HerbalEd

I'm continually amused that the majority of comments about Thai PE visa are done by people who've never had one -- and, no surprise, their comments are most often full of misinformation and inaccurate assumptions. And then there's always 2 or 3 or more who seem down right offended by those "fools" who choose to use the Thai PE Visa. Anyway, I'm in my fifth year of my first Thai PE Visa and I'll definitely be signing up for a renewal. After thirty-plus years of frequent travel in and out of Thailand, and border runs, 90-day and 1-year reports, etc., etc., I would never go back to any other visa.

22 hours ago, Cloudy said:

Looks like the OP has been using a visa exempt status for the last two year and it’s finally caught up with him. time to get yourself a visa and into the country properly


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Having a visa exempt entry is getting "into the country properly." Otherwise immigration would not let him and others enter with such. Problem is that immigration is a comedy of mismanagement and multiple varying "policies." --- although no one is laughing. 

6 hours ago, JackThompson said:

How this visa and agent-submitted services are coerced out of people who don't really need them:

 

If the elite were offered, but no other changes made to immigration-policy to coerce it's use, it would not be a problem.  But as you point out, if immigration stopped making up unofficial changes to normal extensions, to hassle honest applicants, and inventing rules that don't exist to restrict Tourist-Visa use at some airports (and Poipet), fewer Elite Visas and Agent-Fee facilitated extensions would be purchased. 

And given a percentage of those hassled are not going to stick around to put up with the abuse, and only a tiny percentage of under-50s would ever purchase an elite-visa - many will leave, destroying Thai jobs, only to create them for people in other countries where they move.  

 

This shines a clear light on the purpose and result of those pointless, damaging (to Thailand), and seemingly arbitrary actions: Lining Certain Pockets at the expense of the well-being of the country.

Coerced? Hassled? I've been regularly and frequently visiting Thailand for 35 years, and living full-time here for 7 years, and I've never been coerced or hassled by Thai immigration. I think your conspiracy theory, is just that: A theory. Meanwhile more tourists than ever are visiting Thailand.

1 hour ago, Ctkong said:

My myanmar girlfriend got hers within 2 weeks after payment received by Thailand elite. Immigration just want to check if you have any record such as criminal or overstay . 

I got my EV five days after I applied. How do you know they check for "any record such as criminal or overstay"? Or are you just assuming?

On 12/7/2018 at 8:58 PM, MehrK said:

Ah very interesting perspective. That's something to consider also. If I buy the 5 year, and want to live here much longer, It will end up being 1.5m total IF it's still 1m Baht to get the 20 year, 5 years from now.

 

Thanks for sharing man. To be honest I have no idea how things will be in 5 years, sigh. I guess I need to make some big boy decisions.  

You're not a 'big boy" yet if you think today you know what your life will be like 10, 15 or 20 years from now. Also, few Western expats last very long in their newly-adopted country. They either become bored or disillusioned with expat life, or their life takes an unanticipated turn.  

BTW, you should get some professional guidance on your USA tax obligations. It's very unlikely you'll be able to legally not pay USA taxes -- no matter where you live in the world. That is, if you want to maintain your USA citizenship. 

8 hours ago, German farang said:

Not only ones & by a reason I told to my Ex that I wish her dad (RIP) would have slaped her multible times the shit out of her ass... Never & nowhere else I experienced such stupid overdriven ego, arrogance & selfishness compared with lack of any moral education! 

I'll never forget her furious statement: "I am a THAI woman!"

Yep, synonym for a stupid, uneducated but endless arrogant bitch ????????????????????.

My last words to her: "wish you fun with an alcoholic violent thai male" ????????????

Still hurts, huh? Don't take it out on all Thai women.

On 11/5/2018 at 5:36 PM, Mavideol said:

Not only Thais think like that, mostly all over Asia, been (lived) in a couple different ones and unfortunately they are the same

So, men don't beat women in your home country. They definitely do in North America and Europe.

So many unproven speculations here, and so little truth. I'm ever amazed at how so many here just make things up, and then actually believe it's true. 

Why is this advertisement here?

So, OP, have you lived in every country in SE Asia -- including Malaysia?

On 7/27/2018 at 8:27 AM, GinBoy2 said:

I'd almost guarantee that if you tried to check a bag at a US airport that was wrapped, that DHS rules would force you to remove the wrapping before you could check it in.

Now, in the other direction, dunno about that. I see that fancy shrink wrap station as you enter Survanaphumi
Whether or not if you try to check bags to a US destination there are rules, similar to the periodic 'enhanced' checks they do before you board, thats difficult to know.

Basically don't do it. I would think. If you're worried about the bag bursting and showering your undies over the baggage claim, probably just better to buy one of those baggage straps

OP is looking for facts here, not opinions and guesses. 

1 hour ago, tryasimight said:

Most Thais?  30 baht an hour?  Really? You need to meet a better type  of Thai people. I know many earning over 200,000 a month. 

So, in your world wealty Thais are "a better type." This says a lot about you -- and it ain't "better."

11 hours ago, overherebc said:

The best time for the shortest wait is when there is no-one else there.

Actually that's the longest wait.

14 hours ago, possum1931 said:

Save your money, you are getting nothing in return for such a large amount, and

you will still have to do the 90 day report, and maybe even leave the country every year.

You get nothing??? Why do you talk about something you obviously don't know anything about?

16 hours ago, sead said:

It shows a red square in the middle of their screen with a number in it. My last number was 22. Dont know how it is calculated. My dissapeared after i got new passport. 

I've stood in front of a Thai immigration officer -- entering & departing Thailand --- hundreds of times and never once was I in a position to view his/her computer screen. Pray tell how did you see the computer screen???

22 hours ago, sanemax said:

My Thai Wife is well educated , has her own job, never worked in a bar , never asked me for money and has never borrowed any money from money lenders  and doesnt gamble and she also looks 20 years younger than she is  ?

So what's your point? 

5 hours ago, cornishcarlos said:

So no more round the world trips allowed now ??

Go to Thailand, go home

Go to China, go home

Go to Australia, go home

Go to Mexico, go home

 

Going to take forever to go everywhere I want to go ?

Exaggerate much?

5 hours ago, elviajero said:

It’s a combination of the history of time spent in the country as a ‘tourist’ and profiling. i.e. a twenty something is likely to get more hassle than a 40 something with the same history.

You know this as a fact, do you? Or are you just assuming? 

Over the past 30-plus years I've entered Thailand by plane at least100 times -- with 30-day non-visa, with tourist visas, and, over the past 6 years, with a Thai Elite Visa. I've also done many border runs by land and air (many in same day).

During this time, I have NEVER been denied entry, nor asked to show any amount of money, or show any kind of onward ticket, or anything similar. In fact, I can't remember ever being asked anything.

In my not-so-humble opinion, the worst thing to happen to international tourism is the nouveau riche Chinese newbie travelers. Crude & rude.