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rohitsuk

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  1. 6 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

    Don't do it.

    Short time Airbnb is illegal.

    Renting for longer time is not easy, there are many available units, and many are empty for a long time.

    And then you need someone reliable to look that all goes alright..

     

    Totally agree, spot on. Both my grandsons are in the property business as I was myself briefly some years ago and standards are very different here. Certain groups and nationalities have a very bad reputation as tenants and the stress it is likely to cause you would simply not be worth it. Do not buy but shop around for a rental you can live with, there is lots of choice and it would be a lot cheaper cheaper.  You can always put in store your favorite stuff to dec out your place to your taste. I think that the Thai property market is heading for a 2008 US type disaster. And all of  this before you even get into the business of neighbours.

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  2. A visa agent in Pattaya is processing a first retirement visa application for me and told me it would be for fifteen months, three for the initial non-imm O plus the twelve month extension for retirement. Last week we submitted all the forms to the immigration office including my passport. The agent said that my passport would be returned in a week, presumably with the non-imm O approved and an “under consideration stamp” for the retirement. This was my understanding of the procedure from the experience of others. However, today the agent is saying that it will be sixty days before my passport is returned with the fifteen months total and in the meantime the copy of my passort which I have shows my tourist visa expiring on 25th January.

     

    Would appreciate any advice.

     

  3. A visa agent in Pattaya is processing a first retirement visa application for me and told me it would be for fifteen months, three for the initial non-imm O plus the twelve month extension for retirement. Last week we submitted all the forms to the immigration office including my passport. The agent said that my passport would be returned in a week, presumably with the non-imm O approved and an “under consideration stamp” for the retirement. This was my understanding of the procedure from the experience of others. However, today the agent is saying that it will be sixty days before my passport is returned with the fifteen months total and in the meantime the copy of my passport which I have shows my tourist visa expiring on 25th January.

     

    I Would appreciate any advice.

     

  4. Well, it has all been said really - what price progress ?  In the case of Thailand's Evisa system, the answer is total chaos. 

    After giving up in despair attempting from London, I even looked at flying to Vientiane and applying from there with the good old pencil and paper method. In the end, I just came in on a 45 + 30 visa-exempt which is only 15 days less anyway.

    Is Thailand really trying to revive its tourist industry or is it being sabotaged by the Goblins of North Korea or somewhere ?

    Biting hand, killing goose and snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Welcome back to LOS, I love it all really.

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  5. The Fiesta was the UK's favourite car for many years and yet it seems to have something of a poor reputation here in Thailand. I wonder if it was all Fiestas or just certain years/models that were not good but certainly by comparison with other similar cars they are quite a bit cheaper second-hand. I am also wondering if the same is true of the Focus.

    I should be grateful to know the story behind all of this from anyone who knows.

  6. 5 hours ago, Kenny202 said:

    How good is that! ????????????

    It is as good as it should always have been but never was.  And indeed the only good of it would be to be rid of it along with re-entry visas and the Evisa application for a 60-day tourist visa.  Now there is a true nightmare if ever there was. 

    But let us not forget that for bureaucrats worldwide their ambition is to make other people's lives as difficult as possible and some are much more successful than others.

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  7. On 11/11/2022 at 4:21 PM, HappyExpat57 said:

    I'm gonna post here and people may cry "BS" but this has been my experience over the last 6 months.

     

    I xfer from a credit union in the states to an SCB account. If I go 50k baht or over, it takes days. 49,999.75 baht takes 6 seconds.

     

    SCB is supposed to be one that allows quick xfer over 50k but that has not been my actual experience.

    I have had a similar experience with Wise and BBL.  I can send two consecutive B50k and it's seconds for both but try one at B100k and it can take days,

  8. Has anyone done this border bounce since Flexomike did it in mid-September when all seemed plain sailing ?

    The phone number on Google Maps for the Thai side immigration is not working. If anyone has a working one I would be grateful.

    I believe that there is a Thai lady who takes care of the whole thing on both sides including the Cambodian visa for a reasonable fee.

    I am due to go on Saturday 12th and would greatly appreciate any up-to-date info.

    Many thanks.

  9. Has anyone done this border bounce since Flexomike did it in mid-September when all seemed plain sailing ?

    The phone number on Google Maps for the Thai side immigration is not working. If anyone has a working one I would be grateful.

    I believe that there is a Thai lady who takes care of the whole thing on both sides including the Cambodian visa for a reasonable fee.

    I am due to go on Saturday 12th and would greatly appreciate any up-to-date info.

    Many thanks.

    I

     

  10. 47 minutes ago, In the jungle said:

    I went through exactly the same process with the London Embassy.  It was an absolute PITA and I resolved to do my best to avoid doing it again.  In my case it was probably a day and a half of faffing about including having to download and learn photo editing software to resize documents to comply with their requirements.

     

    And why on earth do they need three different facial photos (including the one in the passport)?

     

    If I were an ordinary tourist with no particular ties to this country I would just go somewhere else where I do not have to put up with this.

     

    Me too.  I hear that the Philippines is a breeze with no nonsense for up to three years but I do not think that my Thai family want to move there,

  11. 8 hours ago, pomchop said:

    can you give a link on where it was approved...i saw one story but was very wishy washy as to details...thank you

    This is the only one I have seen, probably the same one you saw.  It will not be legal anyway until it is published in The Royal Gazette. : https://thepattayanews.com/2022/08/19/thai-covid-center-approves-visa-period-extensions-for-foreign-tourists-to-boost-tourism-economy-effective-this-october/

  12. On 8/19/2022 at 1:17 AM, rohitsuk said:

    It was refused at the June meeting and my bet is it will be refused again.  There is a nasty mean sprinted streak that runs from top to bottom of Thailand's immigration, bureaucracy gone berserk, system.  When Big Joke was Big Chief and threatened to reform it all, he was heaved out to an inactive post from which he is slowly recovering.  

    Glad I was wrong about that - it has been approved.

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