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For subsequent applications you don't need to manually fill in all your details. Just type passport number and nationality and then click the looking glass icon. All the TM47 fields will then be completed for you.

Try this one instead: https://tm47.immigration.go.th/tm47/#/login

Not my experience - usually takes at least two weeks. Mind you, our local postal service is terrible! Going in the other direction, you might get a 5-day delivery time if you use EMS, which is expensive. Registered airmail is a crap shoot - can be as fast as EMS if you get lucky but often seems to get stuck at Suvarnabhumi, waiting for the appropriate mail container to fill up. 2 weeks seems more typical. This from Thailand Post:

Just do it online. Anything that requires snail mail from UK to Thailand, or vice versa, seems very slow and unreliable. A recent letter from my UK bank took over six weeks to reach me! Even using registered mail to UK seems not totally reliable. I sent a registered letter to IPC at the beginning of March - never appeared on the Royal Mail tracker, even though it was actually delivered. Unfortunately, when dealing with gov.uk, you often seem to get the choice between phoning them - and getting put on hold for ages - or using snail mail and waiting a few weeks for a response. Why they cannot set up a secure electronic mail system just defeats me. We are in the 21st Century after all!

Maybe 500 is the top of the calibrated range so anything higher just tops out at that value?

Well, you know what they say - 'If it isn't broken, don't fix it.' It wasn't, but they did and now it is!

Here's a useful table:

This may not be helpful but... My banking app - TTB Touch - allows me to scan the QR code on my PEA bill and pay that way. Do you have BBL app and does that offer the same facility?

Does it maybe work with a UK mobile number, as provided by GiffGaff? That might also help with receiving an OTP via SMS.

I certainly hope so as it would make a bit of a nonsense of having an international account in that case. I just hope that they don't start to demand some silly amount of deposit to keep the account open. At present, it only requires the account to have a two-month average of at least 2k GBP but there is a monthly fee of 40 GBP when the balance is that low. If I transfer my current on-shore account and have my pensions paid into that account there will be a substantial amount in there - but I doubt if maintaining the account will be free.

If a UK passport be very careful as the UK passport office will be on strike for several weeks so the chances of replacing a damaged passport are slim to none!

I think that this is not a problem so long as they don't staple the data pages. However, your passport will rapidly get a bit ragged anyway if a lot of staples are added and then removed. Since we have had on-line 90-day reports this has been less of a problem. I always used to ask the IO to not use a staple to attach the latest 90-day receipt to the passport - sometimes worked! I keep my passport in a cover anyway - this has pockets so I keep TM6, TM30 and 90-day receipts in those.

Same here. I've had Barclays current and savings accounts for 60 years and both will be closed at the end of August. I'm currently trying to find out if they will let me keep my IoM international account - if so, I shall probably use this for pension payments and transfers to one of my Thai accounts. This is not ideal though as the international accounts is not cheap to run. I may have to think about opening a Wise multi-currency account - with the associated problems of proving international transfers to keep Immigration happy.

Jomtien still have their cataract surgery package running. https://www.jomtienhospital.com/en/phacoemulsification.html This is the procedure that I had done on both my eyes, just about a year ago now. Single vision intra-ocular replacement lenses so I need glasses for close work. Not a problem for me - been wearing glasses for a very long time anyway. The cost was indeed 39,000 Baht per eye with with very little in the way of extra payments. I was delighted by the results.

Try using Brave with the Dark Reader extension.

It may be that you have degradation of the lens capsules. This can happen some time after the lenses have been replaced - months, years, never. There is a laser treatment for this - opens up a hole in the capsule. Quick and easy procedure - or so I'm told. On many websites I prefer to use dark mode anyway - just easier on the eyes. Anyway, better stop going off topic as we are supposed to be talking about the 90-day Immigration app.

I used to have this problem with captchas and text - had to resort to 'dark mode' most of the time - but since getting my cataracts sorted out things are a lot better. i recommend that you get your eyes checked.

We'll see what happens with my IoM account. The letter that I received from Barclays specifically stated that on-shore accounts had to be closed for non-residents but that other services were not affected. Of course, this doesn't mean that the situation will stay that way. I'm trying to get my pension payments paid into my IoM account, effective 01 April. If this succeeds then I will transfer my existing funds to that account and then close my on-shore current and savings accounts. If it doesn't work then I'll have to look at Wise, I suppose, but I am reluctant to use them as many people - on this forum - have reported problems with getting payments recognized as international transfers. Seems to depend on which Thai bank you use - some seem better than others but none seem 100% reliable, resulting in the need for a paper chase. I can do without that!

My international account is with Barclays Isle of Man. I am surprised that Barclays Jersey have given you the elbow. After all, what is the point in having an international account if you have to be resident in the UK? Makes no sense.

The problem seems to arise when the intermediary bank that Wise pays into registers the payment as local, rather than international. This is unacceptable to Immigration so the payee gets involved in a paper chase, trying to prove that the payments were international. This may not be a problem with all banks but it certainly does happen. Many reports of difficulties have been reported on this forum. Which bank do you use? I am with TTB - used to be TMB until they merged with Thanachart. Not the best but all I could get at the time (2004) as others that I tried wanted a work permit and as a retiree I didn't have one, of course!!

I took a look on the First Direct website - clearly say UK residents only so maybe not possible to do any longer.

It becomes an issue when the documents take two months to get to me. This is partially caused by the postal service in my area being absolutely appalling. We see the postie maybe once a month, if we are lucky, and items arrive that are often months old. OK, in the current case I should have plenty of time to return the documents BUT I have known registered mail to the UK to take several weeks - usually gets stuck in the Heathrow Langley sorting office. EMS at least ensures that the item gets on the first available flight out of Suvarnabhumi, whereas registered mail can wait around for a while, until the mail container is sufficiently full to warrant dispatch. Registered mail is not guaranteed to be any faster than unregistered - but at least you can track it.

I cant' see UK Gov ever being so logical and sensible. Bureaucracy rules!!

No idea. I've never really considered Wise - seems to give problems with proving that transfers are international.

Interesting - but is it possible to do this without being a UK resident?