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No such thing as a marriage or retirement visa? hmm... Getting a retirement visa but "presumes" they'll require a return ticket to Australia?
Look, Ellathai, don't presume anything, just follow the instructions which I presume are listed on their website. I'm not from down under, but here's the instructions listed per Chicago Thai consulate: http://www.thaiconsulatechicago.org/pages-Visa.html. These should be the same everywhere, and I presume you can get the 90 day O by mail in Australia as well. I seriously doubt anyone wants to see a return ticket.
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On 12/11/2016 at 1:46 PM, ellathai said:
Just a wild guess they may want to see your leaving
Must be missing something here. When you arrive in Thailand to complete the marriage or retirement visa, most people expect to remain. Why would anybody want to see a return ticket?
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On 4/18/2015 at 2:05 AM, Maestro said:
Forget about the OP's posts in other threads and look at the question he is asking here (as modified by me):
Is the TM-30 form necessary to do a notification of staying longer than 90 days (form TM.47) for people on a retirement extension?
In other words, when a foreigner on a retirement extension goes to his local immigration office to submit the TM.30, does the immigration officer ask this foreigner also for the TM.30? This is the specific question asked by the OP.
Was your question answered? Think you meant to say "when.. submit the TM47..." I don't have an answer to that here in Chiang Mai because I do the 90 day reports via mail. I started doing that after being passed that new form asking for personal information which I found quite distasteful. Mail works fine and is much easier, only thing is that you lose a few days to the next reporting requirement. Based on reports that this could happen, I took my Thai wife to immigration to do the TM30, paid the 1600 baht fine. I don't want any delays doing my visa extension coming up and figure eventually I'll get popped, anyway. Maybe I wouldn't be, but why not follow the law, anyway? What I don't understand is for hotels and guest houses how it ends up that the farang gets his TM30 stub tacked into his passport to prove it was done. The Big Question for anyone in Chiang Mai, have you been caught without a TM30 yet either for the 90 day report or a visa extension?
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7 hours ago, al mcnab said:
Is the landlord's TM30 registeration receipt essential for the foreigner's retirement visa renewal?
It was not needed when I did the extention this year, in April.
Anyone who is sure about this, please advise me.
My landlord is reluctant to do that probably for the fear of fine for the late lodgement.
Thank you
Maybe not, but it's supposed to be per notice in the airport office; anyway, people are getting called on it as I understand even for the 90 day report. To me, I'd rather not be surprised when I go in for a visa renewal and then have to bother with a reschedule plus having to pay the fine, anyway somewhere down the road. Surely, you can cover the 1600 baht and spare the landlord, because you're the one who'll suffer, not him. My advice is to do as we did, go in and ask, pay the fine, get the stub stapled into your passport. OR just stall as long as possible I guess isn't that big a deal.
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Guess I for sure didn't make it clear. It's confusing only because the law hasn't been enforced in the past and suddenly it's being enforced. How it's being enforced or your interpretation of the law doesn't carry any weight with Immigration. The point is that if you don't have the TM30 stub stapled to your passport when you go in for a visa extension (or 90 day report some are saying), that you're liable for a 1,600 baht fine. I've lived with my wife in her house for 8 years, she didn't believe me, and then she was fined 1,600 baht and had to provide a copy of her ID. The yellow book means nothing, the definition of temporary means nothing. If you haven't got the TM30 stub, you don't get an extension. The former habits may hang on at certain Immigration offices and people may be dragging their feet, but it's a lot easier to get your ducks lined up. Also, if you decide to leave the country to get a new visa, you still have to have a TM30 within 24 hours of arrival. This was all explained very well in the article I linked to in my last post. CM Immigration took a lot of time to corroborate all these things to my incredulous little wife, I can't see how it's realistic to require all householders to go to Immigration personally, but my advice is to do what they ask. How the law is implemented is their business. Don't let me stop you from trying to change their minds, that is certainly well worth doing, but please come back and tell us how far you got. I see my link to the commercial website was removed, so maybe it's okay if I just say Google TM30 form required and pick and choose for the best information. How about the 3rd down, Bangkok Immigration, but I often get a better understanding checking others as welli, even Thaivisa. ... . .
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Hopefully, I can clear this up for everyone. I've tried to get the "owner" to do a TM30 for me for many years, but everybody used to ignore this law. NOT NO MORE. It's no surprise that suddenly it is required, and if you do NOT have one by visa time, you must get one ASAP - and the fine is 1600 baht. Not sure who owes it being it's the owner's responsibility, but you WILL pay it or it's your tail that will be burned. My wife (owner) and I went to Immigration last week with her insisting I was "STUPID" every kilo of the way, nothing unusual about that. Then we get there and I am RIGHT. Also not unusual. Anyway, you can download the files needed from this site which explains it so well, check on down. I expect you may need a copy of the owner's ID as well, at least we did.
<link to commercial website removed>
Of course, the sweet thing is that 1600 baht times the number of foreign residents in Thailand will go a long ways to paying for that submarine! :) You all have a great day, I know I will...
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I've been here almost 12 years and not sure if a TM 30 was ever submitted, but that's the owner's responsibility, not the farang. Now, MAYBE it's not an issue if you have a driver's license, because for that you have to submit a residence verification, not sure what that form is now. Anyway, as long as your address never changes, there's surely no cause to think about it. As for the 90 day report, that's NOT a requirement. By the way, you can do the 90 day report by registered mail, which is very easy and reliable, just make sure you follow the directions. DO check out Immigration's own instructions, though a tad murky: http://www.immigration.go.th/nov2004/en/base.php?page=90days
This guy maybe explains it better: http://donslifeinthailand.com/Immigration_90_Day_Report.html
For retirement visa, this Don guy seems to know his stuff: http://donslifeinthailand.com/VISA-Information-Thailand.html
Hope this helps someone.
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Here's some experience worth noting, having had about ten boxes shipped from the US to Thailand, some FedEx, some ordinary postal, some DHL. Half or less of the time you will get dinged by customs whether it is sent by any means or from personal vs corporate. If you send personal items there may be questions on the value; hence I paid 1,000 baht for a pocket knife worth about 700 baht sent by my ex wife. If there's an invoice with the package that helps. I ordered about $500 of vitamins several years ago and paid a few thousand baht. I ordered $100 in vitamins via DHL this January and no customs duty was applied. I then ordered another $300 in vitamins a month ago via DHL and had to pay about 1,800 baht to customs after it sat there for a week. The vitamins I order are generally from Puritan's Pride. By the way, for 1,000 mg caps of saw palmetto oil, 600 caps, I paid about $35; whereas in Thailand I paid $20 for 30 150 mg tabs of essentially worthless saw palmetto pulp. In other words I paid roughly 100 times here what I paid for in the states by weight, but since the pulp is probably about 10% active ingredient, I paid well over 1,000 times the price. In general, supplements and vitamins in Thailand are not affordable or effective, but basic vitamins and silymarin are available and worth it if you need them in a hurry, silymarin/ALA/vit C especially if you get hit with food poisoning. I doubt you will ever have trouble with DHL any more than any other, and be glad that half (or more) of the time you don't have to pay customs, but sometimes you do. Also, NEVER order ephedrine type supplements and only order from major suppliers like Puritan's. I hope this helps you all. Thailand is especially proud of its spirulina, but it's not really cheap.
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A bit late on this, but I'll give you a good answer, I hope. Have been in CM for 9 years and seen DHEA at the GMC store in the airport plaza. Most all supplements in Thailand are extremely expensive and hardly worth the effort, but they aren't hard to find, If you want DHEA, order it from Puritan.com in the states if you can wait a bit - they ship by DHL and it takes about 3 weeks. DHEA is banned by major sport org's, Canada and UK, but not the US or Thailand or most countries. It is NOT a steroid, at least it is not an illegal steroid generally nor an anabolic steroid in itself, though it is a precursor to testosterone at only 2 steps away, so it will raise your test levels and will produce an anabolic effect at large doses (about 150mg or more). Since DHEA is a precursor to many hormones including estrogen, it does NOT throw the body into severe imbalance nor have the nasty side effects that raw testosterone or other illegal steroids do. Most people over 50, men and women, have near zero DHEA levels. DHEA will give you a real boost in vitality, help you recover from sickness or injury, and at larger doses can produce an anabolic effect. I won't say it has no andro properties, so women should not take a lot IMHO, but it beats oxandralone and the other steroids that tend to produce self satisfied freaks of nature. Nor should anyone take it for more than two months in my opinion, but that's just my opinion. I would never classify DHEA in a negative sense as a steroid, because ten years ago it really helped me a lot, gave me a good boost in energy. The only side effect, which was severe enough to make me stop using it, was the random tendency for women to be taking off either their clothes or mine while I was also working out hard at Gold's in the states. That may sound like fantasy, but believe me it was happening, and it wasn't any fun for me. I've never bothered with it since because Vitamin B, C, C and magnesium citrate keep me pretty much vital, but at 66 and recovering from a bad motorcycle accident, I have ordered some and am glad that it's still legal. If you're under 50, I don't think you should be fooling with any kind of hormones, even DHEA, but DHEA doesn't seem to have much effect on younger people, anyway.
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Answers please.......just answers. This is a diabolical torture for their families, get the pathologists in and find out, now. Fly in Canadian pathologists to assist.
We can do without conspiracy theories, just answers.
Please.
Doesn't sound like either "magic" mushrooms or methanol to me, but be careful NEVER to eat wild mushrooms in Thailand. Eight people died within hours of eating some in my village near Chiang Mai. Later, I mistook the younger ones myself, ate quite a bit, really, and that's how it went. Very early and heavy vomiting, actually from both ends, is all that saved me. My blood pressure was 56/55 when I left the hospital. I didn't voluntarily go to the hospital, refused treatment, and ran for a well stocked pharmacy asap fearing that my liver would give out soon and that would be it. I took 48 grams vitamin C per day split into six doses of four, each dose with two 140 mg tabs of silymarin and two 100mg tabs of ALA, for ten days consecutive. I stopped for about half a day on the sixth and knew right away that was a mistake. Any of these three treatments are known to cure liver disease and large hospitals that do this kind of thing have near zero mortality rates from mushroom poisoning. Oh, the culprit in this case is known as Clarkeinda trachoides, so be careful, it's almost always fatal. Looks like a shaggy mane when young, flattens out later with the little tufts. I've got photos. They still pop up quite often in that area, but I don't live there anymore.
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I'd say, that most murders in Thailand aren't properly investigated in comparison to western countries in scientific terms, and that this has nothing to do with the sexual orientation of the victims. The title makes it sound like only murders of lesbians go unpunished which is certainly not the case!
Most of the murders I was aware of in the states were not investigated at all. That's why I moved, in addition to there being strong sentiments expressed that the next could be my own.
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Well, now he'll be able to afford rent.
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Judging from appearance and behaviour, how can anyone doubt Darwin ?
An excellent point. Fortunately, Darwin was wrong, maybe not about evolution, but certainly about the role of God and reality of Jesus as a living sacrifice for our sins, should we accept it.
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As much as I love Chiangmai, having lived there for 25 years, we could no longet accept the pollution.
My wife had chronic rhinitis the whole time we were there which resulted in severe infection to her sinuses and I stared getting astma and bronchitis. We are very elderly which made the problem even more serious. A few years ago we moved to a beach resort just south of Hua Hin and the both our problems completely cleared.up. I recently nade a trip to Chiangmai and thought I had caught pneumonia there and was admitted to Ram Hospital. They treated me and normally it would have taken at least a week or two for the problem to clear up But upon arriving back at our beach I recovered completely.in two days.
The pollution problem can be solved simply by having a couple of special helicopters with water containers which could spot a fire when it was started and douse it. They could patrol day and night and easily spot a fire. The villagers would soon stop burning if water was dumped on them everytime. About 5 years ago bT250 million was allocated for controlling the fires in Chiangmai. It could have emplyed a lot of helicoter time but instead it went into someones pocket.
There should be massive protests in Chiangmai to impose severe penalties for burning but I think the helicapoter idea would really work,
Yep, it would be a wonderful retirement city if not for this, most older people simply can't endure the smoke, a big shame and terrible cost to Thailand, too. I had a headache for a solid two weeks, my Thai wife has been coughing all night and in very bad shape for a month now in Sanpatong.
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There is a little one on the moat road just before the turning for Ratpakhinai Road on the way to Chang Puek gate.
It sells everything and is much cheaper than the other big stores.
We buy all our stuff from there also to take back to the UK cause brushes are so expensive back home!
If you get this, could you link to wikimapia here: http://wikimapia.org/#lat=18.7949503&lon=98.9873286&z=18&l=0&m=b
and then pan the screen until the + sign is directly over the spot?
Then copy the url with the new coordinates into the clipboard, paste into a new message, and reply to here? Or better yet, since I likely won't know it, send the URL directly to my email at [email protected]. You can also access my Facebook (message or friend),
Thanks, partner. Include any more ideas or info.
Alan
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I'm near to Chiang Mai and still looking. The Airport Plaza shop is Robinson's, too, I think, found some brushes and stuff, but they've never heard of masking fluid, no 1.5 inch hake brushes, only tube watercolors, no winsor newton stuf I don't think, pricey papers, don't think they have any Krylon spray coatings... no luck finding anywhere else and the directions of these places are a bit tough to follow as I'm 15 miles out and not a lot of time. Anyway, let's keep each other posted, or at least try.
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. Sheriff Kevin Walsh said he did not know how the FBI tracked them down in Thailand.
a law enforcement sheriff has no idea how to track a kidnapper who has been identified to the authorities ?
first ,they check his passport number in the central database,then they know the last time he flew and into which city
then ,check his atm .credit cards and see where he has been withdrawing cash ,then you have his neighbourhood /areas he frequents (say sukhumvit rd etc )
then you check how many farangs are in rented homes and guesthouses in this area (you cant rent anything anymore without your passport copy and landlord must sent that to immigration ,even if u only stay a night ) ,talk to locals about seeing a man with a little farang girl etc and show pictures of him to all the thais in that vicinity
and you will probably have him arrested within 24 -48hrs
how can a "sheriff" go in the media and say silly things "well,i dont know how ,but they found him etc "
its like homer simpson policework
"and you will probably have him arrested within 24 -48hrs"
All right, Einstein, and then so why did it take 5 years for the FBI to find him? The sheriff probably knows that the FBI couldn't find the space shuttle if it landed on top of the Pentagon, while the rest of us are prone to think that the FBI really possesses an aptitude called intelligence. Plenty of people knew where this guy was all along, it just took five years to get the attention of law enforcement, and that was a real wonder. More likely is that the media was required to give the FBI credit to save face, that's standard operating procedure if you want to stay in the business.
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Mercury in dental amalgams can cause emotions to run wild, too.
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Sounds hokey to me, no evidence of any threat, just militant ties. People I knew back in the states terrified me a lot more than the prospect of terrorist threats in Thailand, and they are probably still killing the occasional bloke or woman or kid who turns them down. I don't want to run into any bombs, though, so keep up the good work, US of A, but I'll continue to place my trust in Jesus, thank you.
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Dr Jiraphan Phimphan, chairman of the Ayutthaya Provincial Cultural Council, described the sex lottery as “disgusting” and said it dishonored women by valuing them at just 30 baht.
Hope he didn't up the bid.
Everybody's heard this one..
"Ain't gonna do it for a dime no more,
Makes me weak and makes me sore,
Fifteen cents, that's my price,
Gimme a quarter and I'll do it twice."
I've been struggling for years to increase my value, but hard to tell if I've succeeded.
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Israeli citizen Mordechai Orian, 45, spent Wednesday night at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu and may have to remain in custody, because now U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials want to keep him behind bars in a deportation case, sources said. ICE has filed an "immigration detainer" against him, sources said.
ICE had allowed him to remain free pending his appeal of an order from July 2009 deporting him back to Israel. The deportation order was based on five false statements Orian listed on federal forms to bring in foreign workers, claiming he was a U.S. citizen when he wasn't, a federal prosecutor said. Orian would face a hearing in an immigration court before being locked up on immigration charges.
Orian and five others have been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to commit human trafficking, after allegedly luring 400 farm laborers to Hawaii and the mainland from Thailand and then mistreating them and not paying them properly.
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Doesn't seem like a fine, upstanding individual....
Agree. I would not be suprised if this was just the tip of a very large iceberg.
That was basically my life as a US citizen for 55 years. Should have asked me about it, first. Life may not be easy in Thailand, but it won't get any easier in the states.
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mods...can someone fix the title before the spelling Nazi's start having a field day.
Sorry...couldn't resist. Of course, when someone puts a post out their stating their plans to write language teaching books, we've got to scan it for silly mistakes, which I'm sure yours were. Good luck with your adventure.
"Of course, when someone puts a post out their stating their plans"
Hate myself for this, but "their" should be "there" - the first time, anyways.
But what about an answer to the man's question?
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Thank God, I don't have to be reminded.
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I thought it was freaking hilarious. Good one.
I think that some of the people who profess this to be in bad taste are just upset that they turned out to be more gullible than others. And as they can't be mad at themselves, now, can they, so they push that anger on the forum.
It was rather eye-opening, though, to read some of the frankly racist drivel being posted by some posters.
A good April Fools Day prank has to be somewhat believable but only in retrospect is proven to be ridiculous. This one fit the bill.
My hat's off to the folks at ThaiVisa for such a great prank!
(As far as the link goes, I've gotta love the gorilla with iPads story!)
Yeah, about as funny as a rubber crutch in a polio ward. It was funny for anyone without a concern. If you had just divorced your wife after a considerable separation so that you could remarry someone you really love, like someone I do know, you were sweating the 21 day waiting period / embassy appointment / turnaround time for legalization, and the law takes effect in 30 days, NO, it would not be funny. Since Cambodia passed the same recently, and sanity in government cannot be assumed, it would be believable enough to cause some people serious anxiety. I hate to voice my disapproval, but practical jokes are never a good idea, funny maybe, but sometimes they have unexpected results, and I have NOTHING but undying love for both Thailand and my Thai wife, no desire to take aim. But I can take a joke, too, I'll let it go this time. Okay, carry on, men.
Non-Immigrant ‘O’ Visa return ticket
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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Right you are. You didn't use the word visa, however... "l plan to retire in Thailand next year with my thai wife of 27 years, One of the things l have to show the consulate in Melbourne Australia for my Non-Immigrant ‘O’ Visa is" You're going to retire, but not get a retirement visa, you're married to a Thai, but don't want a marriage visa... Just what in the blazes do you want a Non-Immigrant O for? Geez Louise....