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1 hour ago, Dirk Z said:

According to the red stamp on my previous notification my next 90 days was due on April 8^th. I did the report online. To my surprise I received an email the next day that it was rejected. This had happened twice before. The first time was because I re-entered the country, this is how it was explained to me at CW, the second time because I had a new passport. So this time everything seemed in place for an online report. I drove off to CW where I got my queue ticket at 10:43 a.m. At that time there were 387 in the queue before me. The place was crowded like I had never seen before. Maybe because of the upcoming holidays and the past day off. So I waited and waited but I was assured that I would be taken care of the same day. Around 4:30 p.m. the counter started to speed up without more people being served. A long queue line formed. Suddenly I was tapped on the shoulder by an officer who summoned me into a cubicle together with another elderly farang with grey hair. Here I was quickly served. The explanation for not being able to report online was that “ON” should be read as “BEFORE”. My personal explanation is that their online system was once again messed up and that this was the main reason for the crowd. This was confirmed by some others in the queue who also could not do their report online. This whole 90 days business is an annoying nuisance. But in this case it felt more like harassment. I am probably not the only one who feels that a little more gratitude and respect for those who bring money into the country and often support complete families is due.

 

Same just happened to me. Last time I did my 90 days at the Phuket drive-through. Applied online this morning, got a response this afternoon:

"Your application for "STAYING LONGER THAN 90 DAYS" has been rejected.

Others (Please specify)Please submit 90 days report in person because your extension is in another province."

No it's not. The system is screwed again.

On 1/25/2024 at 11:26 AM, arick said:

More people talking s*** Bank books b******* you never have to give a bank book for a 90-day report

Arick, how long have you been in Thailand? Where do you do your extension of stay? 

I've lived in Thailand for 25 years and you're wrong. I'm not talking <deleted> or <deleted>. The rules often change. And the rules can vary from one province to another.

When I first came here no-one in Phuket was required to do 90-day reports. Then the rules changed. Immigration first introduced the bank book requirement a few years after that as a way of rooting out farang khee nok, who had less than the required minimum B800k in the bank.

Some people got around this by borrowing B800k the day before the 90 report, then paying it back (with interest) the next day, after reporting.

Immigration got wise to this fairly quickly and demanded proof of B800k two months before extension of stay and 3 months after.

So when you go to extend your one-year, you have to get statements from your bank, covering the 2 months before, showing you have B800k+ right through that period.

They also usually required you to go to the Immi office in person to do your next 90 day report and show them the bank book, updated on the day, to prove you still had a record of B800k+ over the 5 months. That stopped people borrowing, as the interest would be too much of a burden.

 
That's what happened the past three times that I went to Srisaket Immi office to renew my stay.

In my original post I was trying to find out whether the "no bank book required" applied countrywide or just in Phuket. I suspect the new "no bank book" requirement in Phuket is an attempt for them to unclog their office. But I don't know.

But so far no one has responded with their location, so their answers are not useful. They're particularly useless when delivered with insults.

So if you want to contribute to this conversation, please state where you do your extension of stay. That would be useful to other people. And behave like an adult.
 

21 hours ago, connda said:

Dang.  I just noticed that my passport expires at the end of January 2025.  My current visa extension ends March 1 and I'm in the process of putting together a marriage extension package.  In my head I thought the passport didn't expire until late March 2025.  

 

I'm just curious.  Will Immigration require the passport to be valid up to the date of the next renewal (which should be March 1, 2025) - or - will they grant the extension up to the date of passport renewal?  They didn't say a word about this last year during renewal

Anyway, just wondering what sort of a hassle I'm going to face.  More stress.

Just did that. My permit to stay now runs out in August, same date as my passport expires, whereas my previous renewal expired in Nov.

They gave me the extension, but only until the date my passport runs out.

I'm on a one-year stay in Thailand on Non-O retirement basis. My wife and I have two homes, one in Srisaket and one in Phuket. 

Until today, I thought I knew the drill:

1. Apply at Immigratiuon (TM) in person to renew one-year stay, supported by bank book and bank statements.

2. At the same time, TM starts the clock for 90 days, and staples a 90-day reminder in the passport.

3. This stipulates that, at the end of the 90 days, I have to visit TM again, with passport and bank book.

4. 90 days and 180 days after that, I can do the 90-day reports online. (It's always worked fine for me.)

But. But...

Back in Phuket, I went today to Phuket Town TM with passport and updated bank book. Using the drive-through lane the procedure was very quick - about 3 mins. Excellent.

But the officer was not at all interested in my bank book. He took only my passport.

So does this mean I could have done my 90-day report online and saved myself 2 hours of Phuket traffic pain?

I'd be interested to hear from others who've had this experience, as well as others who have successfully done an online report at the end of the first 90 days after renewal of stay. Is it just Phuket? Or other places too?

I have seen stories that Immi is keen to get people to use the online system to unclog their offices, especially when it comes to free services. So maybe this revision of the rules is aimed at achieving that? 

But please, let's not make a big thing of this, in case it results in the rules/procedures being rolled back.   

So I went to the source:CPMeiji.

Their response:

Hello! Due to the current situation of a raw milk shortage in the market during the Dry Cow period, which usually occurs from July to September every year, there may be a decrease in the quantity of fresh milk available.

CP-Meiji would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. We assure you that our company will make every effort to deliver products to all areas and meet the demands of all our valued customers.

On 9/8/2021 at 9:33 AM, Fookhaht said:

Some of us are finding out, on the website version, that when the pop-up message comes up to see your local office, hit refresh. It will often kick the process to the next screen to continue your online report. This has worked for me for the last two reporting cycles.

Wish I'd seen this earlier. Tried the online over three days, in the reporting window. Each time I was told to contact my local office. So I did, and got the paper stapled in my passport. That was two days ago. This morning I got an email from [email protected]:

On 6/11/2021 at 10:29 AM, samtam said:

So the website for 60+ and those with comorbidities, which was launched on 7 June and which does not work, will now be swamped by another website?

 

As I noted in the thread about this site not working, there is no intention to vaccinate foreigners, despite the regular hot air to the contrary.

Not true. Foreigners in Buriram an Mukhdahan (and probably other provinces, though I don't know which) have already been able to get vaccinated. My own province, Srisaket, is vaccinating Thais only, so I've registered at the nearest private hospital for the Moderna jab, just in case.

Policy on who gets vaccinated, and when, is apparently up to individual provinces.

19 hours ago, kotsak said:

TIT style..

 

No. Daily News headline style.

Airport tax for international flights out of Thailand is currently B700 per person, which is included in the price of the ticket, so no one even notices it's there. 

Bump that up to B800. No one will notice.

So B100 x 30 million tourists flying out (last year was officially 38.3m), and the govt gets B3 billion to cover hospital costs for tourists.

According to the TV story, "From October 2018 to September 2019 448 million in bills went unpaid."

B3 billion is seven times that shortfall, That'll easily sort out the problem, with enough to spare to fill a multitude of pockets. Win-win.

1 hour ago, MRToMRT said:

"House owners, heads of household, landlords or managers of hotels who accommodate foreign nationals on a temporary basis who stay in the kingdom legally, must notify the local immigration authorities within 24 hours from the time of arrival of the foreign national via Mobile Application"

 

So theres really no need for a foreigner to report themselves, it implies?

 

The legal burden of reporting is on the owner of the building, not the occupant. Always been that way. Of course, if the owner can't be bothered/doesn't know how.....

Some people say they want to her the truth, and actually do. But they are rare, I think. Others really only want to hear the "truth" if it's good. Being told there is no hope can hasten them to their death.

My late father was chief physician in a postgraduate teaching hospital in the UK. He said he would never tell anyone they were going to die, much less tell them they how many months they had left.

His argument was that he had seen enough cases of people he thought were incurable yet who did, despite all the odds, recovered.  Everyone is different.

It is well established that mental attitude has a significant effect on chances of recovery, so telling people they have no hope is like kicking the psychological crutches out from under them.

He also believed that "bedside manner" was important, that a doctor who takes the time to explain the situation and encourage a patient is likely to have a higher recovery rate than the doctor who says, "Dead man walking. Next!"    

In the coming week I have to renew my one-year permit to stay on retirement (non-imm O) basis. Anyone been there in the past few days and can say what the current requirements are at Phuket Immigration? (Experience tells me they have a habit of adding or subtracting elements without announcing it. At one time, I recall, they wanted a doctor's cert stating you were not bonkers, alcoholic or riddled with syphilis)

Last year it was:

• Passport + signed copy of every page,
• Proof of B800k baht in Thai bank,
• Bank book,
• Photo of self outside home,
• Map of where home is,
• Cert of address (already in passport).

Anything else? Would very much appreciate any response that saves me having to go back more than once.

3 hours ago, cyberfarang said:

The car appears to be a Ford Escort MK1 from 1973.

 

Doubt the guy was a regular tourist. Whatever, so what`s it to be, suicide of heart attack. Case closed.

Flared wheel arches. RS2000 maybe.

5 hours ago, Anythingleft? said:

Defamation, which is a criminal offence in Thailand, is punishable by up to two years in jail.

Commentators have said previously that Thailand’s strict defamation laws have been used as a weapon by the powerful to silence critics.



This law in its current presentation is crippling Thailand from moving forward...

Sent from my SM-N950F using Tapatalk
 

More accurately, defamation may be a criminal offence. It's up to the plaintiff ("victim" of the defamation), who may decide to bring only a civil suit. A criminal accusation is definitely scarier, but if the plaintiff goes down that route, he/she is less likely to get a big payoff from a concurrent civil suit.

So, if you want to scare everyone, go for criminal defamation. If you want big bucks, go for a civil suit.  

People are looking for a quick fix to the growing population of stray dogs. Hooray! Set Zero! Let's do it. Let's slaughter all the dogs!!

But there is no quick fix.

Even if Set Zero could be completed successfully and all or most of the estimated 8 million unowned dogs in Thailand were wiped out, guess what? Without the dogs to control their population, you'd then have a plague of cats. 

And if you wiped all of the cats out? Guess what's next? Yup. Rats. Billions of them breeding like crazy and each carrying hundreds of fleas that spread some REALLY nasty diseases.

You're worried about rabies? Think plague. Think Black Death. Hundreds of millions died last time around.

Set Zero would succeed only in knocking the ecological balance off its perch. We'd all regret it.

If you want to shout about this, the ultimate solution is to remove the food supply for feral animals.

Human garbage. March on your local tessabaan/orbortor and demand Set Zero for Garbage.

I'll shut up now so that all you feral TV types can rip me to shreds.

Someone at Nation needs to learn about land papers. There's nothing wrong with building on NorSor3 Kor land. 

 "Nor Sor 3 Kor land is required to be held by poor farmers who are not allowed to resell it."

That would be SorPorKor land, NOT NS3K.

Ao Lak? Or Khao Lak?

38 minutes ago, bangkoken said:

You of course are a highly trained criminal investigator to make such an assumption.  You are an idiot!!!

Actually, if you understand Thai you will hear the ladyboy say, "He sucked my pu**y. I need to be paid for it."

Wrong target. It's not booze that should be taxed. It's the rich. Yeah. I know. Not gonna happen. Ever.

I just had a helpful email conversation with a very helpful AIS help desk person.

I asked why it was that the bill for my B488/month package came to B595.99 - an extra 22%.

I was told that it was partly because I had sent 15 SMSs at B3 a time - not part of the package. Fair enough. And then there was VAT of B38.99.

But I was also charged B24, he explained, for 'calling stickers'. What?

The guy explained, 'Calling Sticker is the service that you can send cute sticker upon your call when calling to the destination number. If you don't need to apply it anymore, please kindly cancel by press *499*1# and dial to unsubscribed this service.' Done. Immediately.

So AIS is charging people for a cute stickers service they probably don't want and may not even realise they are getting (if they don't pay close attention to their bill and ask a bunch of questions).

And check out the math: AIS (according to Wiki) has 35 million subscribers. Multiply by B24 a month and that's revenue of just over 10 billion baht a year from Cute Stickers. Jeez.

In addition, I was apparently charged B90 for the privilege of sending SMSs, for which I was already paying B45.

Someone seems to have felt ashamed, though, because (the helpful chap explained) 'You have sms subscription which cost you 90 baht but call center has adjusted this expenses for you 90baht. '

Sure enough, B90 had been knocked off the bill. Hmm.

I'm off out of ThiaVisa, and logging on to my broker to tell him to buy lots of shares in AIS. Better value than cute stickers, I reckon.

On 06/12/2016 at 11:46 AM, chiang mai said:

 

Read the thread again and you'll see there is a mobile embassy there.

...served by occasional visits from Nigeria... isn't that what I said? 

Most likely many of these unclaimed bodies are complete Thai families. After the tsunami my wife and I were in Baan Nam Khem, close to Baan Bang Muang. We met a gent of about 50 who was out in his boat when the waves came in. He rode over them but his entire family - 11 people - was wiped out. Of the 4,000 people living in Baan Nam Khem, around one third died or disappeared. 

Here's a list of all Thai embassies: http://www.thaiembassy.org/main/ You'll note that Cameroon does not appear. It seems to served by occasional visits from the embassy in Nigeria. What the story means, I believe, is that the visa stamp showed that the visa had been issued by the non-existent embassy in Cameroon. So to all of you ranting about corrupt embassy officials, calm down.

I too wd like to know, especially for rugby union and F1