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acepredator

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  1. Prior to your post, I had never heard of the Common Reporting Standard. I'll look into it and get back to you.
  2. Of course you wouldn't have to pay taxes on capital gains accrued in the U.S. How could the Thai government possibly know if someone living here had capital gains that never left the U.S.? Even if someone were stupid enough to inform the Thai tax authorities, they would still have no authority to tax money that never entered Thailand. How could they? On the other hand, presumably they could tax any money entering Thailand no matter what the source of that money was. That is the issue that the foreigners living here are very much concerned about these days.
  3. At Chiang Mai Immigration, you have to provide a yearly bank statement that you get from the bank just prior to your trip to Immigration to renew your visa. This statement shows every single transaction, even if you have more than one in a single day. Last time I was there, the Immigration official didn't even ask to see my actual bank book, only the yearly statement, which the official scrutinized very closely. Of course they would know if an entire page were missing. Each page contains a large number of transactions, so the missing page would show a huge gap in the timeline. The people who work for Immigration aren't all complete idiots. Maybe Hua Hin Immigration has different policies.
  4. Citibank will not allow you to log on to their website if you are using a VPN. Somehow they can detect that a VPN has been activated. It is for security reasons because the bank doesn't know exactly where the person attempting to log on is actually located. I appreciate the fact that Citibank is acting to protect my money from people who may be trying to misappropriate it. However, I can and do log in to my investment accounts using a VPN without any problems. It seems that the investment companies are not as diligent in watching over my money as Citibank is.
  5. My situation is the same. Citibank absolutely will not send a credit or debit card to any foreign address. In fact, if you cannot provide them with a U.S. address, they will cancel your credit cards. Fortunately, I'm able to use my sister's address in Colorado; otherwise, my credit card would have long since been terminated.
  6. Unless this is an extremely recent change, which I doubt, this post is completely inaccurate. Just last July I paid the $130.00 fee via pay.gov using my Citibank Mastercard without any problems. I sent all the required documents to Bangkok via DHL and received my new passport delivered to my mailbox exactly five weeks and two days later. The process was effortless because I followed the instructions provided by the U.S. Embassy to the letter. My best advice to the original poster is to do the same while ignoring what the posters here are saying. Much of the information on this thread is just plain wrong. Who do you think knows more about renewing your passport, the people who work for the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok or the people who post on Thai Visa, many of whom are moronic, clueless idiots? You can decide for yourself who to believe.
  7. In my experience, I've found that Thai Customs scrutinizes packages sent by DHL or FedEx much more closely than something sent through the USPS. I tried to have a package containing supplements sent from Amazon via FedEx, but the Customs Department seized it, saying that I needed an import license to receive the supplements. Later I ordered the exact same supplements from a company in India. They sent the package by India Post, and the Customs Dept. didn't seize it. It seems that a package sent by any national postal system will get through, whereby DHL or FedEx packages will potentially be seized. That's why I had my sister start sending items via the USPS. Maybe a small envelope containing only credit cards or blank checks might get through, even if it's sent by DHL or FedEx. I'll check with my sister even though it takes her a very long time to cool off from anything that makes her angry. Thanks very much for taking the time to submit your suggestion.
  8. Thanks very much for your reply. That's just the recommendation that I was looking for. I will look into travelingmailbox.com right away.
  9. Yes, you're correct. The reason that my sister won't process my mail anymore is that she went through a huge hassle last time trying to mail a Flat Rate Envelope from the USPS to me, but thanks to the inefficiency and stupidity of the Thai Postal Service it never arrived. As I mentioned in a previous post, the envelope was returned to her terribly mangled after about six or eight weeks. My sister was frustrated and angry at having gone through some effort to mail something to me, so she won't help me again. The question is: If the Thai Postal Service could send the envelope all the way back to Denver from somewhere here in Thailand, why couldn't they just have sent it to me here in Chiang Mai? The only thing fishy about my story is that it involves the seemingly inept and idiotic people who work for the Thai Postal Service.
  10. In the 29 years that I've lived abroad I've used my father's address in Colorado as my home address until he died, and then my sister's address until now. Citibank will no longer allow cardholders to use an overseas address, but that was never a problem for me. The problem occurred when my sister tried to send a new credit card and blank checks, along with some other mailings, to me here. She put all the envelopes in a Flat Rate Envelope provided by the USPS, at about the same cost that you mentioned, and mailed the envelope to me here. She had sent several of the Flat Rate Envelopes before without a problem. This time, however, the envelope was lost for about six or eight weeks. Then it ended up being returned to her in Colorado in a terribly mangled condition. It seems that the machinery of the Thai Postal Service chewed up the envelope really badly. Instead of delivering it to me here in Chiang Mai, they sent it all the way back to Denver. That's the efficiency and intelligence of the people at the Thai Postal Service. After all the hassle involved in sending the Flat Rate Envelope, my sister has refused to send anything else again. So the problem is not with using FedEx, DHL, or the USPS. The problem, instead, is that I only had one person in America who could help me, my sister, and she will no longer do so. That's why I'm looking into an alternate solution to having my Citibank credit cards and blank checks sent to me here.
  11. I don't think the problem is having your bank mail credit or debit cards to a CMRA. I assume each bank has its own policy concerning where it will send credit or debit cards. The problem I have discovered is that the CMRAs that I've checked won't forward any kind of financial material to me here in Thailand. That's why I submitted my original post to ask the posters on this thread if they know of a CMRA that will forward such materials to Thailand. There are several helpful suggestions in the above posts. One in particular seems to be MailLinks in Las Vegas. I will check to see if they can forward financial materials to Thailand. If you want to know if your bank will send items to a CMRA, I suggest that you contact your bank and ask if they will do so.
  12. I have also checked many different forwarding services that I'm not happy with. Unfortunately, I don't have "a person" in America to collect all my mail and send it to me here in Thailand. That's why I submitted my post to ask if any of the posters to this thread can recommend a service that I might not be unhappy with. I've received several very helpful replies to my post. Many thanks to the members of Thai Visa, as always.
  13. I will look into using MailLink in the future. Thanks very much for your extremely helpful information.
  14. Thanks very much for taking the time to reply to my post and provide much helpful information. Time for me to sleep.
  15. My sister tried to mail credit cards directly to me here some years ago, but there was a problem due to the incompetence of the Thai Postal Service, so she won't try again. That's why I need a forwarding service and a two-step process. If you put a smaller envelope into a larger envelope, I think that the forwarding service would check to see what was in the smaller envelope. It seems to me that they cannot be so easily fooled. They need to know what they are forwarding, in case it is something illegal. Instead of trying to trick them, I would just like to find a service that will forward credit cards and checks. My sister could send the cards or checks to them, and they would send them to me. It's that simple.
  16. My sister's address is my legal residence in the United States, not just for Citibank. I'm registered to vote at that address, and it's the address I use when I file my income tax returns every year. It's not deceptive at all. Under Colorado state law, you can have a legal domicile at one address and physically reside at a different address. The problem is that Citibank has their own policies that have nothing to do with Colorado law. It's up to Citibank to decide where they can and cannot mail new credit cards, not up to any local government entity.
  17. Yes, I know. That's why I use my sister's address in Colorado, which is a residential property. I need a forwarding service that my sister can mail the cards to and that will then forward the cards to me here in Thailand. It's a two-step process.
  18. Thanks, but I don't need a property in the U.S.A. What I do need is a forwarding service that will send credit cards from Citibank to me here in Thailand, which Citibank will not do. That's why I need a forwarding service. Those who have posted to this thread have provided the names of many new forwarding services for me to check out in hopes that at least one of them can give me the service that I need. Many thanks to all of them.
  19. A check of the Citibank homepage says that if you lose your card, call the customer service number. What happens then I don't know because I've never lost my card. I don't know what would be involved in having a card mailed overseas. I only have one address on file with Citibank, which is my sister's address. I don't think there's a distinction between legal address and mailing address. They're the same. Anyway, I'm not going to lie to Citibank, where I've been a customer for 35 years. I would prefer to just deal with them in an honest and legitimate manner.
  20. That's sounds like a great service, thanks for the information. Do they provide you with an actual street address or only a P.O. Box?
  21. Citibank recently instituted a policy that anyone with an overseas address has had their credit cards cancelled, so they will not mail a credit card to any address outside of the U.S. In order to maintain my card, I had to use my sister's address in Colorado. That's why I need a forwarding service or virtual office, as you suggested, to get my new credit cards.
  22. Thanks for the advice. May I ask the name of the virtual office that you use?
  23. I would prefer to have the actual credit card in case I need to use it at an ATM, not just the information contained on the card. Also, if the envelope is coming from Citibank, the forwarding service will assume that it has some kind of financial material contained within. Anyone can feel the new credit card while holding the envelope. The forwarding service can figure out what's inside the envelope without me telling them.
  24. I have tried many of these forwarding services during the years I've lived in Thailand, but the problem with all of them is that they will not forward new credit cards or a book of blank checks from my bank, or any other type of financial documents. Is it possible that one or more of the forwarding services mentioned in this thread will forward financial documents from my U.S. bank to me here in Thailand?
  25. If people living in other parts of Thailand are able to do so by using shady visa agents, then more power to them. To reiterate what I said in my post, the visa agents in Chiang Mai follow the Immigration Department rules to the letter. Because I don't have 65k in retirement money, I have no choice but to keep the 800k in the bank. I suppose I could move to Pattaya, but I'm not prepared to do so, being happy enough with my present circumstances.
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