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billd766
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I hear very conflicting info on this topic.
When a foreigner owns assets in Thailand (real estate being of the most concern usually) is a home country will OK or is a will in Thailand really needed.
I have also heard a home country will is OK but you do need to see a Thai lawyer and he can do something with it (without actually creating a will in Thailand).
I don't expect to get a definitive answer here, but I will say I do suspect a lot of the "you absolutely do need a will in Thailand if you have assets in Thailand" info is coming from people selling these services.
In other words, a vested interested in promoting this idea.
Any comments or experiences with this?
I can only answer half your thread as I have no assets abroad other than my pensions which will go to my wife (make a note and confirm this).
However in Thailand my wife and I are making wills so that if I die first everything will go to her and our son. If she dies first I will be named as our sons guardian ( he will be 2 in August) so that I can stay on the land and property until I die.
Should my wife and I die together (car crash whatever) her parents will become the guardians of our son and everything will go to him. If they die before we do then everything will go to her youngest brother and he will become the guardian.
We don't want anything to go to the oldest brother and her middle brother is about 10 satang short of a baht. He is Ok on his medication but not so good off it.
If the three of us die at the same time it will all go to her youngest brother and his family.
It seems a bit complicated but that way our son is protected all the way down the line
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I didn't vote as there was no response that said
OK not a problem for me, I can always have a drink later.
However at 10:03 in the morning it is a little early for me.
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Wow..a lot of fascinating reading on the 5 year plan link. Seems that entry to the UK is to get harder for just about everyone who currently needs a visa(e.g. Thai nationals), especially workers and indeed students. Seems like anyone planning to apply should do so sooner rather than later . Those with high powered jobs, loads of property etc will have nothing to fear, but the bulk of the Thai nation will , it seems , find it increasingly difficult IF all these plans are actually implemented.
IF everything does actually happen that is planned , then taken together with the planned ID cards to be compulsory in the UK soon , Big Brother will truly be watching us all.
SILOMFAN
It will not be a problem for me.
I have 2 British passports (legally), my Thai son now has a British birth certificate and a British passport but my wife did not want to spend at least 3 years in the UK just to get a passport. We are legally married in the UK but she is Thai all through and does not want to live there. Neither do I, so, no problem.
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I agree with GU22.
I read mostly what is of interest to me and I rarely make a comment unless I know what I am talking about.
I am mostly a quiet observer but if I can say what my mother used to say to me long ago,
If there any problem from either of you I will bang both your heads together.
It used to work as well.
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I have been coming here since 1993 and I have worked here for about 5 of them and lived here full time since September 2001 with occaisional time out of country to work.
I am 61 and with a bit of luck I will be able to see my 19 month old son to University.
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If it is a rented house it may be a good idea to ask the owner if it is OK to do this.
I ran my business from a house rented in my wifes name and I had a lot of problems, not so much with the owner, just the government officials, but then I was a farang and I had to be legal.
Forget the accounts and tax etc and worry more about the water and electricity bills.
Best of luck to her.
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Technically, the counter signatory need not be British, just a qualified person who has known you for at least two years and have met the child. This person must be able to compare the photo of your child to the child’s true likeness. It would be impossible to do this without meeting the child.8(2) Endorse the back of the photograph by writing ‘I certify that this is a true likeness of (insert name of child)’ and add your signature, and the date on which the likeness was compared.
True but my accountant had not seen my son though he did sign the form.
If you do not know a British national or other Commonwealth
citizen locally with those qualifications, a citizen of the
country in which you are residing may complete and sign
the form, provided he/she has a similar standing in that
country has known you for two years and the Consul
considers his/her signature to be acceptable. A member
of your family should not countersign. (See also Note 7,
‘Photographs’). In certain cases you may be asked
to produce further documentary evidence of identity for
the child.
An interesting thought about the citizen of the country where you are residing.
I would check with the embassy as to whether they need to see your passport as well, just in case.
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For those that cant squat or are too drunk to squat....you can actually sit on them quite comfortably...had a mate with crook knees and this is what he did all the time....splash a bit of water over them first though...
I used to have a bit of trouble with them but soon mastered the art of the squat...
Both my knees are shot out and I can't sqaut like I used to even 10 years ago so I usually splash water around.
At home all the toilets are western style.
Slightly of Thailand topic, last year I worked in Pakistan and used the Lahore to Islamabad motorway most days and there are several service areas with western style toilets.
Unfortunately most of the locals who used them squatted, but on top of the seat with their shoes on and I usually had to clean the toilets before I could use them.
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Is this the same leader who agrees with the Myanmar generals that the legal winner of a properly run election should be kept under house arrest?
Does that mean that he should be under house arrest or all the opposition party leaders should be under house arrest and that the government of the country should be a dictatorship?
When was the last election held in Myanmar, sometime in the early 1990s, and what happened to the winner?
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Read the C2 Notes!Note 6 – Section 8 – Countersignature
When you have completed the form, someone who has
known You (not the child) personally for at least two years
should complete and sign Section 8. That person should be
a British citizen, other British national or Commonwealth
citizen who is a Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace,
Minister of Religion, Bank Officer, Established Civil Servant,
or professionally qualified person, e.g. Lawyer, Engineer,
Doctor, School Teacher, Police Officer or a person of
similar standing. Procedures include a check on the
authenticity of countersignatories.
If you do not know a British national or other Commonwealth
citizen locally with those qualifications, a citizen of the
country in which you are residing may complete and sign
the form, provided he/she has a similar standing in that
country has known you for two years and the Consul
considers his/her signature to be acceptable. A member
of your family should not countersign. (See also Note 7,
‘Photographs’). In certain cases you may be asked
to produce further documentary evidence of identity for
the child.
This is correct as i did the same for our son who was 15 months old at the time and I had a hard job finding someone who had known me that long. I eventually remembered my old accountant who did the job.
On the application form where the signatory signs there is also a space for a company stamp though we did not use it. Possibly the embassy may ask or not.
Once all the forms are completed it takes 5 working days to process and if you wish they will post the documents to you. Be aware however the embassy may also want to see your passport and that they keep mot of the documents including your childs birth certificate in both English and Thai, the marriage certificate and any other documnets that they deem necessary.
I would suggest that you get 2 copies of the birth certificate in English (the cost is not much extra) and we now have all the documents like that laminated as it keeps them clean and easy to read.
I also suggest that you get a copy of the application form and read it VERY carefully. You may be able to download it and get the signatures in the UK if your wife sends you 4 or 6 copies of the childs photograph (spares are always handy).
I hope that this helps.
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This was mine about 10:53 this morning using GPRS and AIS.
Your current bandwidth reading is:
21.10kbps
which means you can download at 2.64 KB/sec. from our servers.
21.1 kbps YOU
28.8 kbps dial-up
33.6 kbps dial-up
53.3 kbps dial-up
56 kbps ISDN
128 kbps ISDN
384 kbps DSL
768 kbps DSL
1000 kbps DSL
1500 kbps DSL/T1/Cable Modem
I couldn't get the nice colours but I did get the feeling that the service is perhaps not the best.
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My wife owns our land and house and I trust her more than any lawyers or governments.
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billd766I have a Flex card and also Internet banking. It says it is a Visa card and 16 digits and it DOES have the 3 digit card verification number on the back.
Is the Flex card from K bank or another Thai bank or are you refering to the UK Nationwide Flexaccount?
The Flex card is from the K Bank. I don't have a UK bank but I do bank offshore with LloydsTSB.
I tried to get internet banking with Bangkok bank once but they seemed to have so many petty rules I gave up.
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Skytrain/metro was not committed to memory prior to hitting reply. The only access to information after start reply is of that contained in the text portion so it is best to ask, or repeat, questions in the text.
I cheated. I was in BKK last month and I picked up a free Skytrain map.
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Well if there is a coup and it gets up as far as where I live in the Central region it won't actually get to me. Not unless they can get past all the construction equipment that is used for widening the road.
It will soon be wide enough (though probably not strong enough) to support tan........
They have been building it for 3 months now and in the last few days the RTAF have overflown my house twice a day.
What do they know about me that I don't?
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I've just talked to the Kasikorn enquiries people about this. It's not a physical card at all. It's just a card number and an expiry date. Also they don't give you a card verification number (the 3 digit thing on the back), so really it's of little use these days.
As for their other "debit" card, the Flex-C debit card, that cannot be used online, only in a point-of-sale electronic machine. She told me that on the back it DOES have a 3-digit card verification number but DOES NOT have a verified by VISA number.
Confused? Yeah, me too. Is anyone using one of these?
I have a Flex card and also Internet banking. It says it is a Visa card and 16 digits and it DOES have the 3 digit card verification number on the back.
I was working in Pakistan and used the card to get cash from ATM machines BUT IT IS NOT a credit card. It works very well while you have funds in the account but as usual no mon, no hon and no fun.
It took a while to set up the internet banking as I seem to be the only one in the village who does this and the problem is that it takes about 3 working days to get your account updated.
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There is a place called the Rex Hotel on Sukhumvit which is not the nicest but at 880 baht a night including breakfast is reasonable.
You come out of there and turn right, walk for 300 or so metres and you can get on the Skytrain at the Thong Lo stop (E6) which is at Sukhumvit 55.
Stay on the same side that you get on the station and get off at the Ploenchit stop (E2) and walk on down the exit headin the same way as the train and when you come to the bridge over the road go to the left side and go down Wireless road. When you reach that bridge the British Embassy is on the right corner with a large flagpole in the front.
The US consulate and visa department are about 10 minutes walk on the left side or as an alternative you can easily get a taxi, motorcycle taxi or tuk tuk, all of which will cost around 40 baht maximum.
There are probably other hotels around by the Nana BTS stop which is Sukhumvit soi 7 but I have no idea of the quality or prices.
I hope that this helps.
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I started a small thread about this a couple of days ago but I didn't realise it was this bad.
Yesterday there were fires burning on both side of the road less than 1 km from the house and I live next to the Mae Wong national park and one of the fires was in the park area. I could see, smell and even hear them burning but nothing will ever be done about it.
If only people would realise what they are doing is ruining the future for their children and grand children but as usual in Thailand money in your hand talks louder than a promise for the future.
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Can anyone help with information on the price of water from the Water Companies in Thailand (City Supply Through the Mains)?
I'd like to know the price per cubic meter (M3)?
Alternatively in Litres, the price for 10,000 litres?
I'm calculating the cost of water versus the cost of installing water tanks/rain collection/bore holes and need the above information to determine if there is a benefit.
The location is up norht (not Pattaya) so reliability of supply and reliability of rain is not a problem.
Hi Guesthouse
I live in the Central region and we are always short of water at least 3 months of the year. this week we have had no mains supply for 3 days now and though I have 14 x 2,000 litre storage tanks I also have around 14 people living on the site.
The tanks are a nominal 2,000 litres but around 1,600 is usable due to the exit pipe being about 10 inches up the tank.
I have been on at my wife for a couple of months now to expand the storage by another 8 tanks (each tank cost 600 baht plus 100 baht for the cover) but it is a case of mai pen rai.
We also want to build 2 big storage tanks for irrigation on the farm to give us an extra 30,000 litres (almost) for irrigation but the same mai pen rai.
Most of the crops have died due to the lack of water and we cannot drill a borehole due the land being rock a little way down, the same for a well.
We do collect the rainwater from the roof into a couple of 3,000 litre stainles steel storage tanks which we use for drinking.
Before you install storage tanks you really need to know your average monthly water consumption and figure out how often it does not rain and for how long.
I don't know where you live but get your wife to ask around and see who has a borehole and/or a well and check out the cost.
There was a thread last year about boreholes etc and the government was concerned that too many people were drilling and it may cause subsidence but if like me you live near a small village with not so many people it will not be a problem.
Also get your wife to check at the local amphur as they may have a restriction or not and the may be able to put you onto someone.
We have a petrol driven water pump and managed to get water from the local stream for a couple of days but that has almost dried up as well.
Best of luck.
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You can take the girl out of the bar but not the bar out of the girl
Can I ask you several pertinet questions arising fromyour quote?
1 Are you married at all
2 If so is your wife a Thai lady
3 If she is did you meet her in a bar
4 If none of the answers to the above can you please explain what you mean
5 I am a little curious as to how someone relatvely new to the forum can make such a statement as IMHO you have very little idea of your subject matter and have merely resulted in generalisation.
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Am I stupid or is it the local people around here.
I live in central Thailand near the Mae Wong national park and all over the place there are big signs in Thai and I can understand the pictures that basically say be careful not to set fire to the forest.
We have not really had rain here since December so the undergrowth is dry and so are the trees, but for the last 3 nights somebody has been burning the trees down on the hills.
It takes 20 years to grow a tree and on the hills the trees are basically what holds the soil together, provides homes for birds and animals and acts as a carbon dioxide converter.
For 3 years now that I have lived here somebody sets fire to the the trees and 20 minutes later the tree is gone forever and nobody in authority seems to do anything about it. I can appreciate that you can't get a fire truck up a mountain as there are no tracks even but nobody seems to care.
Does this happen anywhere else up country.
Last night the fire was over a km away and I could hear the trees cracking and burning.
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I have been 4 times now for my Thai (wife) support visa at Suan Phlu and each time the bank account has been in joint names. A couple of times I have not had the 400,000 baht in my account but as I have a couple of pensions with confirmation from the UK embassy (1900 baht thank you very much) I have had no problems.
Saying that, one time I forgot to get a re-entry permit and screwed it up and Suan Phlu explained that I had to leave the country to bet another visa (another story0 but that was nothing compared to what my wife said that I could understand and probably a lot more I couldn't understand.
My wife still has not changed her details from Miss to Mrs even though she has kept her own name and nobody has asked about the car registration number.
I use either the Bangkok bank where one pension is paid into to write a letter (it takes about 10 minutes) or the Kasikorn bank in the village where it took nearly a hour as I was the first farang to ask them to write one. This year will be easier as they only have to pull the original and change the dates and amounts.
As promised, I am reporting back that Immigration at Suan Phlu Bangkok did NOT question the fact that the savings account is held jointly in my and my wife's names, as it should be IMHO (we elected not to change her Thai name when we got married [haha but she still had to go through the name change hassle anyway to change all of her id's from 'Miss' to 'Mrs.']). So apparently the originator of this post had some unusual who knows what ....So I got my first extension (40 days) to my Non-Imm 'O' (I went today 2/27, my visa was to expire March 2, now have to report back April 7, and final answer is guaranteed (?) by May 28). No one here mentioned that I would be quizzed to the point of having to have my wife's car's license plate memorized (I got enough of the letters/numbers correct but not all), but I correctly answered all of the other "interview" questions.
I have to say, it was easier to deal with immigration than get the bank "letter" confirming my wire transfer of 440,000 baht from outside Thailand. My goodness, you would think that that [unnamed] bank (a large bank and I was at the headquarters main office) had never had a farang ask for an immigration letter before. It took 8 employees and 4 phone calls and 1 hour 10 minutes to argue about what to do and then 15 minutes to type the letter. After one guy got the process worked out and instructed his subordinate what to do, that sub refused to do what was required. Over and over .... The hardest part was explaining that the letter had to refer to the amount of the wire transfer from outside Thailand - all employees insisted that the letter refer to the account balance which would have been wrong. That bank needs to get the Immigration policy defined and put it in their procedures book .....
Just a note of warning, there were several signs up (only in Thai) that March 10, the penalty fine for overstay goes up to 500 baht per day (from 200).
Thanks ......
ragtime3
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Incase of a drugged up junkie comes into your premisis at night, wielding an axe or knife, who is going to protect you? The police? Are you going to talk the man into staying while you dial the number and wait until you get an operator that understands your crummy thai? And then wait with you until the police shows up?
So, let's see.
Who here has experienced the above in Thailand?
Not me.
Who here has children in the house?
Me.
Now, who is going to have a gun in the house, ready, loaded and easily accessible incase of the above scenario?
Not me.
Nobody with children in the house I hope.
Guns and Rednecks.... what a mixture.
The only drugged up junkie I have seen up here (and he probably isn't a junkie anyway) looks a bit like a glue sniffing village idiot.
I was 25 years in the military and I was taught
a) never carry a loaded weapon unless you are told to.
NEVER point a loaded weapon at anyone unless you are going to kill them.c) guns are designed for one purpose only, to kill something be it a clay pidgeon, a cardboard target, an animal or a person.
d) a gun on its own is harmless, loaded or unloaded, only people are dangerous.
e) most of all a gun is NOT a toy.
In the 25 years I was in the military apart from range firing practice I only ever carried a loaded gun on one ocaission which was to protect some guided missles from being stolen from the convoy. I was given a rifle, a bayonet and 20 rounds of live ammunition and the instructions were to use 18 rounds if I really had to, shoot the driver with the 19th and myself with the last round and the "enemy" would kill me painfully if I fired on them. My thoughts were basically if you need the missles so badly you can have them, then go and steal an aircraft to fire them from.
If you need a gun in Thailand to protect yourself you must be living in the wrong place.
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I live up country and we get a rubbish collection at least 2 times a week and for this I pay 30 baht a month. They supplied us with one trash bin but I bought 2 more as there are around 12 people living here.
We separate glass, metal, plastic and cardboard/paper etc, and when we go to Bangkok we go to my wifes parents who collect this and sell it on.
We also drink the rainwater but let the rain clean the roof for at least 3 days before we store it.
I agree about the number of plastic bags but we recycle them into trash bags at home before they are put into the bins.
I have managed to teach my immediate family about putting rubbish into the bins but it is difficult to teach the rest and hard work as well.
It would be better if the Education Ministry were to make the subject compulsory at schools which is where the children learn fromand then they can teach their parents.
We always have at least one plastic bag in the car for the car rubbish which is replaced at least once a week.
We are not perfect but we try our best.
Thaivisa Poll: Should Thaksin Stay?
in Thailand News
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And what about the people who are supporting their wives and families, including those living and working overseas. They certainly contribute a large amount to the countries coffers in the form of houses, condos, food etc.
They probably contribute more than the people with work permits.