Time up for some 30 day visa runners

[limbo]

That's the real scary part about it.

[Dexi]

Thats why you should always have a plan B ...

[thalenoi]

My plan B is to rot in frigging Belgiam, but I work on plan C, Vietnam maybe?

 

Anyone wants to buy a new house in Issaan?

[ThaiHome]

The Grace Hotel crowd have no visas!

 

Problem with this crackdown is that many people here having been living quite legally on the 30 day visas -- i.e. living on their own funds. I've met people who made a pile in the Middle East and never will have to work again in their lives. Yet because they are under 50, they can't get a retirement visa. And since they don't want to get married, they can't get a marriage visa. Basically, this crackdown ends up driving them to spend their money elsewhere.

 

On the other hand, I do know of some bar managers (not owners) who have done the visa runs for years. But why not go after them and not simply shafting everyone else as well?

 

 

 

 

 

My question is if these types of people you describe are willing to take a day or so every month to run to border every 30 days, why would they not be willing to fly to Penang, KL, Singapore, etc and get a visa that allows them to stay 60 days and with a 30 day extension 90 days? Or if they have truly have enough money they can fly to a western country and get 2 or 3 entry visas that allow could allow them to stay the 90 days at a time and make border runs for 6 months or more. I understand Perth easily gives a 3 entry tourist visa.

If someone has the mental wherewithal to accumulate the money to retire early, shouldnâ??t be too hard to figure this out.

TH

 

[simie]

Thaihome, i think the Thais want people to return to their home country to get tourist visas. And it does seem that Thai embassies/consulates are cracking down on people with too many stamps or tourist visas and telling them to return to their home country and get a visa there. I take your point about the money thing but don't forget some of these people seem to be living on a shoe string and the cost of a trip back to their home country every few months would screw their budget. Others are working illegally as bar managers or english teachers etc and could'nt spare the time as well as the money for regular trips home. But then that is the whole point of this particular crackdown too make it harder for farangs who the Thais suspect are probably working without a work permit or don't match up too their idea of what a "quality" tourist is?

Simie.

[ThaiHome]

See that is the problem with these discussions. We start out talking about the "independently wealthy, less than 50 not married guys" going "other places to spend their money" and when that is thoroughly shown to be BS, then all of sudden we are talking about the people living on the edge. I have as much sympathy and compassion for these people as I do the wetback toilet cleaners in the US, the big difference is one left a developed country to go to a third world (usually to get cheap sex), the other left a third world to go to a developed country (to try and have future).

TH

 

[khunsanuk]

Hi,

 

TH, could you enlighten me? Were you born a poor sod and worked your way out of the mud, or where you born with a silver spoon in your mouth?

 

Just trying to figure out if your disdain for anybody not rich is because (you think) they didn't work as hard as you or the result of parental indoctrination?

 

Seems that you do not let any opportunity slide to show you disdain. Frankly, it disgusts me.

 

Sanuk!

 

[ChristianTroy]

I have as much sympathy and compassion for these people as I do the wetback toilet cleaners in the US, the big difference is one left a developed country to go to a third world (usually to get cheap sex), the other left a third world to go to a developed country (to try and have future).

 

What happenend to the shades of grey?

[ThaiHome]

Hi,

 

TH, could you enlighten me? Were you born a poor sod and worked your way out of the mud, or where you born with a silver spoon in your mouth?

 

Just trying to figure out if your disdain for anybody not rich is because (you think) they didn't work as hard as you or the result of parental indoctrination?

 

Seems that you do not let any opportunity slide to show you disdain. Frankly, it disgusts me.

 

Sanuk!

Seems a little off-topic to me, but as you are the admin, I will bite.

Iâ??m sorry I seem to offend your European socialist tendencies. I wonder why it disgusts you when I point out that living in the third world is not easy for a westerner if you donâ??t have money (and I will never understand why someone would do so), but it doesnâ??t disgust you when this forum would not even exists if it where not for the huge economic disparity that exists that allows the majority of the posters here to come (or live) and pay a 20 something ex-rice farm girl the equivalent of $10-20 to suck their dicks and then brag about how little they paid (and get upset when someone pays more)?

Your disgust seems to be pretty racially biased to me. But then again, that is pretty European as well, isnâ??t it?

ban me or ignore me, but try to follow your rules and not flame me. I have seen you issue warnings for less.

 

TH

 

[ThaiHome]

I have as much sympathy and compassion for these people as I do the wetback toilet cleaners in the US' date=' the big difference is one left a developed country to go to a third world (usually to get cheap sex), the other left a third world to go to a developed country (to try and have future). [/quote']

 

What happenend to the shades of grey?

You might have misunderstood my point, I do have sympathy and compassion for both of these people. I just don't have much for the motivation of the former group.

TH