mokwit

Global destruction is only 8 years away apparently, so you may be right.

Right now they don't want to bother with lone foreigners working from home. A heads up is that in future data capture and translation will be automatic and more databases linked. The data leak a few years ago suggest they are triangulating. SO: there may come a time when if you have been here 181 days and not filed for tax for that period when due they may contact you to see if you should be paying tax.

If they are controlling access to water they are a Mafia. Gangster perhaps the wrong word. That said, they may not all be doing that and quite possibly are legitimate refugees from persecution. The revolutionaries murdered many non Muslims and persecution probably of those they didn't.

They sent me to the an office at the front of the IDC compound to pay the fine there. Around 2000 they introduced enforcing 90 day reporting and then stopped it again after maybe 18 months or so. I went to do my report and got a "why have you come, didn't you get the message?" look. Stopped doing it after that. You are right, overstay never used to be any kind of big deal.

They use a large black van and plain clothes when looking for overstayers and illegal entrants. At least one has an immigration bright yellow and blue vest on but stays in the background unless needed.

I think we can work out why such a distorted picture was presented. She obviously has not let truth get in the way of a good story for money from speaking engagements and book sales. 'This is an edited extract from the best-selling ‘thriller memoir’, The Stories We Carry, by award-winning human trafficking ambassador, resilience speaker and book coach Jas Rawlinson. Grab a copy here or book Jas to speak at your event here. You can also find her on Instagram @jas_rawlinson.' Nearly 30 years ago I lived in an apartment complex which was a place where most of the apartment renters were women who worked Nana and Cowboy, also primarily one of the nearby massage parlours. I knew the reality and it was not as described by the article or people on this thread. I am not defending it, I am just saying there is a hugely distorted picture being painted. When I saw packs of adult women going out at dusk evocative of lionesses going out on the hunt, it wasn't them I felt sorry for. There was one bar on the right that had underage girls standing outside but it is Loooong gone. Also, right or wrong, the age of consent at that time was 13, reflecting that historically people would live in the same village for their entire lives. It was increased to 18/15 parental consent. It seems that there was recently a bar in the Soi 7 complex that had underage girls and it was rightly busted by the authorities. This is an unusual situation - Covid desperation maybe. A lot of land got hocked over reduced earning power due to Covid. I remember Trink saying that he used to take journalists 'round so they could see the reality, but gave up as they always published the pre written narrative they had come here with.

Yes of course, they are "families fleeing war", and certainly not economic migrants who have our system all figured out. Conditions must have been terrible in war torn France or they would not have risked a channel crossing. Don't forget how lucky we are to get all those "Doctors and Engineers." Note, the above sarcasm does not apply to genuine refugees. There actually are genuine refugees in the IDC - Pakistani Christians fleeing persecution by the majority in their home country.

What will that old German guy who sits outside every day do?

Believe it or not back in the '90's and up until maybe 2005 it was a great place to pick up sideline girls (yes it had it's pros/regulars but there were always girls you hadn't seen before and often didn't see again). Post 2005 people going to the BG couldn't believe how old the women were, on their visit next year they couldn't believe it was still the same "girls" as last year.

Thank you so much for your concern.

Public hospitals closed Monday 31st and Tuesday?

More requirements. Proof of exemption from military service in your home country maybe. Proof of free from Leprosy, TB, elehantisis etc. etc etc.

I think Swedish criminals would probably be disappointed by the standards of the facility.

5 litre water container, but access to the one water spigot is apparently controlled by Iranian gangsters.

Remember, IMM requirements are very specific and they are very pedantic. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjmvK_eoLOAAxWwyTgGHbstCmkQFnoECBMQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww2.si.mahidol.ac.th%2Fen%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F09%2F2019-VISA-EXTENSION-FOR-MEDICAL-CASE-revised.pdf&usg=AOvVaw02wuEFxViou0koQqcVKhup&opi=89978449 Try sorting that out from your sick bed. Someone I knew went onto overstay at a "top" [read "expensive"] private hospital. they offered the service of doing medical visas for patients but somehow messed his up.

What if you are at home and too sick but not obviously incapacitated and don't have all the Doctors paperwork they require?. Don't be too sure you won't end up in IDC If the Imm. Doctor doesn't think you are a hospital case. They recently arrested a 76 year old man for being on overstay. Is he being held in a 3 star hotel while his deportation goes through? Once you break the law you are no longer a welcome G7 high value tourist but a criminal in their judicial system.

Abut 20 years ago I did my 90 day report at Suan Phluu a day late. They sent me to the IDC to pay a Bt2,000 fine. The IO at the next desk was fiddling with a set of leg irons [two U's on a rod type] that seemed to need fixing. I was a Professional on a priority visa and was a day late because I was working so hard promoting investing in Thailand, i forgot. I imagine many expat professionals subjected to that would have called their wife and told her to get the kids out of school and meet at the airport, we're leaving. I have to go back home for end of life care as one of the risks is being too sick to do my extension and going onto overstay and Imm coming to get me - I may end up in IDC when I should be in hospital.

It's like they are still running an Army base.

You can't extend outside Thailand but you could get new e.g. OA or O Multi and thus never have to go to Imm and thus never be asked for TM30. Surprised you have not been asked in the last few years when extending retirement, I thought Jomtien was "canal without the c" about TM30 if doing yourself. I never did a TM30 until the clampdown a few years ago and it was only last year when they further clamped down that I was asked for hard copy (at CW) for the first time. Since the new clampdown it is best to assume that you won't be able to do anything at Imm without a TM30 filed than to assume you won't be asked.

You omitted to mention which Imm office/Province. or if you are extending in country.

It's always been like this (which is what you are really saying, no?) - usually 2 months seen as non returnable "key money " despite being clearly defined as a deposit in the lease.". A friend took a deposit keeping Landlady to court and the decision was to split the two months being kept down the middle. One month asked is a good sign, three months asked, run don't walk. If no price on an ad you will likely be asked "how much you give me?" when asking what the price is. Again, run don't walk, don't have anything to do with "how much you give me?" types. Decent, fair, honest local Landlords exist, but seem to be an extreme minority, so you have to assume the opposite.

You will not be able to extend your visa without a TM30 having been done so ask for signed in blue ink copies of the above docs AND the house book of the owners address to be provided as a condition of lease signing.

unusual circumstances to the point where saying you have never done an address report is pointless.

BOI/Chamsiri Sq don't refuse extensions if no TM30 filed because the extension is for the benefit of Thailand/Thai company. Retirees on the other hand are fair game.

TM30 non filing by a Landlord should not be a reason to refuse an extension. It should be nothing to do with us. They pushed the responsibility for getting it done onto us, rather then it being Imm's responsibility to see that Landlords complied with the law and filed TM30.