21 hours ago, impulse said:

Probably saving American taxpayers $Trillions in welfare expenses, including $ tens of billions in outright fraud.

Oh, wait. Are you claiming that's a bad thing?

And costing US farmers their businesses and land they've owned for generations. You need to look at where fraud and corruption is taking place in the US right now. I think you might have been distracted by the divide and conquer tactic used by your own administration. Welfare as food stamps and health care got cut down for everyone actually needing it there.

5 minutes ago, cdulaney said:

Link? it is a matter of Fact that too many people Overstay their Visas for years now.

How will it be much different

4 hours ago, sambum said:

Surely that's the point? Too many people going throuh the process without a hitch - including those that become dependent on the benefits system?

Sure, this review of a 45-year-old Viet Woman and her 15-year-old Daughter were a Trump threat.

silly you

The terms I had agreed to was neither would ever have access to any financial aid.

Your BS

2 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

Last year two young German women were detained and put in detention overnight before being put on a departing flight. Immigration claimed they lied about where they would be staying in Hawaii. This story made local and national headlines with details of the horrid conditions they faced in detention.

a visa or ESTA doesn't guarantee entry... never has, and never will... provide false (untrue statements), incomplete, or inconsistent info on accommodations, and you play a dangerous game risking being turned around.

4 hours ago, neeray said:

Nothing illegal about it. Just a bunch of anti-Trump stuff that is perfectly legal. No translation required. I openly and proudly stated that.

Then you shouldnt be scared LOL

5 hours ago, atpeace said:

How often do you go home? I can't afford a home in the US and here but wish I could. Retired at 41 and sacrificed having the financial freedom you have. Still think it was a great choice but it would be nice to be able to go back to a home once a or twice a year.

I retired in 2025 and only want to snowbird to Thailand. It's cold here but the race season starts next month and I have a dr apt. I can go back and forth three to four times per year.

2 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

Last year two young German women were detained and put in detention overnight before being put on a departing flight. Immigration claimed they lied about where they would be staying in Hawaii. This story made local and national headlines with details of the horrid conditions they faced in detention.

So its OK to lie to US Immigration?

Wonder how US Immigration detention compares to Thailand

3 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

We are advising our Thai friends to forget visiting us in Hawaii because there are just too many well publicized cases of foreign travelers being denied entry at HNL. The sad reality is that the U.S.has become a police state.

Give us some cases of unjustified denials of entry into HNL. You guys get 3 million entries a year, mostly from Japan. Give us some numbers then. Or just be exposed as another histrionic Trump hater

3 minutes ago, TedG said:

I retired in 2025 and only want to snowbird to Thailand. It's cold here but the race season starts next month and I have a dr apt. I can go back and forth three to four times per year.

Im headed back in a month or so, get my free dental work, new free glasses, renew my prescriptions, get some new shoes and enjoy spring and early summer before I wend my way back. Hopefully Thailand will still be there.

9 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Im headed back in a month or so, get my free dental work, new free glasses, renew my prescriptions, get some new shoes and enjoy spring and early summer before I wend my way back. Hopefully Thailand will still be there.

How long is your flight? I'm heading back for Songkran in April.

6 hours ago, atpeace said:

How often do you go home? I can't afford a home in the US and here but wish I could. Retired at 41 and sacrificed having the financial freedom you have. Still think it was a great choice but it would be nice to be able to go back to a home once a or twice a year.

I understand your concerns about home prices in the USA. If I sold my house and moved abroad, I wouldn't be able to return and purchase another home. I do envy you for retiring at 41 in paradise. No one will say on their death bed, Damn, I wish I had worked more.

14 minutes ago, TedG said:

How long is your flight? I'm heading back for Songkran in April.

It depends on my route. Im in Azerbaijan now (total America loving, Trump loving country) , then over to Tblisi, then somewhere in Europe, probably Amsterdam or Frankfurt, so 8-10 hours to NYC from there then another 2 hours after that to destination.

Back to Bangkok depends on where I leave from and where I lay over. Coming out, I went to Tashkent (8 hours), then Baku (2 hours). Tblisi is now 1 hour away and I can go from there to virtually all European Cities and Israel for $125 give or take so I have tons of options. As I age I have been tryin g to do overnight layovers and direct flights. I will probably go to Batumi in April, stay till Augustish, then Tblisi, Baku, Tashkent, Bangkok, Siem Reap.

Retirement means flexibility

We were very lucky, my wife just immigrated from Thailand a few months ago.

12 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Retirement means flexibility

Exactly.

10 minutes ago, corepuncher said:

We were very lucky, my wife just immigrated from Thailand a few months ago.

How does she like living outside of Thailand?

8 hours ago, kevozman1 said:

I couldn't be dealing with all of that acceptance of feminism and blacks being allowed to chimp out.

Wow, at least you do not hide that you are a racist. Of course, that makes you pure trash.

1 hour ago, jts-khorat said:

Wow, at least you do not hide that you are a racist. Of course, that makes you pure trash.

Why is that racist? What gives you the right to call someone else "trash" because they point out an obvious fact?

2 hours ago, corepuncher said:

We were very lucky, my wife just immigrated from Thailand a few months ago.

And you swore that she would not be a public charge. Cost you hundreds of dollars. Bet she is pissed at folks getting to stay here for free and get welfare.

How do you feel about that?

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Then you shouldnt be scared LOL

It seems that you don't understand. Anybody who possesses anything negative about Trump in their social media content is heading for big trouble at the border. There is nothing illegal in my phone, but there is lots of legal free speech, negative re Trump. But free speech is out the window now in USA.

8 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

You do believe Trump and his mafia care what is legal and constitutional? They make their own rules which change from day to day.

I think that you misunderstand what I was saying. I was responding to another commenter who was suggesting that I have illegal stuff in my social media. Otherwise, I fully agree with your comments about Trump and his mafia.

15 minutes ago, neeray said:

It seems that you don't understand. Anybody who possesses anything negative about Trump in their social media content is heading for big trouble at the border. There is nothing illegal in my phone, but there is lots of legal free speech, negative re Trump. But free speech is out the window now in USA.

There seems to be all kinds of free speech these days in the USA.

28 minutes ago, neeray said:

Anybody who possesses anything negative about Trump in their social media content is heading for big trouble at the border.

Says who? How many of the millions of visitors to the US are excluded because of their social media?

30 minutes ago, neeray said:

But free speech is out the window now in USA.

Free speech is fine for citizens and lawful permanent residents. Guests need to watch their tongues. Sort of like Thailand and England...wait in England even citizens need to watch their tongues.

Canada? Well when they dont like what you say, the freeze your bank accounts.

On 1/15/2026 at 2:05 AM, NorthernRyland said:

My Thai wife got one of those which just expired a few months ago. It's the ultimate slap in the dick when she gets a 10 year TOURIST visa and I need to show up with a 2" stack of paper and cash in the bank then report my location every 90 days like a frickin' criminal.

Shut all that nonsense down. Put them on a short leash like they do for us and deport/denaturalize everyone abusing any system or being a burden on the public.

Good luck now though. Getting a USA tourist visa was a piece of cake in the 2000s and up to the mid 2010s, now you might as well forget it unless you have a very clean social media profile (as in zero criticism of the USA, no edge-posting or anything anti-Trump)

3 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Says who? How many of the millions of visitors to the US are excluded because of their social media?

Free speech is fine for citizens and lawful permanent residents. Guests need to watch their tongues. Sort of like Thailand and England...wait in England even citizens need to watch their tongues.

Canada? Well when they dont like what you say, the freeze your bank accounts.

Yep, they scrutinize your social media profile and can go back up to 5 years, where you will be staying etc. Backpacker tourists are getting turned-around at the border after days / weeks in county jails and detention centers. Unless you are like Disneyland or NYC shopping expect the third-degree. I've been to America under Obama and Trump and let me tell you as much as Obama was a jack-ass, Trump has made legal border crossings an absolute minefield.

On 1/15/2026 at 1:42 AM, anntv said:

US tourist Visa is silly! 10 years multi entry. it should be 90 days for tourists...

You get 6 months at a time on the US tourist visa, valid for 10 years usually.

I see on that list that he suspended Albania, but not Serbia.

Maybe he feels guilty about NATO bombing Belgrade.

16 hours ago, Cabradelmar said:

a visa or ESTA doesn't guarantee entry... never has, and never will... provide false (untrue statements), incomplete, or inconsistent info on accommodations, and you play a dangerous game risking being turned around.

Unproven allegations is a trademark of U.S.immigration.

10 hours ago, FriendlyHorse said:

Backpacker tourists are getting turned-around at the border after days / weeks in county jails and detention centers.

Examples? Surely you have numbers out of the millions who come

10 hours ago, FriendlyHorse said:

I've been to America under Obama and Trump and let me tell you as much as Obama was a jack-ass, Trump has made legal border crossings an absolute minefield.

How many times have you been denied entry?

10 hours ago, FriendlyHorse said:

Getting a USA tourist visa was a piece of cake in the 2000s and up to the mid 2010s, now you might as well forget it unless you have a very clean social media profile (as in zero criticism of the USA, no edge-posting or anything anti-Trump)

Have you been denied? How do you know why other folks are denied?

2 hours ago, Hawaiian said:

Unproven allegations is a trademark of U.S.immigration.

Says who? Examples?

With all due respect, you folks have nothing.

On 1/15/2026 at 9:04 AM, sandrew33 said:

On 1/15/2026 at 6:03 PM, impulse said:

Probably saving American taxpayers $Trillions in welfare expenses, including $ tens of billions in outright fraud.

Oh, wait. Are you claiming that's a bad thing?

On 1/15/2026 at 6:03 PM, impulse said:

Probably saving American taxpayers $Trillions in welfare expenses, including $ tens of billions in outright fraud.

Oh, wait. Are you claiming that's a bad thing?

You are making numbers up, just like Trump:

"USA Welfare Costs

The total government spending on welfare across federal, state, and local levels reached approximately $1.5 trillion in 2025. This includes Medicaid, which accounted for $742 billion, and other welfare programs totaling $757 billion."

Welfare Statistics in US 2025 | Key Facts - The World Data

16 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

You are making numbers up, just like Trump:

"USA Welfare Costs

The total government spending on welfare across federal, state, and local levels reached approximately $1.5 trillion in 2025. This includes Medicaid, which accounted for $742 billion, and other welfare programs totaling $757 billion."

Welfare Statistics in US 2025 | Key Facts - The World Data

How do those numbers tally up over decades? The Biden open borders will cost taxpayers $$ trillions. Immigrants on welfare is the gift that keeps on taking. For generations.

On 1/15/2026 at 8:27 AM, spidermike007 said:

Many of us are hoping that this won't affect spousal visas. When she applied previously she got a 10-year multiple entry and all they were interested in seeing was my passport, to determine that I travel back and forth from Thailand to the US frequently. Hopefully that will remain the same.

Any info anyone might have would be helpful.

A 10-year multiple entry visa is a Tourist visa (even if it is for your spouse) and is not affected. A Spousal visa, which confers immigrant status, is 'temporarily' banned for citizens of the 75 listed countries.

53 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Examples? Surely you have numbers out of the millions who come

How many times have you been denied entry?

Have you been denied? How do you know why other folks are denied?

Says who? Examples?

With all due respect, you folks have nothing.

56 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Examples? Surely you have numbers out of the millions who come

How many times have you been denied entry?

Have you been denied? How do you know why other folks are denied?

Says who? Examples?

With all due respect, you folks have nothing.

Says who? Says me. It has happened to my family and to friends of ours. I won't waste my time furnishing details to deniers. I already gave one well publicized glaring example of visitors being denied.