gamini

The maximum fine permitted by law for late reporting as set out in the Immigration Act is:

"... not exceeding 5,000 Baht and with and additional fine not exceeding 200 Baht for each day which passes until the law is complied with"

but currently set at 2,000 baht for voluntary late reporting or 4,000 baht if fail to report and are arrested.

there is no way you can get arrested for not reporting. You only pay 2000 bt even if you never report the whole year. I pay the 2000 when I renewed my retirement visa

something sounds wrong here. You can only turn a Nor Sor 3 into a chanote. But you must have owned the land 10 yeaRS. iF you do it yourself it should cost only a couple of thousand baht. If you do have a Nor Sor 3 you are under no obligation to change it to a chanote, but most people do because they can use it for collatreral to borrow money. If you have any other deeds than the above, the situation is very tricky. People might tell you that you can get a chanote for a certain "fee" but after spending a lot of money you still won't get one. It is also possible that someone in the land department is pulling something on you. We have 25 bacres and have been trying to get a chanote for 15 years and have forked out about 100,000 baht to people who said they can do it. But we still have no chanote.

I dont think any airline accepts debit cards for online bookings. I have used my Visa cards regularly with air asia with excellant service on line.

"Bar fines" are pimping fees, nothing less. These fees go to the bar owner for every time one of his

Bar girls (prostitutes) leaves to have sex with a customer. He is living off the earnings of prostitutes. Thailand has attracted thousands of these good- for- nothing farangs who would be shunned and looked down upon in their own countries. These kind of bars in turn attract the worst sort of sex tourists. All this gives a bad name to other farangs living here.

I really hope they are all deported.

You seem to know a lot about this perverted, disgusting trade for a man with one post to his nae.

I should do. I have lived here long enough to see Pattaya turned from a pleasant seaside resort into

a sex super market.

That would have to be pre-vietnam war????????

you are right. But after the war Pattaya was OK again for a while until all the tourists came.

"Bar fines" are pimping fees, nothing less. These fees go to the bar owner for every time one of his

Bar girls (prostitutes) leaves to have sex with a customer. He is living off the earnings of prostitutes. Thailand has attracted thousands of these good- for- nothing farangs who would be shunned and looked down upon in their own countries. These kind of bars in turn attract the worst sort of sex tourists. All this gives a bad name to other farangs living here.

I really hope they are all deported.

You seem to know a lot about this perverted, disgusting trade for a man with one post to his nae.

I should do. I have lived here long enough to see Pattaya turned from a pleasant seaside resort into

a sex super market.

Perfect way to kill even more tourism and investors.

I wonder would be Pattaya be without all the "bad" bars? a nice empty space in Thailand?! LOL

PS. 99% of the bars in Pattaya have foreigners owners or so called backers

It would be a much better place. Your PS should read "foreign pimp" owners. Most live off the immoral earnings of the prostitutes they employ. eg bar fines (read pimping fees)

"Bar fines" are pimping fees, nothing less. These fees go to the bar owner for every time one of his

Bar girls (prostitutes) leaves to have sex with a customer. He is living off the earnings of prostitutes. Thailand has attracted thousands of these good- for- nothing farangs who would be shunned and looked down upon in their own countries. These kind of bars in turn attract the worst sort of sex tourists. All this gives a bad name to other farangs living here.

I really hope they are all deported.