6 minutes ago, 473geo said:

Surely not a 'do you know who I am' from You Trans - to the wife only I hope ????

They had never heard of POTY............????

3 minutes ago, transam said:

They had never heard of POTY............????

Is it true that when they arrived they asked if the POTTY farang lives here?

Mrs Trans said, no my husband was POTY 2 years ago, and they said, What!!

Edited June 11, 20206 yr by colinneil

29 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Is it true that when they arrived they asked if the POTTY farang lives here?

Mrs Trans said, no my husband was POTY 2 years ago, and they said, What!!

Think they expected me to be wearing pink tights......????

22 hours ago, lee b said:

Never ever sign anything that you don't understand. I would have it translated first. No way would I have signed it. Hope your OK.

Always surprises me why expats make such a scene, they have the ability to access and post on this site seemingly, but not the ability to utilise google pdf scan translate free service on their phones....

Interesting post. "My wife & I have a business" . On a marriage visa you also work ?

If your business is home based & you have a work permit of course you can paint the fence.

If you have no business & it is your house you can still paint the fence.

Or have those days changed ?

21 hours ago, ravip said:

"it has been known..."

This is very similar to 'forwarded as received', 'I heard that', 'I saw it on FB' etc where a lot of garbage is circulated as pure fact. I think, if someone is quoting something important, the source should be divulged so the reader could verify the fact.

Every time I stay in Thailand I always do the house chores as I hate to idle. Painting of the fence and gate, pruning hedges, planting and maintaining flower beds, washing the car, motor cycle and bicycles, sweeping the garden and the road adjacent the house, drilling, sawing etc most times in full view and in front of the house. For many years, never did I have any issue. In fact, sometimes when passing, neighbours slow down to greet me or to exchange a few words.

It seems, a few posters wants to paint Thailand as a foreboding and dangerous place to live in, while they themselves have been parked in TH for decades!

Remember the 'doomsday' predictions of Thailand made by some TVF experts and specialists, when the COVID-19 pandemic started? According to them, by now at least a million deaths should have occurred in TH!

Yes, I miss those TVF experts and specialists as their silence is deafening!

 

Next time don't sign anything you don't understand that's a basic rule - 100% Agree on this.

I agree with you. My step daughters partner has a business repairing cars around the corner from my house so he also repairs police cars, I have two police cars on my drive in because they hadn't collected them yet and he didn't have the space to safely store them. When they came to collect one I was painting the main gate (I am not even married to my partner) they thought it was great that I did all the work needed around the house, I showed them the barn that I had wood stained and they said they would have been too scared of heights to do the top (they had their parachute wings stitched to their uniforms) When I asked about the wings they said they jump out with their eyes shut and it's all over in minuets, sod working up on a ladder for hours in this heat. No problems, they know I'm not married and that we have a son, everybody knows everybody else here, it's live and let live, nothing like the tourist centers.

23 hours ago, JensenZ said:

It would be useful to indicate which immigration office and what extension. Marriage or retirement.

 

I would not, under any circumstances, sign a document I cannot read. All you had to say was, sorry, I cannot read Thai and I'll need to have it translated first.

 

In 15 years of dealing with the Jomtien Immigration Office I have never once been handed a document to sign which didn't have an English translation.

If you haven't signed a document only in Thai at Jomtien immigration the last few years,then I think you're not honest. 

22 hours ago, steven100 said:

if the thai family is treating you ok and you are not being cheated in any way, once again, just to ensure all is ok.

Of course! Why couldn't I see that before? Now you come to mention it, I can almost feel the empathy and concern for my well-being, each time I interact with the immigration police...

Looks like they are making the rounds.

21 hours ago, natway09 said:

Interesting post. "My wife & I have a business" . On a marriage visa you also work ?

If your business is home based & you have a work permit of course you can paint the fence.

If you have no business & it is your house you can still paint the fence.

Or have those days changed ?

our business is home based and I dont have a WP and thus dont work in the said business but they said I can still paint the fence. My staff member witnessed them saying it. Im off to buy the paint

11 minutes ago, bbabythai said:

our business is home based and I dont have a WP and thus dont work in the said business but they said I can still paint the fence. My staff member witnessed them saying it. Im off to buy the paint

You rebel you! ????

The paranoia manifested on TVF gets more profuse! but to hell with the "law" I'm going to cut the grass today - yes - without a work permit! ???? 

Might wait for it to cool down a bit first though ????