WilliamCave Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Was wondering how many expats live in Thailand is there some were to find a break down were they are from and area most expats live? Just curious question I am from Canada live nontaburi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Two. You and me. Of course if one were to use the search facility of TVF they may find the answer I gave is incorrect. This is just another one of many posts asking the same question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamCave Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Two. You and me. Of course if one were to use the search facility of TVF they may find the answer I gave is incorrect. This is just another one of many posts asking the same question. I know am just lounging around bored and reading the posts here and thought I would ask the question . You are correct two of us haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevvy Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 count 3 , yourselves and me Land from downunder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Semper Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Was wondering how many expats live in Thailand is there some were to find a break down were they are from and area most expats live? Checking with the immigration office could be a start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaideeguy Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Was wondering how many expats live in Thailand is there some were to find a break down were they are from and area most expats live? Checking with the immigration office could be a start. Not really, as I ran a thread on the CM forum asking the same thing about expats in CM only and altho the thread ran a few pages, it got nothing but guesses that ranged from 5,000 to 50,000. I also searched all over the immigration website and found nothing. Please post if you find out anything...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayned Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Some info from 2010; http://www.dougsrepublic.com/thailand/foreigners.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTG Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 A lot of poeple are unofficially living in Thailand. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickjn Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 A lot of poeple are unofficially living in Thailand. Thats the one if we could get a rough estimate there would be 1000s more illegals Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 The last figure I've heard is that nearly a million foreigners stay in Thailand, plus x millions of aliens from neighbouring countries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomTao Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 I live in Chumphon, I have met a few other foreigners living down here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbeSurd Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 The British Consul to Thailand, Michael Hancock, gave a very good talk at Pattaya City Expats Club today. He said there were about 50,000 British expats in Thailand. i would guess he meant "official" ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khonwan Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 The last figure I've heard is that nearly a million foreigners stay in Thailand, plus x millions of aliens from neighbouring countries. Now that confuses me since “aliens” and “foreigners” mean the same thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisakiman Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 The British Consul to Thailand, Michael Hancock, gave a very good talk at Pattaya City Expats Club today. He said there were about 50,000 British expats in Thailand. i would guess he meant "official" ones. But what constitutes 'official'? People with residency? Work permits? O visas? The ones who are married to a Thai, have kids here but still have to do visa runs? There are many layers of 'official'. I honestly think the Thai government would make it a lot easier for themselves if they simplified the visa situation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbeSurd Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 But what constitutes 'official'? I meant 'here in Thailand legally'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forumuser10 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Two. You and me. Of course if one were to use the search facility of TVF they may find the answer I gave is incorrect. This is just another one of many posts asking the same question. Count me in, although I am not Canadian! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eff1n2ret Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I honestly think the Thai government would make it a lot easier for themselves if they simplified the visa situation. It's hard to think of a simpler system than that which operates in Thailand. Here, apart from some of the more obscure categories which qualify for visas or extensions, there aren't really very many, and the conditions for these are few and not onerous. The form I have to fill in each year to obtain an extension fills just over one page. You either qualify or you don't. You trot along to your local immigration office, plonk down minimal paperwork and a couple of thousand baht, and that's it. I can't be bothered to look up how many pages there are on the forms by which you have to apply for a visa to the UK, or Leave to Remain there, or to count the number of paragraphs and appendices in the Immigration Rules, which provide an absolute beanfeast for lawyers and can enmesh people in procedures lasting months or even years. And at the end of it, the UK Border Agency struggles to come up with reliable statistics as to the number of legal immigrants in the country, and certainly hasn't a clue as to how many are there illegally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rsquared Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 But the big question......given our visa's, extension to stay permits etc., in the Governments' eyes, are we living here or just passing through "on a regular 90 day pass"? Statistics can be manipulated any way you want, for whatever purpose you need. I know I am living here, but I am sure that the Thai government would disagree. (even though I follow all their requirements). Cheers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neeranam Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 The last figure I've heard is that nearly a million foreigners stay in Thailand, plus x millions of aliens from neighbouring countries. Now that confuses me since “aliens” and “foreigners” mean the same thing! That's what I was thinking. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWorldwide Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I ran into a crazy English teacher back in 2008 who told me he had returned from S Korea 4 years earlier on the 30-day visa exemption and didn't have a single stamp in his passport beyond that. When I asked him whether he was scared of being arrested at the airport, he responded that he would simply have to pay 'one hell of an overstay fine !'. How many such folk are illegally living and working in Thailand ? Your guess is as good as mine. Ultimately, unless they are eating my food, wearing my shirt or shagging my woman, does it matter how many expats are in Thailand ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeverSure Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 The last figure I've heard is that nearly a million foreigners stay in Thailand, plus x millions of aliens from neighbouring countries. Now that confuses me since “aliens” and “foreigners” mean the same thing! That's what I was thinking. It's always interesting when expats have a meeting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homeownership Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I honestly think the Thai government would make it a lot easier for themselves if they simplified the visa situation. It's hard to think of a simpler system than that which operates in Thailand. Here, apart from some of the more obscure categories which qualify for visas or extensions, there aren't really very many, and the conditions for these are few and not onerous. The form I have to fill in each year to obtain an extension fills just over one page. You either qualify or you don't. You trot along to your local immigration office, plonk down minimal paperwork and a couple of thousand baht, and that's it. I can't be bothered to look up how many pages there are on the forms by which you have to apply for a visa to the UK, or Leave to Remain there, or to count the number of paragraphs and appendices in the Immigration Rules, which provide an absolute beanfeast for lawyers and can enmesh people in procedures lasting months or even years. And at the end of it, the UK Border Agency struggles to come up with reliable statistics as to the number of legal immigrants in the country, and certainly hasn't a clue as to how many are there illegally. They know exactly how many illegals are in the UK. None !!! Everyone in the UK just applies for a bogus college and gets the nod to come in or come from other EU countries or marries a UK person. Some just apply and get accepted. Immigration in the UK is a bad joke. You have to be incredibly stupid to be declined entry to the UK, its true I am not being insulting, the Police round up the "so called illegals" around the ports and tell them to go to the nearest police station to claim asylum, instead of running away from the police, now the illegals are asking for directions to the police station to become "legal" whilst it takes 10 years to make a decision. If there case fails they leave the UK and re-enter and do it all again. Pathetic, the Austrailians wouldnt stand for it and neither would the Thais. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsokolowski Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 The British Consul to Thailand, Michael Hancock, gave a very good talk at Pattaya City Expats Club today. He said there were about 50,000 British expats in Thailand. i would guess he meant "official" ones. That compares well with the figure of 55,000 UK expats listed at the bottom of the lik in post #7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chiangmaibruce Posted March 1, 2013 Share Posted March 1, 2013 The issue of how many expats there are in Thailand is addressed in this paper: www.burning-bison.com/expats.htm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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