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18 hours ago, clash said:
not even police or immo? what fairy land do you live in to think that way. that attitude will get you stuck behind bars
Police have no legal right to ask for a passport. Immigration officials do. Even at that, they are not allowed to separate you from your passport. Ever wondered why immigration offices are open planned? Or that when they take your passport away for any reason, even a minor one they ask you to follow them?
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Not so unique as you may think. I am in a similar situation in regards to Spain and UK. Making the financial requirement as per bank balance and exchange rates at the time of applying and the government's disability pension income in leu of an actual employment was satisfactorily accepted and the METV Visa obtained no problem.
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On 8/24/2017 at 8:32 PM, BritTim said:
Whether you get a reentry permit or not, there should always be exit and entry stamps. Since, as @ubonjoe points out, the reentry desk is before immigration, I guess it might be possible that the IO, trying to be a helpful nice guy, tried to direct you back to the reentry desk (necessary before recording your exit from the country at Suvarnabhumi) and you walked the wrong way thus avoiding your exit being recorded in the immigration system.
There was another recent thread on someone else leaving at Suvarnabhumi without clearing immigration. You might want to refer to the different opinions posted in that thread as to how to handle the situation. Good luck!
Not always and it is not a problem. Although not Thailand I left Changi with the new scan passport and thumb on the way out automatic gate .. questioned the lack of stamp in my passport and was assured no problem as it is on the computer. I guess same for thailand, no stamp out but the guy will have his exit recoreded on the computer. No big dealm just human error!
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40 minutes ago, Suradit69 said:
If you mean you will be leaving Thailand to get a new visa (visas are not renewed), then at border hand over both passports when exiting (they will stamp you out in the new passport) and have the new visa put in your new passport at the embassy/consulate and use that when you re=enter the country.
Quite possibly they will write a short note (in Thai) in your new passport detailing your old passport number (if it changed) and details of your previous stay.
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8 hours ago, tstcman said:
Has anybody else had this problem, where immigration didn't bother to check the dates on the stamp and just denies you because they were lazy?
Rough translation.
"has anybody else been denied a tourist visa because they abused the visa system?"
8 hours ago, tstcman said:I have 4 total tourist visas in my passport. 2 from last year and 2 dated to from this year
So a year's worth of tourist visas in a 20 month period is not the reason? nor 6 months of tourist visas in 7 months and 2 days?
8 hours ago, tstcman said:Border police are cracking down on the smallest things.
No sir, they are cracking down on what are serial abusers of tourist visas. Besides, they have a right to apply the immigration law don't they? What gives you the right to abuse that immigration law?
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6 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
Unless your office says you have to report you do not need to worry about it. Not all offices want you to report when you re-enter the country.
Many only want the report if you changes addresses.
I do believe it is actually required - althought not often asked for.
If you dont have an actual immigration office in your province you can however report to and hand in the required form ..T something or another to your local police station
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7 hours ago, hyku1147 said:
Can the German Embassy help?
Embassies don't hand out immunity. They sufficient reason to deny entry. Serial tourist visa abuser then cries foul. I do see the irony that the person is denied entry having sorted himself out with a legit long term visa.
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2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
You should atleast get a single entry tourist visa before starting your trip. Then get another one at a nearby embassy or consulate.
The consulates in New York, Chicago and Los Angles have the same requirement for the METV as the embassy.
The embassy in DC is not the only place you can apply for the single entry tourist visa. You could get it from one of these honorary consulates. http://thaiembdc.org/royal-thai-honorary-consulates-general-in-the-u-s/
After your child is born you could start out by getting a single entry non-o visa and then a 60 day extension at immigration to visit them that would allow a total stay of 5 months without needing another visa.
Unless you marry your child's mother you will need to legitimize your parenthood to get a one year extension at immigration.
Just confirming 100% correct.
To add, legitimising your parenthood could take time - kinda depends on your local family court. I ended up with non o + 60 day extension + 1 year.
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11 hours ago, Essecola said:
Usually no problem to get a visa thru Jim. Onward ticket, hotel booking, passport, fee. Just google Thai public holidays and Malaysia public holidays beforehand and don't go when those public holidays are in the way. Unless you only want one more 30 day visa exempt stamp, they likely will ask extra questions and pressure u a bit when entering. There is info in other forum threads about other embassies and consulates where a tourist visa can be gotten.. Yangon, Vientiane, Ho Chi Minh City...
For what its worth the next public Holiday coming up here in Malaysia in their national day August 30th
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18 minutes ago, taxin said:
If I enter Thailand on a 60 day tourist visa am I able to apply for a 1 year extension of stay towards the end of the 60 day period ? Or does this only apply if entering on a non Immigrant visa ?
Does not apply to a tourist visa. .
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On 2/6/2017 at 4:52 PM, ubonjoe said:
Not all but many want them now.
Penang and Vientiane do not ask for tickets or financial proof.
In Penang, they do indeed ask for financials for non O multi entry and have done so for almost a year now, Sir.
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How about getting a proper visa for Thailand and not Abusing the system? It might actually mean less questions for you and easier entry. Study Thai - 1 year ED visa. Do some legit volunteer work for a few months - proper B visa.
Still, I dont understand the need to stay in Thailand - It's sh*te hole and gone properly downhill during the past few years - one of the reasons I left - and that is despite having zero visa issues period.
It is a consumers world - if they don't want your hard earned money - spend it somewhere else and take your good lady with you - she will enjoy the travel and experience and quite possibly the two of you will grow together and strengthen your relationship.
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20 hours ago, whiteman said:
Most public servants are on low wagers and are only there for there so called small pensions that they get at the end as long as they bend over and take it for there bosses for 30 years.
A lot not all have debts that they paid to get there positions.
Actually, Thai law gives a government pension of mediocre 1% of final salary for every year worked under proper full time employment contract government worker or not!
Just saying! Makes it pretty sad when most don't work under an employment contract.
(apologies - off topic!)
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A foreigner on overstay! Oh my god! lets slaughter him! throw book at him ..full weight of the law!
....All while pretty much letting a rather well of high so that killed and dragged a policeman dozens of meters down the road flaunt the law and get away pretty much scott free for years!
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1 hour ago, Siambrit said:
The local amphur can issue a residency certificate. It costs 20 baht in Phetchabun. The documents required are proof of address and passport.
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1Not quite.
I got my passport by using a letter from the bank as proof of address. My Bank account I opened with nothing but my passport and a multi-entry non O visa some 6 years ago - no other document was required.
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20 hours ago, JackThompson said:
It varies by office. This is probably a "no receipt" transaction. There are 2 ways to look at this:
- These are "supposed to be free" (but when this has been pushed, some offices simply stopped issuing them)
- Wow - that is so much cheaper than getting one from my embassy - a great deal.
I'd opt for the #2 approach, out of practicality.
But for Bank Account purposes - if you shop around, you may find a branch of a bank which does not require this. One branch of Bangkok Bank close to me requires it, even though I already have an account. Yet the branch where I opened the original account did not require it, and still does not.
1Off topic
How do you go about getting one from your Embassy - what are the requirements?
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23 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
Not sure how you ended up with two valid passports. The old one should of at least of been stamped as cancelled when you picked up your new one. I would guess though the old one was canceled in the records of your country's passport agency.
Since you have an extension in the old one you should go to immigration to have your stamps transferred from the old one to the new one.
You could also show both passports on departure from the country and they would transfer your stamps to the new one and stamp you out of the country in it.
Absolutely correct! - it what happened to me last year with the exception I had no extension in my old passport to be transferred over. I did (at pedang bessar) have the IO hand write a note in my new passport in Thai my old passport number and when I entered the country and where I stayed (city, no exact address). I think also the previous visa details were noted also, number and type. And then was stamped out of the country in my new passport and into Malaysia in my new one. Oddly the Malaysia IO asked to see my old passport prior to stamping me in to Malaysia. I think this was to simply to see if I was prohibited from Malaysia or something!.
Take both old and new with you. And, If British take the form/letter that you were given or should have been given that states they issued you a new passport while abroad. I think, from top of my head here, (not quiet 100% sure) that same form/letter that you get is signed and stamped and gives immigration permission to add/transfer your previous visa (or extension) to the new passport.
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For whats its worth neither Thai Immigration when exiting at Pedang Besar nor Malaysian when I entering asked to see the document affidavit that I was given with my new passport. Take it anyway!
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21 hours ago, alextrp77777 said:
Hello from Chiang Mai,
I just enrolled in a one year course for the first time and I might say that it is better than I thought, most students in my classroom really want to learn and the teacher is quite good.
I read in many places that it is possible to renew the course for a total of 3 years. But on some posts, it seems that it is just for a year and half. Quite confusing ?!?
I see this ED visa a great solution to stay with my newborn son and his mother while learning to read and write in Thai. Then I will be able to assist my son when he will start to read and write himself.
So my question is to know if ED visa is allowed for total of 3 years or only a year and half.
Thank You and wishing you have a good day !
5I am not the expert here (Ubon Joe is). I do know that you can get a full year extension to stay if your son is Thai national (i.e Thai mother!) and you are the legal father (married or properly legalised by the family court). Also, assuming you are father/mother or of Thai national living in Thailand, the country cannot deny your right to visit your child (or spouse in the case of marriage) by international convention and law.
For the year long extension you must also be living with your child as a family. (valid until your child is 15 years old or still in full-time education until aged 20.
the legalisation of fatherhood. What I did..enjoy non-o visa get 60 day extension just before it ended and then before that ended applied for the yearly (I am not married!) then produced all the documents for yearly one towards the end of a second 60 day extension (as I was applying for yearly visa or whatever the reason was I got it. 90 days..+60 +60 +1 year = 17 months! nice!
Edit: My first 60 day extension was due to not having all the documents from the family court ready in time. Second 60 day..I applied late for the one year extension. The office I applied to had to send the application else where (Nakon Ratachisma). At the end of the 60 days knowing I would get the extentionI then got the yearly! mind be worth your while keeping that in mind!
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3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
Only a single entry tourist visa is free.
Is the SETV free until August 31 2017?
Also, does this mean that you can get a tourist visa before that date and then enter Thailand after August 31? (before the use by period expires?)
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Go to Malaysia or near by country. Send your Partner and baby to Thailand. If Thailand then refuses your entry they are breaking the United nations Resolution on Civil and Political Rights which they signed 26th October 1996. They cannot separate or break the family unit, legally speaking.
(yes this also makes Thai immigration law technically in breach of such resolution when they require those that are married to a Thai national or have a Thai child leave the country to renew visas!)
If you are not married you will have to go through a legal process to legalise your partner as the father of your child. Even if his name is on the birth certificate. It is an easy straight forward process that can take up to 3 or 4 months depending on how busy the courts are.
Good luck.
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F the sin sot , it's out of date old fashion a waste of my hard earned money, which I could be using for the future . Why Thais think that money grows on trees in western country's is beyond me...
Nobody thought money grows on the tree. How can thai guys get married then?
Most of my Thai friends married Thai guys got minimum 1million baht sin-sod excluded gold and etc.
I dont understand why some farang agaisnt to pay SinSod if they want to marry thai woman and this is a thai culture.
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No, it´s not. Sin sot traces back to Chinese culture.
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Racism in Thailand is a cultural norm!
Local girl from the village fell pregnant to an American, eyes were wide open Rich man.... until the found out he was Black American.
How much money he had or did not have was not VIP or how good a daddy he is, not VIP...
Myself, I have a skin condition, I have to burn off with the sun ...and she turns her nose at that ...and then there is the Thai chinese racism, Thai Burmese ..wow!
One of the most racist societies I have visited! Bar none!
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She was a 10 out of 10, with make up on a straight 12! Time has passed, she is now mid 20´s piled on the pounds and gone up a few dress sizes got lazy and bossy now 6 out of 10!
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Great topic. I had my knee rebuilt after road accident years back.
Any info appreciated.
Do I have to give my ex employer my passport?
in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
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Yes! Are you crazy enough to let your credit card out of sight where it can be cloned? It is perfectly fine (and legal) for immigration office or embassy to keep your passport overnight. I got my extension for one year, I was not asked to leave it overnight.
Just saying!.