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MaiChai
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If you were born in Thailand, you should have a Thai birth certificate? If you have this, there is a long number on it. That is you personal id number. With this, you should be able to apply for an ID card. Once you have your ID card, you are effectivly are Thai, and thus can work legally here and get a Thai passport. So the question arises, why don't you know this?
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How did you get a Non Imm 'O' if your not married to your Thai girlfriend?
All your answers are correct, apart from 1. You don't need a re-entry permit unless you apply for a 1 year visa extension when you are in Thailand. The re-entry permit prevents your 1 year extension from expiring when you leave.
Forget teaching English unless you really have nothing else better to do; its not very satisfying or demanding.
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Holders of Non immigrant 'O' visas (marriage/children) can get WPs, its just that its not normally done, and you might find you spend a lot of time at immigration getting it sorted. It seems logical to me that if you have an 'O' visa, you should be able to work here (to support the wife/Thai children), but some dumb ass in Immigration may not see it that way and make the process difficult. The least problematic route is a Non immigrant 'B'; the normal route to getting a WP.
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You can drive on an international or Thai driving license in Thailand (I think Malaysian and Singapore licenses are acceptable too). However, the small print in you car insurance might say that the insurance is not valid unless you have a Thai driving license. As you probably can't read Thai, and your wife may not be that well educated or not able to understand complex Thai legal jargon, it will be difficult to access whether you are properly covered. Thus, it makes sense to get a Thai driving license, which you can also use as an ID card. You can easily get this if you have a Non-im visa (easy as your married to a Thai), which is valid for a year, and when it expires you can renew it within 365 days after it expires. Cost is 105 baht, and you need a letter from your embassy stating where you live (photocopy this and reuse it every year to get your renewal; give the copies to the land transport dept).
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A retirement visa means you can't work (your retired, right?). Thats the way the Thais see it. You could work illegally. Note that there is very little work available in Thailand for foreigners, apart from teaching English (and Italian?).
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What about Sukhothai for the flights to Laos. They must have an immigration office there, and if so what services are available at that office?
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KISS (keep it simple silly). Leave your car at home or sell it, and buy another one here. Be wary of buying 2nd hand cars in Thailand (anything is fixable where the labour is cheap). If you can afford it, buy a new car, or get a new car on finance, otherwise you will end up continuously getting the thing fixed. There is no minimal vechical safety test in TL, so any heap of rubbish is allowed on the roads.
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Technically speaking this is a cock up. Assume you only got 30 days, and exit when your 30 days is up. Sounds like the guy on the desk used the wrong stamp, but you will be in the computer as having only 30 days (you don't have a visa number), and will have to coff up for overstays if you stay any longer. Remember they are in charge, and will most likely charge you the overstay, unless they are feeling charitable and kind (not unknown).
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Here is a radical idea. Live in the countryside/small village outside the city (Pattaya/Bangkok). Have the benefits of the country and easy access to the city. Personally I live in a small village near Sukhothai, but even we are becoming invaded by lots of farangs building houses here
Driver's license required?
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