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It was Kaspersky Antivirus. It did not like a self-signed security certificate. Once I went to advanced settings and set Kaspersky to let me decide to connect or not, everything went well.

I can't access the online 90 day notification of address by https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn90online .This worked before, so I wonder what could be the problem. Can anyone help?

I try Internet Explorer 11 and get:

This page can’t be displayed

I Try chrome and get: The webpage at https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn90online might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

I really appreciate the information.

I am an English Expert at a top 5 uni with 7 years of unbroken yearly contracts. I have 5 years of ancient Mattayom from the likes of BKK Christian College. I am planning to give an original and copy of my contract that ends next April and lease at the same condo for 3 years that ends in December. I also will get certified bank account letters at Thai two banks with 7 and 12 years of history. I am setting up a joint bank account for further documentation support.

Although one thing I got wrong, her family has not completed the land transfer yet. We can't get that done before our trip. Also, should I bring copies of my US Tax returns?

That line in the US Government site that says if you screw up, you could be permanently be rejected spooks me.

I have been spending hours researching Thai tourist visa for spouse to USA on the internet. I got a good handle on what the US Embassy expects for the application. I know that they think you are trying to slip the K visas, which I am not. It's only 2 weeks to have her meet my family. I am a US citizen from birth. My wife is Thai

We have been married since January 2015 and lived together for 3.5 years. I have 12 years of Thailand work visa and domicile, but she is not a "big money" woman. She is a hotel telephone operator at a 4 star hotel and has a bachelor degree. I think she has land in her name that is not to shabby, but because she sends most of her money home, her bank balance has not got a great record.

Can anyone recommend a good law firm? I contacted Siam Legal and a consult is 4,000 baht and 7% VAT which I can handle. Can anyone share thier experience with me?

Is the Re-Entry Permit Internet Appointment working at CW?

As an instructor at a major Thai University in Bangkok, I have noticed three things:

1. The girls are always in uniform on class days. They come in wearing normal appropriate shirts and skirts in freshman summer school. These grow tighter and shorter until the senior year when many have internships that reset their idea of how to dress. The length of the high heel undergoes a similar process, but it nearly always on for presentations.

2. The boys wear the uniform in summer school and begin to change by first semester. As they seek individuality, they first go for tennis shoes, strange haircuts and black jeans. By their sophomore year, some wear typical distressed bluejeans. Sporting a neck tie means it's presentation day. Once again, internships reset the dress code in the senior year somewhat. Only the white long sleeve shirt is always on.

3. I allow the tomboys to wear the male uniform, but the male TV's never choose to wear the female uniform. That still seems to be taboo, and TV's limit themselves to sweaters, scarves and effeminate behavior . We have one katoey who began male and went female over break after second year.

I let them wear what they want as long as it doesn't disrupt class. Formal presentation days means wearing the whole uniform of their gender choice. Then even conservative girl's vamp it up while the boys look snappy and professional for once.

Thailand is the Land of Face. Thai personality is split between what is proper to be seen and what is not proper to be seen. It is all about maintaining proper appearances on the outside while all the tomfoolery occurs behind closed doors.

Some conservative Thais are upset that the national face is shamed when Miss Thailand vamps it for the cameras. These are the same Thais who maintain that certain things are not happening, ignore them, and do not speak of them polite society. My beloved wife and Thai family are these traditional and conservative people. We just do not mention these topics and put the blinders on in certain areas of BKK and Pattaya. We dare not even consider a family trip to Phuket.

Most of the shots are just spontaneous fun and games for the photographers that would not have hit the mainstream media in the past. However, the Internet knows and sees all. It is so easy to disseminate information and images in the electronic era. (Please forgive the pun.)

Interestingly, she does look pissed off in one shot. I wonder who peed in her porridge in that shot.

This was just the scam's opening move. This nowhere near the ending. Moronic, molly-coddling, weeping parents will meet her at the airport to further enable her egocentric "me-me-me" complex.

She will go back to Australia and claim the Thai police tortured her. The media will go in a frenzy and dig up any dirt on her. Then she has a book ghostwritten for her. Next, she sells the movie rights. Lastly, she o.d.'s on heroin. She also has to beat the hel_l out of a paparazzi when stumbling out of a bar at 3.00 AM with her ?lesbian? friend. If it is a really a first offense, the marketability can be greatly enhanced by the downward death spin.

Signed,

A cynic who had his 15 minutes of fame already... too many times. :jap:

I would like to make a few suggestions:

1. Please use Speall Cheeck when you see a red line below your words.
2. Proofread your comments.
3. Realize that some American English is actually closer to original English than modern UK English is. Both forms have diverged by adding new elements and retained different older elements.
4. Most US and UK English speakers can quickly understand and read the different versions of English.
5. Australians have also diverged as have many other "Native Speaker" English groups.

As an American, I ask classes which version of English they want. Is it to be US or UK? I can provide slightly Southern accented US or RP UK for speaking. I can do this as well for grammar and spelling. I ask my class to choose one and always be consistent. I do not advocate either version. In fact, many students first assume that I am from the UK. Interestingly, most of them ask for American before I mention my home country. I will not speculate why. As a university teacher and editor, my job is to provide the proper product to the proper person.

(End of Pompous English Rant) If you are offended, that is great!

Regarding Thai teachers, they are not paid much, deprived of resources, and face many other difficult hurdles. Some of them are amazingly good while others are horrifically terrible. I have observed that seems to be the norm for people in such situations in several different jobs and countries. After six years of secondary and tertiary teaching, I have seen idealists, timeservers, cynics and fabulous teachers. This applies to both native speakers and nonnative speakers.

My biggest questions regard the validity and methodology of the Thai teacher test. Selective use of statistics can be used to support nearly any statement. Red roses are not red. They are yellow. Grass is not green. It is blue. How can this be?

Leave information out of your report as follows: Our observers were red-green color blind people.

Viola, your statements look valid. This simple method is often perpetrated on a grand scale every day in the media and in world of bad science.

Thailand has a lot of work to do in education, but so does most of the rest of the world. My daughter in the USA has been to two wonderful schools and one that nearly made me put her in private school. Next year, she will attend a better public school.

The dreadful school is in one of the most affluent American counties. When my teacher friends and I examined the assignments and discussed what occurred in class, we saw the system and curriculum are the primary problems. The materials are old and focus mainly on passing the state tests while the tightly controlled teachers are uninspired and frustrated. We can thank George W for the No One Left Behind program.

Alright, it's time for you to find any grammatical mistakes I made, and you can also commence flaming.

Other than a few spelling differences and a few colloquialisms, I am curious what are the grammatical differences between grammatically correct "British English" and "American English".

I am rather confused that teaching "American English" actually involves teaching a different language. I thought it only existed in Microsoft land.

The major teaching difference is in teaching listening and speaking. GA ( General American) and RP (Received Pronunciation England) sound very different and require some different IPA marks to represent sounds. There are some sounds in each that are not in the other. The students must learn to hear and speak different accents. Ask an American and a Brit to say dog, bird, portal, permanent and it sounds rather different. I have seen the looks of panic when students long trained by an American encounter a Brit and vice-versa. It takes quick students one day to adapt and slow ones many weeks. For in class fun and games, I switch between GA, RP, and an Australian accent when we are relaxing. The students love it and the Brits have awarded me "Honorary Brit" status. The Australians tell me I sound like a real Banana-bender from Queensland. I hope no offence in Queensland is taken here.

I have seen knockdown drag out fights over "The band is good" vs. "The band are good." Teach English with the other side's textbook and audio media. Then you will see it is more than just Microsoft land. It looks like it is going to rain or It looks as if it will rain? I forgot my umbrella at home or I forgot my umbrella. It is at home. What do you use a garage for? Is the front engine cover a hood or bonnet? Are you a truck or lorry driver? Is the front glass pane in your car a windshield or a windscreen? These trivial differences are large to students.

Lastly, many poor teachers hide poor grammar mistakes by claiming American or British rules. Modern media has a huge effect such as "I'm lovin' it." This is quite simply wrong, but people repeat what they hear and see. It becomes part of their language Lego blocks when they formulate new communication attempts and unwittingly use it.

Getting back to Thailand, most Thai teachers who are older adhere to the UK and the younger ones adhere to the USA. The more senior director or teacher is never wrong, so I have seen some real cat fights when they thought no one was watching. Also, I have heard much grumbling about the senior when they thought the farang did not speak Thai. Thankfully, my current Thai boss is very open minded and seeks input. This is rare in Thailand. The concept of International English is a great idea, but who sets the standards?

I would like to make a few suggestions:

1. Please use Speall Cheeck when you see a red line below your words.
2. Proofread your comments.
3. Realize that some American English is actually closer to original English than modern UK English is. Both forms have diverged by adding new elements and retained different older elements.
4. Most US and UK English speakers can quickly understand and read the different versions of English.
5. Australians have also diverged as have many other "Native Speaker" English groups.

As an American, I ask classes which version of English they want. Is it to be US or UK? I can provide slightly Southern accented US or RP UK for speaking. I can do this as well for grammar and spelling. I ask my class to choose one and always be consistent. I do not advocate either version. In fact, many students first assume that I am from the UK. Interestingly, most of them ask for American before I mention my home country. I will not speculate why. As a university teacher and editor, my job is to provide the proper product to the proper person.

(End of Pompous English Rant) If you are offended, that is great!

Regarding Thai teachers, they are not paid much, deprived of resources, and face many other difficult hurdles. Some of them are amazingly good while others are horrifically terrible. I have observed that seems to be the norm for people in such situations in several different jobs and countries. After six years of secondary and tertiary teaching, I have seen idealists, timeservers, cynics and fabulous teachers. This applies to both native speakers and nonnative speakers.

My biggest questions regard the validity and methodology of the Thai teacher test. Selective use of statistics can be used to support nearly any statement. Red roses are not red. They are yellow. Grass is not green. It is blue. How can this be?

Leave information out of your report as follows: Our observers were red-green color blind people.

Viola, your statements look valid. This simple method is often perpetrated on a grand scale every day in the media and in world of bad science.

Thailand has a lot of work to do in education, but so does most of the rest of the world. My daughter in the USA has been to two wonderful schools and one that nearly made me put her in private school. Next year, she will attend a better public school.

The dreadful school is in one of the most affluent American counties. When my teacher friends and I examined the assignments and discussed what occurred in class, we saw the system and curriculum are the primary problems. The materials are old and focus mainly on passing the state tests while the tightly controlled teachers are uninspired and frustrated. We can thank George W for the No One Left Behind program.

Alright, it's time for you to find any grammatical mistakes I made, and you can also commence flaming.