@Heather **************

perhaps thats changed with the current administration, but my wife successfully got a 10 year tourist visa a few years ago.

I really don't see how an agent can help to get a tourist visa. The application is online and pretty straight forward. For the interview they won't let anyone but her into the building (with the exception of a translator I believe).

I had the same issue with my wife prior to marriage. After we got married I had her try again. She ended up getting the 10 year tourist visa. What helped I believe is in one of the open form questions of the online application I had her use it to explain the situation. Rather than just answer the question since there was no other place to add additional comments. In it we explained that I have moved to thailand permanently with zero intentions of moving back, so she had no desire to get a green card. Between that and perhaps Chaing Mai being more lenient that Bangkok she ended up being approved.

Depends if it is an extension on a non-o or a non-oa I believe.

@Oli ******

they still have their fee but don't call it a conversion fee. Not sure if one saves any money, but it is at least fewer steps. I don't trust wise enough to actually maintain any balance since they are not FDIC insured (or UKs equivalent either). Below is a screenshot of my last transfer fee and rate.

Anonymous participant 413 you don't have to convert first or maintain any money in a wise account. You can do a direct bank to bank transfer and convert all in one step using wise.

@Floyd *****

the TM30, which is the responsibility of the house/condo owner to file within 24 hours of any foreigners arrival, is not the same thing as the 90 day report. They are two completely separate things. You will not need to go to immigration to file a 90 day report until you have been in the country for 90 consecutive days. The clock resets everytime you leave and come back. The TM30 should be filed by your landlord or hotel. Just ask them to provide you a copy after they have done it.

@Stan ******

his freinds wife is Thai. She will not need a visa. Thai citizens can enter the country even with an expired passport as long as they can prove their citizenship. Which may or may not be anissue with and expired pink ID card as well, but there are other ways to prove citizenship.

@Roberto ********

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, this has been mildly entertaining, but I’ve reached my daily limit for ignorance and nonsense. Have a lovely day.

@Roberto ********

Haha. So you still refuse to answer the question? And once again, you assume I didn’t read the tax code or the DTA or come prepared, which I absolutely did. But it’s “obvious” to you that I didn’t, based on what exactly? That I was prepared enough to know they gave me the wrong answer?

Show me, on the Thai Revenue Department’s own document, where it says that someone doesn’t need a tax number or doesn’t need to file simply because they don’t have a work permit:



You won’t find it, because a work permit is absolutely not the deciding factor in whether someone needs a tax number or needs to file.

As for DTAs and avoiding double taxation, that’s claimed as a credit. Tell me, how does one claim a credit if they don't file? That’s clearly stated at the end of the document. But maybe you won't understand that based on your stellar display of comprehension.

You, like them, have no idea what my financial situation is, which I was fully prepared to show them. Even if I hadn’t been prepared, how does asking for a tax number first make them correct in claiming I don’t need one or don’t need to file? How would they know, when they didn’t ask a single question beyond whether or not I had a work permit? I could have brought in 20 million baht that’s tax-assessable, and they didn’t care. Either they didn’t know their own tax code, or they were intentionally avoiding the work. Which was my original point that you are absolutely refusing to acknowledge.

Why is it so hard for you to get that through your thick skull and accept that a government employee in Thailand might not be fully up to speed on their own tax regulations? Despite numerous reports of conflicting advice given by different offices.

JFC, you’re just grasping at anything you can, making ridiculous assumptions and arguments just to keep arguing. You’re an absolute clown. I can't wait to see what you'll come up with next. Or perhaps you finally decide to stop arguing a losing point.

@Bob *********

I know thats the case when you apply inside of Thailand. Is that the same when one applies at an embassy outside of thailand? I know there are other differences as well.