Visa agent experiences

[JackThompson]

5 minutes ago, AndyPa said:

Fake as in fake stamps? Or fake as in fake addresses reported and you being somewhere else?

 

Why could you not just switch to your real address on the next report?

It would have been a fake address in the Pattaya area, when I wasn't living there - so I would have been fraudulently reporting I lived somewhere I did not live - something I was not willing to do. 

 

In theory, I could have gotten the extension (retirement-based - was not working in Thailand then), and then done a "change of address" to another office.   But that means dealing with that other office, which did not get a cut of the agent-money - and, at the time, there were reports some offices were making problems about this.

 

Long story short, I had the completely legit Non-O-ME option, so took that route.  This cost a bit more than the 12K "agent-based" retirement extension (including trip and border-runs), but at least I wasn't breaking laws and dealing with Immigration office bull.

[JensenZ]

On 6/15/2020 at 4:20 PM, from the home of CC said:

in the west you would be charged with committing a crime facilitating corruption, I believe in time it will be the same here..

Here we go again - virtue signallers weighing in again on this much debated topic.

 

There's no risk. You know why? It's because the visas are facilitated by senior immigration officials. They want people to use agents and people who do are merely using a service that is available.

 

 

 

 

[hgma]

we used to have a stamp specialist in Nongkhai, business stamps etc etc,so was so damned good that it took years (i have been told!!) before immigration @ the Friendship bridge discovered phony stamps were used to cheat the system.

next day she was closed never to be open again.

Do it legal, be safe, stay out of trouble and enjoy country life!

Edited June 20, 2020 by hgma

[ubonjoe]

This topic about agents has now run its course like many others have.

Topic now