Mattd

Just now, NE1 said:

The date of your next 90 day report should be printed out on you " approved " form immigration e-mails to you.

 

Ah, OK, so far nothing has come through on email, the status online is approved and doesn't state any date, didn't realise it is followed up with an email, thanks!

First time online 90 day report for me yesterday and I have to say that I'm quite impressed, nice and straight forward to use, so long as in IE and was approved within 1.5 hours, perfect!

Now I am sure the answer is in here somewhere, but when is the next 90 day due, this report was due on 6th November 2018, so did within the allowable 8 day window for online reporting, I am now assuming that the next report will be due 90 days after and including 24th October 2017?

The only realistic chance of you getting to come back in to Thailand is once the 3 years is up, even then expect some scrutiny coming in!

3 hours ago, pearciderman said:

 

It would also be impossible as there is no such thing as a "30 day tourist visa".

Yes, however, for whatever reason, the OP's friend seems to think there is and that is what he also thinks he may have been given, which we all know as being incorrect, so the point being, even if such an animal existed, then why, as a Brit would you pay money for something that is no better than a visa exempt entry!

5 hours ago, ferguston said:

 

 

A "service charge" is a polite way of saying pay a bribe or tea money.

Paying it will allow the practise to continue.

I am at loss for words, why would anybody expect to get this for free, you do not expect to get an extension of stay for free, or a reentry permit, yes, they do not advertise the cost, but surely you must understand there is a cost for them to do this, just in labour, paper, ink, electricity etc. etc. luckily for you I'm not in charge, otherwise it would be, yes sir, oh you want a residence certificate and you want for free, then please feel free to make your way to your embassy, coz you have no chance of getting here and if you ask why, then it is because I can, nose, spite and cut off springs to mind.

23 minutes ago, ferguston said:

OK. I stand corrected over the title of the document but it should be free.

 

I personally don't see anything wrong with paying a relatively small fee for the document, after all it has cost them time and effort to do, the alternative is going to your Embassy, British Embassy charge around 2,500 THB for this and appointment needed, so no contest really.

Must admit I don't see why it takes so long to issue at CW.

3 hours ago, sandyf said:

Possibly. She worked for Mermaid which was controlled by Danes but they had operations in Vietnam, Hong Kong and Singapore so there were a variety of nationalities in senior management. I trust you find the water a lot warmer here.

Then I would definitely know her, as I worked there from 2004 until 2016 as a vessel manager, then latterly as Fleet Director, please tell her Matt says Hi!

On 10/21/2017 at 6:55 PM, fbf said:

Incidentally, for calculating dates this comes in handy: Date Calculator: Add to or Subtract From a Date

FYI Windows 10 built in calculator has exactly the same features.

1 hour ago, sandyf said:

My wife used to work for a European company on the Pintong Industrial estate which comes under Sri Ratcha. Although she was finance manager rather than HR she handled all the affairs of the foreign nationals as they were all senior management. She always said that immigration was quite fair but stuck to the rules. I know in her day anyone that lost their job had to leave the country virtually straight away, they usually came back on a tourist visa to sort things out. She has been retired 5 years now so no recent experience from that perspective. In fact she retired some time before I ever did my first extension, I had done 6 years on a Non Imm O before I had any real dealings with immigration and life was certainly a lot easier. I was very tempted to go back to that this year but I am not so fit to travel as I was.

Small life, the company I worked for was also based in Pinthong and one of the few there that employed expats, so likely I know your wife from this, I was one of the founding members of the women that swam in the sea in Denmark!

Oh dear, he does sound stubborn!

He will get 60 days, of that I'm certain, it doesn't actually say the entry duration on the visa sticker, so as he says, he will know once he arrives.

I reckon he might be getting the 30 day bit mixed up with the extension he can apply for once here, which is probably what the embassy girl was trying to tell him.

Just for the record, I know of 4 people who fairly recently changed their reasons for extension of stay from employment to either retirement or marriage, all were extending for work from non b visas originally and all were working up until redundancy and for the naysayers, they all did this at Sriracha Immigration office.

Admittedly this was done with the help of the company HR department, however, it just shows it can actually be done.

On 10/20/2017 at 1:22 PM, jgarbo said:

The law books aren't thrown away. Nor are they final arbiters. A very smart Thai told me long ago that farang come from legal societies, whereas Thais come from a civil society. He's was right. I've broken quite a few "laws" but never been jailed, because I understood & respected the others' feelings and position. While ever farang still believe they're in some tropical England or US, they'll be unhappy, because their expectations will not match reality.

I tire of dealing with these people, who refused to admit reality. 

Sorry, but what a complete and utter load of rubbish, if you truly believe that this Thai was smart, then I despair.

This type of thinking is why the likes of Red Bull 'Boy' can get away with things and exactly why the average Thai doesn't even think and in a lot of cases know that he has done anything wrong, it is quite normal behavior for them.

What this 'smart' Thai is saying in effect is that so long as you understand and respect (pay off) other peoples feelings, then it is perfectly OK to do whatever they want, IMHO that is a self centered way of looking at life.

This in a country where they jail some poor nobody for 30+ years for liking the wrong post in Facebook, yet if you have money, then murder is OK.

Just now, alanrchase said:

 

Yes, we get both. The posted bill is a receipt but is in the form of a bill. Units used, cost per unit, tax,etc.

 

It would suffice for use as proof of address.

1 minute ago, jgarbo said:

All the farang are acting like ...farang. Insurance, law, etc are not as important as feelings. In any collision, both parties are considered at fault. The question is the "proportion" of blame. The kid is dead, she's not. He wins. She has a car, he had a bike. He wins. So attend the funeral, wai the parents and commiserate. Then get a third party to arrange compensation. Maybe Bt 100K. It's a life, remember. All forgiven, no police record.    

I do see where you are coming from, but the issue with this is that so long as this is the accepted way, then it will continue forever and the law book may as well be thrown in the bin, sometimes, unfortunately, fatal accidents are unavoidable, especially when somebody is on a motorbike and intent on killing themselves by shear idiotic riding, the person they hit maybe completely innocent, wrong place wrong time.

3 minutes ago, alanrchase said:

As far as I am aware they only post a bill to you if you pay by direct debit.

Actually they post the receipt to you, as the bill is already paid, you should still get the print out from the meter reader.

On 11/10/2017 at 1:17 AM, mike1983 said:

I'm planning on getting married then returning home and applying for her to come to the UK to be with me as soon as possible after I'm home.

I do hope that you have researched this part very very carefully, as this will be by far your biggest hurdle, there is the assumption that if married then the spouse is entitled to live in the UK and that is so very far from the reality nowadays, you will have lots of fiery hoops to jump through to achieve this part.

26 minutes ago, Langsuan Man said:

Because you can't see the need that means nothing

 

To even get a Certificate of Residency one of the pieces of paper needed by Immigration is a utility bill of some sort,  most people get a Internet Cable Bill in their name and use that for everything else. Guess you don't remember the days when you had to bring in a utility bill to do your 90 day report.  And most people I know have a pre-paid mobile account which has no bill that you could show

 

As far as the difficulty it all depends upon where your are located and what the "status" of the house

 

Pattaya Water Authority will require an update of your company registration if the house is in a company name to get the water in your name period, no exceptions.  Good luck getting them to put it in your name if the house is in your wife's name 

 

Electric Company is much easier, they just want the form from your bank for auto debit so the name will be the same as on your bank account.  They don't much care,  since unlike the water company,  residential electric rates are the same,  water on the other hand has higher rate and minimum usage  for a house in a company name  

Immigration will issue a residency certificate using anything billed by a Thai company with your name and address on it, as I said, a mobile phone bill for example.

My point is more that there are easier bills to get in your own name than the normal utility bills, for a house these are nearly always get billed to the housemaster named on the Tabien Baan and it is not easy to change that.

Luckily I've have had a work permit for a lot of years, so for 90 day reports have never needed anything like this.

The electricity bill for the house has been on a direct debit with PEA Banglamung since 2000 (even before they actually did automated direct debits, PEA sent the bill directly to SCB, who opened it and then paid the bill from the account, used to have to go to SCB to get the bills!!) and is in my ex. wife's name, even though the account it comes out if is a joint account.

5 minutes ago, balo said:

Right now it's okay , normal speed.  But when I click on post message , it stays on "saving " for 10 seconds, and that's not normal . 

 

+ 1 Same here.

What purpose does the OP want to do this for?

I cannot really see any advantage of it in his situation?

For most purposes of using a bill for proof of address, then most things are accepted, a mobile phone bill for example.

Others more knowledgeable will reply, but I would have thought the fact that you are 28 precludes any chance of this.

1 minute ago, vogie said:

So does my friend need a re-entry permit, as I said he is on a retirement extention.

If he needs to travel outside of Thailand, then yes he does.

10 minutes ago, illy said:

I have my own company [self employed] in Thailand and the extension of a single entry WP  requires a exhaustive list of company details, documents,accounting fees etc etc..in the long run i believe it's MUCH cheaper [even though its gone up $60au since last time] to get a ME visa than keep re applying every three months it seems.

It is most definitely not cheaper to use a ME non b as opposed to an extension, it might be, or appear to be, easier to get the ME non b, rather than collate the documentation, in reality, so long as the company has the documentation and the rest of the requirements are met, then it is by far cheaper than going out of the country every 90 days. The only exception would be if a person travels a lot and can use the ME visa in that way.

I'm afraid that in Thailand the fact that the car is bigger than the motorbike seems to overrule any road laws, no matter how innocent the car driver is, they will nearly always be coerced into paying something.

Happened to a work colleague a few years back, where a motorbike hit him, completely not his fault and turned out the rider was 13 years old, so obviously no license, insurance etc. and should not have been on the road, police demanded that the colleague pay for the damage to the motorbike, hospital bills and even for a school bus to take the boy to school until he had healed and could get the motorbike back!

When asked why he must pay, police reply was 'you bigger than him, he no money and needs to go school'!

Insurance was left to sort it out.

Having posted just 1 hour earlier saying that the pages were loading sort of OK, I wrote too soon, within this last hour it has gone terribly slow for me and I do mean slow, I managed to load and read 3 news reports on BBC.com in between one page trying to load on TVF and notifications I've given up on, they do not load after 3 or 4 minutes!