Visa

[stuxv]

Hello

I have been looking at the site now for a while and what I see is complete confusion over visa o 's' b 's' etc.

I have tried but I can't get my head ruound it.

Can anyone help me in my case, please.

I am married as a Brit to a Brit lady, we have a company to buy our house [before the land crap came out], we are 49 this year, thinking of starting a business in LOS with Thai friends.

We can't get a year B visa withouth proof it seems.

All we want to do is go to our new home, run a small business or a year later get a retirement visa.

We would prefer to get a business visa, we don't need the money but we would like to give something back and break even.

How do you show to Consuls you are serious without having a business to start with? Paperwork wise.

[lopburi3]

There is a lot of paperwork and would strongly advise you consult with Sunbelt Asia or other firm that specializes in this as the rules here may not be the rules there and today may not be tomorrow. I believe you will find the cost, for forum sponsor at least, to be money well spent. Am not trying to give you smoke and mirrors here but I don't know the answers and it really is just too much; and you have too much at stake with that 'company', to take any needless chances.

[stuxv]

There is a lot of paperwork and would strongly advise you consult with Sunbelt Asia or other firm that specializes in this as the rules here may not be the rules there and today may not be tomorrow. I believe you will find the cost, for forum sponsor at least, to be money well spent. Am not trying to give you smoke and mirrors here but I don't know the answers and it really is just too much; and you have too much at stake with that 'company', to take any needless chances.

Many thanks lopburi3, I have taken your advise and mailed sunbelt. The Lawyer I use in Phuket sent me an incomprehensible list and the charges were unbelievable! [more than uk fees]

Fingers crossed

[tropo]

There is a lot of paperwork and would strongly advise you consult with Sunbelt Asia or other firm that specializes in this as the rules here may not be the rules there and today may not be tomorrow. I believe you will find the cost, for forum sponsor at least, to be money well spent. Am not trying to give you smoke and mirrors here but I don't know the answers and it really is just too much; and you have too much at stake with that 'company', to take any needless chances.

Many thanks lopburi3, I have taken your advise and mailed sunbelt. The Lawyer I use in Phuket sent me an incomprehensible list and the charges were unbelievable! [more than uk fees]

Fingers crossed

Yes, be careful with the local lawyers. My landlord paid a local lawyer in October (when the visa reg changes were already well know) to get a visa for him that they assured him they could. Not long after he paid them 20K, they told him they could not because the regulations had changed...duh! He ended up getting it in England after Christmas.