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I live in a small village going on 5 years now, I do not have the problem of being awaken by the speaker at 6;00 AM ,as I am up at 5 in the morning. If I had problems sleeping late (need of more sleep) I would go to bed earlier the night before, thus getting my alloted hours of sleep per night,This a rice growing village, and the whole village is up and working, a that time in the morning. I would not think of asking the village to change their ways to appease me. I chose to live there and not visa-versa. The smoke in the village is something ,I live with as part of the rice growing cycle in my area , two rice crops are grown each year,

I am the only falang in the village and I do not need other falangs so I can make friends! I have more friends than I need with my Thai friends, family and nieghbors.I occassionally see other falangs in Lat Yao and they do not seek any interaction and niether do I.

For food I like Thai food, and my wife has learned to cook Mexican food, So I have no problem in seeking Western food. also I make a lot of my own food, Kim Chee,Mayo,mustard dip for my chicken nuggets my wife buys frozen in Lat Yao, I make my own pizzas, pickled pigs feet, pickles, bacon, and have a ham curing now.

I find that village life is great for me as I do not need other falangs to make me happy. give the Thais a chance and you will find some very good, caring , understanding friends as I have. I do not go to any larger cities with a big expat population, except to Bangkok to get needed visa information from my Embassy and do some shopping for foods not available locally.

My wife has a large garden and grows a lot of our own food, we have all kinds of fruit trees that we get a lot of seasonal fruit ,what we do not have we trade with our family and friends.

I find falangs do not attempt to interact with Thais on a person to person basis, as a result they miss out on the opportunity of making friends with the local Thais, and fulfill thier social needs for friends or to try to change Thais into doing things thier way.

I enjoy my life as it is in my village, just like it is!

Cheers:

I agree with you, why they say they love thailand for right

I hope he will do some good for country and his own pocket but now what the Red Shirt gonna Do

sign me up with my husband

Hi sorry I did not tell you is from CANADA

When he left canada he dont want to go back but he need the passport to stay in thailand but the embassy dont want to give him back the old passport either now he feel like a criminal

Well its really simple - pay the dosh he owes then he can have his passport. Problem Solved.

easy for you to say

The alimony will have been set either by a court or by agreement between him and his ex-wife. Either way, the amount that was determined would have been based on your friend's income etc. (IE - they will not pick a figure out of thin air). Therefore, unless youre friend's financial circumstances have changed, he should pay the alimony...

If his circumstances have changed, then he will have to reapply to the courts to get the alimony readjusted. But I cannot see a way out of this unless your friend pays what he owes.

Simon

Hi Simon he's not working but he do have some small money to live on and he dont even know how much

Hi sorry I did not tell you is from CANADA

When he left canada he dont want to go back but he need the passport to stay in thailand but the embassy dont want to give him back the old passport either now he feel like a criminal

Well its really simple - pay the dosh he owes then he can have his passport. Problem Solved.

he gave her the home the car and so on when he left, he did not think that she will do such stupid thing and she did. He is a nice person to just run away from this but now it seem like it

Nowhere did the OP mention his friend was from the US, not sure why you think so, slapout and hansnl.

Correct, but sure does sound like the guy w/o a passport right now is from the U.S. as the law is pretty clear on folks NOT paying child support at least:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/family/family_863.html

Child Support Payments and Getting a U.S. Passport

Section 51.70 (a) (8) of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations states, in part, that if you are certified to Passport Services by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to be in arrears of child support payments in excess of $2,500, you are ineligible to receive a U.S. passport . If this applies to you, Passport Services strongly recommends that you contact the appropriate State child support enforcement agency to make payment arrangements before applying for a passport. This is because:

The State agency must certify to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that acceptable payment arrangements have been made.

Then, HHS must notify Passport Services by the removal of your name from the electronic list HHS gives to Passport Services. (Passport Services cannot issue a passport until your name has been deleted by HHS.)

Please note that it can take 2-3 weeks from the time you make payment arrangements with the State agency until your name is removed from HHS' electronic list. Passport Services has no information concerning individuals' child support obligations and has no authority to take action until HHS removes your name from its list.

Please direct any questions to the appropriate State child support enforcement agency. You may go to the Department of Health and Human Services - State Child Support Enforcement Web Site for a listing of HHS state and local agencies.

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I couldn't find anything similar about alimony so this probably relates to only child support payments, or lack of same.

Hey, the U.S. Congress passes lots of laws that may seem strange to non U.S. folks, but there's a lot of push these last few years about "deadbeat" dads not taking care of their offspring.  Ex spouses are, I guess, a lesser problem.

Mac

can you find anything for canada? what can I do to solve this, with money he dont have a pension yet

Hi sorry I did not tell you is from CANADA

When he left canada he dont want to go back but he need the passport to stay in thailand but the embassy dont want to give him back the old passport either now he feel like a criminal

can anybody help with this matter

I have a friend that took the passport into the embassy but the kept it because they claim that he have to pay up his wife alamony before he can get his passport renew is that ok to do so and you are oversea how u gonna do that. can u suggest??? pleaseeeeeeeee

I've got a Non-immigrant O visa (1 Year) with about 8 months left on it. I recently started work in Thailand, and took a trip to Singapore to get a Non-Immigrant B visa (3 months) as I was told I could not get a work permit with the O visa I originally had.

Nothing has been written on the O visa stamp, does this mean it's still valid? So if I decided to leave on my B visa, then return and use the remainder of the O, would this be ok?

Thanks in advance.

Whoever told you, you could not get a work permit with a "O" visa was 100 % wrong. The "O' visa is still valid, if you leave and return using that visa on your entry card.

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