kdc1899

Wife's going to call on Monday but the locals already know that there is a Farang involved. I'll probably just get one of the lawyers I used before to get me the skinny.

It's BS because there is no way he'd get 16 years and even if he did he'd get a King's Pardon after 9 years provided drugs weren't involved.

A distant relation of mine only got 2 years for chaining up an ATM machine and ripping it out with his pick-up.

I was in court a few weeks back and two Ya Baa dealers only got 2 years each but they had been on remand for a while. They had over 500 pills.

So I call SCAM!

Can someone who just got arrested 3 days ago have a sentence already?

Apart from the fact you are quite likely the subject of a scam, here is my understanding of your post.

If a charge is in the court it will be handled by the public prosecutor unless the victim of his crime is bringing a personal case. In the latter he can pay the victim to withdraw the case. In the former you might be able to 'negotiate' with the public prosecutor but that is bribery and if you are British there is a law that makes you a criminal for any act of bribery anywhere on the world. In any case bribery is a blight on society. Anyway......

The 80,000 is his bail. He can pay the 80,000 baht and be released from jail until his case is decided. He can also pay a lower sum to a bail bondsman but if he does a runner there will be trouble on its way to his family. The couple of thousand he has to pay is probably a proof of local residence surety if he lives outside the province in which he was arrested. He can ask for the case to be transferred to his local court.

Anyway, I would not get involved if I were you as any foreigner will be made the brunt of any problem and he will probably do a runner anyway, save the headache.

Thanks for the reply. I was looking at it like you are. My wife is getting info from her rural Aunt. Her rural 6th grade educated Aunt made the mistake of mentioning a Farang. I think the original sentence was 25 years. Now it's 16. Not sure how you sentence someone who just got arrested 3 days ago.

The brother was my Muay Thai instructor before I met his sister in his gym. He was a solid citizen until his wife and kid died in a car accident. A couple of years of drink and drugs and he is what he is. We may have to hire a lawyer just to get some clarity.

She works in a casino. She often makes more money than me. She will be paying for this one.

Does the judicial process (of) buying your way out of jail sound possible for a loso?

I guess he snatched a gold chain off the neck of someone. He sold the gold. Got arrested. Escaped from the police car and eventually got corralled in the woods.

So, apparently he is looking at 16 years in jail.

1 - Is that even possible?

The choices (that are going to cost me money) are; pay 80,000 baht and somehow he does no jail time but only has to report to the judge on occasion.

2 - Is that even possible?

I can also pay 10,000 baht to a bail bondsman to cover the 80,000 baht and then pay some government guy a couple thousand baht to "co-sign" for the brother.

3 - How can someone looking at 16 years get off with a 10K bond?

4 - The wife and I are overseas. I can't verify any of this info and I am worried about being scammed or that the rural relatives will get scammed by these "bail bondsmen".

Any input will be appreciated.

Thanks

KDC

My point was that the fact that fracking and other new fossil-fuel extraction methods poison our groundwater can be seen as a positive side-effect from a strictly capitalist economic POV, an excellent example of the disconnect between public good and economic growth.

If you understood the geology of fracking, you would not be concerned. There is little to no chance of poisoning ground water. Just more fear tactics from the ecological movements.

Um... your drilling directly through the water table and relying on cement poured directly into flowback to harden free of leak. Then you're assuming that the whole shaft outside of the pipe and casing is gonna secure the flowback outside the casing as it makes it's way up towards the water table. Then you're assuming that the shaft and casing that resides in the 40 degree temperature inversion of the actual water table, that such infrastructure travels through, will hold up to that never B4 tested condition. Geology? Really? conservatives.... diddoheads.

is it possible that isuzu doesnt have a website?

any promotions going on at isuzu, now?

None of the kids speak english. I don't live in Thailand. The wife and kids will be coming to the states soon.

There must be someone out there who has specific knowledge of YES.

Ave Maria is about 1,000 baht per month for the 5 year old, 2,000 baht per month for the 3 year old.

Assumption also has a 6,500 baht per semester (2 semesters) non english program.

Y E S ??

anyone?

Thanks

kdc

The school has 2 semesters. The prices are per semester. The school near Big C is 19K for each semester. Assumption has a 9 hour per week english program for 18K.

Ave Maria has been hands down the best option for us. The girls have been going there since 24 months old. Most of the kids are happy and healthy. That was my only criteria. I've been to every schoolin option in the city several times. If most of the kids looked bored I would come back a few times to look again. Most kids everywhere just looked semi catatonic. Maybe it's a zen thing. I was really wanting one of the bhuddist schools to be an option because I wanted the kids to be familiar with the zen thing B4 they get bombarded with the whole christian thing goin on in the states. Oh well. Ave Maria it has been.

The kids and teachers and sisters just seem really enthusiastic about the day. Everyday. There's no real english option there which is why I am very interested in Y E S . I hope they really do have an 80% option.

Someone must know. Help us out here, please.

kdc

I've heard that folks who wipe their arse with their hand don't actually don undergarments but in Ubon I found size 36 at City Mall. Where R U ?

I've heard that folks who wipe their arse with their hand don't actually don undergarments but in Ubon I found size 36 at City Mall. Where R U ?

So. The administrators at YES School in Ubon look ya in the face and say that for 30,000 baht my kids will be taught in english by falang teachers at least 80% of the time. A recent tour of the campus was unusual. We had teachers telling us that the 30K baht option is only like 9 hours per week of english (that's like 25%). These same teachers and 2 parents said the 19,000 baht option is like 8 hours of english.

Could be folks upset that they can't afford the 30K program and teachers upset that they don't measure up to be included in the 30K program.

Could be 5 homeless people posing as teachers and parents.

Can anyone please give me the skinny on this school.

My school age kids are 5 and 3. I'd like the 19 month old to attend also just to have play friends (couldn't get a straight answer from anyone there if the boy can attend being that young).

Thanks

kdc

I didn't think Tri-Care worked outside of U.S. Possesions. You could fly Phillipine Air to Guam if something expensive was on the horizon but the paid in full cost of medical care in Thailand is similar to your Tri-Care CoPay. The Base hospitals in Korea, Japan, Italy, Germany, etc should also be available to you but in Guam your Tri-Care will work in a non military healthcare facility.

The government hospital in Ubon (Sappasit) is hands down the most competent digs in town. You won't have some sweet thang serving you tea and you won't be in and out in 30 minutes but you will be attended to by folks who have the same or better credentials than the fashionable doctors in the other three. All my kids were born there. All the clinics the wife and kids go to are staffed by Sappasit doctors (most staff doctors in any Thai hospital have off site private clinics).

Thanks for the info. I checked out their website. Looks like I can change her status at anytime she is here and for no particular reason. Up 2 U is what I'm getting from the text.

http://www.uscis.gov...000082ca60aRCRD

Adjustment of Status

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) permits the change of an individual's immigration status while in the United States from nonimmigrant or parolee (temporary) to immigrant (permanent) if the individual was inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States and is able to meet all required qualifications for a green card (permanent residence) in a particular category. The common term for a change to permanent status is “adjustment of status.”

The INA provides an individual two primary paths to permanent resident status. Adjustment of status is the process by which an eligible individual already in the United States can get permanent resident status (a green card) without having to return to their home country to complete visa processing.

From this description, this sounds easier than getting a residence visa for a Thai wife, as, from the Embassy, I understood the application process to be 6 months long. Two days to get a visitors visa with multiple entry and then work out the details in the US, sounds like the way to go. My daughters need to become acclamitized to the US and coloquialize their English skills so this was good advice.

We got lucky on the tourist visa process. I remember researching the thing actually took longer than the process. Got through with the phone call on the first ring. Scheduled for the next appointment (3 months away) and then once you have an appointment confirmation you just request a walk in type of deal. Got the email from them the next day giving her an appointment the following day. She was interviewed for 6 minutes. They asked her nothing of why she wanted to holiday in The States or if she planned on coming back to Thailand. The very next day we picked up her Thai passport. In it was a shiny new B? with a M. Don't forget to cancel the original appointment B4 you arrive at the embassy.

Are your daughters biological? If so, they should have passports from your home country (?) Y would ya need a tourist visa for them?

I think the K visa can take 9 months even if you have been married over the 2 years. I may still be going to afganistan so it's pointless to start an unnecessary process. The USCIS offers 2 methods for getting the green card type of visa. 1 method is waiting in the home country for 7 - 9 months and the other method is to adjust your status while in The States.

" The INA provides an individual two primary paths to permanent resident status. Adjustment of status is the process by which an eligible individual already in the United States can get permanent resident status (a green card) without having to return to their home country to complete visa processing. "

applying for Adjustment of Status to PRA is not illegal, just discouraged.

Mac

Thanks again.

Is it discouraged by those "just here to get paid" types that work in places like the DMV, etc ?

It just seems like the text on the website offers nothing negative about the option or process. Sounds like it can't even be denied as long as she is here legally and she is my wife of more than 2 years (yes on both).

Sorry if it reads like I'm answering my own questions. I just don't want do the wrong thing and the uscis website totally makes the adjustment option seem like an up 2 U no pompem type of deal.

na ja

Thanks again

KDC

Thanks for the info. I checked out their website. Looks like I can change her status at anytime she is here and for no particular reason. Up 2 U is what I'm getting from the text.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=2da73a4107083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=2da73a4107083210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

Adjustment of Status

The Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) permits the change of an individual's immigration status while in the United States from nonimmigrant or parolee (temporary) to immigrant (permanent) if the individual was inspected and admitted or paroled into the United States and is able to meet all required qualifications for a green card (permanent residence) in a particular category. The common term for a change to permanent status is “adjustment of status.”

The INA provides an individual two primary paths to permanent resident status. Adjustment of status is the process by which an eligible individual already in the United States can get permanent resident status (a green card) without having to return to their home country to complete visa processing.

Hello,

I have a Thai wife of 6 years. Amphur marriage registered with U.S. Embassy in Bangkok. Thai wife has lived with me in Dubai and Kuwait and has a multi entry (U.S.) ten year visit visa in her Thai passport. She has never been to The States. I'm done in the middle east and I am home in The States now. Wife and kids (all the kids have U.S. passports) are still in Thailand.

One of the kids gets sick often and the Thai doctors can't seem to fix her. I want to bring her here and let American doctors have a go at it. Wife can come any time cause she has the visit visa (took all of 2 days to get the ten year multi entry). I can't tell the future so what if a need arose where the kid needed to stay beyond the time offered by the officer at the arriving airport? Can I adjust Thai wife's immigration status while she (and all our kids) are here ( again; all the kids are U.S. citizens) ?

Thanks in advance

KDC

The great thing about being back in The States (one of a thousand great things about returning to the 21st century) is the 7.3 and 6.6 litre (dime a dozen) trucks I drive. The wife's little car has a 4.3 in it. The 3.5 Camry is like 700,000 baht here (almost 3 million baht in LOS). Fuel is cheaper, electronics is cheaper, clothing is cheaper (and a thousand times better quality), food is cheaper, land is cheaper, housing is cheaper, schools are cheaper, internet is cheaper (and 20X quicker).

We do miss the 5,000 baht per month nannys and of course; som tom.

" a new Toyota HiLux 4 Doors 3.0 Diesel AT "

A 3 litre on a full size truck? That's like a golf cart engine here. Definetly do not miss the 1.7 mil 2.0 litre baby camry.

Do you mean the insurance company will transport the car to where you want it for 8,000 baht?

The insurance company will alter the original terms for 8,000 baht (good till Feb 2013).

That's about how much more the insurance would have cost if the car was insured for the year (regardless of which licensed driver was driving) instead of the wife being the only one able to drive.

The other option they gave her was that if she has someone drives it and an accident occurs then the insurance company will cover the scenario but there will be a 8,000 baht penalty.

I figure a tow truck with a hydraulic ramp and winch can't cost much more than 8K baht to do the job.

If such a service exists in Ubon, MeMock would know, na ja.

The funny thing is that the wife can't find a Thai who is comfortable with driving an automatic transmission. T i T.

It would be simpler to hire someone to drive it for you and phone up the insurance company and add their name to the policy for a couple of days.

HL

Insurance company can do this. They will have a local business on contract.

Thanks all. I guess the insurance company will do this for 8,000 baht. She got a really good deal so they aren't interested in negotiating.

Thanks again.

There must be a ramp type winch truck available in Ubon City.

Anyone know?

na ja

Hello,

I need a tow truck type of vehicle with the ramp that goes down to the ground so as to winch a car on to the ramp. Once secured on to truck, I need the Vios transported to Chiang Mai.

Anyone know if this or any vehicle transport service is available in Ubon?

The wife has the type of car insurance that limits her as the only driver so I can't hire a driver and she's not sure of her ability to drive from Ubon to CM.

Thanks

KDC

P.S.

If anyone knows of a house for rent in Ubon or Warin then I may go that route.

Thanks again.

Well, since you wanna continue to be vague can we just agree to disagree on whatever you ain't specifically disagreeing 2 ?

Howze bout da part where I proclaim dat Central Banks don't print money? Can we agree on dat? na kop

You can give her the 300 baht per day minimum wage but make her pay for rent and food just like she would if she toiled in a sweatshop for 12 hours per day.

Live in with room and board should not have a cash compensation that costs more than the room and board (4,000 baht?).

The cost to feed a live in is at least 100 baht per day (3,000 baht per month).

10,000 baht per month and room and board? Come on fellas...

The thing that is inexpensive in most third world countries, like Thailand, is the wage paid to a person. Most everything else not grown or mined in Thailand will be priced in New York, Chicago and London. Vehicles, fuel, electronics, clothing and familiar food are all much more expensive in any Thai province than they will cost where you come from.

Rent will be cheaper in Ubon City (if you could find a place; which you won't) than Central Bangkok but about the same as in Nonthaburi, Bang Na or Min Buri (etc).

45K baht ain't gonna get you far anywhere in Thailand.

Does your gal have a job? Even 10K baht per month (her wage) would help y'all.