RIP Ubon Joe - ASEAN NOW visa expert

[Mitkof Island]

Help helped so many including myself. He will me sadly missed and very difficult to replace.

[Camelot]

A fountain of knowledge on passports and immigration, Joe was also a scrupulously fair moderator. He will be greatly missed. My condolences to his wife and other members of his family.

May Ubon Joe rest in peace.

[London Boy]

RIP Joe. You were very generous with your time and invaluable advice which helped so many people.

[zhangxifu]

RIP Ubon Joe. Thanks for the meaningful advice.

[Zapitapi]

RIP

[itsari]

Ubon Joe as I new him on Thai Visa and now Asia Now was a man I had respect for . His knowledge on the Thai Immigration rules was deep and varied . He was of great help to myself on a number of times and once quite recently . He also came over as a gentleman in my view .

A comment i have made to people over many years is I only have faith in comments made from Ubon Joe . Now he is gone and there are a few that can well take over from him yet i think it will take some time for that to happen .

Sorry to know of your death Joe 

[fredwiggy]

On 5/6/2023 at 1:42 PM, worgeordie said:

He helped so many people , me included , Thanks Joe  RIP.

 

regards Worgeordie 

Helped me more than twice also. RIP Joe, and thank you for your help.

[Sigma6]

Sad news indeed.

Helped many a fellow expat, myself included.

RIP UbonJoe ????

[eeworldwide]

Joe was a great example to us all.  He was calm, collected and measured and TOOK TIME to respond to questions, allaying the fears of many. He seemed to be a genuinely upright and good fellow. He helped me enormously and always responded in a timely polite manner, giving me the information I needed without any clever snarky remarks, so often associated with ASEAN NOW/THAI VISA members (not all - but many)   May he RIP and God bless his surviving family.

[PETERTHEEATER]

Blue skies Joe. I shall miss your reliable inputs.

[lagarto]

Mr. Reedy, Thank you for the service to our Country and all the help that you provided to us in all the Immigration topics in this forum, for me you was the bible; you was the friend I never had a chanche to meet . God is in paradise waiting for you with open arms.  RIP brother. 

[John Drake]

Thanks for putting up the expanded OP, including the picture and more details about Ubon Joe. In my mind's eye, I always imagined him looking like Robert Ryan or Andrew Duggan for some reason. What a decent fellow.

[Tropposurfer]

Be seeing you Joe, old mate ????

[twozeds]

RIP Joe thanks for everything over the years

[TimF]

A huge loss to so many people. So sad. Thank you for all your help and support. May you Rest in Peace.

[1FinickyOne]

how many times I have seen 'wait for Ubon Joe to come along.'

 

RIP Joe

[ravip]

I was shocked to hear about this very sad news just now, while reading another thread.

 

A great moderator (I know him only as such) who replied fast and precisely. Always with a helpful intention. 

 

My condolences to his wife and other members of his family.

 

What a loss... Very sad...

 

RIP Joe.

 

Edited May 8, 2023 by ravip

[jojothai]

Thanks Joe for all the help to so many people.
RIP

[jschorr]

Very sad! Ubon Joe was the go to person for all Thai immigration questions and issues.  His knowledge and experience will be sorely missed!

[UKJASE]

Thanks for your service Joe - RIP good man

[khunken]

Very sad news indeed. There are tears in my eyes.

He helped me numerous times to navigate the visa rigmarole with direct answers to questions and often from posts already made to help others.

Thaivisa & Asean Now are very lucky to have had Ubon Joe as a contributor..

[Dap]

Thank you Ubon Joe.

[off road pat]

Rest In Peace Ubon Joe, you where a great wealth of information and one of the very rare people one could surely bank on any information you gave. "Asian Now" will never be the same anymore.

My sincere condolences to family and friends ! You really will be missed.

Best regards.

[BusyB]

Really sad news. I had already missed his sage advice and information. I'm one of those he helped swiftly, effectively and in a friendly way, who never rose to any bait and seemed to have eternal patience. I always wondered who the man was behind the handle 'Ubon Joe' and what motivated him. 

 

I was actually on the verge of asking in the forum what was up, because I'd noticed his absence recently with Dr. Jack fielding all of the visa balls bouncing all over the place.

[matta]

RIP Joe

 

in your life you are a mystery to yourself, but after you die everyone suddenly knows very well what you were like - if only they had told you sooner.

[burner2014]

Thanks for helping me with Visa questions the last years. RIP ????

[Wake Up]

Thank you Ubonjoe. You were a great source of information and calm. RIP. 

[Bim Smith]

Devastated to here this news. In addition to helping me through the years with advice Joe helped me in my deepest darkest hour during the pandemic. I was at an absolute low and that one message of reassurance with a visa issue lifted me no end. Rest in Peace Joe. I will never forget you.

[arithai12]

Everything has been said already by so many, but I want to add my voice.

I admired UJ not only for his immense knowledge of all things IMM and his kind willingness to help so may others, but also for his style, never confrontational. A rare gem on this forum. May he rest in peace, and all the best to his relatives in US and Thailand.

[VBF]

On 5/6/2023 at 7:52 AM, scubascuba3 said:

Sad, i wondered why he'd gone missing lately

I thought the same. UJ gave me lots of help with visa extensions both on the forum and in PMs.

My condolences to his family and friends.