Evilbaz

14 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

The income letter from your embassy will be all you need to meet the 40k baht income requirement.

If you are 50 or over immigration will likely insist you do the extension based upon retirement since your income is greater than the 65k baht required for it.

Just tell them you don't want it as you may want to work here.

17 hours ago, rhodie said:

Baz, just to be sure, which police clearance do I do? I am a NSW resident. Do I do a police check with them(NSW State police), or do I do the one with the AFP? Not clear to me which one is required. Maybe both acceptable. Thanks.

Just the AFP report - covers all States and can be done online.

27 minutes ago, cdaobliss said:

Which embassy? I usually go to the consulate in St Kilda Rd, Melbourne.

Which Consulate - Thai?

You need the stat dec from the Australian Embassy in Bangkok - there aren't any Australian Embassy/Consulates in Australia.

1 hour ago, FarSeas said:

 

Illegal immigration is a crime. 

 

But its really about universal data collection, profiling and monitoring. It's really quite sinister how everything is connected. A friend of mine (in Australia we're talking here) who is on Centrelink (ie social security benefits) had his payments stopped because he briefly needed to leave the country. 

 

Do you know how long it took for the Social Services department to alert him via to this suspension? 

 

18 hours after he went through the gates at Sydney airport. 

I'm well aware that the OZ immi computers are linked to Centrelink and Medicare.

But what benefits was he on?

Ensure you understand the Visa rules  for your wife and the costs involved for a long/permanent stay.

You're the Admin - can't you amend the Title?

Yes at the Patong Admin building - just past the fire station.

Probably elsewhere as well.

Phuket Immi has required seasoning of the bank deposit portion, using the combo method, to my personal experience for at least three years now.

It is reported a number of other Immi offices have followed this practice.

It is the interpretation of the regulations used that counts.

10 hours ago, JohnThi said:

I have been told by a visa shop owner that the immigration offcial themself transfare the money to customers bank account and redraw it. the shops agents fill no paper at all.

 

They just transfar the money and the passport to some "official" in the imigration office.

 

anyway my issue is only with the cost.(dont care how it works)

The next time you go for yourself to get an extension it is easily spotted by the next IO, who hasn't received  a bribe, that the money was not properly "seasoned".

That's when the brown stuff hits the fan.

Some get told to go back to the agent, meaning you are stuck with an ongoing unnecessary expense, at very least.

Jeez it's not rocket science - do it yourself, legally.

If you have the financial requirements you can do it yourself for 1900 baht.

It's no more difficult than reconciling a credit card statement.

4 minutes ago, rhodie said:

How do you obtain the medical?

Go to your local GP with the downloaded form.

I've done three OAs and no tests, x-rays required - visual examination only.

Then to a JP for free notarisation when you've got your application completed and mail certified to Canberra.

A bit of running around but the result is two years without Immi hassles - just 90 day reports.

13 minutes ago, newatthis said:

Ubonjoe, would I be able to apply for a METV tourist visa and sort out the visa based on retirement when I get back here. The OA requires a police clearance which is more time and money in Oz

Police clearance can be done online.

I got mine back in 5 days.

Everytime I leave my home country (Australia) the Immigration computer automatically connects to several other government departments who are then fully aware I am overseas.

No point in trying to hide that fact.

Nobody cares and I maintain an OZ address which satisfies my bank, even though they have also an overseas mailing address for me.

Direct deposits from Pension providers to my Thai bank account is possible but I'd take a haircut on the rates.

1 hour ago, skatewash said:

For someone looking to transfer money into Thailand it might be reasonable to consider how that money might be transferred out again.  It might even be advisable to consider this before one transfers the money into Thailand rather than after the fact.

That's not applicable to someone who retires here, has no intention whatsoever of returning to their former country of residence and will stay here until they pick a good day to burn me - works for me.

If one intends to go the retirement extension route one needs to transfer money here, either lump sum or monthly. Internet banking is the quickest and easiest way of doing this.

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

Exactly.

This topic started about transferring money into Thailand.

Some have morphed this into discussion about transferring money out.

My comment - "internet banking" - refers to the op's questions - exactly.

I've got two words to add to all this complicated discussion - Internet Banking ...

If she has trouble next time entering on her Thai passport she should just stand her ground and keep repeating "I am Thai - this is my country".

30 minutes ago, dentonian said:

If they leave on a foreign passport they are being forced to enter on it again. This is the problem.

 

When a Thai leaves on a foreign passport, the exit stamp goes in the foreign passport. The departure card number and the foreign passport number are recorded in their Immigration database.

When the Thai tries to re-enter on a Thai passport, their is no exit stamp in the passport, neither does that passport number link to their arrival card number. They cannot be found on the database. How did they manage to exit?

 

Once they establish they left on a foreign passport, they insist the same passport is used to enter, because they can now match the arrival card number, passport number and the exit stamp with their database. There appears to be no procedure or know how  to correct these types of error.

So a Thai is allowed to enter, but recorded as a foreigner under Immigration control.

 

No definitive solution to this problem has yet been established.

The departure card which is the back half of the entry card, issued on arrival, is cancelled on departure.

If leaving on a Thai passport a departure card is filled out on departure and cancelled on arrival.

This is the opposite procedure to entering on a foreign passport.

What do you mean by "maximum date"?

What is the Enter Before Date?

It is stamped on the Visa.

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If she exits and re-enters before the "Enter Before date (expiry date)" she will get a permission to stay stamp for a further year from the re-entry date.

If she wants to leave and re-enter during that last year she will need a re-entry permit from her local Immi office.

Before that last permission to stay expires she can apply for a one year extension based on retirement at her local Immi office, if she meets the financial requirements.

Rinse and repeat annually without need to leave the Kingdom.

2 hours ago, DGS1244 said:

Sounds like you already have a possible problem and are trying to get around this system. Sort out before you come, even if  you won an appeal your life at immigration in the future would be very difficult, they do not forget or forgive wrongdoers easily.

 

If your appeal is allowed you are not a "wrongdoer".

The process is long, boring, expensive (you pay for food etc) and not certain.

Would you have the necessary supporting documents for the appeal?

I'd still take that proof with me to Immi at extension time.

"playing the man" = ad hominem attacks.

There was no "at being a" in my statement.

Or are you just obfuscating?

40 minutes ago, Mattd said:

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.

You have to show this to prove you entered the Kingdom with a legal Visa.

Saying " my friends are not bewildered " when denying the correct terminology is not "logic".

Giddyup has shown he knows he's wrong when he starts "playing the man :"

8 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Next time (if there is a next time) I'll include a photo of the actual visa stamp to avoid all confusion.

You haven't posted a photo of a "Visa stamp" so far in this Thread.

Please don't take your ball and go home - it's OK to admit you were mistaken.