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13 hours ago, Tanoshi said:

Secondary proof is now a Thai bank statement showing overseas transfers.

If that's the case then it isn't worth getting the embassy letter in the first place, just go for the bank intl transfer letter and save the embassy fee. I thought the secondary proof was your pension etc documents from your home country?

12 minutes ago, brucegoniners said:

Once again, shocking there would be prostitution in Pattaya! 

 

But in all seriousness, the underage shit has to go. 

Agreed, but can't see many farang asking to check the lady's birth certificate before doing the dirty deed.

19 hours ago, carabaothai said:

prostitution in Pattaya?

So so shocking !

 

What a joke! 

 

I'd be more surprised if they'd found a bar in that part of Pattaya without prostitution. Why, do they imagine, do so many girls come over here from Isaan? For the 300 baht a day working as waitresses?? 

That was an expensive short time that the "plant" was quoted, I'd expect four all-nighters for that. At least I would've done 12 years ago when I was single.

7 hours ago, Beggar said:

What happened to this poor animal afterwards?

It would most certainly have been put back in the lake, alive with a bit of a sore mouth.

Well stab a sausage. Whoopee! Another reason why I'll never attend the Glastonbury pop concert.

1 hour ago, topt said:

Yes - there have been a number of threads on this going back to March when it started at Jomtien

 

Exactly - I think some of the posters are getting a little paranoid.

Hardly surprising taking into consideration TI's reputation.

How about an election by the people? It's called democracy. Although, judging by what's been happening in the UK since the Brexit referendum, maybe it'd be a waste of people's time and energy.

7 minutes ago, mlmcleod said:

Sadly, the citizens of Hong Kong are screwed.  If the legislation does not pass China will just replace the judges that are "independant".  It's a catch-22 situation there!  The bilateral agreement with Great Britain when the colony was returned to China was always a farce just to keep Hong Kong residents from fleeing to Great Britain.

UK governments don't even keep their promises to the Brits living in the UK, it's no surprise they broke them to the HK Chinese.

41 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

Good man, right decision, hopefully not too late. 

Of course it's too late. three years too late!

4 hours ago, pegman said:

Finally someone who will attempt to stop the insanity. 

He and the rest of the losing side are the insanity.

51 minutes ago, pontious said:

There is no guarantee on anything,  Jomtien included, all you can do is have Plan 2 or 3 available if required.

You're right. I already have 400,000 odd in the bank for a marriage extension, but I only want to go that route as a last resort. I'm going to try the retirement monthly income method, but by the time I opened a BB account using Transferwise, it was February, so I'm hoping they show leniency. Failing that, I'll try the combination method, so I'm waiting for positive reports on either of them before falling back on the dreaded marriage visa option.

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

 

 

Surly is a good description. She said NO to the Combination method, but there is a glimmer of hope, she is desk 7, maybe no.8 retirement desk might be less closed minded. At the beginning she wouldn't let me talk, being surly, she was banging on about my passport which was irrelevant because I'm not 50 yet but her ears were closed. She wanted to describe how it all worked which i didn't ask, but i let her bang on, in the end i managed to get across I'm not 50 until the end of the year and that's when she started smiling, probably realised she should have opened her ears earlier

 

Is counter 7 the first on the left behind a glass screen? If so, I know what you were up against. I went there in January for a letter of residence to open a Bangkok Bank account. She flatly refused to issue me one, saying I had to get it from my embassy. If that's the rule then ok, but she was really offhand with me, no attempt to answer my valid queries. I kept my cool, but was blazing inside. Why are low-level public servants here so nasty and unhelpful to people, even when those people are being polite towards them? I have a policy now never to ask questions of immigration, if I need help I normally ask on here.

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

I just had a jaw dropping experience at Jomtien, although i tried not to drop my jaw. I wanted to ask those questions in the Op.I was given a ticket for desk 7 which is change visa desk. I'll summarise the points:
- I can't use income method 65k a month to change to Non Imm O.
- I'd need 800k in the bank to convert
- when I asked she said i could go to Laos and get the Non Imm O
- Unclear whether I could use the monthly 65k to then apply for the year retirement extension as not 12 months. Not her desk i think, desk 8.
- She said no to Combination method, seemed to not understand it at all although i explained it twice.
- She offered to fix the problem by her arranging the Non imm O and year retirement extension for 20,000 baht. So same as agent but a 1,000 baht cheaper.

So even if i went to Savannakhet to get the Non Imm O it's still not clear if i could then get a year retirement extension, she was talking about 12 months of 65k, but she seemed unsure on that.

It wasn't easy to ask questions as she was typically hostile but softened up towards the end when she thought she'd sold the 20,000 baht fix

 

"- She offered to fix the problem by her arranging the Non imm O and year retirement extension for 20,000 baht. So same as agent but a 1,000 baht cheaper."

Just as I've thought since the new rules started, they aren't designed to prevent people from using agents or paying under the table, but to encourage it. This is why there are so many surly IOs when you want to go down the legal route.

Despite it being in the police order amendment, there isn't one person on here who can guarantee that Jomtien immigration are going to show leniency on the monthly income method without an embassy letter.

Also, I for one am still uncertain as to what is required for the combination method.