Kayahammer

I am applying for permanent residency here in Thailand. I obtained my UK police certificate, then called the British embassy to get it certified (they wouldn't do it) so the other option is Thai Consulate in home country (UK), which means I have to get it legalised by the FCO first. To save time I am attempting to get the FCO to forward it to the Thai Consulate in London to be legalised there also, before requesting them to return it to me in Thailand.

Also the ACRO police certificate needs to be notarized if it has not been signed by someone from that authority. There is a signature on the bottom, after 'Checked by', but no printed name accompanies this. Does that count as signed by someone from that authority? I have emailed them regarding this but I get standardized emails in return not answering my question.

Has anyone had any experience with this for permanent residency purposes? And is there any other option apart from sending the police certificate back to the UK and it potentially getting lost somewhere in the pipeline? 

Thanks in advance for helpful replies

A completely useless document that serves no other purpose except to confirm your address.

It's not useless

id ride it out, enjoy it while it lasts.

Bit like the marriage then : )

The quality of teachers is not the issue - it's the entire educational system. I recently wrote about how a fellow teacher (we work in Southeast Asia's largest private school system) had to pass a student who had put not ONE viable mark on his final exam; he couldn't even write his name. This student is 12 years old and has had years of English lessons, he's just a drooling idiot with rich parents, and we have to pass him anyway. Until honest reporting is accepted, the Thai leaders will just keep their heads in the sand and blame it on the lack of quality teachers.

maybe the kid is special needs and would benefit from compassion and understanding. Maybe...

I've tried both.

Stand alone really was stand alone - surrounded by rice fields. Pros - peace and quiet, do what i want, no neighbours. Cons - cobras and other snakes, scorpions, wife scared to death after watching Texas chainsaw massacre.

Moo Bahn - security, neighbours are quiet (luckily), swimming pool, help during the floods, wife has neighbours to chat to over the fence, daughter can play in the garden without snake fear.

I used to get cobras where I used to live. They only bite as a form of defense, so no doubt felt the dogs were a threat.

Very difficult to stop them coming. If you have other pets, or rats, the smell will attract them. Also a water feature is an attraction to frogs, which can be an attraction for snakes.

Lemon skins can help but whatever you do you'll get them.

The two sign thing is what I find a bit deceitful. They post an English sign with the farang price but not the Thai price. Then the Thai sign with both. It is almost like saying that they think the Thai will play along with the game. I guess they know it is wrong so they need to hide.

Why would they put a sign in English up for foreigners? Because English is the international language?

Why would they put a sign in Thai up for Thais? Because Thai is the local language?

Nothing deceitful my friend. Just common sense.

Had it twice. Painful, but over in about a week.

In a country where time, punctuality matters little

I received this privacy check (in Thailand) earlier this week. Facebook wanted to know my desired privacy level and gave three options.

It couldn't be simpler. Took no more than 10 seconds to finalise.

As I don't have a farcebook account, that's 10 seconds of my life I won't be wasting.

You just preferred to waste it writing that pointless reply : )

Harming (for life) innocent children is the worst, most cowardly crime of all.

Torture and kill all found guilty.

We need a Ladyboy crackdown.

We need an American crackdown

... and still there are people on here who suggest that there is nothing wrong with "soft" drug usage.

 

Such soft drugs usage can easily lead addicts to more potent alternatives, ultimately ending in incidents like this.

 

I firmly believe that all "recreational" drugs, and more dangerous alternatives should remain banned and pushers jailed for long periods for supplying such dangerous substances...!

I hope you group alcohol in that statement. Worst drug for violence of the lot.

And before making such sweeping statements, you should do some research. Not all illegal 'drugs' are the same, and should not be treated so.

Get a Rolf Harris DVD and do some painting with him.

You mean Rolf Harris the convicted pedophile?

 It seems to me, we Americans know much more about raising children. Enough..

As with everything. You Americans know best and would not consider another way other than what you know.

You lot are fed that Americans are the best, leaders of the free world etc. And you gobble it up.

I have nothing against Americans, but your unwavering, usually baseless opinions tend to grate.

Thailand is a much more family orientated culture than yours. You only have to look at the divorce and single parent stats to see that.

I hope your post was tongue in cheek, but i doubt it as Americans and irony seem to be chalk and cheese.

Another fine example of the Pattaya girls. So caring and loving. For a price or when it's convenient.

No sweeping generalizations or stereotyping then!

Have the majority of readers become more primitive?

News about groce violence like this seems to bring out the most medieval reactions of some readers. It's sad enough that a young girl has been mutilated and killed, let's not use this fact to express even more inhumane judgements just to vent your frustrations.

It is a natural biological and neurological reaction (and a common way of dealing wit people like this until very recently in our history as the animal we call homosapian). We are animals, albeit with a higher consciousness than most.

There is nothing too violent for this scum. He should endure years of humiliating torture for the rest of his life. That is what the girl's family will be suffering.

If you don't agree then that's fine, but imagine if that was your sister/mother/girlfriend/daughter. I think you may change your opinion of what punishment fits the crime.

first the train incident and now this in the space of a few days - I feel sorry for the female population of Thailand with such frequent incidents of violence against them

Happens in every country in the world mate. not just Thai women.

Lock the offenders in a room with the victims family. Let them do what they want. killing the f'ers is allowable.

One year my mate sent a xmas parcel home. he had to write was it contained (standard procedure everywhere). When they saw he had included xmas cards in the parcel they made him take them out and send them separately.

He was livid and argued the point but they said they would not send it as is.

Strange

All my stuff throughout the years has arrived safely in Britain, or stuff sent from there has come through no problem though.

you group any non Thai as a farang, or just western looking types?

No matter the colour of skin or origin of birth, I am not getting involved in others' problems. It invariably leads to more problems down the line. So what if a falang is being ripped off or mugged off. They'll learn. My involvement would not help.

Dog eat dog world my friend

And while they are sorting Bangkok's streets out, how about running a single heavy-duty cable along each road and a junction box at each street, with it's own single 3 phase cable feeding a single phase to each building, instead of the hundreds of individual cables we have now.

Yep, that's the most important thing they are discussing.

Maybe you should be PM

Jerk!

(OP that is)

White noise from a large fan, setting the airconditioning to the noisiest level and wearing earplugs didn't help to reduce the noise polution at all.

Duh!

Thailand isn't for you. This is how most of asia works, not just Thailand.

Perhaps go to Jamaica for a few months, then come back to Thailand.

No thanks...I am not a fat, ugly middle aged western lady looking for the black mamba

You sound it with your whinging and moaning. She is just trying to please everyone at the same time. Fatdrunkandstupid sounds apt.

The posters who attempt humour (usually behind the guise of knowing it all). They usually appear in the first ten or so posts, consist of one sentence (usually followed by emoticons - the newspaper reading coffee drinking one, or the lying on the floor laughing one - you know the ones - ).

I love humour and comedy, but it is sadly lacking here.