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2 minutes ago, luckyluke said:

Maybe Trat not accept the Income Letter from the Consul-General for Austria and Germany in Pattaya.

Maybe only accepted by Immigrations Chonburi, or maybe only the one in Jomtien. 

You are really Lucky Luke????

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Did he have proof of income from the German embassy in Bangkok. It is that or 12 months of transfers into a Thai bank but most offices prefer the proof from the embassy.

In Pathum Thani they require both for one year extension based on marriage : an embassy letter (translated and legalised) + letter from local bank.

In my case it is a bank letter about 12 monthly transfers well above the legal minimum + photocopy of my bank book.....and now the latest surprise I was sent back to the bank to get an update of my bank book which is normally only required for people with the 400.000 or 800.000 Baht requirement. 

2 hours ago, DeaconJohn said:

A right Judas.

The other players were sleazy but Linda Tripp lowered the bar for betrayal of trust.

I would have understood if she would have spilled the beans after having learned in shock a confidential confession by her "friend" Monica.....but no.... she made secretly 20 hours of tape recordings. This was a carefully and viciously orchestrated character assassination....imagine the person you considered as your closest friend would do this to you ?

On 4/8/2020 at 5:32 AM, ezzra said:

It is a government mandated order to restrict all non essential persons from entering the premisses including workmen to carry out renovations,

and BTW to the OP, being on a committee is considered as work nevermind if you get paid or not, so unless a foreigner has a work permit they're risking having an issues with immigration...

Only the Juristic Person Manager needs a work permit.  This is not required for Committee members except if they are paid.

3 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Another day of good news, bringing the likelihood of a full on curfew even less likely. We all know that way more testing would be helpful, but I am yet to hear of a single report of masses of sick and dying crowding at the hospitals. It does seem that Thailand is being most fortunate and that the virus here is unlikely to go crazy like in Europe and the US.

I think that the Thai "wai" in stead of handshake was helpful to avoid spreading Covid-19 during the initial period

I am doing my Non Imm O extension since 10 years always during the first 10 days of April

This went always smoothly

However when I went this afternoon at 2 p.m. I was surprised to have to join a crowd of a least 50 to 60 people waiting outside - no social distancing -  and left inside by an officer with no more than 3 or 4 people at the same time. When my Thai wife asked him what happened he said it was due to the holiday (Monday) and he told also that for our "house registration" we were in a line - waiting outside - of at least 2 hours...

The heat was unbearable for me (I am 78) and so I had to give up and go back to the car for cooling off with AC and then drive home.

My question : is this also due to the "visa renewal" problem for foreigners stuck here ….Pathum Thani is not really a great tourist destination.

I still have time to make application until 21 April : can somebody predict if the situation should be more relaxed then?

23 hours ago, ChipButty said:

The people will be Revolting, 

from where ...from home ?

4 hours ago, Puchaiyank said:

Speaking 5 languages does not give you common sense...

I agree ...I too speak 5 languages but I do not plan to rob a bank????

All governments in the world have to face the unpredictable Covid-19 and the Thai Government has declared a state of emergency.

Except food stores and pharmacies nearly all other businesses have to remain closed : if the government would have to discuss first which other services are essential they would have been debating this until next year.

Nevertheless there are some businesses of which the closure has more impact than the others :

I read that already an exception was made for the mobile phone companies but....

1. yesterday my Smart TV start to flicker and then died :  luckily I can follow news via internet on my PC...but until when?

2. what will happen if the air conditioner in my living room or in my bed room stops working

3. what will happen if a water pipe in my bath room cracks ...I cannot close the main valve for the water supply.

I have no solution for this ....does any TVF member know better?

Attached are the regulations I got from Pathum Thani Immigration Office to obtain a one year extension for a Non Immigrant O based on marriage.

I have made every month bank transfers of more than 40.000 Baht from my overseas account to my own account with SCB. The bank provided me print outs every month after the money arrived but in my case I/O officer wants also a letter from my Embassy (translated and legalised).

I thought a letter from SCB bank would be OK but it is not.

What is the experience of other TVF members with the same situation as me?

I live in a condominium in Pathum Thani

We have renovation works going on in one of our condo units with workers coming every day from other provinces (probably Bangkok)

Can they move freely or does the 14 day quarantine only apply to people entering from another country?

2 hours ago, LivinginKata said:

 

If it's a one year extension then no change to the the procedure. 

still my Embassy would correctly say that if I want to stay here or not........ is my decision and not theirs

11 minutes ago, curtklay said:

You can't close manufacturing plants, send workers home, and stop imports without creating mass shortages and debt.

A $1,000 bailout per adult won't even make one month's rent or mortgage payment.

So yes, the financial crisis will linger long after the health crisis is controlled. The magnitude of which can not be predicted.

printing money and distributing it ....nothing new ...but isn't this socialism?  

4 hours ago, ianezy0 said:

Close all bars, girls can go home. Disinfect Soi 6, Walking St etc.

 

In 3 months time Pattaya will be like a fresh meadow of newly grown grass! 
 

Ahhhhhh....breathhhhh....breathhhh

...and then promote new sports such as snooker and darts not requiring crowds to watch

1 hour ago, RichardColeman said:

Surely be better to bring the new year forward to next weekend, extend it to 2 weeks and make everyone stay indoors.

Why not postpone until next Christmas and save a lot of working days for finance, commerce and industry ?????

3 hours ago, Creasy said:

Damn. A lot of police franchises are going to lose a lot of money without anybody to shake down.

there are still the places to play snooker, darts and ping pong ....where you can meet with limited number of people

2 hours ago, MaxLee said:

Holy Smokes!!!!!!!!! <deleted>*****????

Can we now expect sniffing dogs at the entry of shopping malls and hotels?

Trump believes that Putin speaks the truth....why don't the Dutch judges?

3 hours ago, possum1931 said:

If I was younger and single again and starting all over again, just like before I met my GF, now wife, as before, there would be no need for barfines, ladydrinks, paying for sex, with my good looks and average personality, I found it very easy to get dates.

I think of a German pop song of the 1960ies in which Connie Froboess song : "You can't buy a heart...but if you are lucky you get it for free"

more work for the bone saw doctor ...or will it be only be shaking them down to extract their assets?