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What deductions need to come out of a pay packet, at what intervals? Who is respondible for paying which entity and what reciepts are provided? Is the entire packet taxed and if so, at the same rate?

If the garbage that washes ashore from Burmese fishing boats is any indication, southern islands in Myanmar far from pristine.

Malaysia despite rule of law, no better. Thais? Hah.

Fisherman hate the environment, its that simple

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Thanks.

Jean - Interesting. So you, the condo king believe that only 1% of condos that properly valued in this market. That these may not be even something that one would want to live in, but the return on the rental makes it a valid investment.

Thanks.

I have understood that a Thai may return to Thailand with personal goods aquired abroad.

The TV board has lead me to believe the amount of time abroad is one year.

How is that accounted for and by whom when dealing with customs at port of entry. Goods arriving by ship or by ship and with the perdon, by plane (two shipments)?

Presume the person must be domiciled soneven if no lease, surely not hopping around Europe for a year correct? It is for purpose of household goods.

What if during the year, extended holiday taken outside the country?

US B Visitor Visa? Ten Year qualifies?

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I'm a very satisfied Google user. Was one of first Gmail invites.

Growing increasingly wary of its tenticles. Seriously distrusting it's motives.

Taken in total, it holds all.sorts of personal.information on users, far more than facebook.

Its getting big and creepy.

Lowering = larger and more bubbles

Raising = stronger baht

Your move Thailand.

KrisWillems - Taiwan gives on-the-fly quizzes to many "students" (teachers) that front up for visas.

Always wondered when in Thailand, but then when you cindider the very nature of the ED visa yiu understand why its not going to happen. They visa catagory will disappear first.

Well, if the offer is for a work permit I'm sure he will.have his share of takers. No one going to deport a teacher on any nonO with a wp for teaching simply because they are working a "second job" in another location.

So if the promise includes a wp, Mr Walen is going to be a rich man.

I fail to see how it is an unreasonable expense (or more expensive than visa exempt runs) to get a proper visa to stay in Thailand. Visa exempt entry is not the only option since a Tourist Visa is available to all. The cost of getting to the border 4 times is more likely to be more than getting a proper visa.

Maybe he lives relatively close to the border. Would seem you don't know much about visa running as well as Thai transport.

Hassle, absolutely. Up to him and he is gracious enough to share.

I would bet I could get to that internal xing from Hat Yai and back fir less than b300. Of course, Sadao can be done for less than half that from HY.

Now the OP has stated that he is awaiting a proper visa 【NOTE TO JRTMEDIC】. So, this guys does have money, seens age is most likely issue.

He lives in the far south, his visa options in his opinion are played out. If his runner costs 300 a trip, that is only 200b more than a visa for the same period - 2mos (most likely 5x not 4 though). So, you guys are wrong on the money aspect as well. Small money. But all of you wouldn't know.

Jrtmedic -.you were a cop back home or the school snitch? You have made a number of these irksome posts.

Why do people have to constantly deride others for their chosen method of staying in Thailand? It's almost a jealousy thing.

I'm sure some are broke, others under 50. For me it got to the point of playing it as a game. I played that game well for a decade. Inwas one of the best arguably. Never a red stamp. Now I'm on a marriage visa, new visa -new game.

Maybe when you are here long enough you will.realize that none of us have any claim to being here much more than the visa runner. Non of us are promised any more than 365 days, please report continually. None of us are wanted, no matter your visa or work permit or whatever.

As for Satun, hah well most TVers couldn't find it on a map. I've always wanted to do both runs down there, the one on the coast and the one inland (wife went shopping at xing inland before with friend). People in Satun ate great.

Sure. Your employer can help you with all your paperwork. The extension, the work permit all of it.

Good luck.with that impossibility ☺

You need to scrutinize this NGO very closely, Thsiland allows very, very few foreigners even foreign entities to work within its borders. NGO in BKK you say??? You don't speak Thai and are bringing what highly specialized skill to Thailand the Thai's wholly lack in social services?

Are you paying for any of this?

Only a matter of time before they embassies start quizzing applicants in Thai. They have done this in Taiwan for years.

Studying Thai for two years but cannot hold a conversation - fail.

NEXT!

My specification or not, I saw nothing on the links that had anything to do with the program in question. Sorry. My spec or anyone else's.

Thanks, that is so funny because that brought me back to the school in Korea immediately ☺

I think 20k for twenty hours at university and 35k for full day (plus health, holidays...) is about the minimum I will accept.

I'd really like to do a TEFL but cannot financially justify it. Courses here are way overpriced - no diffetence than the west.

Thanks.

Thanks for those thoughts.

I'm not worried about the US. Law is pretty clear. You only get into trouble when assests are mixed.

We are very happy - but money is money.

Thx

But my sincere question to the board is how it makes financial sense. OK so not 10 or 12 - I also think.that is aggressive, but surely the condo should be paid off over 15yrs = to rent? No, not appreciation, that is not only unknown but quite possibly the reverse may be true, depreciation. Empty months in the equation is simoly a deal.breaker.

DD property using a metric of even 20yrs is often fantasy. Seems like anything with potential has some broker and a silly price.

I think Thai condo owners are not very financially sophisticated. They take a 25yr loan on a box and only look at the monthly paymrnt. TV investors I see as very different.

There is a condo near me, they want 2.4m. Claim condo will rent for 14k, I don't see it going for more than 10k and that would be disregarding proximity to large toad and fact it gets full afternoon sun. Add to this taxes, monthly fees. I'm not seeing it.

Im not in the market for a 600k condo, just an example. The % ratio return might be better around 1.5m Indont know, bit the guys buying condosn to let on this board seem mainly to.believe the target is the bottom end.

Using a metric of 15yrs, condos are overpriced by 50% or more but I am eilling to admit thits is the nature of the Asian market where premium is applied to land.

I don'tbsee how "being ready to buy" makes any difference. Math is math. Can anyone help me understand how any unit can be paid off inn12yrs rent in this market (with a ton, simply a ton of condos coming to market)? Thanks.

PS this is honestly important to me, my wife is quite a bit younger than me and I want to know she is safe and situated when I head on down to the fire below.

The relevant info seems to be on Walen's website. I presume as Walen is a sponsor i can link his website

I don't know why everyone always questions Walen's bona fides. It seems obvious the service that he is offering is to gain an ED visa and this service caters for thousands of people.

Anyone serious about a Thai language course is going to do some basic research and decide what course is right for them.

What you have provided is a general link tobthe website (which the mods should remove).

The buttons on the side not so suprisingly list absolutely NOTHING related specifically to the course.

Nothing!

You sir are a patsy and a shill.

Seems obvious? I've never read any trusted post boasting of Thai language prowess gained at Walen. Links please - real ones this time ok?

EDITED: Aplogies for calling you a shill. As you have rightly pointed out, the nature of the course(s) is/are to provide ED visa - not learning Thai or qualifications equal to teaching certifications in the West. We are in total agreement ☺

This course as pointed out in prior posts is about the school's ability to procure a visa. It has nothing to do wirh teaching. If it did, it would at least have the dignity to call itself TEFL or some other such course. It is simply a ruse to provide a one year vida extension at a cost of b50k and a few hours at school.

Teaching can be taught, it's not magic. In fact a degree does not make you a good teacher, especially a good conversational English teacher. A degree though is a requirement by every government in East Asia

There is no such school as the school of hard knocks or life experience. While very, very few might pursue a standard liberal arts "degree" through self study, it wouldn't be the men drawn to Thailand! Further, almost allmthe lower coursework of undergrad degree also something no one would be the least bit interested. Did you study English Composition for a year solid on.your own? Of course you did ☺

MW's school is very upfront about its mission. If you look at nearly all.his advertising it goes much like this...

Want to stay in Thailand for a year?

Need a one year visa?

But the most telling...the small advert running in the VISAS section of tv, not in the TEACHING section or any other...

The advert states clearly - ED visa, 50k one year. That is what is being dold, not training.

The school has a reputation for poor materials and weak instruction - it has a reputation not of stellar academics, but of being run as something akin to.a visa mill.

This new MW project sounds like an alternative for those who sadly want to reside in Thailsnd but have absolutely zero interest in the language. Insultingly so, for when given a choice between learning Thai and learning whatever, they opt for whatever.

Ironically, this course fits within govt guidelines and is somehow eligble for a visa. Many small but very good Thai schools do not (cannot) offer visas and even more ironic still is that all the TEFL courses and even the CELTA do not even provide a 3mo nonO. Finally, the best of those course take a month or two at best, the MW course, one year.

Maybe if Mr Walen could enlighten us as to.whst the progrsm is about? Surely it includes TEFL as a component including a certificate. Is he functioning as an agency and jobbing people out to schools?

Mr. Walen - can you post a full syllabus and course description?

Further, since you are working in academics now. I am sort if curious where you did your stint at university.

Finally, some advice for Mr. Walen: Your teachers are going to be given a very, very hard time by the real teachers if and when they ever do land a job in Thailand due to your arrogant and dismissive attitude toward them. I assure you and the board, certainly the teachers know that there is nothing you are offering in a year that equals a Bachelor's from the real world. Add to this some have advanced degrees as well as specialized qualifications (TEFL, CELTA). Compared to McTeaching...

Your teachers with whatever you are offering can never compete in this job market with whatever you are providing. Its disingenious. This is especially true if leading anyone to believe that your program = work. Unless as stated, you are farming people out to schools to work sans degree, wp, teach lic and diploma for cut rate wages.

In the end, I think the advertising placement is telling and all we really need to know. I am tbough highly curious abiut job promises.

Mr. Walen - as any proper course. End all this conjecture and post links to the course outline and instruction materisls. Books/required reading materials, etc.

Sorry for typo's. Early AM, tablet, coffee not kicked in

You have a lot of questions and have been given some good information. VJ will help a great deal but I would warn you about snap decisions. You are now wrapping marriage and visas and while it is all part of the larger picture, namely getting her to the US - you can now toss the following into the mix:

You living in a big city for two years which then you csn DCF and apply for IR1.

NonO education - yes you can, I hear its a hassle but esp if you are not fifty, best /only choice

NonO marriage - multiple in neighboring countries or by extension. Extensions are a maximum hassle.

If you marry and want to DCF lets say before the first year. You will need loads of supporting paperwork and photos, documents to show your marriage is true. My hunch is its about the same as doing a K visa. I understand the longer you wait, the better.

Your fiance' is best served by having a salaried job of multiple years. You should have some document you are living together. A jojnt bank account post marriage and years of photos of the both of you (with the kid is better imo) in many places, events, etc...

Included in the poverty level is your household, which needs to include the kid. Child will have to be accounted for and INS will asdume the child is going with or will question why mom would leave him behind. - Im very vague on this, so ask. I do not think INS is in business of splitting up families.

I think.you must state if she has children. It is an actual question. Then if they state they must be on the app, you must do just that.

As for your time here and DCF its all smoke and mirrors. I don't think there is anything firm. Further, many embassies allow DCF under much easier conditions. Thailand is a hardcase because of all nonsense that goes on here. The bar girls, the Internet meetup's and the lovestruck farang. You will be scrutinized.

You can ask to apply anytime at USCIS office but you might email ACS and ask them about guidelines [email protected]

Will you get time time served on past visas. Two no, twenty, maybe. I am orvwas a professional bisa dodger until I married. While we are in no hurry to return to states, I would think they would be real serious hard case not to give me a break. Im on my 5th 48 page passport, one is actually 96 pages.

In the end, its about giving them what they want.

I've read the process can take less than a year, even six months. Also read 1.5 years. Usually people with big problems are the same people that have gone thru life with big problems orbare trying to game the system. Big plus is your finances. Big minus the kid - you mention ypu gf a lot, but the kid is just as important and just as much a deal.breaker.

I do not know if I would list that place in SIN if I were you. Maybe not, but that is not advice, just something to ponder.

Thanks Jean ☺

So would indeed appear that if I were to purchase with money will to me, she would be eligible for half. If not, surely if sold she would get half.

Seems to be related to real estate, there is all sorts of property not land. Wonder how that fits i to the picture?

Thank you again!

Wow, insightful flip on things. People would not be willing to pay for this. Insult to lose the condo, injury to pay for it. So tje land would go up for sale - perhaps to the company building the next condo.

If a person were wearing a tinfoil hat he might even wonder if external pressures could be brought to bear to declare unsafe.

There is still a ton of land, even in central Bangkok, still, with non stop building, it is an interesting perspective.

It does stand to reason that the Juristic Person would be on the hook for the demo

So if the building is condemned, would each condo owner recv a % of value of land say according tonsqm of their flats?

Is this uncharted territory for Thai and muncipal law?

When you guys describe a "good" Philippine it's either bbq meat or meat grilled over a spit.

There really is no street food culture. You have shops and stalls.

Cambodian food is much better than Philippine food.

Laotian food is quite dull, but unlike the RP, its homegrown and healthy.

If Filipinos could eat at Jollibee every day a happy nation they would be.

I think they are allergic to vegetables.

Again, poor prople in Africa and Philippines - will buy shixxy American GM rice. They will use broken rice.

Best rice will get the highest price, but at the end of the day it is a commodity.