Thailand Privilege Card adds checks to deter scammers

Bit of a joke, how many people are they going to catch out here ?

I've been on this visa for well over a decade and had multiple memberships - nothing really changed during that time except I went non resident and reset my cost basis for everything by selling it all and then reinvesting over the following year or two.

When it comes time to sell again I will leave the country for a year again - no problem - I'll do it for a million or two USD in profits to turn it into savings / reset the entire cost basis and then reinvest at my leisure. No wash trade rules in Thailand - could sell it all at 10am and repurchase at 10:30 am with small transaction fees - all offshore and completely tax free.

Everything is been done to prevent foreigners to stay for a long time. Issues like this only shows that Thailand thinks that all foreigners are criminals, which will make that possible applicants will find other destinations. Thailand is digging its own grave.

I am guessing this will apply for renewals and passport updates as well. No worries.

10 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Everything is been done to prevent foreigners to stay for a long time.

Considering the huge number of foreigners who live here with no or very little in the way of an application or screening process, your assertion is simply not true.

11 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Issues like this only shows that Thailand thinks that all foreigners are criminals

Issues like this only show that the very low bar set for staying here for years was ludicrously naive and so a small minority of foreigners living here are full time criminals. Thailand is slowly, very slowly, waking up to this.

13 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

which will make that possible applicants will find other destinations.

Thailand remains very popular as a long-term stay destination.

14 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Thailand is digging its own grave.

Thailand is protecting itself from international censure (think 'sanctions') by preventing itself becoming a hub for international organised crime. You only have to look to Cambodia and Myanmar to see how Chinese organised crime can destroy a country's society, government and international reputation very quickly and effectively.

Your score 0/4.

Edited 15 hours ago15 hr by Briggsy
Summarising

A country ruled not by laws, but by whoever gets to interpret them. Every new politician bends and weaponizes the law to fit their own agenda and worldview, all the more easily when the police are firmly in their pocket.

9 hours ago, Briggsy said:

Considering the huge number of foreigners who live here with no or very little in the way of an application or screening process, your assertion is simply not true.

Issues like this only show that the very low bar set for staying here for years was ludicrously naive and so a small minority of foreigners living here are full time criminals. Thailand is slowly, very slowly, waking up to this.

Thailand remains very popular as a long-term stay destination.

Thailand is protecting itself from international censure (think 'sanctions') by preventing itself becoming a hub for international organised crime. You only have to look to Cambodia and Myanmar to see how Chinese organised crime can destroy a country's society, government and international reputation very quickly and effectively.

Your score 0/4.

Ok explain the following than. My fosterkid was unlucky when he had to draw for conscripts. He haf to show up, but he did not do and nothing happened. A year later he was caught and prisoned because of drug dealing. Nobody cared that he should be in the army. When he was released he had to go to the rehabilition center evety month, but never did. If you talk about enforcement of laws.

Compare that story with this. I am a foreigner and i have to do my 90 days report. If i don't do do i will be fined eith 500 THB a day. When I leave the country, I am obliged to do my address notification, and in fact my landlord have to do it, but if he doesn't do it, i get fined not him. Whrn I extend my visa for 20 years on a row, the immigration is visiting my house, to check if i am not a criminal.( That is what they told me myself).

I pay tax every year, but don't get anything in return, nothing,but risk every day to be deported, as nobody knows what silly law will be enforced. Even comnents on the immigration are not allowed. So it good to check everybody, but if there are no issues give people something in return. After 5 yrs no 90 days report anymore, and new applicants must be checked, but Thailand is corrupt, the criminals have money and the rules will bent in their advantage. Strict rules for an application, but approved and show good behavior, give something back to make life easier for them.

12 hours ago, Briggsy said:

You only have to look to Cambodia and Myanmar to see how Chinese organised crime can destroy a country's society, government and international reputation very quickly and effectively.

Yet, Thailand has Pattaya. Tell me about Pattaya's society, government, and reputation. 😂 😂