The code in your bank book usually shows that the funds have been brought in from abroad (foreign transaction) or failing that, show them the letter from your bank abroad who sent the funds or ask the bank to write a letter to confirm this.
This is exactly where things went wrong for me this year. I have always known about this requirment. Therfire the bank Of Bangkok for years wrote that the funds were transfered from a special account in America naming the bank. Out of the blue they refused to do it. No explanation no nothing except NO.
I changd banks and dicussed the problem but we will now see if they d really do it next year.
For whatever reason immigration didn't key on it. But I knew they could deny it. Man talk about pressure.
Yuo know if you stop and think about this is in fact a trememendous amount of money being brought into Thailand and spent in Thailand each year. Sure one means very little, but how many foriegners are doing this?
The word arrogant does cross my mind from time to time.
I had an inside track from a meeting and the person told me to hold onto my hat, he had mentioned the one month extension long before we started seeing it. I can assure you the Thai atttiude displased in the previous post was very accurate to what the source told me. Basically what they told not one embassy but many of them at a schedlued meeting. I didn't post anyhting at the time simply because I can't reveal the source.
You know the people we deal on a daily basis are really wonderful. However the government here can be very amazing not that long ago they could care less about patient agreements for medicine, now they are asking for tax break on products they export. Where are the ricopical tax breaks for imports here. No mention of that at all.
To be honest the government contact once a year is difficult enough, if had to do that on a regular basis I do beleive I would be finding me a new place to live.
So I can understand this approach to soem extent, they dont; want a burden on thie county, fair enough. But after a reasonable periods of time of investing money in the country supporting the loacl businesses yuo would think a little softer touch woud be reasoanble, not an even more hard line approach.
OOps!!!!!!!!!!!!! that sounded logical and fair, that's not going to happen
