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KhonKaenKowboy

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  1. Your wife has been watching Bernie sanders....don't kid yourself.....but yellow is good for bank accounts that might otherwise require a WP. Mine took a number ofvisirs, too.  Had to have pp translated 300 THB, and I gave them a copy of my condo chinote...sonow all three have the same Thai spelling...that was before pink card...I may do that soon.  60 is fair...yellow was also welcomed at the revenue office....

  2. The people that try to turn a bar or cafe into their own private work area are annoying.  It ain't a fookin library.  How moronic do you have to be to not have decent internet at your rental?  More like drop shipping victims planning their next visa run than people earning solid money.  The 841 blogs on how to extend your visa exemption at CM Immigration are quite compelling.  I certainly give them my personal information, when ever they ask.  Might be a good place to find out who is serving buckets of cleaning solvents with a straw.

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  3. It was his way of NOT giving it a stamp of approval.  But, just think if they did have a legit way for these people to get a visa....there would have to be multiple layers of proof that they make a lot more than the drop shipping losers in Chiang Mai.  Any program is subject to widespread fraud...the Tsunami volunteers, the Ed visas, the English teachers...the have seen it all.  They won't even let the retirees volunteer.

  4. 3 minutes ago, Dan5 said:

    There is no reason for him to say anything. Immigration just wants to know you have an income of at least 65j Baht/ month coming from outside of Thailand. You have to prove it every time you get an extension either through a proof of income from you embassy or having 800K Baht in a Thai bank account for the last 3 months. It doesn't matter how you make it. They're not going to audit your finances back in your home country.

     

    As for making money on the internet. Sure most people fail, but in most case because they give up too easily. They were looking for easy, overnight success. No business is easy. It takes work and perseverance. But I personally know people who make hundreds of thousands of dollar a month on the internet and in a couple cases more than a million dollars a month. Most of them selling on Amazon and started from scratch with a .small investment, buying from China and selling on Amazon.  I don't know where you get this BS about big players popping you like a pimple.  It's just not the case. Big players are not a problem for small players. An awful lot of people make a good living on Amazon.

    Actually, those who get the income affidavit about their 65k income can be asked for some proof from the IO.  And if you think it would be OK to go on record at Immigration and tell them you are an amazon reseller, you are sadly mistaken.  Retired, retired, retired, that ius the only occupation I ever state while in the kingdom, even if I do 50 hours of computerr activities in a week.  I forgot to mention the currency trader thing is 98% BS.

     

     

  5. The Chiang Mai Immigration guy was canned after giving that interview saying it was OK.  In the most recent interview, the IO stated he had never even heard the term, Digital Nomad.  What you do online, while you are legally here, is minute compared to getting permission to stay for years.  Sure you could probably get a year or two out of Ex visas, etc.., but as time goes by, every entry, or trip to Vientiane will get more anxious.  If I was early forties, instead of early 50s; I would not be living here.  Not the biggest fan of Cambodia, but it does have a few positives.

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  6. If the OP makes enough to support his family, why not just say it comes from savings abroad, or even your parents give you 40K per month, whatever.  Working online is tolerated, but then using that income earned while in Thailand to meet visa requirements would be very grey.  Elite visa doesn't give you a right to work, but would eliminate income interrogations.  An Aussie bought a coffee shop and paid 300,000 for a one year WP...even with the Thai workers, etc..The digital nomads, who are making good money don't even call themselves digital nomads (Yogi Berra).  Expertise in software is a nice earner...all the get rich schemes are BS, as well as the seminars, MLM, life coaching, personal training, and most of the affiliate marketing.  Even finding a product for a song made in China and selling on Amazon...the big players can pop you like a pimple.  And the people who paid the Ukrainians to bring them web traffic?  Google is at least two steps ahead of them, and many lost their entire investments, as Google knew the clicks were not legit.

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  7. 1 hour ago, JackThompson said:

    Getting a work-permit to teach English in Thailand is more difficult - that's all I'm pointing out. 

    In my passport-country, USA, an ED degree is one of the easiest course-sets there is (and it shows).  Things are different in Germany (and it shows). 

     

    But in Vietnam or Cambodia, they are happy to learn English to a basic, conversational level.  This is not university-level English.  I cannot count the times I walked up to a little shop or stall in Cambodia, and a 6-year old was called by mama, ran out and said, "Hello, may I help you?"  It didn't take a PhD to teach them the basics, and now they can communicate with everyone from the USA and Europe - and others in ASEAN, which is the point of the effort.

    Agree on the Ed degree.  Usually a place for the Math illiterates to hide, because the only have to take Math For Ed Majors...one course.  Elementary school Math instruction is horrible, as a result.

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  8. 17 minutes ago, perthperson said:

    So it becomes very clear that you are talking through your hat............ I will resist asking how many little village schools you have personally visited. 

     

    Also FYI  a friend of my wife received her early education in a "little village  school"  She is now a degree qualified, Thai/English speaking Medical Laboratory Scientist who specialises in immunohaematology. 

    You misspelled immunohematology.....I got a good laugh the other day jogging behind a girl with a jersey that said "Animal Laboratory."

  9. 22 minutes ago, observer90210 said:

    I don't take LuftAir anymore...to many unexpected strikes!!...but looks that Luftair has got wind of the new Thai Immigration Policies of pushing back people.

     

    But for the Visa, why did they ask for a visa before?  In other words, if one has a passeport that qualifies for Visa Exempt to Thailand, LuftAir would not let them fly???....

    no return ticket in some cases.

  10. Lufthansa made me sign a document online, stating that I would be responsible for all fees involved in my return, if I was denied entry for any and all reasons.  First time for that in thirteen trips, have had to show visa before....once the fat pig at UAL was trying to deny me because I was changing planes in Beijing and didn't have a visa for PRC...

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  11. yes, but not something you get at the airport...not being legally married would likely complicate things, too.  Otherwise you would have even more widespread visa fraud, as agents would likely have nominee kids you could claim for a visa.  It wouldn't give you permission to work, that is for certain.

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