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    strange pink card experience

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

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    5 hours ago, Cloudy said:

    I had a guy who tried to use his pink ID card to check in to our resort. I refused as the ID card does not have a name in English, Nationality, passport number and of course he had no departure slip. Impossible to register him at immigration with this card. 

    Where was he from? Are you sure he didn't have PR?

     

    Where's your resort?................I'll keep well away from it.????

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    strange pink card experience

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    6 hours ago, Max69xl said:

    I hear what you're saying,but I still insist that there are not one bank in Thailand where the "official" requirements allow a foreigner to open a bank account using the pink ID-card. That card doesn't exist in the banking world as an official ID. I hope you understand what I mean.

    I assume your trying to say that no bank has a Pink ID card on their current list of accepted documents on their websites. That means nothing at all, just because YOU haven't seen an up to date list yourself. 

    strange pink card experience

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    39 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

    Awesome, thanks... being called a liar and accused of being involved in illegal activities was wearing a bit thin.

     

    Hey, enjoyed the banter. You can certainly take it as well as give it. All said in good fun, and would have liked to carry on but, as I said, I know at least one of the mods doesn't like banter like ours deviating from the original thread for too long.

    New Non Immigration O Multi Visa

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    5 minutes ago, stament said:

     

    If I wanted to apply 3months before my current visa expires am I permitted to as Sumrit says? In which case I would expect existing visa to be cancelled and new one issued.

    Yes you can, but as I said, your existing visa would be cancelled when the new one is issued.

     

    For a few years I had to go back to the UK for a medical (insurance requirements). I used a multi non O visa for those years. Sometimes the medical was booked 2-3 months early so had that time remaining on the non O. I always went the (now closed) Thai Consulate in Birmingham UK for a new non O. Never a problem but the old visa was always cancelled when my passport was returned to me and I only had one year on the new visa, they said they couldn't add the credit from my old visa to the new one, or predate the new one to co-inside with the old one expiring.

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    Success! DIY retire extension @Chonburi with a twist

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    1 hour ago, mtls2005 said:
    9 hours ago, likerdup1 said:

    Immigration will be electronically confirming banking details in the near future or calling the bank to confirm the account numbers and balances. 

     

    This sounds suspect.

     

    Assuming the IT infrastructure could be put in place, surely banks cannot reveal details to any schmoe who rings in?

    Immigration are part of the Thai police.

     

    In the UK the police are empowered to access anybody's bank accounts. You think the Thai Police wouldn't be able to do the same in Thailand?

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    strange pink card experience

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    4 minutes ago, ThePioneer said:

    I frequently send EMS inside Thailand and abroad from the main Banglamung postoffice, and use driver license or pink card, depending on which one I have in my pocket.

     

    My driver license has never been refused or even questioned, and regarding your question in post#121 if it contains vital and legal information, every Thai drivers license contains the same information.

     

    That is you name and address and either your passport number or as others claim your pink id card number, but I doubt actually that anything more than your name get entered by the postal clerk.

    OK. 

    Over the last 18 months or so I've had to send and receive many legal documents to/from various Government and other institutions based in the UK in relation to a friends estate that I have been administering as his executor. The main post office in Chonburi have insisted that must use either my Pink ID card or my Passport to send those envelopes and to sign with the same ID if I needed to collect any documents from the post office. 

     

    My Pink ID card or my Passport were the only two options offered to me, a TDL wasn't an option. That's the same requirements for Thai Nationals as far as I know.

     

    The people who have replied so far saying they've used their TDL all live in Pattaya. Maybe, because there are so many Foreigners living in Pattaya (with most NOT having a Pink ID card) the Post Office there have an agreement to accept a TDL instead. I don't know. I certainly wasn't offered that alternative in Chonburi.

    strange pink card experience

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    Posted · Edited by sumrit

    7 minutes ago, HampiK said:

    Yes I think they should be able to do it... My Kasikorn Branch told me.. they can't change it in the system but would be happy to reopen the accounts! I guess some person on the table who not know how to change the passport number to the PinkID... who knows

    Yes, I'd almost forgotten, When my wallet was stolen a while ago, as well as losing my TDL, I lost my Kasikorn bank card. When I went into the bank to cancel the original and get a new one. They wouldn't accept my Pink ID card as ID because it was in Thai while my account was in English with my ID NUMBER being my passport number. 

    strange pink card experience

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    1 minute ago, Peterw42 said:

    I think it also comes down to what document you first used to get your licence, start with a passport its passport for renewal etc, start with a pink ID (that number is on ID instead of passport) its pink ID for renewals etc.

     

    No, I've lived here for fifteen years and Yellow Books and your Pink ID Cards weren't readily available then. I, like everybody else, used my passport and a residence certificate. I only started to use my Yellow Book and your Pink ID Card after I was issued with them. My first TDL's had my passport number on them but, as soon as I changed the docs I presented, the number was replaced with my ID number. As usual I'm still initially asked for my PP but I just offer my Yellow Book and your Pink ID Card instead and they just continue without question (first time the guy on the desk asked his boss first though).

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    strange pink card experience

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    3 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:
    7 hours ago, Max69xl said:

    Show me any banks requirements allowing a foreigner opening a Thai bank account using a pink ID-card,and I give you anything you want. I promise you this, you won't find one bank. I have had several Thai bank accounts,still have two active accounts in two banks,and not long ago I checked requirements for opening a bank account for a foreigner in every bank. I know everything there is to know about requirements,so the guy who claims he opened an account using a pink ID-card is either lying, or he found the dumbest girl ever working in customer service. 

    I have a bank account opened with a Pink ID, I dont think its a foreigner account, I may be a foreigner but with the pink ID that has a Thai id number on it and my name in Thai, I opened an everyday Thai account. No different to a Thai national opening an account with their blue ID and ID number.

     

    When I opened the account I presented passport and Pink ID, the girl at the bank gave me a choice, I could use passport to open an English name account or pink ID to open a Thai name account. I recall the manager saying the pink ID was easier for them as the ID number goes straight into the bank software.

     

    The bank requirements for a foreigner opening an account probably doesn't list pink ID as its a Thai ID opening a Thai account.

    I also opened two bank accounts using a Pink ID and a Yellow book, one at Krung Thai and the other at Thanachart and both at Central Plaza in Chonburi. I didn't even take my PP with me. At both banks their first question was 'do I have my Passport and proof of address with me'. I replied no, but offered my Pink ID and a Yellow book instead. At both banks they smiled and proceeded without any problems. Likewise, my name is written in Thai in both accounts. 

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    strange pink card experience

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    8 hours ago, ThePioneer said:

    Now try to use the very same pink card to proof your identity when extending your driver license in the department for land transport just 10 km away from the office that issued it.

     

    There are plenty of posts on this forum that it isn't accepted, but tere are also posts that it is accepted in departments in other locations

    I did EXACTLY that in Chonburi. In fact I've done it three times so far!!!!

     

    That's twice to simply renew my TDL and once to replace it after it was stolen/lost. Accepted without question on all three occasions.

     

    The posts you've seen where the yellow book and/or the Pink ID card is not accepted are from people going to the office in Pattaya.  And from your posts, you live in Pattaya. The licence office there have an 'arrangement' with Jomtien Immigration to share the proceeds from the (illegal) payments for residents certificates issued to obtain a driving licence. That's why they insist on a residence certificate, it's an illegal backhander for them, It's got absolutely NOTHING to do with the validity of the yellow book OR the Pink ID card.

     

    You don't have to go to your nearest office.  The Chonburi Office less than an hour up the Seven. Next time you need to renew your licence, go there instead. But remember, you must use BOTH your Yellow Book AND your Pink ID Card together.  

    strange pink card experience

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    Posted · Edited by sumrit

    2 hours ago, Max69xl said:

    So,how many EMS letters or packages do you send every month? I have a copy of my passport in my phone, and it works for me at the local post office. Haven't been there the last 6 months, though.

    Quite a lot in the past year or so actually. That's how I know a pink ID card is acceptable.

     

    A friend of mine died suddenly last year and I was named as executor of his estate in his will. I initially went back to the UK to arrange his funeral and initiate things before returning to Thailand to do most of the paperwork from here. All communication to the Probate office in Manchester, Registrars, pension companies, insurance companies, three banks, local authorities, land registry, utilities plus a host of lesser companies had to be contacted by recorded delivery letter and documents both sent and received. Apart from EMS costing a fortune every single one sent and received had to be signed for. So I KNOW the Chonburi Post Office would only accept either my pink ID card or passport as ID for each document signature. Almost all envelopes sent were A4 size with one or two being larger and most containing legal documents. And it's still not completely finished yet.

     

    Never needed to send a parcel to the UK from your local post office so I can't comment on that.

     

    If you have ever been named as an executor you will know just how much paperwork is involved.

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