa has to be legal. It cannot be based on a girlfriend, or child of girlfriend that you are supporting. You need to be legally obligated to them by either being a father, or husband.

You could get a multiple entry non-immigrant O visa from Hull in the UK based on visiting friends though. Since that is really all they would be classified as.

If it were me in his shoes, I would have probably have been scared sh*tless and willing to do almost anything to get the <deleted> out of there. Yes, I would have signed a piece of paper if it would get me out of there and back on the street. Then as soon as I got a whiff of fresh air, I would be heading straight for my home country embassy to find some asylum and protection, as well as a way out of the country.

(that said, i don't have a lot of sympathy for foreigners choosing to partake in narcotics activity in LoS)

How do you even know that it would get you released? Because the BiB say it would? How do you know that they would not just turn around and say, that now that you have confessed, they will be sending you to the real prison?

Seems like it should not be much different than someone losing or having their passport stolen while in Thailand. Can't they go to immigration and get their extension of stay put into their new passport in that case? Ok, a little different, since he came back into the country, but it seems like they could figure that out.