merlen10002

Gosh khun Will27, despite being one of the more hansum man on these forums, you sure are an argumentative rex hunt! Can't you see, khun merlen10002, is well versed in the ways of the DIAC, he have experience for many years now!

If he says that he spoke with the DIAC and they said that he no have to provide paperwork, he know have to provide paperwork. Maybe he is more hansum man than you and get special consideration?

Boy you could not be more wrong,, hansum man me no no no, welly ugly and skinny but very big thing

AFAIK, these aren't "new" requirements as there has never been a set criteria

for financials and accommodation before.

As a sponsor, you have always had a requirement to provide accommodation and financial support

for your partner and their family for up to two years following visa grant or first entry into Australia.

This is still the case.

Sponsors have included payslips, group certificates etc, but again, I'm pretty sure that there has never

been any set requirements other than the ones I have just mentioned. So I don't think anything has changed

at all.

The visa agent in Pattaya either is a moron, a rip off artist or both.

The immigration officer told me financial was a requirement until recently as was accommodation but is now not a requirement, there has always been a set requirement, please do not say what I have posted is incorrect, this is one of the people that grant the visa that told me, I had a face to face meeting with her, it has only just been changed, I also know what my mate in Australia had to supply for his now wife he had to supply bank statements documents for his house everything to prove he could support her, I did all the documents for his lady and when to the visa place at Thai CC house a few times with his lady that was in 2012, I also did three tourist visa for Thai ladies never used a visa agent, the last one for my wife in November 2012 we when for 19 days, always do my own extension of stay for retirement, only wanted the visa agent to answer two question not get him to do anything. visa is easy for Australia as is all visa in Thai immigration if you can meet the requirements only is difficult if you can not.

As stated previously, the sponsor always had a requirement both financially and for accommodation.

It was just never a "set" amount. For example, there was no income threshold you had to meet.

IMO, nothing has changed. You still have these requirements. You're saying "it has only just changed

and is no longer a requirement". If that is the case, how come this is on the 40SP which is the sponsorship

form for a spouse visa?

"

52 Undertaking

For sponsors of a Prospective Marriage visa applicant:

I agree to accept responsibility for:

• all financial obligations to the Commonwealth incurred by my

fiancé(e) arising from their stay in Australia;

And

For sponsors of a Partner visa applicant:

I agree to assist my partner, to the extent necessary:

• financially;

• in relation to accommodation in the first 2 years immediately

after their Partner visa is granted (if they were granted the visa in

Australia) or their first entry to Australia as a holder of the Partner

visa (if they were granted the visa outside Australia).

Also from the DIAC website:

Sponsor obligations

As a sponsor you must provide accommodation and financial support for your partner and their family for up to two years following visa grant or first entry into Australia including any period they take English language courses (if needed).

So, you're saying, that there are now no financial or accommodation requirements.

Using that scenario, someone who is unemployed and sharing a council house with

5 other can lodge an application and their circumstances wouldn't be taken into account.

Good luck with that one.

I don't know if you have been given incorrect advice or have interpreted

incorrectly, but IMO, nothing has changed at all so the heading is misleading.

Nothing I have posted said that I do not have the responsibility to financially support my wife in Australia or that I would not have the responsibility to provide accommodation for her, what I have posted is that I do not have to provide bank statements or pay slips or any other financial information to DIAC in the application for her visa, same for accommodation, wish you would read what I have posted, it is very simple DIAC don't want financial information anymore or accommodation information , they did but it has now changed.

I will try and tell it word for word the conversation I had with the officer at DIAC last Thursday, I ask her if the money I had in bank accounts in Thailand would be acceptable to show I could support my wife in Australia as we wanted to go to Australia to live, I also asked what I had to have to show for accommodation, I told her I had only a small amount in my bank in Australia and I had no property in Australia and would have to sort out some where to live when I got back to Australia, I told her I had a mate we could stay with until I found a place to live, I ask what information I had to supply with my wife application for a visa, that is very simple there can be no misunderstanding of what I asked.

She said I did not have to supply any financial information or accommodation information as they use to require financial information and accommodation information but don't any more it only recently changed,, I again asked to make sure I understood what she told me ,, I asked I don't need to supply anything about money or how we would live in Australia ? she said no nothing ,, this is all very simple and not a misunderstanding by me or the officer at DIAC.

I have applied for partner visa for my first Thai wife and had to supply lot of stuff about my house, business and bank accounts and was concerned about this application for my now wife with all my money being in Thailand. I have been involved in six visa applications for Thai ladies so far and do know something about it.

This is very hard to dispute as it is from a senior officer at DIAC, JUST MAYBE YOU BLOKES ARE WRONG FOR ONCE, just saying, anyone can check for them self by phoning DIAC on Thursday between 2.00pm and 4.00pm if you want the number I can give it to you in a PM .

Looks remarkably similar to the BMW...I guess it doesn't matter if a B 1M pickup or 3M Beamer, it's all the same when you slam into the backs of trucks at speed.

No BMW ever had a front bar or head lights like that, I know I sold BMW for many years.

AFAIK, these aren't "new" requirements as there has never been a set criteria

for financials and accommodation before.

As a sponsor, you have always had a requirement to provide accommodation and financial support

for your partner and their family for up to two years following visa grant or first entry into Australia.

This is still the case.

Sponsors have included payslips, group certificates etc, but again, I'm pretty sure that there has never

been any set requirements other than the ones I have just mentioned. So I don't think anything has changed

at all.

The visa agent in Pattaya either is a moron, a rip off artist or both.

The immigration officer told me financial was a requirement until recently as was accommodation but is now not a requirement, there has always been a set requirement, please do not say what I have posted is incorrect, this is one of the people that grant the visa that told me, I had a face to face meeting with her, it has only just been changed, I also know what my mate in Australia had to supply for his now wife he had to supply bank statements documents for his house everything to prove he could support her, I did all the documents for his lady and when to the visa place at Thai CC house a few times with his lady that was in 2012, I also did three tourist visa for Thai ladies never used a visa agent, the last one for my wife in November 2012 we when for 19 days, always do my own extension of stay for retirement, only wanted the visa agent to answer two question not get him to do anything. visa is easy for Australia as is all visa in Thai immigration if you can meet the requirements only is difficult if you can not.

NCA is a world class bus company, the best in Thailand for sure, have been to KK from BKK many times with NCA they change drivers half way every time I have gone with NCA, shame this has happen with their bus and two crashes in the last few weeks, would still use them.

I have lived in Thailand for 6 years and now would like to return to Australia to live, I know most requirements for visa/ tourist and partner, have been married for over three years, I wanted to know if money in a Thai bank would be taken into account or if all money must be in an Australian bank, have only a small amount in Australian bank, I went to a visa agent in Pattaya to find out about it and was told all money must be in Australia and I would need $AUD100,000.00 to support my wife's application. I decided to ask at Thai CC House Bangkok the visa application center, they have someone every Thursday to answer question, 2.00pm to 4.00pm, to my surprise the requirements for financial and accommodation information are not required anymore, the only requirements are for a real and true relationship, our marriage documents will cover that as we registered our marriage. The visa agent would know this and just proves they are rip off merchants. His price was 60,000BHT to do the visa for us.

All people that are great with spelling and grammar please refrain from comments on this post about spelling and grammar.

You/we (westerners) represent less than 0.3% of the population, you get to live here, eat inexpensive food, pay almost no tax, enjoy a warm climate and have frequent sex with beautiful women, what do you want next, voting privileges! Quit whinging.

You really have no bloody idea, do you ? The amount of tax I pay monthly is far in excess of the average Thai annual salary.

I would like to have a business and pay a lot of tax, that business would be very successful and make a lot of money, should be happy not complain, very easy to pay more tax than most Thais as most don't pay tax.

Seems I am the only one who thinks it looks awful.

totster

No,, On your side, lot of money to f,, up a good truck,

Anyone know a Auto Transmission mechanic in Pattaya , thanks

Woops F ..k up again

Why do many Farangs miss pronounce Pattaya, many pronounce it Pet- tie-ya or Pay-tay-ya or Pie-tire ya, when it is Pat as in pat the dog, Pat-ta-ya , there is a song anyone can buy at any music shop about Pattaya and it is Pat - ta -ya, , or any Thai person can pronounce it for you, the BBC news this morning got it right with the news about the boat sinking in Pattaya and CNN got it wrong, most Americans do get it wrong.

Double pricing is wrong but your living in the wrong country if it upsets you,

And I have a Volvo T5 and it can blow the wheels off your Benz and the Bimer, so how about that !!!

OP figures are way out, My wife has a good shop in a big hotel, with a hair dressing shop next door, this is for the hair dressing shop, rent 15,000 BHT a month, staff +2 12,000 BHT a month plus 10% com, Elect + Water 850 BHT a month, product and extras per month about 2,500 BHT, the shop takes about 80,000 BHT a month on average sometimes well over 100,000 BHT a month, very nice little business,

The poster that thinks hair dressing shops are fronts for prostitution should admit himself to the local lunatic asylum.

I am starting to think the inability to drive is a requirement to get behind the wheel of a van in Thailand.

The car driver caused the crash not the Van driver.

Can I ask how many Thai ladies you have dated ?

Buying a new car, looking at Honda City or Toyota Vios, top model in both, what is the best car ? thanks

Thanks everyone for your advice

Would like to know a good Honda dealer in Pattaya to service a Honda, thanks

Swaying palms and white sandy beaches.

Can you please tell where the white sandy beaches are I would sure like to go there ???

I belive some missconception about the safety of Bus travel in Thailand exist with a number of TV posters, I want to state first that road fafety in Thailand is very poor for all types of transport, Bus travel is much safer than most other types of transport, A number of accident reports sites are on the internet, very easy to google them, on all sites Bus come in as the third most safe way to travel in Thailand after Planes and Train, even the much maligned VIP Vans come in much safer than portray on TV, the least safe is Motor Cycle, then the Privat car, Pick up, Truck, Taxi, Van, Bus, Train, Plane. this is for the number per 100 of type of vehicle, accidents and death per 100, all sites are very consistent with their results. Look on the internet it is easy.

Do they have a race track already made in Thailand?

I have seen how slow construction is here, unless it is

already made, there is little to no chance it will be ready

for 2014.

There is a house beside my condo that has been under

construction for 18 months .... so far

IMO it is a stupid event for Thailand to host ... money could

be spend on so many better things ... such as education ....

Then again Thai gov't do not want the people educated.

F1 is an event for the rich and most Thais cannot afford

It would bring an additions of 10's of thousands of what you describe as "rich" people into the country which in turn would dump a lot of money into the economy. Also, the Grand Prix is held on city streets and speeds vary depending on the country's street (circuit). I'm not a big fan but lived in LA and have been in Singapore when the events were held. I believe top speed in Singapore is about 185 MPH and Long Beach is 240 MPH..

Think you will find the is max speed of 320km now days from the cars and can be done on all current tracks

Singapore - "top speeds approach 297 km/h (185 mph)" http://www.vivaf1.com/singapore.php

Long Beach "Top speed is around 240 mph" (385 km.h) http://www.sub5zero....-recap-results/

Singapore is F1, and Long Beach is IndyCar, very different things, F1 is 2.4 L, Indy is 3.6 L very different cars.

<snip> and a great reference letter from her Bank, from the head office, invites from my brother and his wife, and my mate on the Gold Coast, all on Statutory Declarations, it is very important to have every thing from Australia on STAT DECS,

the visa starts from the day it was issued, the 06/09/2012, and ends on the 05/12/2012, we are not going until the 12/11/2012 and will return to Thailand on the 04/12/2012, she picked up her passport with a notice she had the visa in it on the Friday, she applied on the Wednesday, it was very quick, have attached the note in her visa.

(my bolding above)

My experience, and the experience of many here is that Statutory Declarations contribute negligible weighting towards a Visa application.

As for the Visa start date, as 2 of the posters have noted above ... the Visa doesn't start on the date it is issued. You have a grace period after the Visa is issued before it lapses. That time will be stated within the Visa (or accompanying documents) and is typically 3 months / 90 days.

In lay man terms, get the Visa and you have 90 days to get to Australia.

They don't care if it takes 2 days, 2 weeks or two months.

You are wrong,,,, be told by someone that knows,,, in 2001 I applied for and was granted a visa for a Thai lady, (not the same lady) it was a one month visa only, not a three month visa, it had a no further stay,8303 on that visa, when I was applying for that visa I got to know a senior officer at the Southport Immigration office, (now no longer there) he told me to put everthing on a Stat Dec as it means a lot more than just writing something, as it is a legal document, I was also told this by a officer at Thai CC House when I help my mate in OZ get a visa for his G/F, so be told,, I was also able to get the no further stay over turned on the one month visa for the lady in 2001, with every thing on Stat Decs, and with help from the guy at Southport, he kept telling me how important it was to use Stat Decs.

All visa are not the same and different conditions apply to them,, the visa my lady has this time has conditions that apply to it, it is a tourist visa, a single entry visa, is for three months from the date of this slip,, writen on of the slip,, so again be told,, it also has no further stay 8503 writen on the slip, so she must be back in Thailand by the 06/12/2012, I also confirmed this with a officer at Thai CC House when we picked up her passport with the slip in it, all visa can be different with different conditions. and don't forget to use Stat Decs.

With all due respect,(unlike what you've shown David48 I might add),

may I suggest that you re-read the visa grant that you posted and you

will realise that you're 100% incorrect.

As advised by ThaiVisaExpress and David48 (and on the grant itself), she has 3

months from the date of the grant to "activate" the visa, then she can stay for 3

months after the initial entry. So she doesn't have to be back in Oz by 06/12/2012.

You have completely mis-read or just don't understand the grant.

And as for Stat Decs for tourist visa's, pretty much a waste of time. So what if they're legal

documents? A case officer in most cases when assessing a toursit visa application wouldn't

give them any extra weight than a standard letter.

Don't thank me, you'll only embarrass me

Will

The slip has three conditions ,, 1, Single Entry into Australia for a STAY of up to

2, Three Month/s The visa is valid for

3, Three Month/s From the date of this slip

We wish you a pleasant stay in Australia

Date 06 SEP 2012

Grant ID : 0240112447236G

Don't take my word ,, call the Australia Embassy and ask them about this visa ,, you all have the visa number now,

As for the Stat decs I am only taking about important documents & information from Australia, not from Thailand,, I thought this would be obvious but I guess not,, I did do a reference on a Stat Dec for my lady and had the Australian Embassy sign it,, 650 BHT,, I think it was helpful,, if the posters on TV don't think so,, up to you,, as the thais say,,

<snip> and a great reference letter from her Bank, from the head office, invites from my brother and his wife, and my mate on the Gold Coast, all on Statutory Declarations, it is very important to have every thing from Australia on STAT DECS,

the visa starts from the day it was issued, the 06/09/2012, and ends on the 05/12/2012, we are not going until the 12/11/2012 and will return to Thailand on the 04/12/2012, she picked up her passport with a notice she had the visa in it on the Friday, she applied on the Wednesday, it was very quick, have attached the note in her visa.

(my bolding above)

My experience, and the experience of many here is that Statutory Declarations contribute negligible weighting towards a Visa application.

As for the Visa start date, as 2 of the posters have noted above ... the Visa doesn't start on the date it is issued. You have a grace period after the Visa is issued before it lapses. That time will be stated within the Visa (or accompanying documents) and is typically 3 months / 90 days.

In lay man terms, get the Visa and you have 90 days to get to Australia.

They don't care if it takes 2 days, 2 weeks or two months.

You are wrong,,,, be told by someone that knows,,, in 2001 I applied for and was granted a visa for a Thai lady, (not the same lady) it was a one month visa only, not a three month visa, it had a no further stay,8303 on that visa, when I was applying for that visa I got to know a senior officer at the Southport Immigration office, (now no longer there) he told me to put everthing on a Stat Dec as it means a lot more than just writing something, as it is a legal document, I was also told this by a officer at Thai CC House when I help my mate in OZ get a visa for his G/F, so be told,, I was also able to get the no further stay over turned on the one month visa for the lady in 2001, with every thing on Stat Decs, and with help from the guy at Southport, he kept telling me how important it was to use Stat Decs.

All visa are not the same and different conditions apply to them,, the visa my lady has this time has conditions that apply to it, it is a tourist visa, a single entry visa, is for three months from the date of this slip,, writen on of the slip,, so again be told,, it also has no further stay 8503 writen on the slip, so she must be back in Thailand by the 06/12/2012, I also confirmed this with a officer at Thai CC House when we picked up her passport with the slip in it, all visa can be different with different conditions. and don't forget to use Stat Decs.