Thailand Elite members warned about overstaying

[AlfHuy]

49 minutes ago, colinneil said:

Were you down shore street at the time of your arrest?????????????

That's banned a long time.

[Mr Meeseeks]

1 minute ago, foreverlomsak said:

Course you can't your farang, not Thai.

I think the poster is Indian, not a farang.

[jomtienisgood]

12 minutes ago, seancbk said:

 

If you are in your 30's and don't want to marry a Thai there are very few ways to stay long term in Thailand.

That is why several people I know paid 500K for a 5 year TE visa.

 

And then complain and moan about everything while they are here...

[AlfHuy]

17 minutes ago, khunPer said:

And how do you stay long-time in Land-of-Smiles if you are under 50 years old, and not married to a Thai?

Know your local police head General.

[Mr Meeseeks]

9 minutes ago, seancbk said:

 

If you are in your 30's and don't want to marry a Thai there are very few ways to stay long term in Thailand.

That is why several people I know paid 500K for a 5 year TE visa.

 

If you are working, own a business, are a student, are studying Buddhism, studying the Thai language, to name but a few.

 

Plenty of ways to stay legally without the Elite Visa.

[jomtienisgood]

4 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

Know your local police head General.

Or play Rambo in the jungle.

[AlfHuy]

2 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

If you are working, own a business, are a student, are studying Buddhism, studying the Thai language, to name but a few.

 

Plenty of ways to stay legally without the Elite Visa.

Applied at university of life.

5 years degree to get a Msc in "applied techniques in bum bum"

[jomtienisgood]

4 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

Applied at university of life.

5 years degree to get a Msc in "applied techniques in bum bum"

Ramkamhaeng??? 

[Nout]

17 hours ago, pixelaoffy said:

Naive stupidity to pay up to 2 million baht and expect to be treated respectfully by Thailand ... I mean cmon you're farang 

Not all foreigners have persecution complexes.

Edited January 27, 2021 by Nout

[richard_smith237]

13 minutes ago, seancbk said:

 

If you are in your 30's and don't want to marry a Thai there are very few ways to stay long term in Thailand.

That is why several people I know paid 500K for a 5 year TE visa.

 

If you’re retired & living in a studio apartment,  your savings are locked in the 800k seasoned account & your are an avid follower of the ‘hit n run restaurant review’ so you know where yo get your 69 baht breakfasts.... 

 

..... then it’s completely understandable that these guys have no idea how a 30year old can afford the Elite visa...  just sayin’ !!  

 

[khunPer]

32 minutes ago, WineOh said:

Get a job! 

Sorry, but not all can get a job, or wish to work in Land-of-Smiles; and some just wish to enjoy the life, and have already worked enough "job" to afford it...????

[billd766]

5 hours ago, herwin1234 said:

That must be terrible, living in another country (i assume...) and feeling so unwelcome and despised day after day...

 

Maybe time to go back?

 

I have been living here full time since 2009 and before that I was based here and working offshore for 10 years before that.

 

During that period of time and when I worked here but UK based I have never unwelcomed or despised at all.

 

And no I have found Thailand a good place to live with good food, if somewhat spicy and I have always enjoyed being with Thai people.

 

That my be because I live in rural Kamphaeng Phet where the pace of life is slower and more relaxed.

[Jeffr2]

9 minutes ago, billd766 said:

I have been living here full time since 2009 and before that I was based here and working offshore for 10 years before that.

 

During that period of time and when I worked here but UK based I have never unwelcomed or despised at all.

 

And no I have found Thailand a good place to live with good food, if somewhat spicy and I have always enjoyed being with Thai people.

 

That my be because I live in rural Kamphaeng Phet where the pace of life is slower and more relaxed.

I don't want to be negative, but I've been here off and on since around 2000.  Full time since 2009.  I've felt unwelcomed and despised many times.  Let's be honest.  The rich Thais don't want us here.  Just want our money.  The girls are happy, because we have money, but the many Thai guys don't like us.

 

I've got countless stories about this.  And not, I'm not a jerk and didn't instigate anything.

[StevieAus]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Agreed.....

 

Give retirees 10 year visas - why not ?

Give Spouses 10 year visas - why not ?

Give tourists 6 month Visas, even 1 year visas - why not?

 

The only reason is the government are fearful people may ‘work here illegally’... but they will anyway when the circumnavigate existing rules and obtain ‘other visa’... 

 

Anyone here long term spends money here long term. Thats surely an advantage to Thailand. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surely the same applies in any country you visit you have to spend money to eat, you need somewhere to live all of which benefit the country.

With my Australian passport  I can visit over 180 countries without the need for a visa, I doubt however that they will let me stay indefinitely.

[billd766]

3 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

I don't want to be negative, but I've been here off and on since around 2000.  Full time since 2009.  I've felt unwelcomed and despised many times.  Let's be honest.  The rich Thais don't want us here.  Just want our money.  The girls are happy, because we have money, but the many Thai guys don't like us.

 

I've got countless stories about this.  And not, I'm not a jerk and didn't instigate anything.

Whereabouts do you live?

[Neeranam]

52 minutes ago, seancbk said:

 

If you are in your 30's and don't want to marry a Thai there are very few ways to stay long term in Thailand.

That is why several people I know paid 500K for a 5 year TE visa.

 

Guys I know pay approx 20k a year Bent immigration officers, through agents. 

That's 100k for 5 years. 

Others I know get a job. 

Rich guys at that  age don't want to stay here all the time. 

[Neeranam]

9 minutes ago, Jeffr2 said:

I don't want to be negative, but I've been here off and on since around 2000.  Full time since 2009.  I've felt unwelcomed and despised many times.  Let's be honest.  The rich Thais don't want us here.  Just want our money.  The girls are happy, because we have money, but the many Thai guys don't like us.

 

I've got countless stories about this.  And not, I'm not a jerk and didn't instigate anything.

Pattaya? 

[NoshowJones]

5 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Agreed.....

 

Give retirees 10 year visas - why not ?

Give Spouses 10 year visas - why not ?

Give tourists 6 month Visas, even 1 year visas - why not?

 

The only reason is the government are fearful people may ‘work here illegally’... but they will anyway when the circumnavigate existing rules and obtain ‘other visa’... 

 

Anyone here long term spends money here long term. Thats surely an advantage to Thailand. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But these soldiers and the unelected "PM" do not have the brains or education to see that, they should all be making plans to entice tourists, expats, retirees etc to come to Thailand with these type of visas when the quarantine stops.

I do not agree that it is just the fear of people working illegally that makes the "government"s attitude to tourists etc hostile. All they would need to do is jail, heavily fine, then deport them,  with their employers heavily fined and jailed, but they can't have that, because it would stop the flow of brown envelopes, and a lot of these employers are probably well connected people.

[Dart12]

17 hours ago, WineOh said:

I wouldn't even dream of applying.

 

My YEARLY extensions cost 1,900 baht.

 

Tell me exactly what is worth 1 million baht for practically the same visa????

Is it the glass of warm champagne and the limo at the airport? ???? 

Gimme a cold beer and a grab taxi any day of the week bud! 

what visa is that if its' ok to ask?

[ThomasThBKK]

7 minutes ago, Dart12 said:

what visa is that if its' ok to ask?

 

yearly extension on all visas costs 1900 THB including elite visa, thus making his comment utterly useless. Like many of the other comments here.

 

 

Must be hard to understand for some that the TE visa is very cheap for many who earn their money offshore and save a multiple of the amount spent on the visa because they live here for various reasons (taxes, RE prices, food prices...)... 

 

[NoshowJones]

6 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Agreed.....

 

Give retirees 10 year visas - why not ?

Give Spouses 10 year visas - why not ?

Give tourists 6 month Visas, even 1 year visas - why not?

 

The only reason is the government are fearful people may ‘work here illegally’... but they will anyway when the circumnavigate existing rules and obtain ‘other visa’... 

 

Anyone here long term spends money here long term. Thats surely an advantage to Thailand. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course it is, but this unelected "PM" and his crew are not interested in Thailand and it's people, or any advantages, they are only interested in themselves. They have no electorate to answer to, they can just do anything they like.

[khunpa]

NOTHING new about this at all!!!

 

All Elite Visa holders have to extend every year, if they do not leave Thailand. It has ALWAYS been like that. 

[eastendanto]

You'd think they had far more internal serious issues to concern themselves with....then again maybe not 

[kg1947]

O M G   .....

After the cash change hands --

this is next  ?

[NoshowJones]

2 hours ago, colinneil said:

Were you down shore street at the time of your arrest?????????????

Sorry mate, as a fellow Scot, and much as I like and mostly agree with your posts, I have to say that IMO any guy who walks about the streets, shops, and restaurants without a shirt on should be arrested, even just a simmet is OK, but not completely shirtless.

For non Scots, a simmet is a vest.

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, khunPer said:

And how do you stay long-time in Land-of-Smiles if you are under 50 years old, and not married to a Thai?

You easily could when I first came to stay here in 2005. A visa run to the border every 90 days and sorted. A nice

pleasant day out.

[Mr Meeseeks]

11 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

You easily could when I first came to stay here in 2005. A visa run to the border every 90 days and sorted. A nice

pleasant day out.

Never needed border runs when I first got here, your passport went to the border or consulate while you remained in Thailand, sipping a cold one and with not a care in the World. 

 

All that went out the window under Thaksin's first administration. 

[NoshowJones]

2 minutes ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Never needed border runs when I first got here, your passport went to the border or consulate while you remained in Thailand, sipping a cold one and with not a care in the World. 

 

All that went out the window under Thaksin's first administration. 

Yes I know, but I was on a work permit for a few years as an English teacher, after I stopped teaching I did border runs with my visa based on marriage.

[Bradmeister]

OH. PLEASE ... .

 

EVERYBODY IS WARNED ABOUT OVERSTAY, as if thats some "magical wand," waved over us, to change our minds from being extorted financially by the system, to some type of monetary punishment for being tardy....another scam. 

 

If the government is not happy about the Indians going off the reservation: I suggest they go look for them. I can easily believe there are thousands if not tens of thousands of people living in Thailand illegally.  Not our problem. That's what Immigration Police are suppose to do, not us.

 

Don't make it, Tax paying residents' problems or penalize us.

 

Whenever I demand a superior officer at an office... or the upstairs 6th floor Hiarchy  (Chang Wattana) some subordinate officer, issues out a preprinted TM whatever, (that warns of overstay" and expects me to sign it, as if its mandatory not obligatory. 

 

"Its the law" they sternly say, as if its written in stone and will never be changed, modified, enforced or voided at any moment.

 

YEAH, IS THAT RIGHT? THEN SHOW ME A COPY OF THE LAW, instead of stating what you believe to be your personal interpretation of the law.

 

By the way officer. Whats your name, and who's your boss? Where are they located?

 

I'll have it translated within 24 hours....thank you very much for your help. [Thats only if they don't runaway and hide from you, and in the process, tag someone else to help themselves]

 

 

Please....

 

So all the B. S. people bought into with " Thai Elite Visas", its just that: B.S.

 

Sometimes you have to question Authority. 

[NoshowJones]

1 hour ago, Jeffr2 said:

I don't want to be negative, but I've been here off and on since around 2000.  Full time since 2009.  I've felt unwelcomed and despised many times.  Let's be honest.  The rich Thais don't want us here.  Just want our money.  The girls are happy, because we have money, but the many Thai guys don't like us.

 

I've got countless stories about this.  And not, I'm not a jerk and didn't instigate anything.

I have never had a problem with Thai people apart from pulling them up for jumping in a queue in front of me.

If you stay sober, mind your own business, and always be friendly, you won't have a problem.