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homemade514 Thank you for your kind advice and solid information. Needless to say, I now have some breathing space to get things in order.
For general information for anyone in this situation, https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_24 lays out the documentation required to get an extension, but omits the need for the following: 1) photos 2) "renting a house/ apartment you will need the contract and 3) id/tabien baan of the house/ apartment owner."
Based on advice from people here, it's undoubtedly a good idea to take these documents as well.
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Thank you for your replies, overherebc and ubonjoe
I didn't realise I could get a 60 day extension on my current extension, and therefore not have to leave Thailand (for now). Again, sorry to be a pain, but what are the document requirements and procedure for this? Would they want proof of financial status for a 60 day extension?
I'm currently in BKK so would visit IMM at Chaengwattana.
Thank you.
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I have a non-imm O extension of stay (multiple re-entry) based on marriage, obtained at Chaengwattana last year. We also have a son and my name is on the Thai birth certificate as his father. We have all the legally required documents.
I've been working in Thailand for a number of years and, during that time, have had a variety of work sponsored non-imm extensions of stays, WP's etc., all legal and above board. I've never done a border run.
My current extension is due to expire on 11 February 2019. After retiring last year, unfortunately, it looks likes I'm not going to make the financial requirements this time round and am not prepared to use an agent to fix this for me. I have an pension income from the UK, but it's been less than 40K a month for a long time, and I don't have 400K in my Thai bank account.
In short, should I/can I go with my family to Savannakhet, Laos just before my current extension expires and apply for a 90 day single entry based on marriage or parenthood, and without having to verify my financial status? Once back in Thailand, do I then continue to apply for 60 day extensions to visit (stay with) my family? If so, does that mean I then keep renewing the 60 day extension for a fixed period of time, say one year?
Long term, once my financial situation settles down, I plan to switch "back" to a one year extension of stay, based on marriage or parenthood, from within Thailand.
My apologies if my request seems a repeat of all you have dealt with before on here, but I know you guys have spent a lot of time answering questions like this, so your time and expertise are really appreciated.
If I've missed out a information, please don't hesitate to ask.
Thank you, and regards.
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'Thailand remains on the Priority Watch List in 2015. At the same time, IPR enforcement does not seem to be a top priority for Thai law enforcement and poor coordination among government entities has seen limited improvement despite the launch of the National IPR Center of Enforcement in 2013.'
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/2015-Special-301-Report-FINAL.pdf pages 44-45.
So much for Deputy Commerce Minister Apiradi Tantraporn's blowhard rhetoric.
You would think that a government minister would know the reality of what's going on and what's likely to happen before making such a patently wrong statement.
But I guess not.
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....... " Mr. Jiradet is a former advisor to Kittiratt Na-Ranong, ex-finance minister" .....
Another politically motivated prosecution proving the junta's lack of impartiality, or just another rat caught out?
just another rat caught out?
Tis interesting though that - as yet - no Dems or big name yellow shirt affiliates have been investigated for any wrongdoing anywhere.
I imagine that's because they are all good people...
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Arrest the illegal workers. Fine.
As usual, not a word about the agents or Mr. Bigs - from all countries.
Why?
Or is it so, so difficult to set up a sting to bring these people to justice?
Try reading farther than the headline before posting.
The authorities are looking for the Thai investor behind the crime.
I did, thanks. Looking for invariably means nothing will happen.
To be clearer:
According to the latest information from the US TIP published in the Nation and BP last week:
1) The number of arrests and convictions last year were way down on 2013.
2) The authorities are still being implicated in trafficking.
3) No Mr. Bigs have been arrested or convicted.
Hope that clears up my previous comment.
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Arrest the illegal workers. Fine.
As usual, not a word about the agents or Mr. Bigs - from all countries.
Why?
Or is it so, so difficult to set up a sting to bring these people to justice?
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A few token crumbs.
If the junta really went after the corrupt, including the military, in Thailand, the country would stop dead in its tracks.
Full stop.
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Lets see if they pass their own internal audit first before they become the safest in the world
Yes, in view of the newly established BoD, it's connections elsewhere and - cough - concerns over inappropriate budget spending on consultants etc., this has a much, much longer way to go.
Thai needs to get its own house in order long before any trumpeting of any future successes.
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Yes, indispensable, and a joy to read. RIP.
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The minister wants 'to adjust tourism in each area in correspondence with the local way of life and accentuate the identity of each community.'
Will that include putting on shows for tourists showing them how the jet ski, gem shop, and double pricing scams are done while the police stand idly by?
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Interesting.
Perhaps the protesters would also like to visit the various Thai ministries who stand by doing nothing as Thai companies and corrupt individuals continue to destroy the countrywide, coastal and maritime environments and local communities for that all enticing dollar.
This is political trolling, nothing more.
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I simply cannot believe that the majority of educators, administrators, civil servants, teachers and school directors have the capacity or the will to change for two reasons.
One, they will have to completely change their thinking and attitude.
Two, they will have to stop being corrupt.
Both of which are impossible.
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Tomorrow, alien abductions on the increase. Ducks are not always yellow. The sky is always blue on a sunny day.
I give up.
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A shambles within an utter cockup.
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Let's wait until we see the post Songkran carnage figures, yes?
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Slavery is a big bucks business. And I guarantee that without verifiable, media reported arrests and imprisonment of all involved, nothing will change.
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The dinosaurs running Thailand - past and present - need to grow a pair.
It simply amazes me that those 'in charge' still think Thai people will forget these atrocities, and other past scandals, simply because they are off the media radar.
Memories run deep. So does a sense of what is right and what is wrong.
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The whole of Thailand realizes that corruption is endemic throughout the country.
It exists at every level of society, and that many - if not most - police, military, government officials, private and government sector businesses, other individuals and their spiderweb networks are fully complicit in this.
If you are corrupt and seek to gain advantage - the bottom line here is money and influence - then you need help to achieve your goal. This means that the instigators or people in authority leverage the idea and influence its outcome, while their staff - working under the patronage system so entrenched here - create the false accounts and paperwork and organize the wining and dining, trips abroad etc.
On the other hand, many honest people have absolutely no choice in the matter and cannot avoid corruption because they are its victims. The 'either pay up, get out or worse' principle certainly ensures this.
Corruption is so ingrained in Thai society, it's normal. 100 names will not make a blind bit of difference because someone, somewhere will step into the spaces left behind.
Guaranteed.
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This report from the World Bank may be of interest. Thailand - Public financial management report 2012 : improving service delivery : Overview http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/16400705/thailand-public-finance-management-report-improving-service-delivery-overview
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Utter incompetence aside, I wonder what a thorough audit of the budgets over the years would look like.
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Call the AIS 1175 English service. They will sort this out for you.
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People that bought 'shares' in the KCCU were told by the court on Friday that they will not get their money back. It looks like the people have been conned by a classic Ponzi scam.
The court also said that if cash was deposited, then there's a chance of restitution - assuming that sufficient actual money is returned by Supachai et al.
KCCU is also now asking for investors to start depositing money again. Er...no thanks.
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I don't know where you are going with this, but I suspect it is similar to the statement of a government official last week. She blamed the people who wanted to eat fresh produce for the problems with burning.Does anyone know if the farmers are contracted to grow produce for the big agribusinesses such as CP? Do the farmers sell to middle men or privately at local markets etc.?
I wonder how many farmers are contracted to grow for CP et al and therefore how the haze problem squares with these company's stated corporate social responsibility.
I suspect it doesn't.
New Non-O without funds
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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ubonjoe
Joe, I now am going to Savannakhet to apply for a multiple entry because my circumstances have changed.
I have both forms for the Visa Application for the Thai Consulate and for my Laos Visa On Arrival and see that I have to provide details of 1) a Laos based guarantor for the Thai consulate and 2) Laos based contact person for the visa on entry.
As I don't know anyone in Laos, what do I do about this?
Can I also use my wife's name as guarantor in Thailand for the consulate visa application?
Thanks in advance.