aridion

Good one.

I got Jude law quite a bit.

The passing of a Legend. R.I.P

Yeah, I would say 15,000 - 20,000 baht is sufficient. You don't want to spoil her either.

Come on the Boys in Green

A good win by England tonight. I had Ashton in my Fantasy six nations team. I have a sneaking feeling that this could be their year.

FBT on the corner of Ramkamhaeng and soi mahatai opposite the National stadium sell them.

If it was only that easy.

Or would I be inheriting Debt?

No lawyer or influential person required. Just go out, pay your 20K, and come back in with an appropriate visa. Immigration won't care if you've overstayed six months, a year, or 25 years.

You obviously do not know what you are talking about!

Please explain where he going to get a new stamp in his new passport?

The airport or border check point will not do it!

When he gets his new passport from the British Embassy they will also give him a letter to immigration explaining his situation and direct him there.

Please do not mislead the forum. I do this for a living!

BB

I recently left Thailand on an emergency passport, no entry stamp, no problem. Australian Embassy just gave me a letter to show immigration that my original was either lost or stolen. Only big problem would be that i had to have a report number from Samui tourist police where i reported the loss. But i guess that one could 'make up' a story with that.

But I bet that they had your entry stamp on their computer system. That makes all the difference.

I've read numerous posts of people with years long overstays, one other poster with a stay of over 20 years, and every single one of them went to the airport and payed the 20,000 Baht fine and left without incident and were free to return.

Had it not been for a sensationalist and completely fictitious article by a garbage tabloid startup in Pattaya everybody would tell you just to go to the airport and pay the fine then come back. Now some are probably telling tall tales of certain jail time but their claims are backed up by no facts or actual cases of people going to jail, just rumors fed by irresponsible ThaiVisa headlines.

I can't guarantee with 100% certainty nothing will happen to you but I'd bet all of my worldly possessions on it without batting an eye. Just get to the airport and you'll be fine.

Wrong. In the OP's case, he does not have an entry stamp or a last visa stamp. That is a matter for Immigration at Suan Plu. They will not accept the 20,000 baht without a stamped passport.

I must say that BadBankers information is very accurate. Although I don't think that you actually need a lawyer. Your Embassy should be enough to help you through this process.

This seems to be happening recurrantly. Do the Tourist police not get involved?

That is good. The more that is done to prevent these people from abusing children, the better. I wonder is there a web site that we can see their mug shots? It would be a big plus if the normal Westerner or Thai could report these people to the Authorities.

Nice house. A little different to some other 2 storeys.

Pinball, I think that it is brave of you to come onto a public forum like this to tell of your situation. Even though your identity is confidential, it is a step in the right direction to make yourself legal; admittance.

I had a friend who was eight years over stay in Thailand. He was in a similiar situation to you, although he was without a passport as well. He was scared to take the plunge to get legal for a long time, not aware of the consequences of showing up at emigration or his embassy. This is what he did.

1) He reported to his embassy and was given an emergency passport that would last for 2 weeks. He then bought a ticket to his home country.

2) The Embassy instructed him to go to Chaeng Wattana to see if immigration had his entry stamp on their system. Immigration informed him that they only keep records for up to four years. He was instructed to go to report to Immigration Detention Centre at Suan Plu.

3) He informed his embassy that he had to go to IDC. They informed him not to go there until the day his flight was leaving as he would be kept in the Detention Centre until his date of departure.

4) The Embassy informed the IDC officials (contacts that they had) about my friends situation. This helped to make sure that he would be passed through the system quickly and that he would be able to board the plane that he had a ticket for.

5) On the day that he was due to leave (flight departing suvarnabhumi at 5pm) he was taken to IDC accompanied by an Embassy official at 9am. He was questioned by an Immigration official about why he was in Thailand and when he arrived at 10am. His finger prints were taken. He had to stay in the Immigration office until 1pm, then he was taken to court along with other over stayers in a similiar situation. The Immigration policeman let him sit up front in the pick up, the other overstayers had to sit in the back of the pick-up. I guess they treated the farang better. At 3pm he arrived back at IDC and was instructed to wait until an Immigration policeman called him to go. He had to wait in the yard of The IDC compound where the other Over stayers were detained. At 5pm he was called to go. On arriving at the airport he asked if he was blacklisted. He was told by the copper that he wasn't.

6) The immigration copper stayed with him until he entered the departures area for his flight. He boarded the flight, and was astonished when he asked for a cold beer with his meal to be informed "You cannot drink alcohol on this flight sir". Obviously Immigration informed them about this for some reason.

7) He arrived home.

Ari/Victory monument/Huai Kwang areas are all good and within your budget. Huai Kwang is a lively place with a lot of thai restaurants and has it's own MRT Station.

I lived in ladprao area for 4 years. Central ladprao is great for shopping. Loads of thai restaurants nearby and close to JJ market.

candy

No-one has any sympathy for Ireland or Greece because they were partying on other peoples money for more than 10 years. The Celtic Tiger economy never existed. Its time to pay the piper and they dont like it. Solution??? Emigrate.

No jalansanitwong - you are totally wrong !

You have swallowed the banksters propaganga hook line and sinker.

The Irish people had no say at all in what their banks did - which

was to advance money to other institutions ( certainly without the knowledge of the public )

and those institutions lost the money speculating on derivatives.

Now the tax payers are being asked / made to cover these losses !

You have to be joking If people connected to the old IRA

are prepared to allow the citizens of Ireland to be finacially raped this

way i will be amazed- then they have lost their fighting spirit and this is worth fighting for far more than

British rule.

I dont know the full story behind other Euro countries but

i now know the truth behind the Irish situation and it is theft !

Yes the banksters should pay every dime by taking a haircut

- not the Irish public !

People connected to the Old IRA. What the hell are you on about? I, being Irish, have no connections to the IRA and don't want to ever have any connections to them.

Does that mean that I want to be financially raped? Not a chance mate. And I don't have to have affiliations to a paramilitary organisation like that to try to stand up to this.

Top 6

Man U

City

Arsenal

Chelsea

Spurs

Newcastle (or L'pool)

Bottom 3

Wigan

Wolves

Hammers

I'd like to see them back in the Premiership.

+1 Tariq. Acer seems to be the most common lap top. Apparently they give more value for money with specs.

Yeah, scarey indeed. But the thing that worries me is that I don't think any of the other parties will do anything better.

I know that sbk. I was just refering to a point you made. I thought it a good point. Okay with that?

Back on topic: You were about to claim that most Western women (as opposed to typical Western men) do actually marry successful middle class Thai people. And not the cliche of the boat/bar/bungalow/tattoo artist/long-haired-guitar-dude type.

Thanks for letting me know what I was about to say Winnie. Guess I wouldn't know my own mind if I didn't have your help with it

But, you know, I have had this tired old argument with men on this forum since I first joined and well, frankly, after 8 years, its tiring. It doesn't really matter what I say or what I do, those with preconceived notions and closed minds will forever stay that way.

Suggest you get out and about more, meet people and get out of the circles that you are comfortable with and you might find a great big world of all sorts of interesting people living lives you never knew about existed out there. Including, gasp, attractive western women with gasp non beachboy/guitar playing/tattood dudes.

Note to self: be sure to tell husband he's got to get out of working the business, grow his hair, get a tattoo and learn to play the guitar.

Agree with this wholeheartedly. Tarring and feathering everyone that lives here with the same brush is skewed and misinformed.

Whatever.

I have always found it interesting when western guys trot out that tired old cliche when its pretty clear to anyone who chooses to look that there are plenty of young attractive western women travelling, just as there also plenty of older, unattractive and overweight Thai women around. I guess its much easier if you live your life with blinkers on seeing only the things you want to see. But please, do not then go ahead and pretend that its fact, thanks.

Yes there are plenty of young attractive western women travelling. However there aren't that many young attractive western women living in Thailand for any significant lenght of time. There are some that do live here, but from the Western men I know, they would rather thai women.

This would make a great Thesis subject. I wonder if there are any books written on the subject?

^ As there are a number of teachers posting here, I'm sure a lot of us (me included) could benefit to have a few basic words explained and more specifically it seems what is the difference between all, most and some, and fact, opinion, bias and prejudice.

Here, here Jurgen. Agree.