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Thanks!!

I have recently got a new passport and used an agent to get the stamps transferred. You may wonder why I didn't go to Jomtien Im. myself but this is because illness prevents me getting around easily. Anyway, I thought that transferring the stamps would close the old passport and allow me to update the new one online. The new pp. came back with a receipt showing an opening date of Oct.24th. with a notify again date of 21st. Jan. Today I received an email to notify "STAYING LONGER THAN 90 DAYS" in the old pp. Do I just ignore this request for the old pp.? and use the new dates for my new pp.?

I am 78 years old! It makes sense what you are saying! Until this Bangkok bank and the Chinese reared it's ugly head I was quite content to go along with using a visa agent, I didn't need the hassle of doing it myself! but suddenly the price started rising and I was told that I would have to travel ( rightly or wrongly ) to Bangkok to open another bank acc. I decided that it might be better for me to try to get back to doing it myself! It's bad enough that I have to put up with riding in a car for 1 1/2 hrs. each way when I go to see my doctor but the thought of riding all that way on a bus was quite frightening! Anyway, that and the fact that when I was refused an extension 5 years ago was the deciding factor! 5 years ago I had been extending my visa every year for about 14 years without a problem! ( money in bank + pension letter from UK embassy )Then there is a problem even though I was doing it exactly the same way! There you have it! It as taken me a couple of years to build my pot up to 800k baht and for my pension to pay me more than the 65k baht each month. So what you are saying is that right now my bank statement will show that 12 months ago my pensions were paying me more than 65k baht each month but I did NOT have 800k baht in the acc. to cover the money in bank scenario!

I was thinking that the 12 months of pension would be the same as money in bank. I used to use Wise when my 2 pensions were sent to my UK bank acc. and then send money over here when needed. When I was diagnosed with PD I decided to have my pensions sent directly to my Thai bank acc. in case I was unable to use Wise or even use the computer! As it has turned out my condition is not as bad as first thought! So from Oct. 2024 my pensions have been paid directly into my BB acc. each month ( over 65k each month.) + most of my money from my UK bank acc. which I drained to a sum that would just keep it open. In that time my BB acc. has never been below 400k baht. I didn't think that my bank acc. needed to be 800k baht when using the pension method! I may be getting it wrong now, I'm thinking that I did meet the requirements from Oct 2024 to Nov. 2025 when my extension is due. I will accept your better knowledge of the charade! Thanks for your attention!

Do any of you have this problem with your government pension sent from DWP ?? My payments from DWP to my BB acc. are always shown as BTN in my bank-book! My company pension is always FTT.

You are correct that I cannot show 800k baht for 3 months after last years extension but I can show 12 months of my pension being sent to my account in Thailand, the only problem I see there is the point I made about it appearing as FTT and BTN The FTT is what is always alongside my company pension and BTN along with my DWP pension. Maybe it would appear differently on a bank statement? Unless someone can tell me differently it looks like I will have to go along with BrandonJT and wait until next year. Just one other thing that I hope will not confuse this is that I have done my 90day almost always online. Once when I forgot I used the agent to pay my fine at Jomtien. I appreciate the help you have given me I hope that in 12 months things work out a little better!

The immigration office I use is Jomtien and always has been since it was moved from Pattaya soi 8. I never mentioned Insurance! The visa agent is located on Neun plab wan. My bank statement ( or at least my bank book ) for last 12 months will not show anything below 400k baht but it will show the 800k baht that was put in by the visa agent. Leaving the country is not very feasable as I have been diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. If I need to go anywhere I pay for someone to drive, eg. when I see my doctor in Bangkok. I can show 12 months of pension but in my pay-in book ( Bangkok bank ) it shows payments as BTN and FTT. I have a P60 from my company pension but as yet have not received similar from DWP Please let me know if you require any more information as I really would like to get this sorted. Thanks.

Sorry if this has been brought up before but I don't get on this site as much as I used to and my age is catching up with me! I've lived in Thailand for the past 22 years and for many of those years I did all the paperwork for my extension. The first year after the UK embassy stopped issuing pension letters I was still able to extend my visa even though I had to pay an extra 3k baht. But the next year I was refused and told to go see a visa agent. I didn't get an explanation but it could have been because my money hadn't been in the bank long enough. I knew it wasn't any use arguing with the lady in charge so I went to a visa agent and I've been doing my extension the same way since ( 4 years ) I have now been able to salt away the 800k baht needed and also my pension is well over the 65k baht per month but what I want to know is can I gather all my paperwork and go along to Immigration and once again extend my visa and only pay 1.9k baht. I also need to know if I require a TM 30 as I've never needed one while with the visa agent and I haven't been out of the country in the last 3 years. Thanks for any help!!

I normally do my 90 day online. At the time of my last 90 day I had been sick and forgot about it! I used a visa agency to get my 90 day and paid 2000 baht fine. I got my 90 day which is valid until the 15th. of this month. Yesterday I applied online for my next 90 day but the application is still pending and it seems to have been cancelled with a red cross. What should I do?

I'm afraid I don't have the tools either but thanks for the offer!

Looking for someone who can repair a dining chair? The way the wood as been made up to make this chair is by joining strips together then cutting at an angle making a clean break across the leg at an angle! I'm hoping to find someone in the Maprachan or Soi Siam CC area. Thanks

I'd like to ask you posters how you can answer a question without reading it in the first place? My original question was about repairing or replacing a multiport valve that has a crack in it. Most of you have told me to replace the sand in the sand filter!! The mind boggles!!

I thought I made it clear in my first post that there is a "crack" in the side of the multi port valve which is now leaking!

It seems the body of my pool spider has a crack and is leaking! Not much now but when I do backwash it drips much more. I don't know how it became cracked but it is 21 years old! What I want to know is a. Can it be repaired or b. How much will a new one cost and I do appreciate that some are bigger than others so a ball park figure would help. Just so you all know what a spider is, here is a Google pic. of one similar:- Mine does not have the Hayward name but looks very much like this one. The crack is on the side! Thanks!

Looks like you've got more kit than the average contractor has!!