Driving licence and Immigration

Yes, and this is what was on the wall in the Immi cop room that the officer had my wife put into her phone by taking a picture I think, or scanning it into her mobile somehow. If your SO is up there have her go in the cop shop and ask about it and see what they can do to make things easy and understandable for the lass. My wife is 50 now and no whiz on the IT stuff. But she seemed to understand what they taught her for this stuff. We'll see in another week or so if it works for us. There is no goddamned way I am driving up there to report in on my return.
 
alanthebuilder said:
Ok so my driving license ran out by a few days so I went to get a new one .
At the driving license desk in the Government transport office Surin the woman tells me i need a letter off the Immigration and a letter of health off a clinic or doctor
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About time that you obtained a YTB Alan. They're free!
 
Some police stations will accept the notifications, some won't, and others will only do so if you aren't "near" an Immigration Office. So far, no one has been able to quantify "near."
 
Merlin said:
Some police stations will accept the notifications, some won't, and others will only do so if you aren't "near" an Immigration Office. So far, no one has been able to quantify "near."
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Or "in the vicinity" - see not allowed to sell alcohol in the vicinity of schools.

Or was it "close to" - I cannot remember.
 
Merlin said:
Some police stations will accept the notifications, some won't, and others will only do so if you aren't "near" an Immigration Office. So far, no one has been able to quantify "near."
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Back in 2012 after KCI reopened the local cop shops in Surin said fork off and go to KCI.:rolleyes:
 
Yes 5 weeks mate .
Driving license i think ingot the old misrable git on the desk .
Cent said:
Was this a 5 year license that expired? I did not have to get a doctor's letter of health. Going from a 5 year license to another 5 year license.

The man we dealt with, a younger Immi cop, opened the link on my wife's phone, got us a Username and Password (both the same). Then brought us to the area where you could change your password and let me change it so I could remember. Showed my wife how to use it. She took a picture of the Square thingie on the wall as well (IR or something), and showed her how it worked. Gave her a phone number she could call if having problems. Wrote down the Username for us as well. He was very helpful. I have heard others just doing this on their own have had to wait 5 or 6 weeks just to get their Username and Password to even begin to sort it out and use it.

I'll see on our return from Savannakhet next weekend if she can figure it out and use it to report 'my return'.
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My wife figured out the TM30 reporting online stuff and tried to do it yesterday on our return from Laos. Last I heard she was waiting for a reply/confirmation on LINE from Immi. I'll report back if she got it to work. There's no f**king way I am driving to Kap Choeng to do this each time.
 
And I'll add, I am not going to curtail my trips around the country and abroad because of this overbearing draconian facist bullshit. It will not break my will to live here in a country among people I love and enjoy being around in my life. I am of the 'good guys in' persuasion, am well liked by my neighbors and most Thais I meet and know and my related family of my wife. It's the cops and immigration that seems to have issues with us retirees and worker bees living here, the government entities. Not the Thai people I know and like. So screw them that do not want us here. I'm more stubborn than they think, and many others I know living here are the same. You'd think they could come up with an ID card for those of us who have been here for ages, never caused a problem, are adding much to our communities and the country itself. A 'good guys' ID card that is grandfathered in for those of us who are not 'the problem'. A sort of 'semi' permanent resident ID card for those married to Thais who have never done anything to cause a ruckus (unlike some who have and should be deported).
 
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So @Cent , what was the deal like in the 90s...everybody in without seasoning money in the bank ?

(Same as America pre-2001 ?) :rolleyes:
 
Cent said:
And I'll add, I am not going to curtail my trips around the country and abroad because of this overbearing draconian facist bullshit. It will not break my will to live here in a country among people I love and enjoy being around in my life. I am of the 'good guys in' persuasion, am well liked by my neighbors and most Thais I meet and know and my related family of my wife. It's the cops and immigration that seems to have issues with us retirees and worker bees living here, the government entities. Not the Thai people I know and like. So screw them that do not want us here. I'm more stubborn than they think, and many others I know living here are the same. You'd think they could come up with an ID card for those of us who have been here for ages, never caused a problem, are adding much to our communities and the country itself. A 'good guys' ID card that is grandfathered in for those of us who are not 'the problem'. A sort of 'semi' permanent resident ID card for those married to Thais who have never done anything to cause a ruckus (unlike some who have and should be deported).
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Been thinking similarly about ID card. With all this technology you would think the card could have a chip in it that can be swiped in a machine (like Cr cards) and that can be your 90 day report or any other BS that they want to know. Have visa info in it so they immediately know when your on overstay too. Once that system is in place, it would give the Immigration Officers more time to spend on the ‘Bad guys’ and leave us law-abiding people alone!


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Ivor the Engine said:
Been thinking similarly about ID card. With all this technology you would think the card could have a chip in it that can be swiped in a machine (like Cr cards) and that can be your 90 day report or any other BS that they want to know. Have visa info in it so they immediately know when your on overstay too. Once that system is in place, it would give the Immigration Officers more time to spend on the ‘Bad guys’ and leave us law-abiding people alone!


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You are correct of course. However... Thailand is quite justifiably proud of its very, very low unemployment figures. Back in the UK, there used to be a huge number of agricultural workers employed on the farms, and then came tractors to replace horses, and machines to replace farm labourers who became unemployed. There was no alternative work for them in their rural locations either... And in other industries many folk employed in many kinds of work until some bright spark decided that computers were the way forward. "Employees will enjoy shorter working weeks: the work being done in half the time." Instead, industry decided that half the workers would complete the work in normal working weeks of 40 hours or more. Additionally, more menial jobs were carried out by immigrants who were prepared to work longer hours in poor conditions for less pay. The result in the UK was a vast increase in unemployment numbers until politicians and ministries "massaged" those figures by excluding many from unemployment statistics where they were long-term unemployed, employed on "zero-hours" as well as turning to self-employment in order to earn a crust.

Here, immigrants are prohibited from carrying out occupations reserved for Thais. Agriculture is nowhere near as automated as in the UK, and computers feature less in more industrial roles. The result here is that low unemployment rate. Apart from that, incomes in certain official roles are so low that it encourages many to supplement their incomes with "tea money" - where the tea can be extremely pricey! By limiting the automation of many seemingly wasteful tasks, it increases the workload and maintains the status quo while at the same time limiting the cost of policing them too.
 
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