lukamar

Your wife can get her new chipped ID card at the Amphoe in Phayao, takes about 15 minutes. For the passport you will have to go to Chiang Mai but sometimes they have a mobile passport office in Chiang Rai etc.

Land ownership for her is not a problem and neither is dual citizenship.  If traveling on both passports make sure you don't get mixed up if you went in on a Thai go out on a Thai, or visa versa, if you present your US first and you went in on a Thai you are instantly an illegal and can be arrested even as a Thai.  This has happened a few times.

We haven't had a problem not showing both to the airline we always fly into Korea so maybe that's regional or country oriented.  On arrival we normally get put into the Thai lineup even if we are traveling on a Canadian Passport for a short stay, no one in immigration seems to care at all.

klikster, on 2010-06-26 10:12:07, said:

The problem with that option is a worm or Trojan can be created to modify the autorun.inf file thus allowing the unwanted action the next time it is installed in a port.  You may however be able to password protect the autorun.inf file, depending on the operating system used, making it harder to overwrite and thus giving a bit more protection.

"My plan is to build a house and maybe start a small pig farm"

Before you spend a lot of money you need to be aware that some jobs are not allowed under Thai law.  I'm defiantly not an expert on this, so you would be well advised to seek competent legal advice.  

There are 39 jobs that are not allowed under The Foreign Business Act and restricted occupations. Work in agriculture, animal breeding, forestry, fishery or general farm supervision is one of them.  In any event as a foreigner you would need a work permit to do anything.  Normally foreign people are turned into immigration by their Thai competitors, so be warned.  Having said that in the end it's up to you, lots of people run businesses without work permits, I know a guy in Korat who runs a goat farm, but they do run the risk of problems.  BTW, you are also too young to get a retirement visa, retired or not.

I use Malwarebytes and it's registered plus Avast.  I've also used AVG Free and Avira.  Had good luck with all of them.  I'm also giving Microsoft Windows One Care a go, it's online and also free also available in many languages including Thai.  http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/center/howsafe.htm   I've just changed to Win7 64 bit so some of the scanners are not all that compatible with Win7 or 64 bit, as they scan in 32 bit mode.

Also run Spybot Search and Destroy in Resident mode.