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1 minute ago, Toshiba66 said:

A multi entry 12 month visa is about $225 AUD

Why would he have to apply for a multi entry, no need unless he wanted to!

1 minute ago, Toshiba66 said:

You still need to go to Immigration after 90 days to get your marriage Visa. But then your good for 12 months just doing the 90 day reports.

Apply for and get a single entry Non O Visa, obtain 90 days upon entry, around 30 days prior to this entry expiring go to Immigration and apply for a one year extension based on marriage, in theory only two trips to immigration and costing 1,900 THB plus copies and transport etc. Stay here without having to depart and do the 90 day reports as normal.

The way you are suggesting means an additional trip to immigration to convert the tourist entry in to a Non O entry PRIOR to being able to apply for the extension based on marriage and involves more cost and hassle without a doubt!

1 minute ago, Senior Player said:

Thank you for that reply. So at my next 90 Day a Report which is beyond the expiry date but within the extra 12 months add-on, I won't be asked to provide further details of my bank balance? Sorry, I just want to clarify so I don't make a huge mistake when I return.

It would stand to reason that you recently departed and arrived back in to Thailand?

If so, then the 90 day report would not be due until 90 days after your last arrival in to Thailand (including the day of arrival), each time you depart Thailand then the 90 day clock resets upon arrival back, it would not be due until you had been here for 90 continuous days, there is no need to produce any financial documents for a 90 day report.

3 minutes ago, Toshiba66 said:

Because it costs more and is not necessary. If you come on a non-o you need to leave the country after 90 days and come back. No need to leave doing it the way I suggested. After 90 days you get your marriage visa and never have to leave the country if you don't wish to.

Confused!

Doing as UJ suggests is far simpler (and possibly cheaper) in the end as there is no need to go to immigration to convert a TV to a Non-O and the extension based on marriage should be easy, absolutely no need to leave after 90 days.

I do not think the OP wants to have two registered places of residence in that sense, he just wants to get a residency certificate for his Jomtien address so that he can purchase a motorbike registered to that address and he was just concerned if this would trigger something in the Immigration System.

From my recent experience getting the Residency Certificate in Jomtien (Dec 2016), then I do not think there is any danger of Chonburi & CM Immigration sharing information whatsoever.

In my particular case, I technically have two places of residency, Bangkok where I work and Chonburi where I spend the weekends, I consider Chonburi as my main abode and therefore got the residency certificate from Jomtien in order to re-register my car to that address.

Bangkok Immigration will not issue a RC to anybody that is not making 90 day reports to them, Jomtien do (or at least did in December) there were no checks at all, just needed to give them the correct paperwork they required, which in my case was a copies of the proof of residency, main passport photo page, last entry stamp, TM6 and extension of stay (issued in BKK), plus of course the fee (even though it is free!!) 

I've made no 90 day reports, no TM.30 report etc. to Jomtien and it took about one hour to get the RC at that time.

There were several people getting RC's for different purposes, some even here on holiday and staying in a hotel, didn't appear to be any issue to get.

Unless things have dramatically changed in the last 4 months, Jomtien appears to be one of the more relaxed Immigration offices to obtain a residency certificate from, so long as you can prove a place of residence within their jurisdiction.

1 minute ago, retirementenquiry said:

It states clearly that leaving the country is "equivalent" to 90 day reporting clearly posted in large sign at the back of counter 3, however jomtien immigration are ignoring this rule and are imposing fines on people for not also doing the 90 report

I find that difficult to understand, they have absolutely no right to fine anybody in those circumstances, as the 90 day report is to report that you have been staying in Thailand for a continuous 90 day period, if you departed the Country prior to being here for 90 days, then by definition you have no need to report. Day one would start again on the day of arrival back in to Thailand.

There might be circumstances whereby somebody has misinterpreted the rules and departed the country AFTER the 90 days and did not report prior to departing, the 7 day after rule does not apply in those circumstances, however, pretty unlucky for the IO to check that deeply in to it.

If it is a case of Jomtien fining people that did depart prior to the 90 day period, return and then report 90 days after their last date of arrival, then it is a total scam and should be reported.

No it shouldn't have any effect at all, no need to even mention CM to Jomtien at all.

I recently got a residency certificate from Jomtien Immigration Office, it was a relatively painless procedure.

So long as you have some form of proof of address with the Jomtien address on it and your name (utility bill, rental agreement etc.) relevant copies of your passport and photos, then it will not be an issue at all.

6 minutes ago, Ducatiski said:

As I understand it if you leave the country you have to report to immigration within 7 days after your return Thailand.

 

Can anyne confirm this?

The fact that you had left the country would negate the need for a 90 day report, as you would not have been in Thailand for 90 (89 really) consecutive days.

However, you may be referring about the need to report your address to Immigration? If so it is within 24 hours of arriving, though the need to actually do this depends on the area the immigration office is located in, some enforce it, some don't.

If you are staying in a hotel, then in theory they will report your staying to Immigration.

Loads and loads of posts in the Thai Residency, work permit forum about this.

1 hour ago, Grumpy Duck said:

Is it the TM47?

Yes, for the 90 day report.

I am not wishing to get in to any arguments at all about the terminology etc. as totally agree it should be correct when asking a question on TV.

I was just pointing out the basics, which is in general terms an extension of stay is the permission to extend the stay of a visa and continues to be such, whether that visa has expired or not.

Not sure about logic, the point I am trying to make is that the extension of stay for one year (or two if BOI / IEAT related) is two-fold, one is it is based on a allowable reason to extend the stay and the second is it is extending a stay of a visa in most instances, very few Farangs residing in Thailand have a one (or two) year extension of stay that did not involve a visa originally, even if the reason for extending the stay may change over the years.

There are exceptions to this rule, just not in the context being debated in this thread.

2 minutes ago, dentonian said:

Your Visa long since expired and you are now extending your permission to stay at a local internal Immigration office, who issues permits to that effect, not Visas.

Though I agree with the statement that the visa has expired and that the stamp is an extension of stay, it is still a fact that in most cases the extension of stays issued are extending the stay based on that original visa, for example, each and every time a passport is renewed in these cases, then there will always be a stamped entry in the new passport that refers back to the original visa.

Can I clarify this a little so that is very clear.

The first 60 day extension counted as a 90 day report, however, if you get another 60 day extension then you would be due to make a 90 day report based on the date that you applied for the FIRST extension, which would put a report due somewhere around 26th June 2017 (that date is not exact, just for info).

1 minute ago, ubonjoe said:

They will also accept or will want your annual income tax return (PND91)

For sure they would need it for an extension based on work, would have to show that no income tax is owing for 2016, also for the work permit application.

You should be able to use the tax receipts for 2016, your old employer should be able to provide these if you do not have, or perhaps the PND91 for the 2016 tax year, which would show the total earnings for the year, I'm not sure if immigration would accept that as it doesn't show monthly income, but if working for the whole 12 months then this is easily worked out.

UJ would confirm, but as far as I know the only requirement working wise is that the visa is non-immigrant, you need to tell the school that is the extension needs to be based on marriage.

I would imagine the only reason there is confusion here is that Immigration are trying to extend based on working and not marriage, you need to make it very clear to them that you want to extend based on marriage and not working.

Just paid my speeding fine at a branch of KTB, painless experience and a lot easier (and cheaper) than doing it at a post office, only issue was the bar code would not be read, so had to manually type info in.

Handy info to know about being able to pay at KTB, as just got a speeding ticket just the other day!

32 minutes ago, JimGant said:

Songkran gets its two work days of holiday on the 13th and 14th. As it doesn't fall into the weekend, no substitution holiday required.

For the last 28 years that I have lived in Thailand the Songkran holidays have always been 13th, 14th & 15th!

Although the 15th is a Saturday, then I also have not seen anything officially saying that 17th is going to be a public holiday, have one calendar that says it is a substitute for the 15th and one that does not! The Bank of Thailand website does not list it as a holiday.

On 01/04/2017 at 3:24 PM, Hopeful Thomas said:

Ok, seems he may be panicking about nothing. The list of questions was given to her by her English teacher.

She should fire her English teacher 'Questions about Reletionship'

On 12/03/2017 at 8:04 AM, JAS21 said:

Could be that you are charged each year  1%  on the amount that you borrowed ... hope not. It should be on what you owe.

That is exactly how the financing of cars in Thailand works, the rate looks low and attractive, however it is a percentage of the total amount over the number of years the finance is taken for.

So for example, if you were to pay a deposit of 50% of a 1 Million Baht car and the balance of 500,000 THB was taken on finance at a typical rate of 2% over 36 months, then the interest paid per year would be 10,000 THB with total interest charges of 30,000 THB over the loan period.

On 14/03/2017 at 8:28 AM, sometimewoodworker said:

The benefit is no early repayment fees, the downside is no early repayment saving 

This depends on the company who is providing the loan, for instance BMW Finance will discount 50% of the remaining interest if the loan is paid off early, worth checking with the loan company prior to deciding.

From their website two seconds ago. HK Visa Fees.pdf

The chip contains, as UJ states, the biometric and other information of the holder, so in the case of a UK passport it has everything you can see on the main photo page of the passport stored in there including the photo, when it is used in an e-gate (at an entry point where it can be), then your face is scanned and then compared to the biometric info contained in the chip, so no chip = no e-gate usage.

Apparently this method is far more secure than using fingerprints for positive identification.

http://hub.unlock.org.uk/knowledgebase/information-contained-on-uk-passports/