Originally Posted by
nidhogg
Sure are a lot of bunched panties over there, a lot of whom think this is some deep dark plot to get the farangs out of Thailand.
Me? I think its more of the same. My experience is that Thailand has a lot of highly convoluted regulations on many matters, all of which fail to do what they are supposed to do.
The first thing was to try and fix the gap left by some embassies not issuing letters, while to me, this looks simply like ham-fisted attempt to do away with people borrowing money to make it appear as though they have the required funds to stay.
As always, people try to play the system and so another layer of regulations gets put in place to try and stop that. People will again find a way to apparently comply with the regulations while not actually meeting the regulations, and so later another layer of regulations will be slapped on top.
Sadly, people will get caught in the system - and they should not blame the Thais completely - they should blame the people who have played the system resulting in the Thais having to paper over the cracks yet again.
We have a perfect example on this board. Someone who "works" without a work permit. What ever loophole or crevice in the regulations he is exploiting will eventually be papered over -resulting in more inconvenience to all the thousands of farangs who were in complete compliance with the law.