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10 hours ago, henry2109 said:

This looks indeed not only unfortunate for you, but also not right.

 

It is my understanding that the decision has to be given to you in a written form and with a reason of the denial. So what I would do first and immediately send an registered mail to the head of the embassy, state what you did here (and add again all documents), and ask for a written and signed decision. Further, demand an answer to how and where to contest the decision.

 

I consider your chances well that they may approve the visa. Or at least you should get a way to contest.

It can be irritating but no consulate or embassy of any country can be forced to justify their decision to refuse a visa ....be assured they follow instructions given by their Foreign Ministry or State Department.

3 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

DrJack's response is fully correct.

Your initial arrival >

You can arrive Visa-Exempt, and afterwards can extend the permission to stay from that VE for another 30 days.

You can also arrive on a 60-day single-entry Tourist Visa, which also can be extended for another 30 days.

Your application >

You need to apply for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa at your local IO minimum 15 days before your permission to stay expires.  Some IOs require even 21 days beforehand.

Your extension of stay >

In the last month of your 90-day Non Imm O Visa, you can apply at your local IO for a 1-year extension of stay.

Please note that your application for an extension of stay must be done at the some IO where applied for the 90-day Non Imm O Visa.

 

You did not mention whether your present Non Imm OA was based on retirement or on marriage.

I presume that you are not married, and that the reason for you wanting to convert is to avoid the new health-insurance requirement at extension for an OA - retirement.

However, if you are married you could also simply keep your present OA Visa and apply for an extension for reason of marriage, which does NOT require health-insurance.

 

Do I understand that to avoid compulsory health insurance it is not too difficult to switch from Non Immigrant OA to Non Immigrant O ?

Then why are several thousands not doing it ...or are they already doing it.

2 minutes ago, Peter Denis said:

Is your friend married? If so, he just needs to apply (with the required paperwork of course) at his next extension for reason of MARRIAGE instead of RETIREMENT.  The lower financial requirements for that are a nice bonus too.

If he is not married, he can take a nice holiday trip abroad and return Visa-exempt (make sure that if he has a Re-entry permit to have it cancelled at his local IO before leaving).  Then apply for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa - retirement at his local IO.  And in the last month of that Non Imm O Visa, he can apply for a 1 year extension of stay based on that Non Imm O - retirement Visa.

From then on he is in exactly the same situation as he is now, only difference being that when on Non Imm O there is NO health-insurance requirement. 

I agree that he conversion process is a nuisance and waste of time/effort, but there is no way around it.

Note: Forget the other advice re Pnom Penh / tourist Visa / 90 day trips > as it is not correct and totally confused.

Thanks / this seems to be surprisingly easy way to solve my friends problem (he is not married).

It is obvious that a large number of old foreigners have problems because they  are staying in Thailand based on the extension of an OA visa.  One of my friends is 80 years old and staying here since many years based on OA but now he was refused an extension because he did not have a health insurance....He was told that he could go to Thai Embassy Phnom Penh to get a long term "tourist visa" whereby he would need to leave the Kingdom every 90 days....but I am afraid also this kind of visa will require a health insurance???

Does somebody know which kind of insurance company would give him cover ?

2 hours ago, BestB said:

I never realised he was seeing $180 million in damages . Hardly surprising he lost

 

maybe if he was more smart and seeking $100000-200000 he would of won but $$180 million ?????

.....regardless the painful exchange of insults ....and the need for a profound apology by Musk....I am happy that the real vultures of the US culture i.e. the lawyers are biting in the sand.

The US Supreme Court is very partisan ....their rulings will be accordingly and that did not happen only under Trump.

5 minutes ago, Thainesss said:

 

Yes, but that box and the VPN is a very expensive way to watch them if that's all you want to do with it. 

Yes that's all I look at ....but since the change of satellite by Truevision there are many interruptions (black outs) and then my PVR stops recording but does not return to action after the black out...So I loose many of my favorite CNN programs / That is why I start to look at alternatives to receive CNN

6 hours ago, Thainesss said:

 

You could get a good nvidia shield android box, install all the apps and vpn on the box and then watch everything you'd want to watch through that. 

Does this allow to receive CNN and BBC World ?

On 11/1/2019 at 6:07 PM, DiDiChok said:

You've got me mystified.  The default for the taskbar is black.  Maybe you mean the title bar for windows?  If so, then go to Settings / Personalisation / Colours and scroll down to 'Choose your accent colour'.  Click on a blue box so that a tick appears in the ox but don't tick anything else.  Scroll down some more and click on the box next to 'Title bars and window borders' and that's it.

 

If you really want to twiddle with everything on the screen, maybe you should install an app named 'WinAeroTweaker'.

However the box which is really matters is greyed out and following Youtube link worked for me :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzwoLocequM

After latest 1903 update of Win 10 my taskbar turned white and it is impossible to restore the default blue

22 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

To prove your income you will need to do a affidavit at the Dutch embassy in Bangkok.

But if this affidavit is only your declaration and the Embassy writes in small print that their legalization only confirms that you signed it but does not guarantee that the content is authentic ....then Immigration Office can or will reject is (as I/O did in my case with a Belgian legalization / indeed the Embassy has no means to do verification)

You should read the small print on the legalization stamp applied by the Dutch Embassy.

18 hours ago, Baerboxer said:

 

There is zero chance of NI leaving the UK.

"zero chance" ?  East Germans told me early 1980ies there was "zero chance" of reunification with West Germany...

13 hours ago, Loiner said:

What the EU defines as a ‘major concession’ may in actuality amount to naught, and probably will do.
Only 22 more days of posturing to go.


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In the UK many still have the wrong impression that they are dealing with ONE opponent : the HQ of the EU in Brussels and they ignore the fact that any 'major concession' has to be approved by 27 member states (even the smallest of them have veto right)

On 10/1/2019 at 3:15 PM, Max69xl said:

We're talking about one salary in baht. How much can it be?

I was asking this question because a friend came from EU to try and set up a business in Thailand but it failed.  He decided to return home but could not send back about 150.000 Baht left in his Thai bank account. The bank director told him that a solution would be that my Thai wife got the money and then send it to him in several tranches under the pretext "help for family"...and this method worked.  But money speculators move no doubt millions of Thai Baht in and out of Thailand without problems and how do they do that?

On 9/30/2019 at 5:25 AM, Don Mega said:

Withdraw the cash at an ATM ?

I read at another TVF info QUOTE Speculation of the baht has slowed down after the central bank imposed measures to discourage foreign investors form parking their short-term funds in Thailand UNQUOTE

My question : do those investors also go to ATM to withdraw their speculative short-term funds? 

4 hours ago, Saint Nick said:

Will that "political solution" be the equivalent of a bone- saw?

Why make easy if it also works the difficult way ....the only acceptable political solution would that Shia Iran converts to the Wahabbi kind of Islam ????

For those interested in the opinion of a respected neurologist Dr Sanjay Gupta (CNN)

Marijuana was preordained as having "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse" despite plenty of evidence to the contrary. My team and I wanted you to hear the other side, the voices that had been drowned out by decades of this noise.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/27/health/weed-5-cbd-craze-gupta/index.html

5 hours ago, mikebell said:

That'll teach foreigners for besmirching Pattaya's image.

Absolutely.....Melania could have forced Donald Trump to cancel his planned visit to Thailand 

2 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Sand trays. 

Yes for your own cats....but also for cats of the neighbours?

8 hours ago, emptypockets said:

What on earth are you going on about? anti social??? It is one of the most basic tenets of life in asia. I assume you don't live here.

Any further comments by you will be treated with the disdain they deserve.

I only asked about experience of other people facing the same issue in Thailand.  Of course if you live somewhere in a country where you can even put your shoes on the coffee table then you do not understand the severe insult in Thailand and other SEA countries if you do not take shoes off when entering a house.