drand10

Good luck to you. I married a Burmese lady but different situation..we met in Guam...a US territory.and she requested Political Assylum when she arrived in Guam. She eventually got the assylum, moved to the USA..and then we married in the USA. I assume she is in Thailand now? Why not have her goto the Australian Embassy and request to get married? Do they really need Burma's approval?  Or..is Political Assylum possible (Longer route..I think and more complicated).

My wife got political assylum granted on the Island of Guam. We met while she was enroute to the USA..and eventually got together in the USA. Different situation.

Does she need a passport from Burma to travel to Australia..is this the struggle you are having? I would assume that she's in Thailand illegally? IF she got political assylum up on the Thai/burma border...moves into a camp..she could then marry legally in Thailand (I think). Just ideas.

I can confirm that money will make anything happen in Yangon. Been there, done that. Just takes money. Find a burmese contact that has those contacts in Thailand..and make sure you know him, his family etc...and then make the deal. Make it clear that you know him..where he lives etc..and he better not rip you off. You then have some leverage. He's probably in Thailand illegally and if he doesn't come through for you..you do have some leverage/ability to get the Burmese guy into legal troubles. I think this is then safe to make a deal for a passport from Burma.

Best of luck!

I totally agree. Just ideas...American system is OK is some ways..but could certainly use some tweaking. Problem of course is that much that needs changing needs Congress to vote on..and of course Congress would never vote away their jobs. Quite a catch 22.

Another idea:
- With a certain # of signed partitions nation wide....Items can be brought to national Vote. Not sure if this is possible today or not in America.
I could never see Congress limiting their powers and/or limiting their terms in office. So I think there needs to be some checks & balances in place to allow the people to petition and force national votes on these sort of issues.

I also need that Congress should be able to offer solutions to a problem (Example - National Deficits)  and then give the bills to the Public/People to vote on during national elections. Why? Because I think both parties know that we need to take drastic measures to fix USA's problems..but no politician wants to be the bearer of bad news to the people. So often, National Referendum Votes give the politicians "Cover" and allow the people to vote their for the solutions.

Of course..this would be less necessary if the politician didn't have to worry about re-election. He'd simply be able to vote the way he knows he needs to vote for the people. Re-election can have such a negative influence in the world of politics.

Suggestions to the American form of Gov't that the Thai Gov't should consider:

- Limit Congress terms in Gov't to (1) Term:
This takes the career politicians out of politics. You only want people in Congress that truly want to spend their full term sincerely serving their people. Once they need to run for re-election, special interests and the need to raise money comes into play. 1/2 way through their term and they are already playing partisan politics and spending their time raising money.

- All spending must be paid for as determined by an independent accounting body (In the USA, we have an independent Govt' authority that does the accounting).

- Ruling party in Congress should NOT have the only voice as to which bills are considered in congress. This allows both the majority and minority parties to be part of concress and lesses the partisanship. Maybe divide the bills that come to vote based on party percentages in Congress?  Something like this.

I'm sure there are lots more to this..but these these are just a few pitfalls of the American System. No system is perfect..but why not learn for others to bring a more perfect union.  Good Luck!

Hmm...quite the democratic nation this is. Just walk down the street and search and do drug testing on the spot. All for cleaning up the drugs..but not this way.