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Would the Hua Hin Immigration not be more convenient for you?

The GPS coordinates for the new office are 12.553219,99.898742. / 12°33'11.6"N 99°53'55.5"E

Regards

Not wishing to disparage AD I will assume that Joe has it right.

From my point "end of".

Brian

There was reference to the "Hotline" that resolved the problem.

Can someone post the actual number?

Regards

Brian

To Pib

That explanation on how to use Krungsri Mee Tai Dai saving account for the seasoning of 8000,00 was right on the money.

I am sure others will have found it useful.

Thank-you

Brian

12 hours ago, Pib said:

The Bt800K I keep as big money in case I need it "immediately, right now, today, an emergency, etc" and for retirement extension of stay purposes.  Got tired of the embassy letter process and associated $50 a year to get it.   The money earns 1.3% right now (use to be around 2.3% until interest rates started going down) in a Krungsri Mee Tai Dai saving accounts which comes with a debit card and ibanking....can withdraw any amount of funds at any time without any interest penalties.  This current 1.3% is more than U.S. checking accounts pay, but yes, some money and savings accounts pay a little more.  And it's more than the typical 0.5% or less for a regular Thai savings account.  Plus, I don't have a fear of having the money in Thailand.

 

 

 

Hi Pib

This is an elegant solution, a few questions if I may.

Do you get a bank book?

The required bank letter, is it required on the same day as the application to Immigration?

What does it say?

Do you have the bank book updated at the same time, assuming you have one?

If no bank book what do you provide as evidence of the deposit sum and period?

Regards

Brian

12 hours ago, Pib said:

  

 

Not sure which of the threads to post this but if Ubonjoe wants to shift ok with me.

I have concluded that in the long term Visa extensions issued using income are likely to be increasingly more difficult, subject to the vagaries of local interpretation and possibly impossible.

To that end the cash deposit route is for me.

·       I am aware that a bank book up to date on the day of application and letter from the bank are required.

·       In the case of a Foreign Currency Account with Krungsri there is no book just a print out of the ins and outs.

o   Is this likely to be accepted?

·       If  anyone has a form of words for the letter that has been shown to be acceptable that would also be of value.

o   Does it need to be in Thai and/or English?

I feel I may have misled folks.

The use of pen drive to enable the Word file to be zoomed is plainly not acceptable.

I accept and can confirm from experience that the Trendy people do not speak good English and waving the E mail from the Pass Port Office suggesting that multiple pages per A4 are acceptable is likely to engender the typical Thai response, rolling of the eyes and and dumb a expression.

When I visited Trendy I did use 1 A4 page per Pass Port opening.

On reflection its probably best to do this as it was accepted.

The debate has been useful but I have nothing further to contribute.

Regards

Brian

They seem to be happy with it, but not you. There is the facility in a computerized document to zoom out. Ever tried it?

Yep and now I am very saddened to say I am for the first time ashamed to be British if they do allow a now definite criminal (yes it is a criminal offence in the extreme to jump bail) to stay safely in exile in the UK. IT IS DISGUSTING IN THE EXTREME. I WILL, AND I HOPE OTHER BRITS HERE WILL, WRITE TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY STRONGLY OBJECTING TO BRITAINS INTERNTAIONAL CRIMINAL ACT IN HARBOURING TAKSIN AND HIS WIFE.

I won't be and I couldn't give a smeg to be honest. Let him in, they let in thousands of other undesirables everyday, and besides, I live here so why should I care. If I were living and paying taxes there, it would possibly be different. I can see where you're coming from if you live in the UK, but if, as I suspect, you live in Muang Thai, then where's your angle? Chill and have a beer

My angle is obvious. I am a Brit living here in LOS but still paying tax in the UK on my pension and am one of those old school guys who just happens to believe in decency and honesty. Britain, IF they allow him and his already found guilty wife to stay there, will then be a criminal country for harbouring escaped convicts and bail jumpers. No question of those crimes and still waiting to bring Toxin's alleged crimes to proper justice too. How would Britain react if Thailand harboured a wanted and found guilty criminal of theirs. Jeez they go on about world despot Governments who do not uphold decent law yet hypocritically seem to be spitting in the face of Thailand when they want their escape convicts and bail breakers back.

Sure I think there is a hidden agenda here in that they seemed to be so stupid as to even grant bail and to travel abroad too.

Thanks to whoever for the Home Office link I think we should all bombard them with e-mailed protests demanding justifications for even allowing him in let alone to stay there too.

If you really want to push it to its logical conclusion then you are correct - the UK should extradite him if Thaksin can not prove in the extradition proceedings the charges etc are not political in nature and that he would not get a fair trial.

However, is it not best for Thailand and less divisive to just let him sit in exile and out of Thai politics (I am assuming he has given up on the 3 billion frozen and will not be funding anything soon as he conserves his hundreds of million $ outside of Thailand - maybe a big assumption.)

The UK has much worse than him in its midst, he will be seen as a white collar criminal in the UK by the majority. We have supported and given succour to much worse than him if they were "ours". Just look at the likes of the Proddies and IRA we let out of jail for political ends and a quiet life?

Various posrters have suggested dropping an E mail to the Home Office. I have done that and also to my MP in my home town in the UK, I have lived in Thailand for five years. TGhe response almost immediat, well fifteen moin as below.

"Many thanks Brian

I have been following the case with interest....particularly as I wish the UK to retain its good relations with Thailand. When the House resumes I will be taking this case up with the Foreign Secretary. Clearly no fugitives should be allowed safe harbour in our country, irrespective of which country they are fleeing, unless to do so would threaten their lives.

Many thanks for bringing it to my attention,

yours

nigel "

Yep and now I am very saddened to say I am for the first time ashamed to be British if they do allow a now definite criminal (yes it is a criminal offence in the extreme to jump bail) to stay safely in exile in the UK. IT IS DISGUSTING IN THE EXTREME. I WILL, AND I HOPE OTHER BRITS HERE WILL, WRITE TO THE BRITISH EMBASSY STRONGLY OBJECTING TO BRITAINS INTERNTAIONAL CRIMINAL ACT IN HARBOURING TAKSIN AND HIS WIFE.

I won't be and I couldn't give a smeg to be honest. Let him in, they let in thousands of other undesirables everyday, and besides, I live here so why should I care. If I were living and paying taxes there, it would possibly be different. I can see where you're coming from if you live in the UK, but if, as I suspect, you live in Muang Thai, then where's your angle? Chill and have a beer

My angle is obvious. I am a Brit living here in LOS but still paying tax in the UK on my pension and am one of those old school guys who just happens to believe in decency and honesty. Britain, IF they allow him and his already found guilty wife to stay there, will then be a criminal country for harbouring escaped convicts and bail jumpers. No question of those crimes and still waiting to bring Toxin's alleged crimes to proper justice too. How would Britain react if Thailand harboured a wanted and found guilty criminal of theirs. Jeez they go on about world despot Governments who do not uphold decent law yet hypocritically seem to be spitting in the face of Thailand when they want their escape convicts and bail breakers back.

Sure I think there is a hidden agenda here in that they seemed to be so stupid as to even grant bail and to travel abroad too.

Thanks to whoever for the Home Office link I think we should all bombard them with e-mailed protests demanding justifications for even allowing him in let alone to stay there too.

If you really want to push it to its logical conclusion then you are correct - the UK should extradite him if Thaksin can not prove in the extradition proceedings the charges etc are not political in nature and that he would not get a fair trial.

However, is it not best for Thailand and less divisive to just let him sit in exile and out of Thai politics (I am assuming he has given up on the 3 billion frozen and will not be funding anything soon as he conserves his hundreds of million $ outside of Thailand - maybe a big assumption.)

The UK has much worse than him in its midst, he will be seen as a white collar criminal in the UK by the majority. We have supported and given succour to much worse than him if they were "ours". Just look at the likes of the Proddies and IRA we let out of jail for political ends and a quiet life?