Thai visa documentary

[Porking]

I have been reading the forum entries with interest. I am an independent film maker and I am considering making a documentary on the trials and tribulations of getting a visa for Thai nationals to live and work abroad with a special focus on the visa agents concerned. If you have any cautionary tales or success stories of dealing with visa agents I would like to hear from you.

Regards,

'Porking

[2fishin2]

Mmmm why not do a documentary on the problems encountered by Farangs instead and help out your fellow white guy?

[glegolo]

A really strange focus in a documentary..

Glegolo

[Porking]

Thank you for replying and yes that is a good idea but I also feel that it should be a second documentary to keep some balance on the subject matter from the first. I am gathering material even as I write.

Regards,

'Porking

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[2fishin2]

Good luck

[Porking]

Hello glegolo, I don't believe it is a strange topic, Visa applications can have drama, tears, love and joy for those involved... They can mean the start of new lives or people with their hopes crushed. The human interest factor is very high in my opinion

Regards,

'Porking

[glegolo]

Hello glegolo, I don't believe it is a strange topic, Visa applications can have drama, tears, love and joy for those involved... They can mean the start of new lives or people with their hopes crushed. The human interest factor is very high in my opinion

Regards,

'Porking

Alright maybe I was too hasty against you. I shall give it a go and not complain. But mind you, thaias has a highway of a easy life when it comes to entering other countries for work or living purposes!!!! I do compare with what is going on here against us falangs.... That made me react as I did.

Glegolo

[tinat]

As I presume you will be making this film in Thailand, ensure you have the correct visa/extension of stay and work permit.

[Porking]

That seems to be an interesting topic as well then. Well proposed. I can work on that as well. The idea of two documentaries grows more and more appealing

Good ideas, thank you.

'Porking

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[onetime]

I don't think you're going to get a lot of love out of this crowd! I have never met a foreigner who didn't have a visa issue.

Last week I was in an immigration office and one of the bosses came out of the back room with 2 folded bundles of money that looked to be 40k each. When she saw that I saw, she tried to hide what she was doing. She stuck them in her desk drawer.

Why don't you do a story on that subject? Defamation laws?

[willyumiii]

There is nothing an agent can do that you can not do yourself.

Unless you have money to burn and can't be bothered...

forget the agents and do it yourself.

I agree with other posters..

A doccumentry on what foreigners go through to stay here would be a much more interesting program.....

Examples of how different immigration officers in different offices all interpet the regulations in their own different ways would be a very good segment onit's own!

Good luck.

and keep us posted.

I am sure a lot of us would be interested in seeing what you come up with.

[darrendsd]

Mmmm why not do a documentary on the problems encountered by Farangs instead and help out your fellow white guy?

He wouldn't need to, a read from the whingers on here is enough to fill the programmes for a TV station for a year

[Eclipse]

It might help if you posted in the correct forum.

[technologybytes]

There is nothing an agent can do that you can not do yourself.

Unless you have money to burn and can't be bothered...

forget the agents and do it yourself.

I agree with other posters..

A doccumentry on what foreigners go through to stay here would be a much more interesting program.....

Examples of how different immigration officers in different offices all interpet the regulations in their own different ways would be a very good segment onit's own!

Good luck.

and keep us posted.

I am sure a lot of us would be interested in seeing what you come up with.

I totally disagree, a good agent knows the ropes and can make the difference between success and failure.

[JackThompson]

If involving the USA, be sure to interview the citizens whose careers / lives were destroyed by mass-immigration - and not only the construction, food-packing, and other formerly high-paying union blue-collar jobs, now converted to "hand-to-mouth" barely-survive jobs - also the legal visas into the IT / Tech. See this case:

www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html

There are 2x more USA college graduates in Sci-Tech-Enginering-Math than jobs, but they claim they can't find any. Just a coincidence the foreign workers earn 1/2 what the Americans they replaced earned the year before.

Many Americans living overseas are expats for this reason - which is one reason they seek visas in places like Thailand - see Chang Mai's "digital nomads" for more on that. Many more in Cambodia and far more still in Latin America.

[Eclipse]

There is nothing an agent can do that you can not do yourself.

Unless you have money to burn and can't be bothered...

forget the agents and do it yourself.

I agree with other posters..

A doccumentry on what foreigners go through to stay here would be a much more interesting program.....

Examples of how different immigration officers in different offices all interpet the regulations in their own different ways would be a very good segment onit's own!

Good luck.

and keep us posted.

I am sure a lot of us would be interested in seeing what you come up with.

I totally disagree, a good agent knows the ropes and can make the difference between success and failure.

Absolute rubbish

[2fishin2]

If involving the USA, be sure to interview the citizens whose careers / lives were destroyed by mass-immigration - and not only the construction, food-packing, and other formerly high-paying union blue-collar jobs, now converted to "hand-to-mouth" barely-survive jobs - also the legal visas into the IT / Tech. See this case:

www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html

There are 2x more USA college graduates in Sci-Tech-Enginering-Math than jobs, but they claim they can't find any. Just a coincidence the foreign workers earn 1/2 what the Americans they replaced earned the year before.

Many Americans living overseas are expats for this reason - which is one reason they seek visas in places like Thailand - see Chang Mai's "digital nomads" for more on that. Many more in Cambodia and far more still in Latin America.

Gotta disagree with you some. Typical expats go overseas to make money. Im currently in the ME from Thailand for that very reason. There are 2 expats one who does it for money, one for adventure. The adventure seekers just care about day to day and enjoying life.

The OPs article is not about us but about the thais immigration problems. Lets not convolute it with our own feelings about jobs or economy.

[JackThompson]

If involving the USA, be sure to interview the citizens whose careers / lives were destroyed by mass-immigration - and not only the construction, food-packing, and other formerly high-paying union blue-collar jobs, now converted to "hand-to-mouth" barely-survive jobs - also the legal visas into the IT / Tech. See this case:

www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html

There are 2x more USA college graduates in Sci-Tech-Enginering-Math than jobs, but they claim they can't find any. Just a coincidence the foreign workers earn 1/2 what the Americans they replaced earned the year before.

Many Americans living overseas are expats for this reason - which is one reason they seek visas in places like Thailand - see Chang Mai's "digital nomads" for more on that. Many more in Cambodia and far more still in Latin America.

Gotta disagree with you some. Typical expats go overseas to make money. Im currently in the ME from Thailand for that very reason. There are 2 expats one who does it for money, one for adventure. The adventure seekers just care about day to day and enjoying life.

The OPs article is not about us but about the thais immigration problems. Lets not convolute it with our own feelings about jobs or economy.

It is true that those married with children rarely escape to greener pastures when they are "replaced" by cheaper imported (or outsourced) labor - they often end up divorced and homeless or, at best, living hand-to-mouth. But those stores don't go into the mainstream news, because the 5 media companies that control 90%+ of all tv, radio, film, newspapers, and publishing in the USA (see story above - Disney is one of them), do not want people to see what they are doing.

Single guys like me with tech ability find our job-opportunities gone, take our savings and run to Central America, build up a client-list, turn that into an online business, then retire to Asia. But most of my old friends from back home with families could not run, so went down with the ship.

Let's hope he makes a documentary that tells both sides of the story - like how a foreigner can marry a Westerner, move there, and get a green card to work in a few months (with no restriction on what kind of job), then permanent residence automatically after a few years. Contrast that to us marrying here. Should make an interesting tale.

[theoldgit]

This forum isn't to be used to request information in respect of advising a commercial entity, nor can it be used to seek stories regarding visa agents.

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