new rules

[petewan]

After seven years and numerous confermation of address at 200 bht each i decided to get a yellow house book. Took about a week after jumping through all the hoops. Made licence getting ,buying and selling a car an easy process That was untill 2015. I ordered a new ford and gave my passport licence and house book for the dealer to copy and drove off in my new ford. Two week later the dealer calls me and says i have to get a confermation of address at imigration as they wont register the car with the house book. He said it is a new rule for 2015. I protested but the dealer was adament that without C O Address he could not register the car.

So off i went to imigration with the forms and copys Passport ,Licence <House book . Imigration was heaving but i got sorted in about two hours The free confermation now costs three hundred bht no reciept . Pay or go without. peteinpatts.. disgruntelled expatt..

[willyumiii]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

[KhunBENQ]

Unfortunately your report is consistent with others I read (at least for "many" places).

Same for extending driver permit.

In the meantime I don't know what my yellow book is worth for

(except for getting a residence certificate at the immigration, ridicolous )

[Eddy B]

The yellow house book was also supposed to help foreigners living here long term get cheaper rates at public hospitals. That has been changed also, supposedly only nationals from Loas, Cambodia, and Myanmar with a yellow house book are still included into the same scheme as Thai's and all other nationalities have to pay full price.

[thaibeachlovers]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

In case you didn't know, the confirmation of residence is supposed to be free. In Chiang Mai I believe they even stopped issuing them ( ?for a while, might be doing it again now ) when they had to stop charging the "fee".

[winnerinsix]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

Really? That is the best you got? Really?

[petewan]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

Do you get a kick out of being a pratt. I follow the rules but imigration doesent (like the 300 bht for a certificate that is free )The yellow house book is your confermation of address . enough said...

[JAS21]

I got my Yellow Book because Nonthaburi stopped issuing the letter ..I find it invaluable.

[daveAustin]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

Other countries generally make things free when they say 'free' and don't generally ask you to cough up and officials slip notes in their back pocket... well, apart from holes like Zimbabwe that is. I just find it kind of sad that Muang Thai is still going down this road.

[Langsuan Man]

Once again WHERE

Reporting something here at Thai Visa is absolutely useless for the rest of us if the posters fail to tell us where in Thailand they had the problem

[marko kok prong]

Unfortunately your report is consistent with others I read (at least for "many" places).

Same for extending driver permit.

In the meantime I don't know what my yellow book is worth for

(except for getting a residence certificate at the immigration, ridicolous )

When i had to get the 5 year licence,they asked for a letter from the local ampur,which cost nothing,and was accepted,however it seems my local driving licence office,is somewhat different to others in regard to what they require.

[petewan]

Once again WHERE

Reporting something here at Thai Visa is absolutely useless for the rest of us if the posters fail to tell us where in Thailand they had the problem

sorry i thought i had put pattaya Jomtien. I find it a very good imigration office and have no complaints apart from this.Sighn in is quick and easy,extensions for retirement no problem if you have everything in order but i got the house book so i dident have to keep going back for confermation of address which are only valid for one month. We have to grin and bare it as we cant win which is why i posted here for anyone who is contemplating useing the house book to buy or sell a car as i did in september with no problem. I dont know if you can use it for a driving licence still but i have four years left on mine so no rush to find out as things can and do change offten and not for the benifit of ALIANS.

[infinity11]

sigh, i thought this was a bill maher reference thread

[kwonitoy]

Happened to me in Dec 2013.

Bought a new Ford truck in Sahkon Nahkon, gave the dealer passport, yellowbook, paid them and drove away.

2 days later frantic phone calls from the Ford dealer, I have to go to immigration and get this letter.

Went to the Ford dealer and said you need the letter come with me and we'll go to immigration and you get it.

Salesman jumped in and went with me to immigration and handled everything, don't recall if there was a charge or not

Does make the yellow book seem less and less useful.

[TerryLH]

"The yellow house book was also supposed to help foreigners living here long term get cheaper rates at public hospitals. That has been changed also, supposedly only nationals from Loas, Cambodia, and Myanmar with a yellow house book are still included into the same scheme as Thai's and all other nationalities have to pay full price."

That program was never intended for tourists or expats. It is for migrant workers from the three countries you mentioned. They don't need a YB to sign up for that program.

At a government hospital you would pay the same amount as a Thai that does not have insurance, SS or covered under the 30 B scheme.

You are correct that some foreigners were let into the migrant worker system. Mistakenly. That has been, or will be corrected.

[ignis]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

Do you get a kick out of being a pratt. I follow the rules but imigration doesent (like the 300 bht for a certificate that is free )The yellow house book is your confermation of address . enough said...

a letter from the local amphur is FREE and does the same thing. I have been on the local amphur computer since 2004, and when I need any confirmation of address [another car, drivers licence and a few other things] they just change the date and print, maybe have to wait some time because you have to have the big red seal put on said letter....

one downside + would point out if you buy a car outside your local amphur, the showroom may/will not accept it...

[kokesaat]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

Do you get a kick out of being a pratt. I follow the rules but imigration doesent (like the 300 bht for a certificate that is free )The yellow house book is your confermation of address . enough said...

a letter from the local amphur is FREE and does the same thing. I have been on the local amphur computer since 2004, and when I need any confirmation of address [another car, drivers licence and a few other things] they just change the date and print, maybe have to wait some time because you have to have the big red seal put on said letter....

one downside + would point out if you buy a car outside your local amphur, the showroom may/will not accept it...\

How did you get on the local amphur computer? What exactly do you ask for at the amphur?

[ignis]

oh, a new rule and you had to follow it?

Poor disgruntled Expat.

Other countries never change rules or expect you to follow them.

Silly old Thailand is just picking on you....again?

Do you get a kick out of being a pratt. I follow the rules but imigration doesent (like the 300 bht for a certificate that is free )The yellow house book is your confermation of address . enough said...

a letter from the local amphur is FREE and does the same thing. I have been on the local amphur computer since 2004, and when I need any confirmation of address [another car, drivers licence and a few other things] they just change the date and print, maybe have to wait some time because you have to have the big red seal put on said letter....

one downside + would point out if you buy a car outside your local amphur, the showroom may/will not accept it...\

How did you get on the local amphur computer? What exactly do you ask for at the amphur?

Long time ago, no idea if still the same, at the time Blue book, the guy that agreed the Land/ house could be in his name, the local Village headman, the area headman, so there was 4 of us at the Amphur, they all wrote something and signed, copy of my Passport etc..

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

I successfully applied for a residence certificate at Bangkok Immigration at Chaengwattana today. 200 baht fee asked for, no receipt given.

Oddly, the transaction was directed to the J2 counters at CW Immigration where they also seem to process tourist visa extensions.

At any rate, what they seemed to need/want was:

--1-page Residence Certificate application form from the Immigration website

--photocopies of my passport facepage, prior extension and arrival stamps, and my departure card.

What I didn't bring, but it seemed I needed to, was my current 90-day reporting slip. They kept asking if I had done my 90 day reporting when looking at my passport and papers. And I kept answering no, I hadn't, because my time wasn't anywhere near due yet. But in the end, the officer handling my documents seemed to explain that they required me to give them my 90-day slip (or a copy of it) in order for them to submit my application.

In the end, one of the other officers there looked me up on their computer, and printed out a copy of my current 90-day slip, which they then attached to the rest of my Residence Certificate application paperwork.

Gave me a little card back saying I should receive the Residence Certificate sent to my home by EMS within 3 weeks -- after they've had to chance to do whatever they will do to verify that my stated address is correct. Have no idea what that entails.

I had other business to do at Immigration today, so the residence certificate application was just a secondary item that I had been thinking about in terms of an upcoming application for a Thai driver's license. In searching through the forum here, I didn't find a clear list of just what is supposed to be submitted along with the residence certificate application itself, so I bought along the usual passport pages and departure card photocopies.

Just in case, I brought along some other address related things like a copy of my home lease and some utility bills listing my name and address. But the Immigration folks didn't ask for anything else beyond my application form and the passport and departure card photocopies -- all of which they also wanted me to sign, as is usual.

[colinneil]

Some dealers (motorbike car pickup) claim you cannot buy using yellow book, some say farang cannot buy only Thai!!!

Last year after i wrote off my bike, wife wants a new one why? says i,you have a pickup , i will never ride bike again (legs dont work anymore). I want darling . OK i says.

of we go to town. First Honda dealer , no farang cannot buy, only Thai &lt;deleted&gt;

We go to another Honda dealer. My husband wants to buy new bike, we can only sell to Thai cannot register bike in farangs name.

Go to number 3 no problem farang with yellow book welcome. Bike is registered in my name.

I did this only to proof that farang can do.

[Langsuan Man]

Some dealers (motorbike car pickup) claim you cannot buy using yellow book, some say farang cannot buy only Thai!!!

Last year after i wrote off my bike, wife wants a new one why? says i,you have a pickup , i will never ride bike again (legs dont work anymore). I want darling . OK i says.

of we go to town. First Honda dealer , no farang cannot buy, only Thai <deleted>

We go to another Honda dealer. My husband wants to buy new bike, we can only sell to Thai cannot register bike in farangs name.

Go to number 3 no problem farang with yellow book welcome. Bike is registered in my name.

I did this only to proof that farang can do.

The dealer has nothing to do with registering a motor vehicle, that is done by the Land Transport Office. (some will and some won't accept a Yellow Book, most want the Residency Certificate issued by Thai Immigration )

Any dealer refusing to sell to a farang, just doesn't want to sell to a farang