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So, from my perspective as a customer, the "We're sorry for the inconvenience" meme is, unacceptable. Does anyone in the Thai banking services know someone 'inside' who can clarify exactly what they are doing?
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Immigration is your first problem. If you are a US citizen, the account number change is going to need to be reflected when you file you FBAR FinCEN Report 114 next year.
I'd fire them. Imho, Bangkok Bank provides more robust banking services for US citizens. If you're not a US citizen? I'd still fire them, pull my money out, and place in in to bank that has some customer service skills.
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dont worry be happy i live in chiang dao 1h30 bus to come immigration 555+
You absolutely have my utmost respect and sympathy. It's not like Immigration couldn't have small offices in each province; it's they choose not to.
Which makes me believe we're on the social strata between dogs, buffaloes, and criminals. Well, unless you're a 'connected' foreigner.
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As I understand it the last shuttle is at 12 noon correct? There should be shuttles up until closing time at immigration but I guess beggars cannot be choosers.Questions that still need answers to. Hope members will ask immigration for clarification
Mail in 90 day reports - old address or will there be a new one
Extensions based on marriage/work/academics/teachers - The new site says One Stop Service. Marriage is not but the others are one day service so are they all in the old facility?
Residency certificates - At Promenada mall or the location across from Promenada?
Transportation:
Of course red songthaews, tuk-tuks, taxis, private hire are options.
Special Shuttle between old immigration office and new one.
Looks like the Promenada shuttle service starts as the immigration shuttle service finishes so not exactly a problem?
I don't think that very many folk have a reason to complain. There ain't no shuttle to my village 70 km South of the Promenade. Buy a motorcycle, bicycle, rent a tuk tuk, songtaw, start a car pool, make a meeting via Meetup.org, call Lanna Care dot Net. There is more than one solution out there. Especially for people not living out in South Lamphun or Lampang provinces or other places out in the rice paddies of rural Thailand nowhere-ville. You think you have issues? Think again. So "Don't Worry; Be Happy."
"But but, I live on Moon Muang and its like a major inconvenience to find transport to that 'way out of the way' Promenade."
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I sent my 90 day report via EMS from Lamphun last Friday July 17th to the old Immigration address and said I'd follow up on the EMS tracking. My 90 day report EMS package was accepted with signature this morning July 20th between 9am and 11am at the old address. Now to see how long it takes to come back. I'll keep this updated.
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If this happens, I'm leaving. Think - camel's back - and 'straw'.
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I have nothing else to say on this, or any other subject regarding celebrities other than this:
Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.
Seems like there is quite a queue of Puritans (of various religion biases) out there lining up for the honor of heaving the first rock. -
To get around this problem, there have been suggestions that foreign tour guides be permitted to work legally as "Tour Coordinators", alongside Thai tour guides.
I already know what this means: the farrang guy is doing the job while the Thai guide sleeps in the bus until they stop at his contracted crap shop where he forks in by head count of potential customers.
The longstanding argument is that foreign guides might not know about Thailand, especially areas of cultural sensitivity, compared to local tour guides.
If a Thai tour guide should explain "Thainess" and do'd and don'ts to a group of let's say Dutch tourists in competition with a Dutch guide, I guess it's no secret who's the one to get a good tip from the group members...
To get around this problem, there have been suggestions that foreign tour guides be permitted to work legally as "Tour Coordinators", alongside Thai tour guides.
/sarcasm on
I've got a suggestion for the MoE. Have Native English Speaking Coordinators along side Thai teachers who speak rudimentary, grammatically incorrect, and mispronounced English. Pay the Native English Speaking Coordinators a (barely) living salary, like 10K THB per month, and shower accolades on the Khru Thai. I'm sure the body-pierced, tattooed, travelers sans degree of any sort would jump at the opportunity.
/sarcasm off
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Fine sentiments but highly unlikely, since guides from other AEC countries may end up telling the truth about some cultural sites and past events rather than perpetuate the myths found in many Thai history books.
No kidding. Once ASEAN comes online, farang tour guides are the least of their problems. What then...a turf war after making a multi-nation trade agreement?
Then it's...he who offers the best service wins. Well, I guess Thai tour guides can take up machetes and start hacking their competition to death. But given this is ASEAN, my guess is that their out-of-country but legal competition can handle a machete just as well as any Thai, maybe better. It seemed Burma kept kicking the heck out of Thais historically. Win a few, lose a few.
He who offers the best Customer Services gets the customers.
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Sure. Corrupt politicians and corrupt bankers should be tossed into jail, but only Iceland seems to be doing that at the moment.
In the US and London? S**t, launder money for the drug cartels, get caught, and get a wrist slap. And nobody goes to jail.
I'm way, way past be disillusioned with the status quo. Corruption in the West makes this petty corruption in the East look like child's play.
For those who understand, which is a fraction of a percent of TV member, do you realize that when the US passed the last budget, they assumed the responsibility for all the derivatives exposure of the 'To Big To Fail' banks. And for that fraction of a fraction of a percent of US TV members, do you even have an itsy-bitsy clue at to what the Glass-Steagal Act was, why it was repealed, and why it will never be reenacted again short of an economic collapse, and I don't even think that will be enough catalyst. But, but, Warren and McCain (in the middle of an election cycle) introduced the legislation to be reenacted!!!!!
Baaaaaaaa.
Hey, I have a bridge over the Kwai River that I'll sell you for satang on the baht.
Sheep.
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I did my 6th renewal last month. We took a witness. I asked the usual lady if she wanted to speak with him, and she asked why I had brought him. I explained that I understood that a witness was now needed, and we had, in fact, phoned to ask, and were told that a witness was necessary. She told me that, as we have been married for 6 years, had a "blue book" with both of our names in it, a witness wasn't necessary !
I would go for the extension as early as possible ( 30 days before it expires ?), and see what happens. If they insist on a witness, you have a month to arrange it.
A bit off topic but when was it possible for a foreigner to have his name included in the tabien baan? I have been told by officials on several occasions that this is not possible so have applied for a yellow house book.
The exception is when the foreigner has PR (permanent residency) status, then you can be added to a blue book.
I have my own Yellow Book. Why the hell do I need to be in the Blue Book. My Tabian Baan is a Thai legal document no different than my families Tabian Baan. Sounds more like a shake down for tea money. Back to corruption.
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Unfortunately continuing on that route you will never be able to apply for PR status and make the visa game a thing of the past. That is a question of curiosity I have for OP. You said you have been married for 13yrs, why haven't you applied for PR and retire from the visa game? If you could have done that after your 3rd year of marriage, you could be applying for your citizenship now. Like I said, just curious.
No problem, back then I was still living in Pattaya but not anymore and I have moved to an area with an even more difficult immigration, so my extension days are over and I just went with my wife to Laos and got a Multiple Entry Non-O with no hassle. But this one suits us also as we are frequent travellers and leaving every 90 day is no major issue for usMJCM, thanks for that thread. I actually commented on that thread back in February, so did you it appears. I think it was that thread that made me think I must check out what is going on with this nearer the time of my renewal in August.
The last time I checked you needed a work permit to apply for a PR. Seeing that I'm not currently working, have no WP, than the PR is out. Also, it seems that PRs are something that are much easier to obtain if your residence is in BKK and not in an upcountry province where the immigration office flatly said that they don't process PR applications. You are basically a tolerated nuisance. I spoke to a well know legal office with branch offices in Chiang Mai, and I couldn't even get an answer from them.
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After nine years of marriage, I would ask my wife to explain to the immigration official exactly what she will be doing after I buy a ticket and leave this screwed up country for good leaving her with a house and no income. Then they can hash it out Thai to Thai. Each year I get progressively more tired of this xenophobiac BS.
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gun, a knife, two decks of cards, B500, several motorbikes and a small amount of kratom and cannabis.
You've got to be joking. Second highest death rate on the roads, and this is the focus of the BIB. Pathetic.
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Yes, by golly, that is an answer!!! Yaba and alcohol. It's the yaba and alcohol that should be but on trial. The man himself is totally without blame. Without any responsibility for his personal actions because, we all know, Yaba and Alcohol are the culprits. The man??? A totally innocent victim of drug lords and distilleries.
Don't feed the aspiring troll.
Don't wake sleeping sheep.
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some people will only stop an assult as they are met with gunsmoke and hot lead.. If they are on some of the real mind alternating drugs it may take a multiple of rounds (4 or 5 ) but placed correctly that should be a real put down. then the bib would probably go after the fellow protecting himself, mother and bystanders' handdy to have a dozen spare clips just to show your not up to taking blaming the unseen / unheard voice no one else heard.
lock the crazed lunitic up in the house for deranged human / animal behavior and place him and others like him right next to the monkey pit at zoos around the country, a diet of peanuts, and water might show the errors of this type of behavior to the general public.
Ridiculous American attitude, typical of the NRA mentality. The motorcycle guys showed that guns were completely unnecessary for apprehending the guy, as they are in the vast majority of criminal cases in the vast majority of countries.
Ridiculous nanny-state mentality where you lay down and allow yourself and family to be victimized, and then blame yourself for the attack, and plead with the court to release the mad-man to go out and continue to attack people at will, because he had a difficult upbringing and it's not his fault. It's your fault, for having more 'privilege' then the attacker.
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That's not a knife ( I am from Australia BTW)
Naew, this is a knife! http://bbsimg.ngfiles.com/1/24727000/ngbbs51e929b64237f.jpg
But, I'm betting you Aussie ain't allowed to have one of them any more. You'll put your eye out Lol.
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Probably Ya Ba or Alcohol and or a loathing for foreigners because of something that happened in the past.
Talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time...yikes
Cheers
Yes, by golly, that is an answer!!! Yaba and alcohol. It's the yaba and alcohol that should be but on trial. The man himself is totally without blame. Without any responsibility for his personal actions because, we all know, Yaba and Alcohol are the culprits. The man??? A totally innocent victim of drug lords and distilleries.
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Nasty and frightening as this attack probably was for the tourist, and not trying to minimize things, but <deleted>, if all of the wicked knife wielding terror attack left with two little nicks to his hands he has to consider himself lucky. I have had a lot worse than that from opening a can of tomatoes and a bite from a bloody Toktaw! Hardly "Jack the Knife"
The "can of tomatoes" attacked you with deadly intent. That has got to be one of the most lame-brain comments that I've heard as a member of TV. There is a huge gap between your own stupidity when opening a can of tomatoes, and someone wielding a knife with the intent of doing you grave bodily harm.
And what's worse, is that you seem to be unable to discern the difference. Where do you folk come from. Ya'll incredibility indoctrinated you know, and totally oblivious to the fact.
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Usually Attribution-NoDerivs (CC BY-ND) for the type of work the OP is referring to.
Good stuff. The Attribution-ShareAlike is more along the line of what I need. Attribute it, use it, modify it, and be willing to share the modified end-product. I'm a pay-it-forward type of guy. Do something good, and then pass it on in the same spirit. I just don't want someone saying the original concept was theirs. Hence, source attribution. I'll read more about it tomorrow.
Thanks much!
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Most fun post I've seen since...April 1. Lol
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I was in a small restaurant, getting some take-away, right next door to my condo, and the lady standing there must have said "farang" eight times. I didn't like the tone, even though I really didn't know what she was saying. I did know that the food wasn't good enough to have to listen to an idiot babble for five minutes. I haven't been back since, and I could just as easily been an almost daily customer.
She may well have been saying how much she appreciates all the business the local farang give her, that the farang in the condo next door are some of her best customers and she hopes more farang will stop by in the future.
If you didn't know what she was saying, what makes your think she was an idiot? That 'babble' is the language of the country in which you are living.
Good point. If you live here, you should strive for an understanding of the Thai language at least to a point to where to can understand the 'gist' of the conversation.
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Persian language -
Farang = European
Thai bastardisation -
Guava - Ton Farang ( white flesh ).
If we can agree on anything - can we agree that the French aspect has been debunked?
No
Farang = all men and women with white skin.
Try again...
Does that apply to Thai folk who have bleached skin, never step out in the sun, and have a great cosmetic surgeon? They're 'farang' too? Really. Learn something new every day.
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I admit to being a farang, and I don't mind limited use of the word. Like yesterday, when the Songtaew driver told me "Farang Som-sip," I simply said "cannot" and that was the end of it. Never heard the word in the bank or dentist office, it does seem to be overused by the foot shuffling class of Thais and it's just repetitive and annoying. Very young kids will often repeat it over and over, like they are name calling, but you know where they learned to do that. Many of the Thai parents haven't realized that teaching their kids to speak is only half the battle; you need to teach them to shut up, too. I generally just vote with my wallet, if they are being rude, and to me that is using the word "farang" more than a couple of times in a brief encounter. I was in a small restaurant, getting some take-away, right next door to my condo, and the lady standing there must have said "farang" eight times. I didn't like the tone, even though I really didn't know what she was saying. I did know that the food wasn't good enough to have to listen to an idiot babble for five minutes. I haven't been back since, and I could just as easily been an almost daily customer.
Just use the word "mia chow" about 8 time while casting a glance in her direction occasionally.
My Bank Has Changed My Account Number.
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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I'm talking about Kasikorn, unless SCB also follows suit and changes account numbers. This has tax implications for foreigners, and to just act like "Mai Bpen Freaking Rai" is not the correct answer.