mikeshov

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I have had a Mastercard debit card from SCB for many years. It can be used in shops and ATMs in Thailand and at ATMs in the UK. Not sure about shops as I have never tried. If you register for online banking with SCB you can pay for airline tickets, transfer money etc. just as you would with a UK bank account.


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With regard to previous comments on my post, I apologise for my error. Of course I should have said entry via Tourist Visa Exemption.

My comments about onward travel confirmed with a bus ticket being acceptable are derived from this passage which I have lifted directly from the Thai Embassy London's Visa Exemption front page - 'Foreigners entering Thailand by any means under the Tourist Visa Exemption category are required at the port of entry to have proof of onward travel (confirmed air, train, bus or boat tickets) to leave Thailand within 30 days of the arrival date (otherwise a tourist visa must be obtained)'

This seems clear enough to me but I am happy to be corrected.

The airlines seem to want confirmation that you have a ticket out of Thailand by the last day of your permitted stay in LOS (according to your visa) before they will fly you back. I am not sure but the reason for this may be that, should you be refused re-entry to Thailand because of the lack of a ticket out before your visa expires, then the airline flying you to Thailand must bear the costs of returning you to where you came from.

I am just back from Japan and had exactly this experience at Osaka airport. My return to the UK is not for 6 weeks or so and I entered Thailand on a 30 day tourist visa. I had expected to be asked by Thai immigration to show a ticket out of LOS before the 30 days were up but was not.

The ticket out does not have to be an air ticket. To meet the requirements, I purchased online for less than 100 Baht a bus ticket from Hat Yai to Butterworth for a date less than 30 days after my arrival in Thailand and this satisfied the airline in Japan.

I 'm on DTAC and can receive SMS's with OTPs from Siam Bank in the UK with no problems. I always keep around 500 Baht on the phone and extend the validity of my number for as long as I can (up to 1 year is possible) before I leave Thailand.

If it's full, like it seems to be most times now, you can drive a little further and leave your car with the car wash company. You have to leave the keys with them though. 100 Baht a day either way.

Yes, I did this 2 weeks ago and asked my neighbour where to park as he works at the airport, the long term parking is beside the coffee shop, which driving in is after all the usual parking places.

I had the same problem with TOT. We have broadband via a microwave link and it's very unreliable. I bought a 'Pocket WiFi' branded AIS 12Call. It works fine on DTAC and True. Cost about 1900 Bt as I recall.

A usufruct does give you control over what happens on the land for the period - usually 30 years. But this on its own is of little use if you subsequently have an acrimonious separation from your partner. You should also ask the land office to register a charge on the property in your name to the value of your investment. Not all offices will do this for foreigners though. From personal experience, unscrupulous Thais can get loans from money lenders even with a usufruct registered on the chanotes and even if they don't have the original chanotes - they simply go to the land office, say they have been lost and are issued with a copy.

Also bear in mind that if she doesn't want to sell then there is nothing you can do other than try to come to some money sharing agreement with her.