@Matthew ********

Disgusting comment. Do you treat your wife like that too?

No, I didn’t pay for my wife. I don’t own her.

Ah, you’re American. That explains it. Can’t discuss without swearing. Sad people of a sad country. Do they have many trailer parks in Carolina?

@Nongnuch *******

I concur. I don’t support corruption either. Bravo!

@Matthew ********

And all of what you mentioned doesn’t even remotely compare to a country where all idiots have guns and let their teenage children enter schools with them to start a killing spree.

Corrupt or not, Thailand is in every way a better place than the USRA (United States of Russian America).

I worked as an assistant auditor for the predecessor of PWC. Back in 1985 or something alike, the firm had a large insurance company as new clients.

They asked me to join their EDP audit department and I managed to connect one of the first IBM PCs remotely to the data center of the client. All with permission, of course.

We sampled 1% of their pension payments to people above the age of 80 and requested Life Certificates. Lots of payments went to Indonesia, a former Dutch colony.

Turns out many had deceased but the family happily brought the monthly checks to the local postal office. They saved approx 100,000 guilders per month on our sample only. In 1985!

Then they installed procedures to get regular Life Certificates. I don’t know the final numbers but it must have been huge!

It never reached the news. 😉

@Paul *******

I see with PEA that they invoice us and their QR code only becomes valid after 2 or 3 days.

I am just curious to know how you intend to request the extension with 30 days left on your non-O.

Thailand is very bureaucratic in each and every way and opening a bank account to deposit your money is already a challenge.

Easiest way: Book a hotel for three weeks or something. Ask the hotel for the TM30, then go to Immigration for a residence certificate for opening an account (not a permit). Finally go to a bank to open an account.

Expect this procedure to take anything between two days and two weeks.

Then deposit your money, find the place where you want to stay with your wife and start preparing for the visa extension.

During all that time two things are important:

1) Enjoy the time and enjoy what you’re doing. You’re in Thailand!

2) TIT! This Is Thailand. Everything works out differently than planned. Get used to it. Relax, stay calm and respectful. The people you’re dealing with can’t help it that their government didn’t give them sufficient training.

@Joseph ******

Which is why he wrote “talk to her” and “many people”… I’m sure you can read that. 😉

@Janin *****

It will be a nice daytime job trying to find new health insurance at that age…

@Graham ******

by the boogeyman 😳

@Nick ***********

Only for people with foreign investments.

It’s not about incoming cash - It’s about generating more investments in Thailand rather than foreign.

So first they created tax ruling to impose better taxation on results from foreign investments. Then they figured the ruling had an adverse effect because investors would simply keep their money abroad rather than investing it in Thailand.

So now they relax the same ruling, but only for foreign investments, so it seems. Unfortunately leaving (some) expats like us in the middle.