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This to inform that I got unexpected surprise when I went to Immigration Office Pathum Thani with the idea that all my application papers would be perfectly OK for an extension on Non Imm O visa.

We know  already that if we need  income Affidavit is has to be legalised not only at Embassy but also at Consular Department of Foreign Ministry (3rd floor Chaengwattana BKK)

But for first time Immigration Pathum Thani sent me back to 2nd floor Chaengwattana to obtain an official translation into Thai (two days) then to get this translation legalised on the 3rd floor (more days)

All this is not abnormal because these procedures would be applied in every other country I know..but it would have been helpful if changes in regulations would be known easily and in advance.

On 4/7/2017 at 10:32 AM, Scouse123 said:

If you look behind the Khmer smile, this is what you will see and it isn't pretty.

 

Yes, they give out easy long stay visas and the beer, cigarettes and hookers looking for husbands are cheap,  ( in comparison to Thailand ) but at what cost? and what is the reason they give the easy access?

 

If that is all people need, they can move to Isaarn. Believe me, Isaarn is better Most places are within a couple of hours of a decent private hospital. You do NOT want to get ill in Cambodia.

 

I have spent extended amounts of time in Cambodia and had thoughts to moving there especially when the constant changing of rules and regulations and weekly announcements of changes Thailand started to get on my nerves.

 

I am glad I did not.

 

With the exception of visiting the temples on holiday, working there for a big company or foreigners ' forced to like it ' as they do not have enough money to reach the Thai budget or visa requirements, it is not worth going to.

 

Garbage is everywhere and I mean everywhere, so are vermin.rats all over the place It is a dirty hell hole.

 

The roads and infrastructure are terrible as soon as you leave the city limits, there is no decent hospital care as we know it. Food products are not of the quality of Thailand and many products are imported from Thailand so obviously making them more expensive.

 

The police force is actually WORSE than their Thai counterparts, which in itself is an achievement. Law and order is virtually non existent with a lazy, arrogant, unhelpful police force who are not interested in solving crime nor protecting tourists. Opportunistic crime, thefts, burglaries, handbag and phone snatching are at epidemic levels in Phnom Penn and Siem reap.

 

Sihanoukville on the coast is a backwater with  ' wild west '  feel, a police force that think they are far enough from the capital that rules don't apply, not that any apply in the capital!!

 

A lot of lowlifes and people go there to hide out that are wanted in other parts of the world, Cambodian hoodlums and thugs are in abundance, Russian mafias have made it a small base of operations and it is a very poor example of Cambodia's only beach resort that has been completely underfunded by the government as a place to welcome tourists.

 

Education standards are very poor with many kids dropping out of school or needed to help families survive on their small farms. A Cambodian degree is not worth the paper it is written on.

 

It is NOT, as many say, Thailand 30 years ago. It is a god forsaken place where the greedy filth in authority are stealing any aid given by the EU, China and Japan. The poor as usual bear the brunt and are not in a strong enough position to do anything. Hun Sen was not elected as the best leader,he was placed there before the exodus by the Vietnamese as a ' puppet regime ' subservient to Vietnam and has spent  his time filling his pockets.

 

As regards to government, it is fast becoming an autocratic state with Hun Sen at the helm. his immediate family and ex- Khmer rouge cronies are all in any positions that matter to keep the crooked clock ticking, A judicial system that does not function and an Army used  solely to repress the people and cripple any dissent.

 

Give me Thailand or Vietnam any day for a holiday or retirement, regardless of a few moans and groans. Be happy and count your blessings.

I have written this before ...I talked to many foreigners staying in Thailand and they agreed with me that - without being paradise - it was still the country where life was best for expatriates compared to all other Asean member states

6 hours ago, imagemaestro said:

Just a cautionary note.  Green tea, unsweetened and preferably freshly brewed or prepared, hot or cold is an acquired taste... but delicious and refreshing.... however if you have for dietary or other reasons been warned about caffeine use be careful.  Many contained substantial levels of caffeine.

 

I have gastro  reflux problems.....  severe.  (GIRD)  or (GORD) depending on USA or Britain.   I was chugging green tea like a madman believing it was good for me.  Not so.  It's caffeine levels were making life worse.

I hope you saw a doctor and got a gastroscopy because it can cause cancer ...I took omeprazole (brand name in Thailand is Miracid) more than a year and got rid of the problem but I can no longer eat hot spiced food

could become extended like X-mas season which first was one week and now starts already from early November

One of my Dutch friends is coming to Thailand end of April to buy an apartment in Hua Hin.

He will need to open Thai bank account to send money for the purchase and the renovation :  do I understand he will have problems to open an account?

5 hours ago, whatawonderfulday said:

Clue 1)  Because he was a diplomat when it was issued.

However if your government considers that the diplomatic assignment ended such passport should be returned : so the question is ..."what is his actual diplomatic assignment"?

thanks to all : this is now clear to me

1 hour ago, Thaijack2014 said:

Your question was why you should use any other software and not which software, right?

Well, the reason is that windows contains hidden files as well as protected files which are necessary. With ordinary copy and past, these files can't be accessed. So you would create a useless copy.

I'm not a friend of any backup software.

I always do the following: while I still have a good version of Windows, I make sure to have either a second partition on my HD or another hd in my computer.

On that one I save and keep all my data like: music, documents, pictures etc.

This is safer then keeping those important files on the C partition.

For everything else I have the original files stored outside the pc.

So in case of a virus, malware or broken harddrive, I just install a fresh version of windows.

This is a lot faster, better and cleaner then to try to get rid of a virus or wasting many hours in search of the things that went wrong.

It also brings the opportunity to upgrade your drive and replace it with a bigger Harddrive or faster SSD drive.

It sounds complicated, but believe me, sometimes working with backup programs brings more loss than doing it manually. I know because I helped a few people with their PC's...

I do exactly like you : on C only the OS while on D the data (those are both internal) but I have also 2x 2Tb external HD 

Do I understand well that if I make a Clone of C disk (using Acronis or Easeus ) and then put it on external HD I can in case of a crash re-install the OS and the installed software programs without a need to find and re-introduce the serial numbers?

I have plenty of space on several external hard disks ( I use Windows 10)

I tried a free backup software for the C disk where my Operating System is located and I noticed that the volume of the backup file is about the same as the original.

So could I just copy all the data on my C disk without need of a software : or is there a software which includes the full recovery of all installed programs without a need to  re-insert the serial numbers and the activation?

The same question applies for my D disk (with 1.8 Gb data only) ; why need for software if I can just make a backup copy using Windows.

The meeting will be at Trump's Mar-a-Lago retreat in Florida :  why not hire some strippers to relax the atmosphere....this has been done to comfort mourners during funerals in China

4 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

It seems that the disintegration of the Trump Presidency is happening even quicker than some predicted! General Flynn seeking immunity is huge!

Sent from my SM-A500F using Thailand Forum - Thaivisa mobile app
 

Usually in the US prosecutors give immunity to small fish in order to fry a big fish : is there in Trump administration still a bigger fish than Lt Gen Flynn?

3 hours ago, inzman said:

Just proof how corrupt the U.K. Is allowing him in! Try to bring your Thai spouse, hell no!

He may have a UK or US or other passport allowing him to travel freely.

If this HiSo has not yet been charged with a crime and reported to Interpol nobody can stop him if he has the right passport.

1 hour ago, sanukjim said:

Hey EU,Did The UK's exit vote show others that they too can grow balls and not have to go along with what Germany or Brussels dictates ?

Well Poland is not at all important - as was the UK - for the EU .....All those East European countries sucked the subsidies of the West European member states.

If they want to get out ..please let them go 

11 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

All offices will accept the form with it addressed like that.

You do not need to show any proof of income. You swear an oath that it is true and correct in front of consular officer.

You can do the affidavit at the US consulate in Chiang Mai instead of going all the way to Bangkok. Info here: https://th.usembassy.gov/embassy-consulate/chiang-mai/

 

Check if the affidavit made at the US Consulate will be accepted by Immigration without legalization by the Consular Department of the Thai Foreign Ministry.

In the past many Immigration Offices accepted affidavits from Embassies ...but in my case they want (and have to right to) require that the said Consular Department certifies (=legalizes) the Embassy stamp or signature as legal for use in Thailand. Indeed only this Consular Department has copies of stamps or signatures of all the consular sections of foreign missions in Thailand

38 minutes ago, Mousehound said:

Actually, I doubt that the European  economists are clueless.  I would expect them to be as good as any other  economists. So that begs the question as to why things go wrong.  They go wrong because either economics just can't get it right or politicians ignore the economists advice or both. 

Economy is NOT a science :  indeed the human factor is more than 50%...for instance if to-morrow the Saudi monarchy is overthrown all economic models will be out of the window.

- the great and arrogant rating agencies such as Moody's, Fitch, Standard & Poor's had no clue of a coming great economic crash of 2008 until the day Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. The great "oracle" which was Alan Greenspan studied the precedents of the 1929 crash but during his days at the Fed he said to believe the financial sector would regulate itself. 

- Nobel Price for Economy laureates went bankrupt after they applied their theories in a company :  http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/01/risk-without-reward.html

- a good economy is when people believe the economy is good / a bad economy is when people believe the economy is bad  :  but when does the "click of change" happen? 

Investors are like a pack of young dogs : if one dogs discovers a good tree to pee then all dogs will run to that tree...until one dog starts to bark and panic sets in.

Does AIS fiber allow unlimited Gigabytes download ?  Does it throttle download of torrents?

18 minutes ago, Lupatria said:

He probably got an entry visa for humanitarian reasons...

21 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

Can he please take back home the million of turks living on well fare and child supports in European Countries Thank u!!

Good question...but most of them have double nationality

7 hours ago, pitrevie said:

The EU was there before the UK joined and now that the one country that spent the last 40 years whinging, complaining and demanding special deals is leaving I should imagine that they are going to be there long after the door has slammed behind us. 

The European Parliament will no longer have to put up with Farage droning on and on and his presence will not be missed in the one committee he was appointed to given that he attended just once out of a possible 42 times.

I think Kenneth Clarke got it just right when he said words to the effect that he wished his country well even though he thought it was a very bad decision and that he feared for the future a position I endorse wholeheartedly.

i also wish the EU well in the future as I do not see it in the U.Ks interest that it should fall apart as many on the Brexit side wish for. 

Well written 

The EU is now suffering from too many years prospering in peace and serious reforms are needed...but we should not forget that the initial idea was to assure peace and prosperity through a profound reconciliation between (West) Germany and France and let others join in the project. 

9 hours ago, binjalin said:

I must say it can be very annoying I know when I'm in Jakarta they drive me nutz but it IS Jerusalem  

I had the same experience in Jakarta : my hotel room window on the 15th floor faced immediately a minaret...I suspect there was only a recording, an amplifier and loudspeaker  and no real person behind the noise ...I went nearly nuts very early morning and so should the guy if he was really present

This reminds me of a new version of an old joke

Donald Trump decided to tackle the North Korean problems with a good "deal" and he traveled to Pyongyang

Now Kim Jong Un is keeping him as a hostage and he sent following message to the HQ of the GOP : " You pay 10 billion dollar or we release him"

I think the hour of truth for Trump will come when it appears to be impossible to return what he calls "millions of jobs" which were outsourced to cheap labor countries the past 30 years. I cannot believe car manufacturing or steel production can return to its old glory in "the rust belt" and to fill the many open jobs requiring higher skills the US should invest in free education which will never happen.

Because I am more than 70 I can use the Fast Channel at Immigration upon arrival / is there a similar fast channel at departure?

I never heard about health insurance for an expat in Thailand, except the well known private health insurance companies / how can an expert have access to Thai social security>

9 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Expect a rental rise for these amulets and statue on the open market..  

He should have sent his amulets to Leicester coach Ranieri