@Mma ******

It's understandable why he wants 500 Baht for something that's free. Once you visit immigration and have to wait for hours sweating buckets, the price doesn't seem that high to me. I would rather pay 500 Baht for him to do it. But I would rather not pay 2000 Baht as a fine for not filing TM30 within 24 hours of my arrival, as it's no fault of my own if immigration is closed on weekends.

I'm on DTV. I plan to stay for 4-5 months.

@Nelson *****

I'm applying for both licenses at the same time. Do the certificate of residence mention if it's for motorbike or for car? If it specifically mention that it's for motobike, then I guess I won't be able to make a photocopy of it and use it for car license, right?

Also, do you have any information regarding what documents the Chonburi Immigration asks for to issue the certificate of residency? Or is there any link/website I can get that information from?

@David ******

Thanks for your reply. When I visit the immigration for the certificate, do I need to fill out two application forms and then present two photocopies of my passport? Or I just need to prepare one set of documents and just tell them that I need two certificates (one for motorbike and one for car)?

@Steve ******

How did you receive 3 years Philippines visa?

@Brandon ***********

So can my wife just send me 400K into my Thai Bank account from her Thai bank account, 2 months before extension? And I can transfer that money back to her after I receive the 1 year extension, right?

I purchased my sim at the Bangkok airport from a AIS booth. At that time, they took my passport to scan and made a photocopy, and gave me the sim. Is this sim considered to be under my name? Or do I need to do something else to make it mine? There's no option to check under whose name the sim has been registered on the AIS app.

It's still to be seen how they'll track down ATM and CC uses and then tax foreigners based on this. They simply do not have the manpower to do this. Yes, they might track down couple foreigners, but it'll just be a scare tactic just to make foreigners report it themselves out of fear. 400+ transactions a year in bank account being reported? Hardly. I don't see bar ladies and freelancers filing their income taxes, or tax department even coming after them, even though they every single one of them definitely have more than 400+ transactions a year. The whole video is a scare tactic by lawyers wanting more clients by fear mongering.

Yes, paying taxes is good. But only if you're someone here with a work permit working a job or business, or if you're someone who's trying to get PR or Citizenship eventually down the line. For every other regular guy either on DTV or Retirement visa, paying taxes in Thailand makes no sense when you don't get any benefit out of it.

Congrats. Did you figure out what was the issue in your first application. What did you do differently this time? What extra documents did you submit?

I flew through Suvarnabhumi Airport. Good luck in DMK.

Good luck to you. There a chance of scrutiny while entering Thailand by the Immigration Officer as happened to me. Hope that doesn't happen to your partner. Keep us updated if your partner get's his visa this time around and what you did differently this time.