cusanus

Returned in just one day over three weeks. Zippo!

This is my 3rd time using the online method (two friends I walk through as well). FIrst time took about a month. Second time they didn't like the photo and took 3-4 weeks to let me know. Got it about a week before visa extension deadline. Third time I mailed it a week ago (16 Jan) but embassy was closed for two days. As usual I get only "Status not available" when checking online, but it says status updates will be sent using the email on your application. I'm worried because 90 day deadline is 10 March and visa extension 17 March (8 weeks) but everyone says they got the new one within 2-4 weeks. Knock on wood. What happens if you don't have it by 90 day deadline or visa extension? I couldn't use a debit card to pay the 100 baht fee, so I used the 1-2-3 service and took the receipt and phone to the bank and the teller used the bank app to finish payment. I had no idea how to do it.

Why is the application not being delivered? Oops, Google says it's closed 19 Jan 2026 for some holiday. What holiday? Oh, MLK day. Guess I can relax.

Gave up on debit cards and used 123 Service which issued a bill for 100 baht with QR code. Had no idea how to pay it but lady at the bank used my phone and Bangkok Bank app to pay it. Got home to the computer and it was paid, also two emails sent with the details.

HELP PLEASE! I have made eight different 100 baht orders for the envelope using two different Bangkok cards. It says charge was successful but then immediately cancels the order. Any ideas or any other way to get the envelope? The checklist says this is the ONLY way. But if it doesn't work? Now tried again, but requires a tax ID number. Who has one of those?

Damn. As soon as I make the 100 baht Postmart payment it says order processed but then cancels the order. I have now eight cancelled 100 baht orders. Lady at Bangkok Bank could not figure it out, either.

Is that his head in the bag?

So when you run out of bucks you could get a government job, huh.

Try to understand that us SS recipients are getting more senile by the day and the only hope we have is to blame the gummint. Even if you do make perfect sense, they may be ignoring you if you've pissed them off because that's how gummint works. Ask yourself, "Have I said something the gummint wouldn't like?" A master's degree with a 4.00 gpa was all it took to set them off for me and my life was in constant danger, so I got out of Dodge when the coast was clear. It took only one phone call to Manila and my checks have come every month since because the SSA doesn't know I have a master's degree and 4.00 gpa. Anyway, clearly the entire US of A is it's own cracker factory, not just gummint. The only Americans I know who aren't insane are you and me, and I'm beginning to wonder about you...

If SS can't process forms, then it makes sense that mailing them in isn't going to work, and zzzzz's email from Manila is probably right that benefits won't be suspended in any case next February. To be extra safe, you could still try the attestation method if you haven't done it already and ask the agent if it's worth doing. AI isn't trustworthy, but it's right arm some of the time, so this is what I got: Due to a federal funding lapse, the Social Security Administration has temporarily suspended the mailing and receiving of the 2025 Foreign Enforcement Questionnaires (Forms SSA-7161 and SSA-7162). This suspension means rrrecipients should not mail the forms to the processing center in Pennsylvania. However, for those who need to complete these forms, the SSA has introduced a new attestation process through signature proxy, available via phone or in-person through a U.S. Embassy's Federal Benefits Unit (FBU) or the SSA.

That's what I said. Undocumented = illegals

The census and other data collected by thousands of government workers are the real world. $25+ billion a year SS contributions by undocumented workers is an accurate assessment by people who are qualified to know such things, however critical you may rightly be of government. These are intelligent people who are not trained to lie. It must be you who doesn't live in the real world. I lived in the US for 57 years, BA Botany, MS Soils/Chemistry, nearly perfect gpa, MCSE 1999. I suggest you enroll in a university, flush the dream world out of your head and learn something about the real world. What is your point re KhunLA's post? He was trying to tell you the same thing I am. It may be illegal to hire undocumented migrants, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. God I feel sorry for your mamma.

Maybe not. Unable to confirm this with Internet search. Just one email from a lacky in Manila. Maybe it's not official. The usual advice is that if you haven't got the form, download the blank, fill it in, and mail to Wilkes-Barre. Not much effort just in case.

DAMN!

The topic is social security, not guns. Read to the end of the paragraph and read this: https://pewrsr.ch/47qCSnu You have a friend and claim without documentation to have extensive work hiring hundreds of people, but you aren't in the business of census work or research dealing with the official records of millions of people and definitely are not qualified to call the thousands of professionals who do such work liars.