ralph

As I have been led to believe the "land" in question is like the "Gaza trip" in Israeli/Palestinian territory. There is no oil, gold, agriculturally it is a waste land but, apparently, it contains the only "road" to a temple already established to be the sole property of Cambodia.

Would the Thais, not very experienced at war, not consider getting permission and, building another road or is it preferable to start a "shooting" war instead ? Once again reports from Thais re : meetings with the Cambodians, ( everything okay ! ), and the Cambodians say no okay, get out or we shoot ! Were I to lay odds on the victor in a border skirmish, Cambodia would come out on top.

Most important is, even if the Thais win the "road" they still, without permission, cannot enter the Cambodian Temple. This is a classic example of a "no win' situation.

It must be time for the farangs that live in Thailand to start a lobby group for farangs rights.  If we farangs were able to lobby the government maybe we could change the way that things are done to farangs.  I don't know if farangs could even start a lobbies group or not in Thailand, but it sure would be a start.  Yes of course we would need a Thai Lawyer or spoke person to talk/represent the lobby group.  

I have another concern that I'm planning on moving to Thailand in three years.    Is the new requirement doing away with the retirement visa and just lumping it into one visa.  

The next question I have for this posting is:  I am married to a Thai lady for almost 32 years and she is now a United State citizen.  Will she be able to move back to Thailand and live like a Thai citizen?  She still has her old Thai passport and Thai ID.  Her resistor still have her living in Thailand.

If you can help please msg me or post it here.

                       Ralph

Thanks George and dr_Pat_Pong  Dr for your help.  

I was thinking about letting my wife go back to Thailand next year to get her Thai ID and passport.  If she was able to get her Thai ID and passport at that time , the next year or so I would move to Thailand.  Do you thing that is the best thing to do?

As to you may learn about under the table ways of bureaucracy.  I remember it very well because This is Thailand (TIT).

Again thanks

Ralph

I am waiting to retire in Thailand in 2006. I am now 53 years

old and married to a Thai lady for over 30 years. My wife is now a United State citizen. She carries a United State passport. She has an old Thai ID card and when we were in Thailand two years ago, she still shows up on the family resistor as never leaving Thailand. She was told by the major of her town she could get a new Thai ID card.

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> I want to know if she can move back to Thailand and live like an ordinary Thai citizen or will she have to apply for a non-immigration visa?

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> If she is able to get her Thai ID will she be able to get a Thai passport?

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> I keep seeing that there are requirements in Thailand for me. One being is having 800,000 Baht in the bank or income from retirement of 65,000 Baht per month. The problem is that there is so much confusion from one immigration office who says you need 800,000 another one says 400,000

> plus 65,000 per month income from retirement. Is their anyone who in the Thai government that can make a straight ruling on this subject?

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> Please help me, Ralph