Recent content by Skenners

I went through fazwaz and got the most awesome person. she hooked up my internet as well and after my 6 month lease, I went looking at other places and she helped me out. This was also before I got my elite visa so was just on a regular 2 month tourist visa. I just put in an email through the...

I arranged it with the Thai privilege concierge. I showed them my expired 6 month lease (still at same place though) and a tm34 (provided by my building lobby) along with 2 letters from Thailand priv that they email you and also passport with visa. They book you in on a day and you just walk in...

100 effing percent -Skenners

they havent announced them yet -Skenners

In general, I'm told that a rent agreement will be sufficient for a bank account on non elite visas, but I never tried so I don't know. Also, only for certain visas and banks, but that was a while ago. On the elite visa, I called the concierge service and they set it all up for me, I just had...

nah, lines are for chumps! I really hate that monument to red tape, the immigration building. Let someone else deal with it! -Skenners

No, not on its own. Thats what a residence certificate (tm 16) is for. Cost 200b and a longass wait at bureaucratic hell that is immigration building b or 3k through an agent that Thailand Privilege will organise for you. I don't like lines, so I'm going that option so I can get my motorbike...

100%. That's why I'm still attached to Australia at the moment. Creating the substance that I'm in a foreign country and eventually a tax resident takes time and a stupid amount of dedication to get it done right the first time. Especially since I'm not an Australian Citizen, but a PR. Not...

I often use my thai/english rental agreement with my passport, but residence cert is needed for government stuff like buying a motorbike or car. my util bills are mostly thai via email -Skenners

yeah, i live here permanently. yep, thats pretty much a given. -Skenners

I use my parents address for mail and "residency". I'm a New Zealand citizen with Oz perm res, so I pay taxes in aus, but being that I'm an Australian employee, they don't look into it. It being me in Thailand 180+ days physically. The elite visa is still a tourist visa, so I'm just a tourist...

that was my thinking too. you can get a tax id on the elite visa as well. all about creating "substance". -Skenners

i have an elite visa, but work and pay tax in australia. what i think you need is a residence certificate (tm 16) for use in other countries as proof of residence which might get them off your back, tax wise, but i dont know. the elite visa changes at the end of the year and is only a tourist...

I don't get statements, printed or emailed, but I don't think it does. I'm not sure. Most of the correspondence has been hybrid Thai and English. I got online login to their Bualuang iBanking system but cant find where to draw up a statement. this is all I pretty much see:

hah, -I- took the visa. Not to feel like a VIP, but after calculating the amount of times in 5 years I'd need to leave the country and return again, it works out cheaper for me to have got the elite. I dont have enough money for investment visa, its the only visa I'm capable of getting here (or...