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Oh wow thanks guys. What a relief!

Canadian Embassy put a stamp in my passport that is they said will serve as the letter you asked about Joe.

So looks like I'm good to go.

Cheers both you!

• Canadian
• I'm in Bangkok
• I'm on an ancient ED visa
• I just got a new passport issued in Bagnkok.
• Extension of stay stamp til Oct 22 (issued in Chonburi) on my old passport.
• I plan to go to Loas on Oct 20 to get a 2 month Thai tourist visa.
• I believe I'm supposed to transfer the extension stamp to the new passport before I exit Thailand.

I went to immigration BKK to transfer my extension of stay stamp to the new passport. They said that since the stamp was issued in Chonburi, that they can't transfer it in BKK. I would need to go back to Chonburi for that.

I explained that I'm done with Chonburi, done with school there. I have to leave in a few days, and don't have time to go there for a stupid stamp. They said I don't need to transfer the stamp. I can just show up at the boarder with both passports instead. What? I thought that I had to transfer the stamps before leaving. That's what I've read on this forum.

So what happens at the boarder if I didn't transfer the stamp beforehand?

Do I really have to go to Chonburi just to transfer a stupid stamp so I am allowed to leave this country?

My ED visa is expiring soon, so I'm going to leave Thailand to apply for a new ED visa.

I just got a new passport today. So my visa is not in the new passport. Before I leave Thailand, do I need to go to immigration to transfer the current ED visa from the old passport to the new one, or can I just exit and show both passports at the border/airport?

I'll be entering Thailand again, but it will be on a new visa.

Thanks paz

No ED visas from KL. That's weird. Really glad you asked then, or I would have wasted a l of time and money.

Where can I go then? I guess most people go to Vientien or Phnom Penh?

What about Jakarta or Yangon? Never been there.

Thanks for the replies, folks. I really appreciate it.

BTW I forgot to say I'm Canadian.

1. I have not seen any reports of anybody being denied a ED visa. Where do you plan on getting it?

2. You could enter on an exempt entry or get a tourist visa instead of the the ED visa. They would not deny you entry.

Thanks Joe. Good to know. I'll probably go to KL to get it. Or maybe Loas or Cambodia.

If they don't give you another Ed visa just start using back to back tourist visas, I'm sure you'll be good to go for quite a while on them.

I thought they were cracking down on that.

To add, I think it's fine to take classes for years and get ED visa's for years like you have. I'm sure it takes a decade of classes to get truly, comfortably fluent and conversant in a tonal language so different from one's own. But what I don't understand is how you actually got worse. Even if you just paid the school to get the visa, and didn't attend classes, you're in Thailand! You live in one big Thai language classroom!

It's a perfect combination of shy, stupid and lazy.

For what I read the MOE is not working with Immigration or with embassies and consulates 3 different organism with no communication.

your plan should be

1.- Changing your school for a good one (probably your old school is already banned, who knows??)

2.- Maybe is good time to renew your old passport

3.- Check with your new school what you really need

Some nationals are required to show fly tickets or other things depending of the embassy.

4.- Study another thing, not Thai language (is not for you), Muay Thai as a example so when the IO asks what have you learned?, you can answer with some nice kicks

5.- For the best back to Thailand by air avoid Sadao land frontier or any other frontier with problems (check in the forum)

6.- Get 20k baht in your hand, and probably more if they mess with fly tickets, bookbanks or money in another currency will not work since they will try to get some tip inside your passport (as in Sadao)

7.- Stop working illegal, back to your country, stop eating noodles in your fan room, get the Elite card and etc ...you know all those smart and constructive retiree comments LOL

8.- Be good

Lol a swift knee to the chin should stop the questions. Thanks for all the advice. I happen to have just gotten a new passport. Maybe it helps a bit, but I think they check your history on their computer anyway.

I need to go abroad to get a new ED visa in November.

1) With the recent changes, I'm worried they might not give me a new visa because I've been doing this for so many years. I have been on ED visas for 8 or 9 years, mostly studying Thai with 2 years Russian in the middle. At first, I studied hard and learned how to speak and write Thai. But recently I've been really lazy with my studies and am very rusty. I'm worried that they might just refuse me because I've done so many years already, or because I can't answer their informal "test" questions in Thai very well. I am practicing now, so hoping that will help.

2) If they don't give me a visa, I wonder if they'll let me come back to Thailand for a few weeks to get my things and settle my affairs.

If one has already gone through 5 or 6 years with ED Visas to study Thai, could he/she be granted a visa for another year? In otherwords, do they have a limit to the number of years of ED Visas for that?

I am Canadian, wanting to form a company in Thailand. It would be

selling selling Thai made clothing, online, internationally. Mostly

retail, and a little wholesale. I want to use the minimum starting

capital.

• Would this fall under List 3 of restricted businesses in the FBA?
• Can it be a 100% foreign owned company?
• If not, what percent can I own as a foreigner?
• Is it possible for me to legally have control of the company?
• Assuming 2 million baht for starting capital is needed, do I

  actually have to have the full 2 million, or can some percent of it just

  be on paper?

• Is it possible to borrow some of the starting capital from family for company formation, and pay it back after formation?
• Employing 4 Thai people is fine for me, and I want a work permit,

  but if it means I need to physically have more that 1 mil starting

  capital, I wonder if I could manage my company without a work permit.

Thanks in advance!

An export only company can be 100% foreign owned, please note that

you cannot sell anything inside Thailand. However, the company still

need three shareholders but you can hold the controlling shares.

You should have at the bare minimum 25% in paid up capital to start

the company. You will need to pay into the social fund on 4 Thai

employees to obtain a work permit and you must have

a physical location where the employees work to be fully compliant with the law.

Your answer to my previous post (above) helps a lot. I do appreciate it, thank you.

Would the company described actually qualify as an export company? I ask because I remember reading that an export company needs a Bill of Landing document for every shipment. We would not have Bill of Landing documents. We would just have payment receipts from Thai Post. We would typically be sending 1 or 2 clothing items to each customer overseas, by regular airmail. Would that work?

If the 3 shareholders were foreign, Would they need to be in Thailand every year to sign things and such?

I am Canadian, wanting to form a company in Thailand. It would be selling selling Thai made clothing, online, internationally. Mostly retail, and a little wholesale. I want to use the minimum starting capital.

1. Would this fall under List 3 of restricted businesses in the FBA?
2. Can it be a 100% foreign owned company?
3. If not, what percent can I own as a foreigner?
4. Is it possible for me to legally have control of the company?
5. Assuming 2 million baht for starting capital is needed, do I actually have to have the full 2 million, or can some percent of it just be on paper?
6. Is it possible to borrow some of the starting capital from family for company formation, and pay it back after formation?
7. Employing 4 Thai people is fine for me, and I want a work permit, but if it means I need to physically have more that 1 mil starting capital, I wonder if I could manage my company without a work permit.

Thanks in advance!

The maximum length of the courses are set by the MOE. Some schools have only courses approved for 3 years, some for 5. The school that I quoted above is approved for five years. You actually only get a cirricilum that covers 3 years, but you can repeat years 1 and 2 to improve your proficiency.

CTLS looks great. I wish it was practical for me but its pretty far from where I live I'll have to go with one of the ones around Sukhumvit, which seem to be maximum 3 years.

Thanks a lot guys.

So basically I can choose any school in BKK that provides ED visas. I thought it was the Ministry of Education that had a 3 year maximum for studying a language. But looks like it was just my school only had 3 years of courses.

You get up to 3 years of ED visa for studying Thai language. Then what?

I know you can study another language for another 3 years. I'm doing that now. But what about after that?

I'm told you can get 3 more years if you study at their other branch in another city. I suppose it might also work if you studied at another school in the same city.

Can anybody confirm this? Any body actually done this?

Thanks

Yes it would be to obtain a new visa for entry when you return. Not really hard to do at most Consulates with school paperwork.

If they will not extend early they are not going to take your tickets - you just don't pay for a re-entry permit and leave but obtain the para one visa before you return. Then 90 days later do the extension of stay process again.

When I say lose the tickets, i just mean that i couldn't use them because i would have to be in bkk to renew the visa. But yeah, now I see how I could get a new ED Visa. I think that means I need to get my school involved, and they would charge me more, etc etc. Probably easier than I imagine, but I can just fly out at a different date instead.

Thanks for your help!!!

Thanks for your reply.

Doing the second thing you said would mean getting a new ED visa, instead of just getting 3 month extension stamp, right?

About showing them the ticket... I'm worried I might get denied or run into some problems and lose the $2000 flights. Maybe I'll just move the trip up a few weeks.

I am planning to be in the US and Canada from Feb 15 to March 15. But the stamp on my ED visa is good til Feb 25, which is right in the middle of my trip.

I seem to remember that you can renew your visa no more than 1 week before it expires. So if that's true, I cannot make this trip, because the soonest I could renew the visa would be Feb 18.

Is it possible to get the re-entry permit and renew my ED visa 14 days before the visa expires, on Feb 11?

Thanks in advance

What a pain in the ass. I appreciate the responses.

It sounds like a third party bank. I shouldn't' have put such a sensational title concerning Bangkok Bank, as it looks like it wasn't them.

Although I really wish the people at the bank I talked with actually put a bit of effort into dealing with my concern. They should have mentioned the possibility of a third party bank. They didn't even bring it up. Typical. If you don't ask specifically, they won't volunteer any information.

I'll talk with Ian and see what he can tell me. I'll also get the person in Singapore to ask the bank there for more info.

Wrong! Always pay the charges of the sending bank at the source of payment and let the receiving bank deduct their own charges. If something appears to be missing then the transfer went through a third bank which deducted their own charges. Call the receiving bank and ask them from which bank they actually received the transfer. Then call this bank and tell them you need a receipt for the charges they levied. They will e-mail or fax you the receipt upon request. You'll need a transfer reference number which the receiving (your) bank will give you.

We do this very often because we need evidence of all deductions along the way for accounting purposes.

opalhort

Again, I wish BKK Bank volunteered this info (telling me they got the funds from another bank) when I was asking why the amount was wrong. I'll have to ask again. Thanks for the idea.

It also depends on the nature of the transaction the transfer is intended to settle.

If you owe somebody 500,000 THB, you owe the 500,000 THB. Not 500,000 THB less the fees from your bank and the fees for the intermediary banks, and the fees for the beneficiary bank. So "charges to sender" is the way to go. If you are sending funds of your own to yourself then "charges to beneficiary" is fine.

If you are making frequent payments you can talk to the bank to ensure that the payments are send using the "least cost routing".

This makes sense. Thanks Ian. I'll check for your email tomorrow.

Obviously spam. The OP hasn't checked back. Just promoting some garbage product.

There are legal supplements you can take that boost testosterone naturally.

Companies CLAIM their supplements will "boost" testosterone. Companies making natural supplements and herbal remedies can claim almost anything. What you want is proof. As far as I know, all the so called proof is just marketing garbage. Supplementing your diet to "boost" testosterone isn't even scientifically plausible. I would, however, be interested to see some hard scientific evidence supporting such claims.

Which exercise is best for targeting the pecks??? (Pls. dont say push ups)... I hate them!!!

Push ups are excellent for the upper body and pecs. They are the only one I can think of if you don't have any equipment.

If you have a gym membership, you can do flies (dumbbell or cable), bench press, cable press and there will be a few machines for chest, just look at the pictures attached to the machines.

Like the other poster said, you can't focus your fat lose on just one body part. Fat loss happens across the whole body, regardless of what muscle is getting the exercise. By doing a million push ups, you'll get bigger, firmer pecs, but the fat won't necessarily go away unless you are doing more than that.

Full body exercise is really what you want to do. That stimulates muscle growth throughout the body, getting your hormones active, the right things going through your blood, right changes in metabolism. Your body will burn more calories when your not working out too, if you do this 2 to 4 times per week.

I was sent 7800 Baht from Singapore, twice, and only received 7350 both times. According to Bangkok Bank, I should have received 7600.

Bangkok Bank says they charge 0.25% to receive an international wire transfer. Minimum 200 Baht, Maximum 500 Baht. Any hidden fees, I asked? No.

I was charged 450 Baht, but I should have been charged 200 Baht. BKK Bank now tells me they charged me only 100 Baht (below the minimum some how).

I went in to ask them, they showed me a computer screen displaying that they received only 7450, and they said they only charged me a 100 Baht fee. They said the other charges were from Singapore and I couldn't get more information from them.

I have 3 problems with this:

1) I saw the receipt from Singapore and it said 7800 THB

2) BKK Bank told me the minimum was 200, and now they say the fee was only 100. The fees are randomly changing? Or maybe I'm not getting the full story.

3) I was over charged a nice round number or 250 Baht. If the charge was coming from Singapore, it would be in SGD or a %, and not a nice round number in THB.

If anyone could help me figure this out, I would really appreciate it.

Sorry about the late reply guys. I thought I was going to get emails when there were replies. I appreciate the valuable advice.

I should have said that I plan to start of retail website for a specific kind of clothing which will be ready for launch pretty soon. That will be without a registered business. I will want to have a real business once the billions start pouring in.

I want to expand to wholesale export in the future. Then I'll have to figure out how do that. Cargo companies, licenses and all that confusing stuff.

After running the retail website for a while, I'm going to want to stop doing it as a person, and start as a business. I want a business so it can all be legit, pay taxes as a business, have bank accounts and accept payments in the name of the business, hire staff legally, etc.

I also want to live in Thailand. Canada is too cold and has no tropical beaches or somtam for $1 on the street.

@gotlost

@Spinel

@jacquesparra

@CarlBkk

@raro

I plan to start an export company to export wholesale or retail around the world. Not sure if I should register the company in Thailand or in my home country, Canada. Not sure how any of this works at all.

Below are some things I am thinking about. Any thoughts/experiences would be appreciated.

1. Business tax in Canada vs Thailand. Which is cheaper. A quick search tells me in 2010, Canadian business tax will be 18%. Could be wrong tho.
   
2. How do I make Thailand let me stay in Thailand if my business is Canadian?
   
3. Thailand won't let me own my own business. How important is that?
   
4. Should I talk to a lawyer in Bangkok about this and how much does that cost?
   
5. Other things to worry about that I haven't thought of yet