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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.

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

Maybe they need to print more of these then.............

What sort of person needs to be advised by his government not to crap in the street (rhetorical question).

14 minutes ago, elgenon said:

Yes, you are correct. I am using the common and easy-to-say terminology and I believe I am understood which is the purpose of language. Your attention to detail is to be appreciated.

Yes, visa extension is the most commonly used terminology on here, definitely. I'd recommend using the ignore button for certain posters on this forum, it makes visiting a lot more pleasant.

On 6/14/2019 at 9:40 PM, thequietman said:

I don't mind coming in for free as it doesn't happen a lot, but I have lessons already booked and paid for by private students. Some notice and I could have turned off my schedule and all this could be avoided.

 

They gave me 11 days notice and it seems they don't give a damn what I have planned that weekend.

To give notice requires forward planning and Thais aren't big in that dept. Just imagine children in adult bodies running the establishment and you have it.

Land of hypocrites.

As long as I ignore the fact that she hardly ever does any housework and has always got her face in her phone then we get along fine (12 years together). 

"Anyway the entire experience was quick, easy, painless and pleasant."

As it should be in any civilised country. Thanks for the report.

The boy's word against the girl's. I reckon the one who pays the most tea money wins the case. I was also under the impression that if you agreed to marry the girl here then all charges of rape etc were dropped(?) I'm willing to be corrected.

Good time to go to Jomtien just before lunch, also late afternoon.

9 hours ago, darksidedog said:

I am glad he had the decency to return the money, but feel he only did so from the shame produced by social media. Had it not been so well publicised, I suspect he would not have done so. We all make mistakes. The woman is satisfied, the cops seem to be letting it go. All that remains is for the TV punters to shred him a little more I guess.

I have nothing but praise for the Thai lady who has been very fair minded about the whole thing and more than gracious. I wish there were more like her. Her boyfriend seems to have picked a good one.

I agree, he'd've gotten away scot free if he hadn't been caught red handed by the cctv. I'd be happy to see him sentenced to a free kick up his fat arse by that lovely lady.

54 minutes ago, sometimewoodworker said:

I have seen a report that a Bangkok agent will quit frequently visit an immigration office in northern Issan and has been seen with quite a few passports talking to the contact in that office. 

 

So I'm not surprised by the OPs report. 

 

It has happened that one or more people have had a problem with an extension obtained via an agent. So @Tanoshi is giving good advice. Even better is not to use an agent at all.

"Even better is not to use an agent at all."

I personally don't use one, but if I had plenty of money I would. In my opinion it's what the IOs want you to do and is therefore a bombproof method. Can you see an IO, from the bottom to the top man killing off the golden goose. That's why we have all these complicated rules encouraging you to use them.

8 hours ago, PatOngo said:

More targets for the world class ladyboy pick pockets, well done!

I've lived in the Pattaya area for 12 years and it must be many months since I last saw a ladyboy. I've never had my pockets picked by one. Mind you, if you're the type who likes to get up close to them it may happen. However, if you live in a wooden hut in a jungle clearing in Nakhon Nowhere, it probably won't.

4 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Absolutely disgraceful behaviour from the guy beating the crap out of the poor girl. Given the amount of times such scum pull out a gun when someone tries to intervene, I can kind of understand people not wanting to rush in to assist, but still an extremely poor show by the bystanders. There were plenty of them after all, and it went on for a while.

Friend of mine jumped off the back of a baht bus to help a Thai woman being beaten up by a guy. He ended up being severely beaten by the guy, the woman and a group of motorbike taxi riders.

On 6/3/2019 at 10:56 PM, tlandtday said:

yeah do some research on world health organization safe levels for 2.5 particles and you will see pattaya exceeds this all of high season and beyond the last years... this isn't rocket science but has been covered up in the media in the past... in fact the pattaya reporting station has been conveniently closed for many years but technology has allowed readings through volunteers such as airvisual etc.

You're talking central Pattaya now, but who in their right mind, except for the bar mongers, wants to live in the middle of the city. Just up the coast past Jomtien, or inland it's beautiful.

On 6/3/2019 at 10:03 PM, tlandtday said:

Don't waste your time Pattaya area has dangerous 2.5 pollution levels minimum 6 months of the year.  Go south or find another country.

Blx! No pollution in the Ban Amphur area away from Sukhumvit, only the occasional neighbour burning his garden waste.