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Have I understood this correctly?? Thai embassy abroad are issuing tourist-VISAS like there is no tomorrow and debit money for it as well. And than people are being denied entry to Thailand. I mean, can not the thai embassy see the exact same thing as the immigration-personal at the border to Thailand in respective passport they are stamping??????

Can somebody enlighten me plse...

Glegolo

Well, the Thai embassies and consulates are a complete different entety and answer to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whereas the Immigration Bureau is part of the Thai police force and thus responsible for border controls and permissions to stay in the country.

Furthermore, a visa has never ever guarantee the holder to enter Thailand, merely it is only a right to travel to Thailand and there, at a check-point, 'negotiate' enterance.

The new rules are actually not a change to any law but will be implemented in a new Police Order to be issued by the Immigration Bureau. It will probably be released in Thai shortly after the 12th of August and then we will have to wait until someone translates it into English.

Since you only have one 2 entry visa and no exempt entries you certainly will not have a problem getting another one.

You could get a single entry visa and then get a visa while you are home. It would look better in the future having one from your home country. You might even be able to get a 3 entry visa if you wanted to.

I wouldn't be so sure about that to say a defenit yes. Strictly speaking someone who have back-to-back tourist visas are probably not TOURISTS in the eye of the authorities and could thus be rejected unless the person in question can show hotel reservations or other typical bookings.

I assume the Out/In that takes place on a double or triple entry tourist visa will not fit the criteria for refusal

I wouldn't be so sure about that because the intend with double or triple entry tourist visas are to allow TOURISTS to leave Thailand for a holiday stay in a near by country, e.g. Siem Reap, and then return again for more tourism in Thailand. These tourists do not do in-outs on the same day.

Refusing entry to all people with tourist visas, how can you obtain a visa and then be denied entry to the country unless you fly into it?

Classic Thailand

A visa doesn't guarantee entry into Thailand and has never done so. A visa is merely a right to travel to the check-point and there apply for an entry. So in reality nothing has changed expecpt for a tought interpretation by Immigration Burea.

OP, you could get a morgage by City Bank if the property is located within Bangkok Metropolitan area.

OP, forget leasing! The best way to do it is to register a superficies, alternatively usufruct, on the land. Both can be registered for life.

I am about to get into the car and drive to Korat immigration for my third year of non imm 'o' visa. i am married to a Thai and I have sufficient funds...

Do you think I will have a problem? Because it seems the immigration officials are not trained properly and seem to be labouring under the impression that they have to make it super hard for all farang to stay here now.

I suppose I will find out in the next hours.... Seems as though reading through these comments it is looking like each immigration officer is a law unto himself.

Wish me luck.

If your parers are in order you should have no problem since you will not be "applying for a new visa" but a "temporary extension of stay based on marrige".

Truly, in the eyes of the Thai embassy you are not really a tourist and should have applied for a Non-Immigrant visa. This is an example of what the Thai Authorities mean when they say visitors should apply for the correct visa type.

You could try Penang but be forewarned that they too could abopt the new tougher interpretations that are schedluled to commence next month.

Why would anyone pay so much money up front without a security, e.g. a bankers guarantee?

The golden rule in any sound business is that you pay nothing for nothing; and in the case of building a house you pay by installments after each completed phase and final payment after full completion.

If the builder cannot finance the construction with his own money, walk away!

Dead wrong! No builder starts without a downpayment! This is some of the biggest B$ I've ever heard!

I didn't say that; I say pay the down payment but request a guarantee such as Escrow or a Bank Guarantee. All major building companies in Thailand would agree to this whereas cheap Charlie "Somchai" wouldn't.

You'll need:

1. TM 7 form complete with photo

2. Your Passport

3. Photocopies of your passport pages upto your last entry

4. Photocopy of the entry card

5a. Alternative 1

i) Your bankbook updated lasted the day before application showing at least 800,000 baht or more fore the past three months (tvo months when doing the first application);

ii) Photocopies of your bankbook pages;

iii) A certificate from you bank; or

5b. Alternative 2

i) A statement from your Embassy or consulate in Thailand verifying a monthly income of minimum 65,000 baht.

Why would anyone pay so much money up front without a security, e.g. a bankers guarantee?

The golden rule in any sound business is that you pay nothing for nothing; and in the case of building a house you pay by installments after each completed phase and final payment after full completion.

If the builder cannot finance the construction with his own money, walk away!

Get a Non-Immigrant O-visa based on retirement with a single entry, which will give you 90 days permission to stay. Once in Thailand you apply for a temporary extension of stay based on:

1) Having deposited 800,000 baht i a Thai bank at least two monts before; or

2) You can prove an monthly income of at least 65,000 baht verified by your embassy or ev. consulate in Thailand.

The following is what a women posted on a dating forum seeking a rich husband:

“I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25 this year. I’m very pretty, have style and good taste. I wish to marry a guy with $500k annual salary or above. You might say that I’m greedy, but an annual salary of $1M is considered only as middle class in New York.

My requirement is not high. Is there anyone in this forum who has an income of $500k annual salary? Are you all married? I wanted to ask: what should I do to marry rich persons like you?

Among those I’ve dated, the richest is $250k annual income, and it seems that this is my upper limit. If someone is going to move into high cost residential area on the west of New York City Garden (?), $250k annual income is not enough.

I’m here humbly to ask a few questions:

Where do most rich bachelors hang out? (Please list down the names and addresses of bars, restaurant, gym) 2) Which age group should I target? 3) Why most wives of the riches are only average-looking? I’ve met a few girls who don’t have looks and are not interesting, but they are able to marry rich guys. 4) How do you decide who can be your wife, and who can only be your girlfriend? (My target now is to get married).

Ms. Pretty”

A philosophical reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan below:

“Dear Ms. Pretty, I have read your post with great interest. Guess there are lots of girls out there who have similar questions like yours. Please allow me to analyze your situation as a professional investor. My annual income is more than $500k, which meets your requirement, so I hope everyone believes that I’m not wasting time here. From the standpoint of a business person, it is a bad decision to marry you. The answer is very simple, so let me explain.

Put the details aside, what you’re trying to do is an exchange of “beauty” and “money”: Person A provides beauty, and Person B pays for it, fair and square. However, there’s a deadly problem here, your beauty will fade, but my money will not be gone without any good reason. The fact is, my income might increase from year to year, but you can’t be prettier year after year.

Hence from the viewpoint of economics, I am an appreciation asset, and you are a depreciation asset. It’s not just normal depreciation, but exponential depreciation. If that is your only asset, your value will be much worse 10 years later.

By the terms we use in Wall Street, every trading has a position, dating with you is also a “trading position”. If the trade value dropped we will sell it and it is not a good idea to keep it for long term – same goes with the marriage that you wanted. It might be cruel to say this, but in order to make a wiser decision any assets with great depreciation value will be sold or “leased”.

Anyone with over $500k annual income is not a fool; we would only date you, but will not marry you. I would advise that you forget looking for any clues to marry a rich guy. And by the way, you could make yourself to become a rich person with $500k annual income. This has better chance than finding a rich fool.

Hope this reply helps.”

signed, J.P. Morgan CEO

Source:

www.worthytoshare.net

OP, why paying a dowry in the first place? I suppose this is not according to your tradition so why should you fully agree to the Thai one? In all fairness a relation must take into account both sides history and tradition, and furthermore, if the lady has children or have benn married before no Thai man would pay a sin sod.

As suggested above, buy a condo in your own name or if you insist on a house wait until you are legally married because then you would in fact own half of the house's value even if it is in your wife's name.

The workshop at Petchakem Soi 50 specialices in repairs of European cars and that is where I always take my Volvo V70 and my wife's VW Passat for service and repairs.

If your daughter entered Thailand with her Swedish passport, and without a proper visa, she would only be granted 30 days visa exempt arrival. Whether she can get an extention of stay at the Immigration, based on being Thai, is another matter for which I don't know but assume highly likely.

i have proper lightning protection but 2 weeks ago there was a strike into the phone lines which fried two modem/routers, one hub plus another modem exclusively used for VOIP.

question: how can i protect my phone lines (used only for internet) without throttling down speed or quality?

I recommend installing arrestors type Blitzduktor from German company DEHN. I have them on my incoming internet line and for the satellite antenna cable. http://www.dehn-international.com/en/new-arrester-series-blitzductorr-sp

The local ABB agent, PMK, can supply them. http://www.pmk.co.th/

The attached picture (bottom left) shows the arresters and the high-capacity fuses for the incoming underground power lines. These arresters are also from DEHN.

i have proper lightning protection but 2 weeks ago there was a strike into the phone lines which fried two modem/routers, one hub plus another modem exclusively used for VOIP.

question: how can i protect my phone lines (used only for internet) without throttling down speed or quality?

I recommend installing arrestors type Blitzduktor from German company DEHN. I have them on my incoming internet line and for the satellite antenna cable. http://www.dehn-inte...blitzductorr-sp

The local ABB agent, PMK, can supply them. http://www.pmk.co.th/

The attached picture (bottom left) shows the arresters and the high-capacity fuses for the incoming underground power lines. These arresters are also from DEHN.

A good game, for an opening match, with a poor referee and a flat-footed Croatian goalkeeper, else Croatia would have had a chance to capture this game.

Listen to the first tune and it is a good tune and guitarr play but the singing lacks the blues touch. The voice is also a bit 'thin'. This is what B.B. King would have said 'this ain't blues'. I would put this tune into the category blues-rock.

A relation is built aroung a sex-life although the frequecy varies over time and age. Without a somewhat sex-life I think the relation is dead unless there is an illness or a handicap that is the hinder.

Baidu are really crap and I agree with arjunadawn above, allways use 'customs' when installing.

Spy Hunter will clear it if nothing else works but this software is not free. https://www.enigmasoftware.com/products/spyhunter/

You can also install software that prevents your home page to be highjacked.

Most members of any Board Of Directors are grossly over paid and get really big money while workers that actually perform get very little . Eliminate their high salaries and present bonuses. Pay them only if there are profits.

I don't think the problem is the relatively high salaries, but rather because there are much too many chiefs in Thai Airways.

OP, I suppose you would never dream of paying a dowry in your home country if you were to marry a woman there, so why would you give up your cultural values. However, if you insist you dowry payment should not exeed half of what a Thai man would pay under the same cirmunstances for the same woman. The reason for the is that your furture marrige would have to be balanced between your values and your furute wife's; else your marrige will fail to be hamoneous.

Having said that, if you want to start building a house for your woman, fine do so but do not call it a substitute for a dowry.

I strongly believe a good relation meets three important and mutual criterias: 1) Honesty; 2) Respect; and 3) Love. If your wife to be cannot accept the values you bring with you from your own country, you should really reconsider marrying her.