connda

I think a week of interrogation here in Zone Green, you could get anyone to plead 'guilty' to almost anything.

They should all come to the Land of Smiles.

After the last mayweather fight

I would rather watch paint dry

It would be more interesting

If it's not mixed martial arts, it ain't worth watching. Boxing? That whole business is a racket, imho. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If any aspect of her green card application was fraudulent it could be revoked, similarly, green cards tend to have conditions and reviews built in, something perhaps to be aware of.

You live in Thailand and she lives and works in the US. Isn't that pushing US immigration fraud, especially with the green card? I thought to get a US marriage visa it is implied that you will be living together in the US?

It seems the only person responsible if fraud is the case is the OP. No where in the story did she do anything fraudulent and it seems she lived up to the agreement.

He was the one that fled to thailand and didn't want to return to the US.

It takes two to tango.

If any aspect of her green card application was fraudulent it could be revoked, similarly, green cards tend to have conditions and reviews built in, something perhaps to be aware of.

You live in Thailand and she lives and works in the US. Isn't that pushing US immigration fraud, especially with the green card? I thought to get a US marriage visa it is implied that you will be living together in the US?

Wait until she gets her American Attorney! "Honey, I want a divorce and I want half of everything you have." Sucks to be you.

I keep my wife in Thailand.

I'm shocked! Simply shocked! Say it ain't so?

I live out in the sticks in Lampang province and for the past 3 years have been using the online queue to make an appointment reservation for my marriage extension.

Since this service has been terminated for the most ridiculous reason I might add (too many farang complaining they couldn't get a reservation) or so I read on this forum. I'm wondering about this year. I'll suck it up leave the house at 3am with the wife drive in to Chianger to arrive at imm by 4:30 but the thought of being told after all this that marriage extensions are full for the day and to come back tomorrow has me on slow boil.

I'd like to hear any members experiences with marriage extensions (arrivals at immigration and finishing times) now that the online queue system has been terminated.

I'm not as far out as you are, although my house borders the Lamphun/Lampang border. Personally, with the drive and all, I'm just going to bite the bullet and hire an agent next year. I've already been in contact with a couple and have received quotes. It's a little pricey, but when I weight that against the amount of frustration I generally deal with each time I visit that outhouse they call an office, the agent will be worth the price of just staying cool, calm, and collected, and letting someone else do the legwork and paperwork. I'm just completely tired of the BS. I give up: "Uncle!"

And ditto on "Thank for the report Tywais."

Same here in Mae Tha in Lamphun. Two local police men came around yesterday, but didn't want to see my passport or anything nor did they ask any questions. They just talked to our neighbour and my girlfriend for a few minutes, and went on their merry way.

They had a list with information supplied by Immigration in Chiang Mai, but it also had the name and phone number of my girlfriend (something I have never given Immigration), so they must have taken the information from the Immigration database and run it against the Tabien Bahn system (I guess). As said, they were local police but was given their task by central police in Bangkok (not immigration police). The list they had contained a column that my girlfriend said had the headline "risk" (in Thai), probably as in security risk/risk profile.

Sophon

I have a Turkish friend who is on tenterhooks waiting for the knock on the door at the dead of night.

Yes I can imagine how he/she feels.

It's a shame everyone from Turkey, will probably be tarred with the same brush.

They probably already have a checkmark in the "Risk" column.

I had a visit today, it was a local policeman (Pa Sang, Lamphun) and he said nothing to be concerned about and it was related to the BKK bombing.He also said the central government had told them to do it. He spoke no English, all done through my Thai partner and he did not want to see anything. Nice chap; but my partner thought he was more scared of me, since he only wanted to talk with her.

Add two I\Os plus the local BIB and that was exactly my situation too. Wife even invited them to come inside the fence and into the house. I have two dogs, one of which really isn't fond of strangers. According to wife, the I\O decline because of the 'scary' dog.

They actually saw you? I stayed in the house and watched TV; the dog already had them worried Lol. At the time, I didn't know who they were and didn't particularly care. When wife has things under control, I stay uninvolved. A lot of Thai folk come and go around here. I generally find out who they were after the fact.

"Who were they?

Immigration and police.

"What did they want?

They check farang because of bomb in Krung Thep.

"They gone?"

Chai.

"Cool."

Coming soon to CM, BiB doing their job

Yes, I got a visit from the police, he asked to see my passport, but not with any immigration officers, the same police guy even came back again to check my passport a few days later.

He must be in the Alzheimer's division of the department.

Glad I don't like Chang. Sounds more like a desperate cost-cutting move. It cost money to diversify; you save money when you consolidate. Shake up the market? I don't think so.

conda

I/Os talked to my wife in accompany with the police. The police know I'm here. The vendors and residents up and down the road know I'm here (hard to miss a pasty-white farang who dresses like a farang), the monks at various wats know I'm here, and the police at the local station know I'm here, staff at the hospital know I'm here, staff at the local Amphur offices know I'm here, bus loads of local school kids know I'm here "Hello you farang", you'd have to be blind to not know I'm here. 'Routine visit', they didn't even ask to talk to me. I just saw them though the window and thought to myself, "Loan sharks looking for wife's ex-husband, or CM Immigration doing a house check." Bingo! on number 2.

Now Immigration knows you are there. LOL

been away a while but I believe this started before the bombing.

been away a while but I believe this started before the bombing.

Hey - I'm just the farang messenger passing on what the I\Os told the Mrs, according to the Mrs. To paraphase: "They checking on farang because bomb in Krung Thep."

So, I'm just passing it along verbatim. Take if for what it's worth. Mai bpen rai. I ain't losing any sleep over it. Hope they had a nice drive. Pleasant scenery up in this neck of the woods.

Geez, how did you get so lucky OP, I've been waiting 25 years for a visit and still no luck!

Give it a chance. My two-cents, for what they're worth, is that the crappy customer service in CM may have a lot to do with them moving personal to enforcement, which now seems to be more important than processing immigration customers.

Maybe it's your time to hit the Triple 777s - Jackpot. Your lucky day may shortly be in the cards.

May you be free from suffering Mr Egapong. May you find happiness somehow, in whatever way you can.
Metta

I've tried twice and each time got the message to contact my local Imm. Office -- Chiang Mai. Each time they had no clue what the problem was.

What's the point of having that message? I'd be better off to simply mail in my report and ignore that request to go to the office in person and wait in that endless queue.

I'll echo that. What is the point of having a "contact CM Immigration" message if CM Immigration can't solve the problem and your only option is continue to mail in (if it still works) or worse, go in person (what an unpleasant thought),

Relax, OP!

Here and gone. What's there not to be relaxed about? They're someone else's problem now. I didn't even have to get out of my chair, no less walk to the door to talk. Wife did all the talking, I watched TV.

Freakin' amazing in only a TIT sort of way.

So my motorcycle helmet is a weapon, but if I don't wear it I can be fined, but if I take it out of the country it's a weapon and I can be tossed in jail. Hell's bells, I'm confused.

Note to self: Jackets that stop bullet's are weapons. I wonder how the applies to bullet resistant glass. I remember watching of CCTV video of some luck guy who happened to have have his life saved by having bullet resistant glass in his side window as hit man attempted to whack him with a silenced pistol.

These must be rules that only apply to farang and the average non-elites.

I hope they don't believe they are speaking for me. They aren't.

Have you received an up-close and personal visit from CM Immigration yet? They must be pulling out all the boxes of 90 days reports and actually using them now to verify locations of farang. Post-bombing investigation, and every foreigner in Thailand is a suspect. Cool, huh?

A couple of I/O agents showed up today along with police. The I/O agents are out and about checking to make sure foreigners on marriage extension are actually married and living where they say they are living.

I hope they enjoyed their 3 hour drive out here to the middle of nowhere, considering I'm the only farang in our Thambon. I guess that there are other married farang on the south-west side of our Amphur 20 km the other direction, but I'm 'it' out here in the north-west end of our little collection of rice paddies, rural villages, and mountain valleys.

I/Os talked to my wife in accompany with the police. The police know I'm here. The vendors and residents up and down the road know I'm here (hard to miss a pasty-white farang who dresses like a farang), the monks at various wats know I'm here, and the police at the local station know I'm here, staff at the hospital know I'm here, staff at the local Amphur offices know I'm here, bus loads of local school kids know I'm here "Hello you farang", you'd have to be blind to not know I'm here. 'Routine visit', they didn't even ask to talk to me. I just saw them though the window and thought to myself, "Loan sharks looking for wife's ex-husband, or CM Immigration doing a house check." Bingo! on number 2.

Wife was told this has to do with the BKK bombing. OK. Whatever. I was here in our province, not making mischief in BKK. Haven't been to BKK for a couple of years.

So, "Heads Up!", you married farang guys. Expect a visit.

I've had two shipments delivered in the last 6 weeks. No problem.

RIP: Those this are bad news.

The 'ghost writers' are putting out some funny stuff now. Ha ha ha.

Most of the indigenous wildlife has been killed and eaten to the point of non-existance, so there not much wildlife to fart methane.