As a long term member of the group. I am an expat living in Thailand for the last 7 years, been married for 28 years and first visited Thailand in 1989.

I introduce myself in this way because I am an open book and use my real name.

As a member of this group I have got so much value from it in educating myself in so many aspects of Thai life. I have also recommend it to dozens of my friends who have also got great advice and value from it.

I understand that the group was bought by a visa agency a few months ago. After that I read that the intension of the new owners was to keep the group as it was and maybe even improve it by adding a different perspective.

Recently I have seen a distinct change where moderators are pushing the use of Visa Agents when in my opinion that was not the correct option.

Would it be possible for the moderators and admins to introduce themselves? If possible also declare if they will gain personaly or professionaly if members of this group use an agent.

Just curious as to the point of this 'advice' page? Why do you delete replies to posts and turn off comments before anyone can get a chance to reply or ask questions? Surely, we are all here to gain as much information as possible, to help us through this strange time!

Sorry to bother you all but:

We discussed with the mods and admins what to do when:

People without giving any advice and who just write lets go private or I messaged you etc.

The unanimous decision was simply delete and remove the person.

This just based on the simple fact that we still read comments of people, who has absolute nothing to do with asked question, example is this needed in Chang Mai and several others post YES, it is in Phuket or Pattaya.

Next to this we still see that many members use populair phrases to name a visa or Extension of Stay.

And there are times that requirements of Immigration Offices are mixed up with requirements of Thai Consulates.

This page is set up to share information so all can learn from this, we understand not all know all the correct terminology and if written on the page we can help and correct. There is no way to check if the advice giving in private message is correct, we can only hope it will be.

Thanks.