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I need insurance of $100,00 for USA Trip to get through Thai immigration. I am 78 years of age. Everything is based on Wife's extension of stay and of course Multiple Entry Visa. Any comments?

capital gains issue.

They actually have an exclusion specifically for social security holder married to an itn #. And filing jointly.Just wanted to know the reasoning. This stuff comes out of the taxes I pay the US government.  

I was more interested in their reasoning. As for GinBoy2...MyITN # wife when filing a joint tax return for marriage is considered for tax purposes only an American citizen. If you just get social security you both get it. So in this particular circumstance we are excluded. Try to be a little more polite GinBy 2.

If you file your 2019 taxes in USA as a Married filing a Jointly and you have a Social Security # and your wife has an ITN number you do not qualify for the stimulus payment. Any idea why the IRS state this. What is the reasoning. My wife for tax reasons is considered a US citizen. .???

I was under AOT quarantine did my TM 30 before anything else. You think immigration cares or even knows. You don’t show you get a fine.

Thanks 

16 minutes ago, elviajero said:

No.

Imm Non-OA 2007, Imm Non-RE 2011,Imm Non-IMM based on marriage May 2 2019.  On May 2,2019 I got an extension of stay based on Marriage and multiple entry. (changed because of amount of money needed in bank, married to Thai and children for 12 years) . When I renew do i have to show I have health insurance for me and my family. I have blue cross and blue shield and GHI City of New York Health insurance and have the cards you show when you go to hospital. These are big health insurance organizations and your coverage based on your plan is on-line. Actually getting a personal verification letter from them is probably impossible. DO I NEED TO SHOW IMMIGRATION MY HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE WHEN I GO TO RENEW MY EXTENSION OF STAY . i DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. hELP NEEDED.

I have a Kor Sor2 Marriage Registration.  What is an updated Kor Sor 2 and how do I go about getting it? Chiang Mai marriage.

Is Chiang Mai going to except a letter (verification of income) from Social Security and my Pension Bureau? Seeing that they have to find ways of verifying 65K a month. 

OK terrific...Now I have a New York City,USA pension and my pension will go to an  American Bank then I take my American Pension and send it over here. Same for Social Security. Do they think that all pensions will be sent to my bank Krung Thai Bank in Chiang Dao, or my social security check to the same bank. Now in the past two months I have transferred from my bank in USA over 800,000 baht. I am switching from retirement visa to marriage visa because of the Embassy letter stuff because it had been easier. Even the Chiang Mai immigration long ago told me to stick with retirement visa,less hassle, great advice  (extension of stay based on marriage and child,  I have been married 12 years and have a daughter and adopted son) the question that has to be answered is ....if I HAVE 400,000 for over 3 months IN THE BANK WHEN I APPLY FOR THE CHANGE FOR THE ABOVE STATED REASONS REASON FOR EXTENSION OF STAY IS THAT ENOUGH. My NYC pension will not deposit it in my bank in Thailand and my Social Security will not deposit it in my bank in Thailand. Will someone from Thai Visa please inform Mindless Immigration that many municipal pension funds from the USA and probably others will not do direct deposit to Thailand why? Because it costs them money for the transfer.. If the 400,000 in my Bank and stays there and they except fine. Any answers. Who knows what Chiang Mai immigration is going to make of this.What do they want from me...to leave...go back to USA and send a pittance to my wife and children. Maintaining 2 residencies if i have to leave will diminish the money my family gets.  With these idiots That is a possibility. Unbelievable.

thanks for all the information.

Started with NON-OA then to NON- Re visa 12 years ago. Got married 12 years ago but kept retirement visa (like many of us). Have marriage Certificate and Registration of Marriage which states regarding divorce...letter of certification issued by Consulate-General of U.S.A , Chiang mai dated Nov 21 2006 translated into Thai, seen at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the legalization No.05----------dated Nov. 24,2006. Got married on 27th. Question? I present Originals and copies to Immigration regarding marriage with the above statement on the Registration. Do I have to do anything with Ministry of Foreign Affairs again or any thing else regarding Marriage Registration, divorce papers etc. since it was done when I got married.. Have everything else.

The American and British representatives of a signed petition of retirement visa holders should asked for a meeting with the head of immigration and explain to him that the embassy letter never meant anything except you swore your stated income on the letter was true. What would be better are letters of documentation from VA, SS,or Pension Bureaus  from companies, city,state, towns sent to the Pensioner as proof he receives a pension, or some other valid letter regarding income you receive validly. That should be good enough for Thai Authorities. Where is the organization. Why can't this be done. I live in Chiang Dao with family and med. needs or I would volunteer. There are a lot of you who just sit around with little to do. It would be a service to you and a lot of the ex-pat community.

You can send a DS-4194 to U.S Department of State Office of Authentications, with Verification Letters of Income from i.e. your Pension Income Verification letter notarized and your Social Security letter notarized and they will Authenticate. See web site follow through to "other" on Authentications. You go there because Thailand is not a signer of Haugue Convention on this matter. Yes it gets weird. I just sent a letter to Embassy and Consulate regarding this. They, Embassy and Consulate, could do the same thing when it comes to this is they wanted. They could reform their letter of Verification of Income to include ones verification letters and Thai Immigration would not have a problem with this. They could do the same thing as the U.S. Department of State Office of Authentications. The USA Embassy and Consulate should come to our aide in this matter and treat us as the American Citizens we are. A lot of this is bureaucratic B.S. and they could simplify this part of the process for us. I have had letters every year for the last 12 years from my pension and ss and they do not even look. Thai immigration wants letters from Embassy and or Consulate they could accommodate us.  

Anything new in getting a 5 (I think immigration said ten) visa? In Chiang Mai?

What if we both own the house? She owns the land. 

I do not understand. There are at least 10 large soapy massage places in Bangkok, some 17 floors high. And the other stories about a crack down on who gets the profits. Farang owned bars in Pattaya you can not get a profit, illegal if sex related in any way. If a Thai owns you get charged for sex for sale. That is what they are saying they are going to do. Weird

And let us get serious. Northeast Thailand is extremely poor and those Isean farm girls head straight for the tourists and most of the money goes home. Staighten out you back yard then close the businesses.

I am interested in finding a business or person who will edit (with my help) and make a DVD out of all my recored video. I have photoshop elements 5.0 which I can give them and they can register it. (Copy is registerable). Chiang Mai or Chiang Dao location or inbetween. Help is needed for this computer neophyte.

It is now Jan 09. Is ferry Ko Kong to Sihanoukville operating??????

The brochure has an error in it and was incorrect before the new police order came out. The police order from 2006 eliminated the 400,000 baht option unless you had gotten extensions before using the 400,000 baht option.

It should say 40,000 baht income or 400,000 baht in the bank not and.

This is what the police order says and it the current and correct rules.

(6) In case of marriage with a Thai lady, the husband who is an alien must have an average annual income of not less than 40,000 baht per month or a money deposit in a local Thai bank of not less than 400,000 baht for the past 2 months for expenses within a year.

the new police order among other things (police order 777/2551 ) says the same thing.

I too am on an extension based on retirement--my 5th--and have considered the alternative based on marriage to a Thai national. Not having to keep an additional THB 400,000 locked up in a local bank is a good rationale, but then I have seen what happens to expats whose wife predeceases them...perhaps unexpectedly but then their basis for a visa is null and they must quickly make arrangements to qualify on another basis or leave the Kingdom. The same would hold true as a result of divorce. It seems to me that using the extension based on retirement might be an better alternative, all things considered. I'd be interested in the views of TV experts with experience in this particular issue.

very thoughtful of you to bring this up thanks

The order is for an extension not a visa. So I will be changing from a retiremnt visa extension of stay to a marriage visa extension of stay???????

No.

From An Extension of your Temporay Permision to Stay based on Retirement

To An Extension of your Temporary Permision to Stay based on Marriage to a Thai National

thankyou

alright I give up with the semantics. If I go for an extension of stay and i have a retirement visa but I want to get an extension of stay because I am married to a Thai and have a child with her does the new law state regarding money 400,000 bhat in bank or 40,000 baht monthly income and is that law Police order 777/2551?

The order is for an extension not a visa. So I will be changing from a retiremnt visa extension of stay to a marriage visa extension of stay???????