Geekfreaklover

Hi, 

Quick and, hopefully, simple question.

1) I'm on a Single Entry non-o 90 days visa on basis of Thai child. 

Am thinking about getting a 60 day extension. I've read online that the child has to be present at immigration. Is this the case at Chang Wattana? My son is at boarding school and will be a headache to pull him out for one day just to do this.  I have the birth certificate original.

 2) Alternatively, I'm thinking of maybe just doing a border run across land. I haven't had a Visa exempt stamp in years and was wondering if I'd be issued a 30-day stamp on returning as was the case in the old days? I remember it switched to 15 days at one point. 

I'm not looking at a long-term visa as I am working abroad next month, just looking at the simplest way to give myself another month in-country. 

Thanks so much for any comments/advice! 

GFL   




  

Excellent stuff, BritTim...

Thanks very much for answering! 

Hi Guys, 

I'm planning a trip to Savannakhet on Sunday. Haven't been for about five or six or seven years for this visa, so thought I better check in here. 
I used to get a single or multiple Non-O based Thai kids here, birth-certificate, application form, photos. 
Is this still the case? 
I'm divorced from a Thai but have legal custody of the children. 
Do they still do the Non-O under these circumstances or would I be better applying for a tourist visa?  I have no previous tourist visas this calendar year.

Thanks, 
GFL

 

 

Well, Jonny, if you aren't trolling you are naïve to an unimaginable degree.

Why not tell us what actually happened?

Jonny, invest in a pair of Nike Air Max and use them .
You haven't given us the details but you've given us enough.

She has every thing to win and you have everything to lose. And guess what? It won't get any better the longer you dance with this situation.

Run, man, Run.

Forget morals. Forget commitment. Forget bad family and all that crap.

Get yourself away from this situation.

Before it gets you.

How do many Thais deal with constructive criticism, advice and instructions?

Answer: They don't.

Why? Because they know everything. Omnipotent, each and every one of them.

Have never met a black South African in Bangkok. Plenty of black Western Africans but never met a black South African. As far as I can tell from the White South Africans, of which there are many in Bangkok, the blacks have a proportionate amount of jobs to their population break-down in SA, so most of the white South Africans are in Bangkok as economic migrants looking for work, including, until he got caught, probably this guy Roland. Africa is a big place and South Africa a traumatized country with many racial issues going on. Best not to dwell on that for this topic. Point is a foreigner got caught selling drugs. Did the crime and one would imagine he will do the time.

I missed the question?

Most trolls throw in a question.

C'mon play the game.

Surprised by the fact that is completely acceptable to nap at work and trouble Bangkokians have with walking incrowded areas and negotiating. escalators.Surprised in rural areas how people point at things using only their lips and compare the size of stuff using their forearm

The Oxford angle has been overplayed in this reporting. There is no reasoning with a person in love with somebody who is out to get them. Love is a type of mental illness that the B-girls recognize and use to their absolute advantage. There is no remorse and he shouldn't of expected any. No sympathy would have been offered. It's a nasty little world out there. Most people actually enjoy the failure of others and if they had a drinking problem that gives them something to pin it on. Most of the local people around her and the incident will see her as 'intelligent' having pulled off such a scam and him deserving of his fate for being so naive. I don't buy that. Nobody deserves to be punished for trying to do what is in their mind the right thing to do..

Yes, he could of pulled himself out of it. It usually just takes the right person at the right time to say the right thing and the penny drops.

If he had been on one of these forums he may have seen the wood for the trees.

Interesting angle in the American woman who helped comfort him. I take this as spin by the government to put some of the the blame somewhere outside of the nation. Would be interesting to hear her take on things.

But he should have kept going. My heart is with his family and friends.

It's important to keep in mind that women don't just pull this kinda scam on foreign men. I recall speaking with a taxi driver here in Bangkok years ago. He had gotten a job in Saudi and sent most of his earnings back home to his wife each month for a few years. when he returned to Thailand his wife was gone as was the money. I asked him how that made him feel. He shrugged his shoulders and said. "I was stupid."

That guy lost it all and winded up driving a taxi.

This guy could have got a teaching position or whatever and kept on going.

As Churchill said - "When in hell, keep going."

I would be wary of any sexual partner who is happy to sleep bareback within a time frame of a couple of months. If that partner had an STD of some sort then obviously it is a warzone. The HIV virus needs a port of entry and blisters, warts, etc are the best way in. I'd be be more concerned of university girls and mainstream women who have been met by interdate dating sites, as they are more prone to unprotected sex and normaly have boyfriends who are also experimenting without protection. So, the advice is - trust no one - get tested - and enjoy a platonic relationship for a couple of months before taking the plunge.

Thanks guys,

I have sole custody, court papers, but the passport office were being difficult when we applied. Guess we should report until Thai passports sorted. Thanks,.

My two children, 8 and 9 years old came into Thailand after a holiday on their British passports. They are also Thai citizens and have lived in Thailand all their lives. A Thai passport is difficult to obtain as the Thai mother is not on the scene. Immigration issued them a year extension on their entry stamp and I'm confused as to if they have to do 90 day reporting. Immigration officer indicated they do have to but did not issue a 90 day slip. A visa agent recently told me they don't have to as they are under 15 years of age and cannot be fined or break immigration laws.
Anyone encounted this before?

Are there double standards at play here? Every time a farang dies after a sex session in a Pattaya hotel there's a photo of the dead naked corpse in the newspaper with a couple of coppers smiling like cheshire cats and doing the backwards "V" sign. Its just one rule for them and another for us etc etc etc.
My mistake - just seen the Thai newspaper. Red towel, and face out of shot.

It used to be the case that one could obtain a two month extension on a year extension of a non-o visa if you produce birth certificate of legally certified Thai child or marriage certificate to Thai national.  Is this still the case?

If I have two back to back year extensions on my non-o and don't have the 400k to show.

Thanks in advance.
  
 

Visit the local police station, with a Thai translator if you don't speak Thai, file a complaint against the woman. Helps if you have a copy of her ID. Next time she visits show her the report. She will be upset but be firm. If she visits again file another report. The third time she visits she will be arrested.
I find it impossible to believe that you have a long term partner who doesn't know of this hooker if your long term partner has been to your place and the hooker has been living there for months. She would have been told by neighbours or security without a doubt.

Stick was talking about leaving Thailand shortly after he started the website over ten years ago.
I believe he repeats the message each year.
It's like the rumours of Nana Plaza being knocked down. One day it will happen but only if the price is right.

Hardly the perfect murder in the first place.
Most Thai plumbing can't handle a couple of sheets of toilet tissue nevermind a corpse.

I usually hit the gym and work out while looking at my wonderful bronze muscular body in the mirror. It's tough, but helps ease the pressure.

The original poster is of course naive in believing that women who live in Pattaya or Bangkok are born and raised in these cities. The majority of Western visitors will only be exposed to economic migrants from poorer regions. Yes, this has been mentioned already. So although the question is quite simple it is far more complex.

We could compare it with "are women from California better than those from New York," or 'are women from London better than those from Newcastle." We can generalize with more authority as usually these cities are filled with a majority of city-bred people. Well, at least, a hundred years ago we could. But it is not as easy as that.

A better question would be 'Is a woman or man with two stable loving parents and a decent education a better partner than one who left school at nine years old, left home at fourteen and worked hustling strangers in the street?" - Perhaps. Perhaps not. Depends on who you are.

I think what normally happens with Thai and Farang coupling is that social-upbringing unites despite wealth. So a successful builder or plumber or offshore tool-pusher will find a a successful, ahem, tool-pusher. He has money and she needs it. They have both come from tough backgrounds. A council-estate in an inner city is a lot tougher place to grow up in many ways than on a farm.

Language is key but not necessary. I once met an English guy who I couldn't understand speak English and I'm from England. He spoke no Thai. His father was the manager of a large hotel in Bangkok. Set him up with this lovely Isaan girl who spoke English fluently and had been educated in a US university. It baffled me for a while. How could they be together? <deleted>? Until I realized the motives were clear and simple, despite her education, maybe because of it her motive was: Money.

So, Pattaya women, Bangkok women. I would consider motives. Yours and theirs. Normally they are not the same.

Hers: Money. Yours: Some strange Western concept.

I'm torn on this one. I've never figured out how a group can simply move into the busiest intersections of a capital city without any resistance from the police, army, etc. Yet, since they moved in, it's been quieter and traffic at Asok has never been better.

That's because the police are not snarling up the traffic with impromptu traffic light dances and dodgy tickets.

Or maybe because all the protesters are car-owners who bought their cars through the promotional car buying scheme (brought about by the floods and the risk of the Japanese moving their manufacturing car plants out of Thailand – a scheme brought in by Yingluck’s party) have left their cars at home to go and sleep in tents, blow whistles, and do some shopping for the last few weeks. Just a thought.

I have been to a couple of protest sites, and I guesstimate that 10% of the people at the nightly rallies actually stay overnight at the camps. The other 90% live in BKK and go home to sleep.

Of the campers, >90% are from the provinces (from the signs like PDRC Surat etc).

Sure – but the locals leave their cars at home because the main roads are blocked. Which in my mind is progression?

I'm torn on this one. I've never figured out how a group can simply move into the busiest intersections of a capital city without any resistance from the police, army, etc. Yet, since they moved in, it's been quieter and traffic at Asok has never been better.

That's because the police are not snarling up the traffic with impromptu traffic light dances and dodgy tickets.

Or maybe because all the protesters are car-owners who bought their cars through the promotional car buying scheme (brought about by the floods and the risk of the Japanese moving their manufacturing car plants out of Thailand – a scheme brought in by Yingluck’s party) have left their cars at home to go and sleep in tents, blow whistles, and do some shopping for the last few weeks. Just a thought.