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It also happens to be CORRECT. Sorry, who put you in charge?

Four years ago maybe

It IS possible to open a Thai bank account on an visa-exempt - but seems a lot of people have problems with this. I went with my (Thai) wife to a local branch of Bangkok Bank (where my wife has an account) and my account (my name only) opened no problems. Seems like you've got to hit the right flunky on the right day - good luck!

The TM30 online site let me add it no problem (I used my wifes ID card and the house book) and I show up at the property when I do a search

I'm doing it the 65k a month foreign deposit way which I have been doing for two years or more with proof from the bank (shows as international transfer) I also have a certificate from my (private) pension provider to show the necessary funds will be paid in every month which worked for the visa. BTW I am doing this from Chiang Mai and I am told they are low on the anal index when it comes to retirement extensions.

Meanwhile I THINK I have done a successful online TM30, my bank book will have almost six months of entries with foreign deposits, and I even have Thai medical insurace! I think I'm good to go at the moment - next,find out which forms to fill out, got some passport photoes and try again. Thanks again for your help and offer.

Thanks for the offer which I will take you up on in a few weeks time.

MUCH too soon but I'm a "sooner rather than later" type of person - better than to turn up three days before it expires and told I'm too late. Now to get all the forms and info in the posts above and be pitch-perfect in 40 days time.

Thank you for your helpful contribution which has added signiificant value to this discussion.

Daily progress reports! Well, monthly at least

thanks for the infos

First time EVER I have got a visa (always came on non-exempt) and want to apply for reitrement extension - arrived last Saturday and have 90 days. Went to CM Airpiort immigration office today after making an appointment online and the whole thing was farcical. Told to come back in 40+ days time as I am "too early" - bring a completed form (which one?) and go to "information" and then wait, it seems.

I was dragfwed ito Amway by a supposed friend and soon got sickened of all the "motivation" stuiff and the fact the "business" seemed to rotate round selling tapes and books for "self-improvement" - the products themselves, well we sold some makeup to somebody and they came out in a rash - supposedly "Cliniuque" property. Left as I soom i was twigged on.

I wouldn't describe myself as that but am struggling to find a suitable description of your post that is within forum rules. "Pot calling the kettle black" springs to mind - also "takes one to know one". I can think of a few more.

We ALLknow who they are.

I often click on a topic from the newletter and turns it to be the usual trash from people on my ignore list. Please filter these so they don't appear in my feed.

Nah, too up market - we used a kitchen-towel roll tube

Darwin Award winner? Years ago in a factory in China we set up an Internet connection. Came in one morning and everything was down - someone had stolen all the copper wiring into the building.

Yeah I get that all the time. I thought it was a feature. To be brutally honest the articles aren't worth that much losing sleep over

My maternal grandfather was a Mason (operating-level Thetan I think ) can I get a pass-through? I'll just sit at the back and won't get in anyones way(Monty Python reference)

I'm hoping my Garmin Varia radar system will give me enough warning to get out of the way

It's a couple of hundred baht - I'm not losing sleep over it.

Most members of this forum are probably not in that group.

Titlle says it all I think

I would recommend renting a CITY (not mountain) bike to ptter around the Old town. I wouldn't recommend going on long-distance rides until you grow eyes in the back of your head : - or invest in a Garmin Varia radar set that displays stuff coming up behind you