@Frank *********

what exactly do you think I did? IF you're stating the bleeding obvious, you can safely assume I didnt need you to tell me that BUT IT DID NOT WORK ... please, only USEFUL ADVICE

@Michael *******

I am in Bangkok, for now, but probably have to leave the country because of wasted time from bad advice from the immigration department ... I dont think I have enough time left to fix it

Yea I've noticed the websites are very poorly designed, long before we get to the issue of how those designs are implemented, the designs themselves are deeply flawed, and long before you get to fixing that, they need to work on the processes themselves which the website is supposed to make easier ... I personally wouldn't do any of this the way they do it, because it is just an invitation to corruption incited by people who quite rightly don't want so much of their time wasted by such an unnecessarily convoluted problematic & time consuming process ... I myself yesterday spent more than 8 hours just to find out something that could have been stated on the website and even dealt with by the website, and they weren't answering the phones either (with additional flaws noted in their message system on the phones), forcing me to turn up in person and wait hours and hours and hours to find the answer to a very simple question, and that answer then informed me that I will have to spend at least 2 additional entire days to solve it.

I'm not sure I could design worse if I tried.

@Garrett **********

thanks very much

@Garrett **********

ok thanks ... and do you just have to maintain that same bank balance of 800,000 baht every time you renew?

And why doesn't the online appointment booking thing work ... is there no way to do these things except to turn up in person and queue?

Am I reading correctly that this only lasts for 90 days?

@Indo *****************

does the retirement visa just require money in the bank? My investments aren't in cash and I didn't want to convert them back to cash

@Jeff ******

you have NFI what pressure is, I've been through things that would kill a pussy like you, many times

@Sil ****

yeah I was thinking about teaching and tutoring English for intermediate to advanced students who want to understand nuances of things like slang, poetry, technical / legal / medical jargon, and so on ... because I think there's lots of finer points about English which aren't even taught anymore, and even native speakers are often rubbish communicators and thinkers because (in part) they have an incurious and intellectually lazy approach to their own language ... sadly, this only makes it easier for them to be brainwashed by government and media who tell the truth in only 4 situations:

1 - where it is trivial

2 - where it's in their own interests

3 - where they're forced to

4 - where it is to sell you a greater lie

... and I also note how many people are blissfully unaware that legalese was intentionally designed -- and this is taught when you study law, so it's not even denied -- to prevent people understanding the process, so they wouldn't know if they received justice or not

Imagine what it is like for foreigners to understand all this when even the locals have forgotten or never knew