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I already have the 'O' Visa so shouldn't need to prove income. That's only if they are issuing a new visa isn't it?

It's just my first 90 day period up for renewal.

As far as I am aware you have to surrender your old passport and they add the remaining time to your new passport.

At least that's what I had to do when I renewed mine in Madrid. They then send your old passport back as cancelled.

You need to check with the Embassy about this the Visa issued in your old passport would still be valid and you then show both passports on leaving Thailand.

I'm pretty sure that's the way you'd go about it.

I obtained my Non Imm 'O' visa in Hull providing my wifes details and original marriage cert.

I am due for my 90 day at the end of December, and am not sure whether I can go to immigration or would have to do a Visa run.

My Visa looks no different to my other 2 'O' Visas which were issued on the basis of Visiting friends. Luckily we got married last year so it made keeping an 'O' visa easier.

Even though it just states non Imm 'O' visa Multiple entry in my Passport can I just report to immigration in Jomtien with my wife for a 90 day extension?

And if so what paperwork of hers/ours will I need?

I have been looking through the posts here but the Visa wording in my Passport makes me a little confused.

Thanks in advance.

Garry

Whilst on the road detour to Aranyaprathet as KhunBENQ rightly says.

There is a great market there too where you can buy anything for next to nothing.

Of all the things to steal...

The embarrassment factor alone would deter any normal person.

Gee, Dorothy, you aren't in Kansas anymore? Get real, is any place like it was? Thailand is too expensive and too many rip-offs? Go to the Philippines or Peru, or Mexico, or Egypt if you want to see rip-offs. Expensive, compared to where, the UK, the US, Germany, Japan? It's more expensive for the same quality of housing and food in the Philippines than here in Thailand. Sure there are cheaper places, but do they have all the amenities? I am not just talking wet and warm and fuzzy things. If it's so bad, don't get that return visa. Thailand would be much better without all us falangs--we are a major cause of price increases and the rip-offs. Get out of the tourist traps, where the vast majority of falangs hang and where the majority of expense and rip-offs occur, and see for yourself.

You hit the nail on the head there.

I choose to live in Pattaya and as such pay more than if we lived in the sticks.

However there is still a bar in the next street offering beer from 29 baht a bottle. Some places mainly after hi-so Thai's it's over 150 for a beer. You can still eat cheap here if thats what you want. Hotel rooms from about 500 Baht a night. You others tell me how this is rip off central?

If someone doesn't want to buy from a Hawker or pay and inflated taxi journey they don't have to. I would never hire a Jet Ski and advise any tourists I meet not to.

It's like anywhere there is an influx or tourists... A fool and their money WILL be parted no matter where they are in the world.

He's being questioned yet when a Farang jumps/falls the GF is always presumed innocent.

Congrats on the quick acceptances at the moment.

Looks like if we need another for my wife we apply about now.

Another TV member with a successful settlement visa application. I applied with my wife on October 21, passport available for collection on November 14. Three weeks, when I was expecting up to three months given that my wife is not Thai. Bit of a shock since we are not in any great hurry to relocate due to employment here.

Can anybody advise if their wife/partner is asked to show their TB certificate at the UK immigration. By the time we do depart my wife's TB certificate will have expired, will we need to get a new one does anbody know?

Thanks for all the good input from everybody here.

My wife had to show hers at Heathrow, they originally asked her to do an x-ray there but she was pregnant so the Certificate was accepted.

We'll see if she has to do one next August as her Cert will have definately expired by then.

RIP - Another unnecessary death due to riding too fast. And probably a lack of a helmet.

the happy hour chasers are going to hate having to pay over 70 baht a bottle for their daily fix.

Can't see any waters in any of these. Are the gov't censoring them?

7-11's, Tesco, Makro, Big C running low on many things in Pattaya....At least my house is dry so can't complain too much.

We have the RO water dispensers to get drinking water here & Lake Mabprachan is FULL.

Sukhumvit is PACKED with BKK car tags. Can't blame the folks for getting out of a city that is sinking. The floods are having a bit of a further reaching affect than those just under water.....Can't find eggs & such at the moment. Traffic was almost like Songkran traffic here yesterday.

Go to Friendship apparently their warehouse is not on a flood path and they are okay. I went in this morning and got some Milk and their shelves are full.

Makro and Tesco yesterday were both pretty bare and eggs can be found at the local markets and also at Western Wholesale Meat Company on Soi Chaiyapreuk 2 I spoke to Eric yesteray and he has plenty.

I've seen plenty of pictures of Pua Thai stickers on aid boxes medical and food. Donated be people in the towns less or not affected. But the communists in power have decided they are to take the credit for it.

Also pictures of boats with stickers saying only for Red Shirt supporters.

This is no way for a Democracy to run and I sadly can't see a true Thai Democracy in my lifetime. Greed and corruption is too rife nobody to my knowledge serves in a position of power here for the good of the people.

It's a sad state of affairs but I can see this rabble bringing Thailand to it's knees. And the Thai people will have no clue because they will dress it up as a success and sadly the poor masses will believe them as they pocket their 500 baht bribes.

At least they are safe here.

I feel for you and your neighbours Lopburi And my wife and I hope you can get out okay in one piece.

Even if you have to pay for the boat it's a small price to pay for your families health and safety.

It's an old Video but it's a scene that will be seen in the Communist enclaves that are Red Villages as a few brave people stand up to these thugs and their criminal paymasters.

So we are all going to starve in Pattaya lol. We noticed how busy the weekend was but shopping although busy was as normal for us. We did notice certain things like oranges are difficult to come by though.

They aren't going to open full force to allow Bankokians to Surf down Sukhumvit. I'm sure it will be a gradual opening and Bangkok will see a steady increase in water flow.

Until now they hae been channelling through Chachoengsao and my wifes family have been flooded out for the last 2 weeks.

These are poor people who need their land dry to earn a living. So at least the Gov't are trying something different now.

I am by no means a Thaksin fan or indeed a lefty red but this is one act by the Gov't I agree with.

Unless your wife has been naturalised as British, she's not got there yet, I'm afraid.

If she has a settlement visa or Further Leave to Remain then there is no actual limit on how long she can be outside the UK. However, when she applies for Indefinite Leave to Remain she will need to show she is a UK resident; which may be difficult to do if most of the last two years have been spent in Thailand!

If she has ILR, she can leave and enter the UK as often as she wishes. However, if she is out of the UK for a continuous period of two years or more then her ILR will lapse and the next time she wants to enter the UK she will need to obtain the appropriate visa. Even if her ILR has not lapsed, if it appeared to an Immigration Officer at her port of entry to the UK that she is not actually resident in the UK but using her ILR for visits then the IO could, and probably would, cancel her ILR; although she would be allowed in as a visitor on that occasion.

It is only once she has been naturalised as British and has a British passport that she can come and go as she pleases; the same as any other British citizen.

However, there is a residential qualification for citizenship. Spouses or partners of British citizens must have been physically present in the UK on the exact date three years prior to submitting their application and during the intervening three years they must have spent no more than 270 days out of the UK with no more than 90 days in the final year. For others, it is 5 years with a max of 450 days out of the UK.

Furthermore, applicants for naturalisation must have no time limit on their stay in the UK; i.e. ILR or the equivalent.

I know that wont last and we have to make some decisions in the future.

But for the moment we are enjoying the freedom :-)

Did anyone expect anything else from the Megalomaniac?

Sadly Thailand is about to enter one of it's darkest phases. My wife, son and I have a ticket booked to England next Aug if things degenerate too much we'll be going sooner.

hi malc maybe its good news , dont worry about it being quick , wife got txt today to say hers ready to pick up, she already been and they gave it to her straight away and its a YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS yahoooooooooo, 13 days we waited , but this was second app as first was refused cos wrong english test, i told the wife to put all the new evidence on top with the refusal letter and said maybe they will just look at the new papers save looking at all and maybe we get quick answer,, dont know if that was the case but happy that we can get on now yim,, good luck malc and hope your wife will be coming back with you,, fingers crossed for u mate,,

Congrats on the Visa phil sorry it's taken so long for me to notice been wrapped up with work and the new baby :-)

It makes you feel like writing a thank you letter to the Embassy.

Malc

I did write a thank you letter when we got ours. We are back in Thailand for a while now :-) We'll miss the worst of the winter.

And a Congrats to all the new guys who's wives have their Visa's too. The freedom to come and go as you please is a great feeling.

Steve Jobs - RIP Although I'm not an Apple man you were a visionary and an inspiration that with hard work and a think outside the box approach you can succeed.

If your looking for guinea pigs let me know. I am struggling to pick up Thai the traditional way. So would make an excellent case study.

They started prowling Pattaya with a scam to rip the bars off saying a girl they'd long timed robbed them.

My mate had a bar saw through one Nigerian sent him packing and was branded a racist by the pattaya PC brigade. Yes guys it does exist pc busy bodies in Pattaya, is nowhere sacred?