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5 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

As long as the best refers to departing up a chimney, I agree.

 

So far the plan is working well. One can only hope he's off to the fire before he manages to do any more damage to Thailand than done already.

Well, he certainly did more for Thailand and the Thai people than ALL the military coups lumped together since 1932.

19 hours ago, Hunz Kittisak said:

The most important one has his back and that’s what’s matters 

They probably hate him even more now that they did before but no matter how rich or how powerful they are, they know that there is somebody higher up the chain with even more power than they have.

5 minutes ago, mfd101 said:

Never heard of irony? Never heard of puns?

Yes. Have you?

1 hour ago, BenStark said:

 

Didn't know there was an Isaan in South Thailand, because that is where you live according to your posts

I had no idea that you could not read, understand or comprehend what people write.

1 hour ago, MarcelV said:

Great news! My wife and her entire village are celebrating. Everywhere are red flags and flags with the image of Mr. Thaksin. Everyone is wearing red today to express their happiness.

Here in Issan people know when it's time for a party. 🙂

My wife is praying for Mr. Thaksin to replace the current PM asap and give back more to the lovely Issan folk.

☺️

If you had read it correctly and carefully you would see that he was talking about his wife

My wife and her entire village are celebrating. Everywhere are red flags and flags with the image of Mr. Thaksin. Everyone is wearing red today to express their happiness.

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

I did answer your question, see my simple enough answer bolded above, and, as a starting point, she could have extended it for another 30 days, then perhaps done border trips to stay longer, who knows, cares or is affected by how she did it?    Or perhaps her entire story was just bullshlt?

 

You seem to have informed yourself pretty well about business, ED, teaching, marriage, retirement visa. et al, so how come you couldn't also find an answer to how many days an American stay here VE?!

Why would I need to inform myself about VE. Not being a US citizen I wouldn't need to know as it is not something that interests me. As for quote "business, ED, teaching, marriage, retirement visa" they are brought up regularly on ANN which is where I read the information and learned something about the subject. I have also held both a retirement and currently a marriage visa and its extensions.

My business visa and extensions were handled by the US international company I worked for and also the Thai company I worked for. I just turned up where and when I was told with the documentation I was told to bring.

For the retirement and  marriage visa and its extensions, I have always done those myself.

It is easy and called experience learned over the years.

I have never had the need for on and YOU are the one that brought up the subject of VE

1 hour ago, kingstonkid said:

Have you ever owned property.  I can tellyou from experience that when you buy propetrty and are using a different property as collateral there is almost always a difference between what you think and the bank does.  

 

Also, no one holds a gun to the bank's head.  The bank looks at what is provided and balances that with whether they want to agree and or do business with a person.

 

 

As others have stated this is going to cause almost all commercial property owners to get the hell out of NY state.  

 

They all do it.  THe banks all do it.

 

I am willing to guarantee that a lot of business is going to leave NY state and that this is gong to go to the supreme court.

 

This is a Dem gtovernor and DEM AG that wanted to make a name for themselves with a DEM judge.

Hell the judge under valued the properties that he owns

 

But of course it is NOT political.

Nobody forced the voters of New York to go to the polls and vote for any political party.

If you think that it is political then look here. 

https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/ny-special-election-santos-02-13-24/index.html

Democratic victory: Democrat Tom Suozzi won the special election in New York to succeed disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos — a result that will further shrink the House GOP’s narrow majority.
What this means for the House: Democrats now take back the seat Santos turned red in 2022, a huge win in a race that focused on immigration. While the victory won’t affect control of the House, an even tighter GOP margin could prove critical in upcoming legislative battles. The election could also offer clues for the fall races.

How about a former Republican Mayor of New York? Once a Trump lawyer and now a bankrupt.

Rudy Giuliani?

Perhaps the people of New York (who are the voters) are fed up with Republicans.

2 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

You seem to think that those entering VE have no way of extending their permission to stay after the original 30 days, or whatever is stamped in the passport!

No I don't think that at all, so please stop putting YOUR words in my mouth.

I asked a simple enough question on the length of a visa exempt (which you still have not answered). I asked simply because never having had a visa exempt entry, I have no idea.

If you have no idea either, then just say so.

So, on what grounds would a person be allowed to change from a VE to a different visa and what would the requirements be?

She would be unable to get a business visa without extensive paperwork and a confirmed job offer from a Thai company, she would be unable to get a married visa without being married to a Thai,

she is too young and appears not to have enough money for a retirement visa, so what does that leave?

An Ed visa and she could become and ESL teacher, IF she qualifies and has a job offer.

There is no sign in the OP about ANY type of visa. There is possibility of Muay Thai training or perhaps learning to speak Thai, but still no sign of ANY type of visa.

You seem to be an expert on visas, so what kind of visa could she get, if she can get none of the above?

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Unless she made arrangements to not be on overstay!  The article did not mention that she had ever been on overstay.

But you did not answer how long a visa exempt entry is valid for.

How can you make arrangements NOT to be on overstay, unless you have the correct visa to begin with?

4 hours ago, John Drake said:

 

How did she get into Laos with only $7? Used to be $5 cash but I think it's now $15.

More importantly, how did she get from Japan to Thailand with only a one way ticket and USD$7.

14 hours ago, proton said:

 

People seem to be working now and nothing happens, captain hamburger is another one, blatantly cooking and selling street food in Bkk and streaming it on tik tok.

And that is the best that you can come up with?

Something which has nothing to do with the topic?

37 minutes ago, JoseThailand said:

 

Not so much. Basic rooms start from 2000-3000 baht per month. Street food is cheap, 50 baht for a decent meal with chicken and rice. A set of clothes (shorts, tee and flipflops) is 300 baht. Thailand is one the cheapest places in the world to be honest.

It may well be cheap, IF you are legally a tourist in Thailand.

It might be, IF  you have a visa for ,ore than 30 days,  

IF you have a return air ticket,

IF you have a confirmed hotel booking,

IF you have travel insurance,

IF you have 20,000 thb that you can show Immigration,

IF you are not homeless or begging on the street.

2 hours ago, The Old Bull said:

When the second amendment was added to the constitution they did not have automatic weapons or RPG's. To be true to the constitution everyone should be allowed a single shot black powder gun and a sword. Shotguns and rifles for qualified hunters OK also. All the hand guns and military weapons need to be removed from society. You don't just take them from bad guys you take them from everybody the less guns in circulation the less shootings you will have.

Do you really think that will happen in the USA?

It hasn't happened in the last 250 years and it won't happen now.

How will you take them?

Just knock on the door and say please give me all your guns?

First you need to pass a federal law which cannot be superseded by any state law. That won't happen either.

So how would YOU collect all the guns?