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This table (Translation Table 1 SP.xlsx) was showing the method how they calculated the number that I had to pay. They used this table as a tool to explain to me why the number increases exponentially when I had asked them how they calculate the amount of money I need to pay. I got this table and the way to calculate the number some time in December 2014. And, it was long after the fact that I’ve been paying them -a thousand here, two thousands there- for years every single month since 2011. However, I first started keeping the record of payment in July 2014. When they requested more money from me in November 2014, I insisted that it was too much for me to pay within a short period of time. They confiscated my sister’s house and land …show more content…

Jesse helped me borrowed money from people. Finally, we paid the whole thing off plus processing fees (to retrieve the house and the land back) so that my sister and her family (her husband and two sons) got her house and land back. My sister and her husband told me they finally got the house and land back in around March/April 2015. They had to stay with her mother in law from December 2014 through April 2015. Dr. Jesse and I realized then that this episode may return back to us any second and we need legal helps. So, we obtained a Thai attorney who has experienced with the government’s demanding the high amount of money from the student studying abroad. To protect my family in Thailand and Dr. Jesse here in the USA, the attorney would represent me and go to the government court for me. He would request the judge to extend the time as long as the law could allow us to do. And, he would also ask to refigure the number/the amount of money needs to be paid. During filing the extension of the time, I would have time to breathe and didn’t have to keep paying every month as I’ve been doing for years starting some time in 2011. Then, to protect Dr. Jesse and parents, he would turn the case from the government against me to be the financial unit against me, which means the case would only affect me, but not my whole family name or my legal husband because the case would turn from the

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