notamember Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 10 minutes ago, scottiejohn said: I think you are reading the comment above out of context. Please see my post 162 on the previous page where I said "I and many others are using agents for totally legitimate reason. People discussing using "agents (read illegal facilitators) to provide false documentation regarding non existent 3 months funded bank accounts for extensions etc are condoning and/or taking part in illegal practices." I totally support Legal agent activities, not the illegal ones. yet you break the law , so you are supporting illegal activity nonetheless 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottiejohn Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 3 minutes ago, notamember said: if all people attended themselves rather than use agents, there would be significantly less room for the rest of us Agents have the paperwork down to a fine art and the Immigration Officials know this. It means they can handle a number of agency applications in the same time it takes them to do an individual. Also many individuals have the paperwork wrong and so have to make second or third trips therefore increasing the number of people being attended to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottiejohn Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, notamember said: yet you break the law , so you are supporting illegal activity nonetheless How am I breaking the law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamember Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 16 minutes ago, Phuket Man said: Naam. By the time you go round your house turning off your 14 air conditioners you don't have time to go anywhere. ? Naam has more money than Trump, it would take him an hour to walk to the door to leave the house Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamember Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 5 minutes ago, scottiejohn said: How am I breaking the law? which immigration center did you attend last renewal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
notamember Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, notamember said: which immigration center did you attend last renewal? slow response scottie, , going to get your passport to find out? Edited August 6, 2018 by notamember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottiejohn Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 8 minutes ago, notamember said: which immigration center did you attend last renewal? I suggest you read posts 142 onwards where you will find the answers. It would also help if you had read them before accusing me of doing something illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottiejohn Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) 9 minutes ago, notamember said: slow response scottie, , going to get your passport to find out? Some of us have more important things to do in life than respond immediately to your imbecile comments. And on the subject of slow responses where is your answer to post 183. Edited August 6, 2018 by scottiejohn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wgdanson Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/3/2018 at 11:52 AM, jippytum said: from 0.25% to 0.75% Wasn't it 0.5% before last week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenKong Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 35 minutes ago, Phuket Man said: Naam. By the time you go round your house turning off your 14 air conditioners you don't have time to go anywhere. You are silly. Naam has a remote control for his air-cons. His remote control is called Somchai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenKong Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 15 hours ago, scottiejohn said: Maybe the people you know are lazy BUT In CM I am not prepared to waste 12 or more hours (if I am lucky and don't have to come back the next day) hanging around in a Shopping mall, where the Imm Office is. It is MY choice to use an Agent Legally. Chiang Mai immigration is as renowned for being hard and slow as Jomtien is renowned for being easy and fast. If I lived in CM it is highly likely that I would pay an agent to do my extension for me also. But as I live just a ten minute walk from Jomtien immigration, and as it takes me less than one hour a year to do the whole extension there, I would not be prepared to pay anything to anyone to avoid that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittenKong Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 On 8/5/2018 at 8:11 AM, notamember said: what happens if you suddenly do not have the money,.... Do you? 1 overstay 2 use an agent 3 Loan sharks 4 go back to home country 5 throw yourself on the mercy of Immigration 6 Kill yourself Assuming a temporary lack of funds, I would just pay an agent to do it for me. Assuming a permanent lack of funds I would go somewhere else. I would not fancy living in Thailand if I could not scrape together 800kB easily. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OneMoreFarang Posted August 6, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted August 6, 2018 I think it's almost funny when lots of people here insist everything must be 100% legal. Did any of you ever work without a work permit in Thailand? (i.e. helping a friend with or without getting paid is officially work) Did any of you ever pay one of those girls for more than just a massage. Remember, that's illegal. Maybe you should report yourself and leave the country. Did any of you ever pay cash without receipt to any official? In principle I think people should behave according to the laws. But if someone has enough money to live in Thailand but not enough money to get the official visa then I wouldn't consider that to be a big crime. Lots of professional criminals have official visa and "friends" in high positions. I think those criminals should be a much higher priority then others which don't exactly follow the law but at the same time don't hurt anybody. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmd8800 Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 As I posted in another thread not too long ago: I am reminded of a conversation I had with an expat a year or so ago. He told me he didn't have enough income to qualify for a retirement extension so he lied on the income affidavit form. Later I asked him if he ever used a visa agent. His reply was: No... that is corruption. Seriously, I use an agent in CM. I go to the agents office around 9 or 10 am and we go through the paperwork. If anything is missing I am instructed to get it done and return. When everything is in order I pay the 3000THB fee and go home. I am told to return at 2 or 3 pm or whatever the designated time is. The agent takes me in to the immigration area and I wait until I am called for a picture and then in a few minutes I walk out the door. Finished. The 3000THB fee covers only the extension. I supply an income affidavit and all the other paperwork. I do my 90-day by mail and get my own re-entry permits. When the new Immigration building opens in CM things will probably get easier after all of the new facilities bugs are worked out. CM has had a huge influx of tourists, ed visas and retirees and the like in the last few years. The agents are probably a god send to the Immigration because the Immigration department was swamped with work they could not handle simply because of volume. With any luck the new, and much larger facilities, will improve the service. And maybe the Immigration Dept will hire new help.... maybe they will hire some of the existing agents. But the contempt for the Thai people that so many here on TVF have will probably continue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonjoe Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 After removing another baiting post and one flaming a member it appears that this topic has certainly run it course. Topic now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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