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9 minutes ago, SammyJ said:

please know that each application used to require a non-refundable fee of

$100--it may be even more now and many hours of waiting to even submit an application, then they give you a date, often weeks or more into the future to return for an interview or decision.

 

$185.00USD is the fee for the visa. There is no deposit, if you meet the criteria a visa is issued, if not the fee is gone. 

If she has a good job to come back to along with property and some money in the bank it should not be difficult. 

4 minutes ago, smedly said:

source ?

Todays Post, cant link it here. 

35 minutes ago, smedly said:

how many times was his passport checked during his commute, he must be 10 cards short of a full deck or there is some other more sinister explanation for this, Phuket is not a place I would want to visit right now considering the seemingly active effort to by law enforcement to pick on farangs right now, I'd be giving it a very wide birth right now, who puts a small bag of illegal drugs in the pages of their passport and then hands it to immigration police at an airport ....................... think about it - seriously

An idiot, he broke down when it was found. In the loo of the plane doing a last line before landing. Did not pick the right place to stash it on exiting the bathroom and got done. No, was that was slipped in by an immigration officer. Think about it- seriously. 

17 minutes ago, saintdomingo said:

Do all neighbouring states Thai consulates/embassies enforce those rules.?

Sounds a real pain to me.

What sounds like a real pain?

2 hours ago, bradiston said:

If you don't know Foodland I guess it doesn't make much sense.

I shopped at the original Foodland on Ploenchit 40 years ago.  

Foodland is a supermarket. Took La See is the diner inside most. But they are separate. Meet me at Took La Dee is clear, but at my Foodland there are two entrances.  Semantics no big deal..

4 minutes ago, bradiston said:

I didn't know it was possible to get confused by this post! Well, there you go. It was only FYI. Never mind.

Perhaps if you named the restaurant as Hauptmann did people including me would have understood what you were saying better.

10 hours ago, HauptmannUK said:

I think he means Took Le Dee restaurant at Foodland in T21.

Surreal experience today. Had booked on-line (can only be done 3-5 weeks ahead and fills up quickly) but arrived ca 2.5 hours before the appointed time. Place was largely deserted with banks closed. Collected a TM.7 with attached forms (where you confirm your address, acknowledge the terrible things that will happen to you if you overstay or work, etc) from the front desk and filled in the forms. Trip to one of the copy shops downstairs. Decided to take a gamble and went to the que desk, showed my on-line appointment. A very friendly lady said no need to wait 2h, gave me a que number and send me to counter L-27 for the 'document check'. Just as last year this took only about a minute, they just seem to check if the main items are there and that you have filled in everything. Wrote a counter number on my TM.7 (not the one for the on-line appointment) and there I was helped immediately by a rather cheerfull IO.  Here it took only 15-20 mins to check the papers, make 500 or so signatures , take a pic and pay the fee. After another 10 min got my passport back with the signed extension. From arriving at the que desk to walking out took exactly 30 min but obviously this was a rather unusual day. 

Handed in were:

-TM.7 (application form) with one pic.

-Passport and copies of relevant pages

-Bank letter (one day old, they confirmed it can be up to 7 calender days old but you need to update your passbook at the day of application)

-Bankbook and copies of front page and transactions going back 13 months or so.

-Hand drawn map of apartment location (yes they kept this and had me sign it)

-Copy of last 90-day report (TM.47)

-1,900 B

Now usually the bankletter came with an additional balance sheet for the previous 3 months but this time it only covered the past month. The IO outlined the transactions over the previous 3 months in red on the copy of my bankbook. Note that depending on your circumstances (maybe hiring from a private landlord, having a large number of transactions in your bankbook which are sometimes 'pooled' , etc..) they may ask for additional papers.

From a report on Wednesday this week.

Calm down, no worries, you dont need two threads. They have become redundant and are not used anymore. 

KLA, I think you can see by the nick where I grew up. Have not been back in 5 years due to covid and work schedules. Have twins one in LA and one in SF. The LA daughter is working for Space X and we are looking forward to touring the Hawthorn facility. The SF daughter has a media consultancy. Have not seen either since they started this. Also I have a 50 year college reunion up in Crescent City. Looking forward to driving the whole of California and southern Oregon on the coast. 

Here the wife and I are like you often taken 3 day to 10 day domestic road trips around Thailand.

39 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Avoid the USA at all costs .... 

Dont have kids there do you? 

7 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Problem is when in the US for a month and I use GPS daily for road trips. My bill for 1 month was $200. I used something like 15 gb of data. What do you do????????

I have always gone to T-Mobile but they have changed to an online company called Ultra.  I have this package waiting at my daughters house in SF, the best I could find. $39.99 for 15GB and a month. 

https://www.ultramobile.com/product/15gb-prepaid-plan/?attribute_months=1-month-plan

lonely old man looking for company, seems males are fine. 

11 minutes ago, GammaGlobulin said:

The refrigerator compartment goes to 32 degrees C. 

Proof reading is important. 32 degrees C is quite warm, mine not a Samsung is much cooler. I hope its a typo. ☺️

2 hours ago, Harsh Jones said:

19 hours ago, mfd101 said:

As to the 'nudity', it's less than 50 years that just about every Thai peasant woman (mostly Khmer & Lao) went topless all day every day ... But modern technology is producing whole generations of memory-free people.

And heroin was available over the counter. As was cocaine. There was a lot of things happening less than 50 years ago. Whats your point

Not in the 70's. I was here, not a chance. Actually very funny. Two wild and crazy guys..

So since you have been here you have opened another account?

Simply the bank sees it as, if you transfer all your money out you have no account. 

You seem to be well off. Just balance your funds you have incurred no loss. 

First off that seems quite cheap to me with the land area being 8 Rai. Guess I have been in BKK too long as it seems just the land should be worth that. What is the house like? Bedrooms, baths, furnishings?

25 minutes ago, UWEB said:

25 minutes ago, UWEB said:

That was just an Information for the OP, if you don't like it just ignore it.

The wrong information, especially with Bangkok traffic

32 minutes ago, UWEB said:

33 minutes ago, UWEB said:

There are 24 Seater VIP Busses from Suvarnabhumi to HH, leaving every Hour. May be just take a transfer Bus from DMK to Suvarnabhumi?

 

So go 40 kilometers the wrong direction. Then begin your journey?

27 minutes ago, advancebooking said:

They are really nice people in surin that is for sure. Drivers are very considerate. Best people in thailand I think. Opposite of the thai scum in phuket

Just so you know the scum in Phuket are not from Phuket. 

Sadly you will get nothing for then anywhere. But good luck.