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    Rice Storage Ideas, Isaan Village Kitchens?

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    4 minutes ago, cooked said:

    My wife tells me that if using the big plastic buckets for food storage then they should be the white ones.

    I am unclear as to the reason for this, but the white ones must be more expensive for a reason. We have white bins outside, in the workshop and elsewhere containing rice and dog food, and although we obviously have rats occasionally, they have never bitten into the bins.

    Much better to have the white ones than the wong ones !

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    Rice Storage Ideas, Isaan Village Kitchens?

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    40 minutes ago, Slugs11 said:

    Get yourself a Jack Russel terrier, they will hunt all day until they catch the rat, also very good on keeping snakes under control. Our 2 terriers leave the rat outside the door, much to say look what we caught. Also tend to find the snake in 2 or 3 bits, when they catch them. House have no problems with rats or snakes, even though we have rice, chicken and cow feed stored in bags. ????

    If you are some sort of conservationist & don't like to see the snakes beheaded, don't go down the Jack Russell route. I can vouch for their effectiveness. Great looking little bloke &  more faithful than ya missus.

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    19 minutes ago, elviajero said:

    Maybe.

     

    There is no obligation for immigration to accept any form of proof of income.

    If that is the case, why do they specify an income amount ? If they wanted to see tangible money coming into the country wouldn't they scrap the income component & demand the 400,000 or 800,000 deposited & seasoned in a Thai bank account ?

    Maybe I'm missing something but I don't understand your comment.

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    14 minutes ago, chama said:

    interesting that all of the sudden several countries are making the same move. It would seem Thailand is looking to inject additional funds into their banking system from a source they perceive to have little political influence 

    "It would seem Thailand is looking to inject additional funds into their banking system "

    Do you really think the money we expats inject into the Thai economy would make one iota of difference ?

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    ‘Big Joke’ to continue with crackdown

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    32 minutes ago, colinneil said:

    Every Thai looks at us and thinks, does this person have a visa.:cheesy:

    What a load of claptrap, most Thais have no idea about what we have to do.

    Last week my wife went to do my 90 days, asked her sister to go with her, her sister asked... Why you do that, wife says have to do it every 90 days, sister asked how long you do that, since Colin came to live here my wife answered, that is crazy sister says.

    Couldn't agree more. Unless a Thai is somehow involved in immigration or other related government department they have absolutely NO knowledge of procedures, requirements that expats have to perform. I have several very well educated Thai friends, conversational English, & all were amazed when I informed them of IO requirements.

    "Every Thai looks at us and thinks, does this person have a visa.:cheesy:" yes, you really ought to laugh at yourself.

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

    I'm talking in hypothetical terms. I do the 800K route too. It's just nice to have a second option.

    I think I am not unreasonable to expect Australian public servants, paid for with my taxes, to deliver service to Australians abroad. If they can't do that, why the hell are we employing them?

    Me thinks that you are on the wrong wave length here. I think you are being unreasonable to expect any embassy to employ staff to attempt to verify incomes. If it were just income from "government pensions" I agree it wouldn't be impossible. But, there's so many different income streams expats rely on to comply with immigration demands, verification is way beyond the scope & interest of any embassy. I sometimes think we all feel that embassies are here exclusively for "our" service. Embassies are primarily to foster trade, good will & cultural issues. Maybe some military issues. Parties, golf, fishing trips are also high on the list. If we, as expats fall foul of the law, the best we can expect is for the embassy to recommend a reasonable lawyer. Nothing more.

    I also rely on the income method, so I'm NOT a wealthy farang with excess money to transfer into a local bank account.

    We have chosen to reside in a foreign country. We have very few, if any, rights. It all boils down to a matter of comply or move on.

    That's my take on the situation. I accept many will disagree.

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    14 minutes ago, BobBKK said:

    That's not true. I know many American friends who 'swore' they had the income but didn't and laughed about it (how foolish the system was). I can't see what all the fuss is about. IF you have the income, and immigration accept that 65k into your account is proof what's issue?  IF immigration don't accept 65k into your Thai bank is proof then that is madness.

    I think the main issue is... what do the Immigration consider, require, to verify the income ? Will they accept monthly deposit into Thai bank account ? Will they require document proof of where said deposits originated ? Will overseas bank statement showing withdrawal of $$$ one day & same $$$ deposited into Thai bank account a few days later suffice ?  Or, if using a broker to execute transfer to save on fees & exchange rate, will they require this documentation as well ?

    To my mind the affidavit or statutory declaration was an utter waste of time & expense. It verified nothing except the bonafides of the signature. No actual proof of income.

    Until the IO advise, officially, what they require for income verification, we are none of the wiser. It's a matter of just wait & see.

    Them's my thoughts anyway !

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    27 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

    If an expat is contributing to the economy and being a good citizen perhaps even taking a Thai family out of poverty, what does it matter if there is a bit of fraud involved.

    Don't tell me there is not lots of fraud involved amongst the police and politicians themselves. None of

    them are better human beings than we are.

    Here we go again. Someone bringing logic & common sense into the issue.  That's NOT the way it works here.

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    4 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

    In the Australian Embassy Notarial Service there is also an "Authentication" service which is separate to the Statutory Declaration service. I wonder what would happen if I took my Centrelink Income Statement and had it authenticated. It would be interesting to see what they did because the Centrelink Income Statement is a legal document from the Australian Government.

    Good bit of info there Russ, thanks. Maybe you could ask Cleverman to get intouch with the Phuet IO & ask if this is acceptable.

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    Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification

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    5 hours ago, cleverman said:

    I don't care what you think, or anybody's thoughts. It's what the Oz embassy will put in writing is what I would like to see. 

    Wow, bit touchy, aren't we ? You come onto an open public forum & ask someone to get some info for you, as you won't - can't get it yourself. Giddyup offered a positive & accurate response. "I don't care what you think, or anybody's thoughts." great attitude you have !

    Might I respectfully suggest your attitude & your "cleverman" handle are a bit out of sync.

    No wonder you had a blue at the IO.

    Yes, Yes, I know. Smart arse response on the way.

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    Young kid operates a power drill!

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    26 minutes ago, ballpoint said:

    Two score year' ago, when I was 10, part of the curriculum for primary schools was a half day of "manual training" each week.  We piled onto a bus, with steel framed seats and no seatbelts, and travelled to the facility in a near constant swarm of seat swapping and acrobatics on the sharper corners.  In those pre-PC (in every sense of the word) days, girls went to a room where they were taught cooking and sewing, while the boys went to the workshop and did wood and metal work.  We'd happily hack, carve and gouge our way through chunks of wood and metal and end up taking some misshapen object d'art home to our mothers, who would say "oh, that's nice" before putting it somewhere as far from view as possible.  Preferably on the fire.  No special clothing, eye or hearing protection was supplied, the only rule was no open shoes - try dropping a hammer or chisel onto a pair of trainers and see how much protection they give.  Following class, it was fight your way back onto the bus, employing your newly constructed spice rack as a means of doing so via the heads of the less successful, ingratiate yourself with one of the girls who made the tastier morsels in cookery class, and try and stuff as much of it down your throat as possible on the trip back to school.

     

    At the end of the school day I'd ride my bike the 10km back to our farm - with no helmet, get changed and help with the chores, which often involved the use of large pieces of machinery cunningly designed to randomly remove various limbs and appendages of the operator, and, if still alive and in one piece, would be tucked up in bed at 8 o'clock after being allowed to watch an hour of black and white television.  Now, try telling that to the young people of today, and they won't believe you.  Which, unlike the Monty Python sketch, is all the more shocking as it really is true.

    Card is gunna faint when he reads this.

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