Maybe someone should posta sticky about how to ask for advice.
Be clear and specific, offer up no personal or additional information that may open you up for critique or ridicule.
Maybe someone should posta sticky about how to ask for advice.
Be clear and specific, offer up no personal or additional information that may open you up for critique or ridicule.
Go to a Thai consulate or Embassy outside of Thailand. (Except Cambodia, I hear they're quite strict with all visas for the past few years now).
Get a 12 month multi-entry Non-O visa based on visiting your wife.
Return to Thailand and every 90 days do a border run to Laos or Cambodia.
This will last for 15 months without ever dealing with an immigration office in Thailand.
You're welcome.
Errrrrr he can already exit every 90 days instead of reporting every 90 days but doing so will cost money for Cambodian visa every time which makes zero sense when his reporting is free.
The Oracle of Oz is just an impatient all knowing idiot whose chooses instead to bribe the immigration officials to supposedly speed up the 5 minute process. If he was not so lazy and got to immigration in the morning he would be in and out fairly quickly.
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Ah, I see, I've entered an old men's club.
Thanks for the great info on a simple question. Wouldn't know what do do without all the clever remarks, speed vs distance experts, speeding fine consultants, people questioning "IF" I have a marriage visa, expert forum writers, armchair specialists etc.
To ridicule someone from behind a computer screen is very easy (and safe). But I do not need your ridicule, just an answer to a question if there were other, easier possibilities. That's all.
@Fondles, I'm not lazy, I can't be bothered to get out of bed for "saving" 500 baht. But I guess that after all those years in Thailand, you have never ever paid any tea money.
Good luck to you all finding a new person to ridicule. I go watch the paint dry.
If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.
Wizard I have been here since they started enforcing the TM laws about 12 years ago. I have never paid a dime in bribes, nor do I know anyone who has. Its a standard reporting process with no pictures and but one standard form.
If you chose to pay a bribe fine. But you are in reality the only person I know doing this in the whole of the Kingdom of Thailand
there is NO tea money if ur stopped by the police in Phuket, u get a ticket which means u have to go to the police station and pay it.
I have no problem going every 90 days to report, drive to Phuket town in mid morning, in an out in less than 15 minutes and thats that.
Whats the big deal??
I do object to u paying 500 baht for this!!!!
I was once doing my report and they guy in front gave the immigration 100 baht, I looked at the immigration guy an smiled and said "Farang Ba" an he laughed.
I would think just the opposite; How to take advice would be a better fit in this case.Originally Posted by Necron99
Its doesn't matter whether you have an Non'o' or visa extension based on retirement or marriage you have you will have to do 90 day reports or 90 day boarder run.If you wish to live here full time and only plan to leave Thailand for the odd holiday ( re-entry permit must be obtained before you leave)then a marriage extension is your best option.If you have the income( 60k a month) or money in the bank ( 800k ) to get the Retirement extension then even less paper work in needed.
With the Non'O' you must leave every 90 days meaning you will pay for a visa to enter Cambodia.
As poorfalang pointed out....
1.if you get the marriage visa done once a year/quite cheap/ then on its a 90 day report/free/any office
2.you want the border run? it will cost/you will fill up your passport very fast/
The last time I did my 90 day report I arrived at 8.30 ( T.M. 47 filled out at home the night before) and I was in Staffords ordering a Full English by 9.20
As lockman pointed out....go Tue, Wed, or possibly Thursday AM and stir-clear of Mondays and Fridays.
If you don't want to get up early then go after diner when it should be quieter .
I remember the first time I did my marriage extension here in Surin , I had no internet forums or sites to help with info and it took a few trips before all the paper-work was sorted out. Most of the problems I see people having at the Immigration Office is of their own making and then they blame the Immigration Officers who are only doing their job.
Now every year I turn up with the correct paper-work and I'm normally in and out in a hour or two.And if they do ask you for some additional paper-work just smile and do as they ask..........Simple
Big Ol' Lucky Ol' Al.
It sounds like the op is young, dumb, and immature. When one post ANYTHING on a public forum, especially a rant asking a question and ranting because he pays a bribe, he can expect many kinds of answers. When he grows up he'll realize that yes, some people can be rude, but I've found answers to my questions on TD to be logical and very helpful. That's not to say that I agreed with some however, but most were very helpful. Maybe if he give his attitude some attention, people will respond in a positive way to his childish questions.
Wow Ralph, it's amazing how you can get a persons age, IQ and personality form posts on a web forum, there is a great future for you. You should work for CSI.
I'm also not quite sure where members get it from that I complained? about the money. I mentioned it, but the question was if there is an easier way, not a cheaper way!
You all see it as bribes, it's not a bribe, I don't ask the immigration officer to bend the rules for me, just to speed up the process. People who have been to Kapchoeng will know there is a plastic container ON the desk for "tips". (Yes it actually says "Tip Box")
People that think that a 90 day report should take longer then 10 minutes, what for? It is a statement where you give your address, they should just stamp it, tear off one half and put some more staples in your passport, why should that take 1 or 2 hours? sitting, waiting in a crowded immigration office. Time is money.
I am not a very patient person, I truly admit that, but there is nothing wrong with being
not patient. If anywhere (in the world) it takes too long, I walk. Why do people pay extra for priority boarding? VIP tickets etc. There must be a few like me around. Not being patient, has nothing to do with not being polite!
People that live in Thailand and never have paid an "extra fee" or "tea money"? I doubt that. If I could pay 1,000 baht for someone to collect my passport and paperwork at home, get it stamped and bring it back, I would do that (and they would know that you actually live at the address you write on the piece of paper!).
I worked all my working life in the Hospitality Industry, you're the kind that do not tip as well, because you already paid for the service. I have always enjoyed a tip and always tipped.
But anyway, thanks for the "positive" response on a normal question, I'll leave it at that, I have better things to do, watch the paint dry and grass grow.
Cheers!
Last edited by Wizard of Oz; 28-02-2013 at 08:13 PM.
You do not have to be there in person to do your 90 day reporting.
If you pay a "tip" to ANY kind of law enforcement officer, it's a bribe. Plain and simple. I know of no one in the 12 years I've been here that has "tipped" any immigration or any other kind of officer except one dumbass.
^ snardy (new word?) comment.
Some people have others (motosai taxi riders, secretaries etc. take all their docs to immigration for them), some report by mail. Both require the same amount of effort on my part.
ie. None.
^
Best solution so far.
Give the 500 baht to someone who actually does something to earn it.
Think the guys who use the motosai driver pay him 200b. About a 30km round trip from Chaeng Wattana.
I was in Pattaya a while back and my 90 day report was due ,I use a Visa-shop Soi Buakaow,dropped it in the morning and pick it up the next day......100 baht.
a year multi-entry "O" costs approx $150, and you can only get it outside of thailand; so every 15 months you will need to travel to another countryOriginally Posted by Necron99
each trip across the border costs $10, to Myanmar, Cambodia I don't know
and using two passports is a waste of time, they give you back-to-back visas
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