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  1. On 3/26/2024 at 12:57 PM, Sjoerd said:

    1 week before I wanted to extend my visa, i have gone to Immigration at Kap Choeng to ask what I would exactly need. When the boss heard that I live alone in a small village she told cannot have 1 year extension because nobody quarantee that I live there and it is unusual/dangerous to live alone at a ricefield city where is nothing to do. After some discussion (example I told I had extensions 3x before) she ordered someone to write down the requirements. The extension could in her opinion only when the "home owner from which I have a rent contract" send a signed document from her ID, her living tabain bahn and the tabain bahn from the home I rent.

     

    When I had all the documents including the other necessary ones I went back there with a well known business man from the next city. With 3 people they checked all the documents and after the boss started again cannot give the required extension because live alone!

     After long discussions in which the friend told that I really like to live quiet and all the people in cities around there like me she still not wanted. Finally I showed her the documents from my past wife and my 12 years old sun, marry, born and died, together with strong pictures my wife laying dead on the road under the concrete and pictures of my sun who lives 15 km away from me. After this she told me to be sorry and extended my visa. The 3 documents which they needed 1 week before, they not needed anymore and gave back.

     

    What I not like is why it has to come to this point, for what reason.... I not see the necessary from the documents ex wife and sun.If really needed why not asked a week before.

    My friend had to sign that I really lived there. If not trust they could come visit me. I know the boss is allowed to ask more information/documents but I not see the reason to refuse on a living alone reason because many farang live alone and get an extension.

    But ok I have my extension....with re-entry. Hope next year it will be more easy....

    I had a friend in a similar situation as you, and he got visas extended every year, no problem, immigration office knew him by first name, very well. I asked him how come you don't have any problems, he said, passport contain special brown paper when handed over, then stamped straight away. 

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  2. On 3/27/2024 at 9:39 AM, ukrules said:

    Local outrage - what nonsense, now national action?

     

    What is a crackdown on foreigners? Are they going to hassle us in the malls? 🤣

    They let Russians in unchecked, we all know that many of them are mafia, they run organised crime, ATM scamming, gambling and pornography, many murders happening amongst this lot. 

    Then a mad man kicks a Dr on an illegal structure installed by crooked Thai property developers. 

    Two spoiled brat kiwis take a gun off a traffic cop, maybe they thought he was going to shoot them. 

    There is lots of police shootings in NZ after car chases, in fact if you're stupid enough to get involved in a car chase in NZ odds are you will end up shot dead or crash dead, they always end badly. 

    There are pick pockets, pimps illegal gambling houses and human trafficking going on in los all the time, and they want to crack down on innocent retired people and tourists. 

    Clean up your own backyard first, I say. 

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  3. 15 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:


    I thought you’d decided to ‘integrate’, join a hi-so gym, become more Thai, stop drinking etc ???? 
     

     

    Anyway, this is a perfect example of a the lazy Policing we see here…  
     

    The BiB all need a ‘push’ to do their job & now social media will do that.

     

    Hopefully now the BiB have been nudged into doing their job.

     

     

    This principle clearly applies in the red bull case 

  4. 22 hours ago, stevenl said:

    From the original article, Google translate.

     

    "The said company is believed to have It is a company that operates by foreigners which has Thai people joining as nominees to avoid the law and is an offense according to The Foreign Business Act of 1999 has resulted in the seizure of more than 100 cars and motorcycles and many documents."

     

    That's a substantial business.

    Do you need a 90 day visa on arrival to work in this field? 88

  5. 7 hours ago, Mike Lister said:

    CM Immi. iends to adopt new Immi. rules and processes ahead of other provinces, I've witnessed this several times in the past when they've asked for something such as a copy of your lease and others have laughed at the idea. IF they are now asking for proof of where the money comes from, watch it, I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand, not for one moment.

    Maybe the new tax laws have something to do with it 

  6. On 3/14/2024 at 6:20 PM, 2long said:

    At the end of the day, there are lots of western men who come here and are unaware that this behaviour is normal in some places, but not others.

    They apologised, but did it again... maybe they thought that they were ok to do it to different ladies, and they had no idea that this was not Nana Plaza.

     

    The world of social media nowadays where someone does or says something wrong and is all of a sudden a wanted fugitive is quite worrying.

     

    What about all the scams in bars and taxi drivers ripping people off?

    I had a friend years ago who I took to Thailand, It was his first time, he started groping girls in the old beer garden, I told him, it's not good to do this to these girls, they don't like it, and it's not good behaviour. 

    Next day I told him to go his own way, I would not show him around Thailand with me. 

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  7. On 3/14/2024 at 12:41 PM, richard_smith237 said:

    Here we go again...

     

    "Ripper, My Pittie is great with kids and would lick em to death"....  :whistling:

     

     

     

     

    And I hope they did 'take care of him'....    and the owner, whatever their BS excuses needs to be facing heavy fines.

    The dog would be put down in most countries, they are also banned in many. 

    They can never be trusted, my friend had one that was very good natured until one day it nearly severed his hand, Maiming him for life as he took the dog to his brothers house, the dog attacked a pet rabbit in a pen and the owner tried to stop it, then his beloved animal turned vicious on him. 

  8. 21 hours ago, observer90210 said:

    Tourists can come or not, but by far, they are not the big spenders. Those who spend the most are the people who own property and stay longer then the regular joe-tourist and his 2 week stay in a beach resort.

    At Suvarnabhumi airport yesterday I was almost mowed down several times by Chinese groups carrying signs storming around the airport, many buying bus tickets for Pattaya, had to get my ticket for Huahin and get away from them, had to wait 3 hours for the bus to depart, the food court was push and shove, gave me a headache, but huge numbers at the airport yesterday. 

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  9. 15 hours ago, MangoKorat said:

    They cannot be serious........wasn't the result of the last election and who was actually allowed into government the real 'overthrow of democracy'?

    I would love to see the wording of the reform, it seems to never make the news, but seems to get  blown out of proportion, that we won't know unless it's published. 

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  10. 15 hours ago, Cabradelmar said:

    So it would seem. But there is no excuse why immigration can't do the same sitting comfortably at their computers (heaven forbid they work too hard) when someone passes through passport control on entry. 

    Qantas put a warning on my ticket to Bk must show return ticket b4 boarding in Auckland, because entering on visa on arrival, never had problem b4,even though I said I will extend to non o,can get around that. 

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  11. On 3/6/2024 at 1:57 AM, Banana7 said:

    Hosting the national flag of any nation comes with responsibilities.  It's not a decoration on or for a building, it is the proud symbol of a nation. The flag should be taken down at sunset and raised to top mast at sunrise. It can be at half or lower mast for extraordinary national events like mourning the death of a Minister, etc..

     

    Watch a Police station, military base, or military ship and see the flag timing. It's disrespectful to leave the flag up overnight!

     

    It seems like The Jootee Tin Dredging Company needs to show more respect for Thailand's flag by taking care of it seriously, properly and with honour and respect.

     

    Maybe the foreigner was showing more respect than the company?

     

    Very clearly, the souvenir hunter recognized this and grabbed it to take home. 

  12. 18 hours ago, ezzra said:

    I think there was enough and much more that have been said about this subject, yes, this guy is an a-hole and

    by now he got or will get what he deserves, but not like he murdered or rapped someone,

    not as if the locals are white doves in their treatments of their fellow Thais, so ok, the message was clear

    and everyone learned a lot from it... 

    A thai women through things at me when I returned a crook cellphone she sold me, she lost face and screemed at me, I grabbed another one she was comparing it with and ran, she threw the broken one at me hitting me in the head, good shot, I kept running and disappeared. 

    These were in the day's of not having to show ID, she had put my Sim into the new phone already. 

     

    I did not ever think of retaliation, I just wanted to get away from her as quickly as possible. 

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  13. 22 hours ago, Jingthing said:

    It sounds like he deserves it but then again I'm not thrilled to hear about expats being deported as a general thing. I would have preferred some kind of plan where this man was forced to humiliate himself publicly in a super dramatic way. Lost face for life. I doubt he would reoffend.

    If he's got a psychological problem, he will not be humiliated, only worse, his attitude seems to have rubbed off on his wife well. 

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  14. On 3/5/2024 at 1:04 AM, Banana7 said:

    Not only check the backgrounds, but also check their motor vehicles, living accommodation, business licenses, visas, language school attendance records, sources of funds, and of course their known Thai associates, telephone calls, etc.. Focus on the Russians, especially the ones that have a Police Officer's phone number in their contacts phone book!

     

    Check all people living in villas and big condos.

     

    Ur right,,require police records of all Russian tourists, b4 issuing visas, and Swiss, and Chinese, and every other foreign person, trouble is police reports would be corrupt ,then all the good guys would be Subject to more visa restrictions. 

    Russian mafia went into the USA and took on the Sicilian mafia, they were not scared of them. 

    Australia has massive problems with Lebanese mafia and drugs. 

    NZ has huge problems with gangs now working with Chinese mafia. 

    The NZ government we're warned by Hong Kong British police that opening up to Chinese migration on a large scale would bring the Triads in.

    What happened NZ ignored the advice, now drugs and crime are huge and gangs work with the Chinese and the police cannot stop it. 

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