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At least you'll avoid the pensionable age hike, which will kick in in the 2030s. I won't.

It starts in 2020 - I don't get my state pension until I'm 66 then goes to 67 in 2026/28 finally 68 in the 2030s but I expect it to go up to 70 before then.

1. 12 Month Extension based on Retirement.

800,000 Baht in the bank. OR 65,000 monthly income. OR a combination of both.

2. 12 Month Extension based on Marriage.

400,000 Baht in the bank or 40,000 monthly income.

3. Multi Entry Non Imm O Visa from Savanakhet Laos.

This would give you almost 15 months but means leaving the country every 90 days.

You can get a 60 day extension at Immigration which would give you a bit more time to sort things out.

So what do I need to do . Are the forms available on line or where can I get them from please ? Also for extension based on marriage can it be a combination of income and money in the bank ?

Currently I have a non imm B visa with extension based on work. Will that be cancelled and I have to apply for a new VISA outside of Thailand or can I get an extension to that visa category based on marriage ?

The extension based on marriage also allows you to get a work permit should you find more work - the retirement extension does not.

ps I see ubonjoe has already mentioned this but it is an advantage often forgotten when comparing extensions marriage vs retirement.

It is not that the regulations and the basic documentary requirements are different. They aren't.

Not sure what you mean by that but if you follow the Visa section and the other community forums on Visa issues you will find there can be considerable differences in requirement regardless of what the regs say.

yes they do appear to vary greatly and woe betide you if you try and quote the official regs - best just to smile and get on with it.

I just got mine, and am so happy I finally got it done. Lots of questions about residence (Forgot the copy of Property Owners' ID Card), none about income (I had everything nailed on that).

Was told that I could not do it 45 days before my expiration date of my 90 day O. Came back at 30 days. That was kind of bad info..or I may have misread a thread dealing with this.

yeah I was told I had to be in the country 60 days before I could apply for extension so that fits in with your info

Hello, can I know where you checked and how much it costs ? Thank you.

Just about any hospital can do it. You just masturbate in an in vitro dish and they put it under a microscope and count how many sperm are mobile. Looks like the OP's result was 100% immobile - which is as bad as you can get and at 65 I doubt it can be reversed, so I would suggest the adoption route.

I adopted twin girls in my first marriage as my wife couldn't conceive and I have never regretted it.

Another factor that could be causing a low sperm count maybe other medications you are taking, you mentioned periods of bad anxiety? Are you taking meds to combat the anxiety attacks or meds for any other conditions??

A very good point. Lots of different meds affect sperm quality and libido.

I love a country bumkin story. Your family home makes the Waltons seem like a small family. I married a city girl and when we are in Thailand we live in the suburbs away from the family and that suits me fine. Some of her nieces with their uni friends visit to use the pool and I don't mind that at all.

A Thai witness and a copy of their Thai ID and Tabian Baan both signed.

I don't understand this. I'm on my fourth extension and never had a Thai witness. On the original (1st) extension we did have the village leader sign and statement that I lived in the village that was witnessed at the Amphur government offices.

Seems you only need the Thai witness on your first extension. The village leader was your Thai witness on your first application.

Everything else no problems, even a motorbike sent from Hua hin to Singburi.

Difficult to trouser a motorbike, innit?

No, could have rode it away

You will save yourself much grief and heartache by putting your new notebook in a drawer and leaving it there or simply put it out with the trash.

You have made a start by installing Classic Shell, then you will need to disable the charms (bottom RH almost impossible) and the touch screen driver but no matter what you do it will still be slow and many simple functions such as copy and paste will not work as you have become accustomed to. You will also find that it will not print from I.E. but will from Firefox - amazing a Windows product that does not work on a Windows operating system.

Finally, when you see "Outlook (or whatever function you are trying to use) is not responding" for the tenth time in an hour you will want to smash your notebook to bits with a large hammer.

Trust me, give up with it now and find something with Windows 7.

Windows 9 has been abandoned so it will be a long wait for Windows 10.

In my experience as an IT professional the above comments are pretty much true.

Frustrating, I proof read it twice, but your correct it should read;

Documents by Post

1. Completed Form TM47

2. Photocopy of passport pages with following pages

- Homepage showing given names, Passport number, Hologram etc, plus

- Current visa or

- Last extension stamp and

- Last entry stamp

3. Photocopy of Departure card TM.6

4. Original Previous notifications of staying over 90 days. (Take a copy for your records)

I say 'or' after Visa because it would be one or the other. Visa or Extension. If you have an extension then you don't have a 'current' visa as it becomes expired when you get an extension.

Would you agree with that Joe.

I would have quoted the Immigration website, but unfortunately the crap Internet and bandwidth here quite often won't allow many sites to open.

3. Photocopy of departure card TM.6 front and back

The basic UK state pension is only around 30,000 baht per month, so that on it's own wouldn't qualify.

It would require a top up from other private pensions to meet the financial requirements.

Then again, I am told provided you get a letter from the British Embassy confirming you are in receipt of a state pension, that is sufficient (even though it doesn't meet the monthly financial requirement).

Can anyone confirm that?

This can only be obtained from outside Thailand. You just have to provide proof you receive state pension and you get a 12 month visa based on retirement but you must leave Thailand every 90 days and you cannot renew this visa in Thailand, you must return home.

Just be warned that some exchange booths will refuse to take worn or heavily marked notes so try and get fresh notes to bring with you.

Airline Pilot.

Starting from scratch at age 32? Too old, I suspect.

Maybe cabin crew. If he's lucky.

Drugs mule - pays well and lots of travel

I tell them I'm very interested and ask them to wait while I go for a pen and paper. I then put the phone down (not hang up) and go back to whatever I was doing, remembering to eventually hang up some time later in the day.

Carry the baby in your lap, book early enough to get bulkhead seat with a mounting for bassinette.

You'll have to hold the baby takeoff & landing and can place "it" in the the bassinette during the flight.

Most of the airlines offer free bassinettes that hang on the wall in front of a bulkhead seat but they have weight limits so check the weight of ur baby before booking

so where did the police take them?

They were obviously taken somewhere comfortable so they could re-enact their crime for photos - it wouldn't be appropriate to be topless in the police station

Getting desperate??

Biggest selling-point in the Kingdom is low temperatures!!

Third time they repeat this story in as many weeks!!

On a positive note: Beautiful picture in the OP!!

Shame about the earthquakes

You can do it but Why do it !! It will take you a few hours to take the old ones up .. Wet the floor to keep the dust down get your self a few buckets to move the mess the first tile will be the hardest and the rest will come up easy enough.. Much better job in the long run .. If you leave them down they can lift . If you take them up they carnt work it out ?

I had some old tiles that were installed with sand and cement mortar instead of tile cement - it took a week to get them off with a chisel drill and it damaged the wall. So I would test how easy they are to remove before deciding. If you decide to tile on tile then you must use the specialist tile adhesive for this purpose, no need to score the old tiles.

Have used the free version of AVG for years. Its so good, we used it on our company computers also. Best free antivirus you can get.

Completely agree, the free version is better than some commercial programs, except its not so good with spyware.

Its common, but all over the world.. Seen it everywhere.. Not only Thailand..

Yes but as the OP was saying, they talk openly about it without any reticence.

Farmers and growers here have no water management's clue in their body, for them, water is abundant

and should be free to use and grow 3 crops of rice a year and sell it to the government for a profit,

here there is no tomorrow, there is only today, will cross that bridge with no water when we get to it...

If you can figure out how to educate those clueless people and restore water supply to all year around

they will make a god out of you here and build a statues in your honor...

They don't seem to have much idea about water management but the Khmer ppl built reservoirs 2000 years ago when we were living in mud huts so get over to Cambodia and see if there are any Khmers left to advise you

I really do not know about the above saying she has a claim on half of everything as that wasn't my experience when I got divorced earlier this year.

My situation was married 3 years and got married in uk

I already owned my property before she came and she contributed zero towards the house and any bills

But I kicked her out/told her to leave which she did

She then made contact with me a couple of months later and said wanted a divorce, wouldn't tell me where she was living and would only give me a friends address to send the paper work to, in the mean time I had been to a divorce lawyer and already had things in place as in this country you need a reason to get divorced so was divorcing her for unreasonable behaviour(I won't go into the reasons but they were justified) she then proceeded to ignore 2 letters regarding the divorce 1 from my lawyer and the other from the court when I filed for divorce but they had both been signed for and the proof was there.

Eventually the court accepted our petition to get divorced without her being present as she had her chance to respond and didn't bother.

If you can prove that it was all you paying then I got a feeling with the right lawyer you will be fine.

your missus just like my ex I suspect it being counselled by someone who reckons they know a bit more than what an actual lawyer would so I suggest you visit one right away and see where you stand instead of reading the scare mongers on here who are telling you she's getting half of everything... the laws have changed since the 1980's and the massive thing you have in your favour is no children/dependants other wise yes you would be bang in trouble....

cheers

Absolutely correct. Not having children puts a completely different face on it. However, where contribution is concerned, courts do take into account when a partner stayed at home and cooked and cleaned, which they consider contributing to community property. There is no specific law but I think a legal precedent was set in case where a couple lived together for just 18 months and the court awarded her a small % of community property. Even without prenuptial agreements court divorce settlements will still take into account what one party owned before the marriage.

I enjoyed Thai Food in Europe, was disappointing to taste the bland, sugary stuff served up here.That Hot it all tastes the same unless you go to Posh Hotels here.

Posh hotels for good thai food, thats the funniest comment i have ever heard

Try the Oriental. thats Yummy,plus no Backpackers or Chang Shirted Ferangs,Worth every cent.

yeah I thought I'd have a look at the famous Oriental but they wouldn't let me in with flip flops on and judging by the prices I could get a cheaper meal in a top Chinese restaurant in London.