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100% agree. massive crackdowns the last few months. Siam legal might be helpful in structuring from outside of thailand. i used to get tourism visas for 60 days outside of thailand + 30 days extension in TH, fly to kl, update another 60 days and repeat. 4x per year. new visa on arrivals you can...

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...

rut ro guys. Its fine if you're single, but not if you're a couple. -Skenners

nah, I'm keeping it Australia for ease of use until I'm fully ready to go offshore. I'm still employed there (for now) so its easier. I'm also not using ibkr and may go with tradeovate instead as I've heard good things and ibkr looks like its pulling bs against internationals. -Skenners

Hey, As far as im aware from what I've asked them, yes you can file taxes if you need to. But technically you dont as the Elite Visa is only a tourist visa, but in a special category of its own. Still a tourist visa though. You're allowed bank accounts and all the fun stuff of a resident BECAUSE...

not sure of the statement, i got an online account and its early on. my mailing address is in thailand, so if they send something, its coming here. the card is a printed card, not imprinted with the card details and lasts 3 years (and 3 months for some reason). 07/27. its microchipped and...