thenewgoo

Thanks for your reply and interest. I have snipped the ruling (nothing personal) for you. In answer to your questions: Yes, this was the only reason for refusal. Our last visit was Christmas 2022 same visa type. She probably wouldn't qualify for a tourist stream having been a non-employed homemaker for the last 15 years. I wouldn't have booked the air tix if I knew they were going to randomly pull out the 'settled' clause. I didn't expect any issues. Thank you again.

My wife has been refused a visitor visa to Australia to visit my aging mother for Christmas. Her application was fine except, me, the sponsor has not been deemed to be a 'settled' Australian. In short, they deem anyone who has lived outside of Australia for more than 2 years as not a settled Australian and illegible to sponsor a family member. Having been in Thailand for a number of years as a contracted international school teacher, this was a shock given that we have used this visa route before a number of times without issue. Needless to say all this has caused emotional distress to my family, and the impending financial distress that is looming with flight refunds etc is turning all this into a nightmare. I am beginning to hate my country. My question is has anybody seen such a refusal? There must be thousands of Australian expats out there that like to visit with their Thai wife, who have been outside of Thailand more than 2 years.

Mi pet kup.

Reversed back over him! I have heard of this before but thought surely not - critically injured cost much more than funerals.

Stoners trying to rush things through?! Now I have heard everything.

How about getting neither and putting some money into the education sector?

They are related in a AI kinda way. Journalism at this level has never been easier!

I'm reading it as the women was basically run off the road by a pursing car. Tragic.

I wonder how this went? Maybe more than a puff involved?

What does this mean - various potential social risks!? Maybe blindfolding the kids on the school bus?

Prince was only 5 ft 2 ins. He could have been bigger.

Blame the app maybe, but ultimately a lack of transparency of the fare was the issue.

Sounds like Tassapon should have been consulted before the PM unveiled his plans.

This sounds like a slightly more interesting story.

Is it even legal to have a lion?

I had a similar experience. In the end, we agreed that if we weren't going to make a new lease, 3 months notice from either party was fair. That went on for years no problem, then she jacked the rent up in a new lease. We decided to leave, within 3 months, it was all good and amicable. We found another house. Her newly inflated rental went empty for 18 months and she ended up trying to sell it. Anyway, not sure what my point was but I hoped you liked my story. Oh yes, talk to her and work something out - she is within her rights and holds all the cards (and your deposit).

A squatter with a safety vest, who is an ACDC fan, and probably pretty good with a hoola-hoop.

Had a similar experience to those other posts. Air Asia has no customer service effectively - and the real people hiding behind their robots are equally useless. They don't care.

The only rationale of the 2 - 5pm ban seems to be kids are buying it during these times. Never really understood that - they can just wait to go out at 5pm like the rest of us. If shopkeepers/7-11 staff etc had the confrontation skills to request ID from minors and refuse sales appropriately, and, if penalties were applied to those selling it to minors - this ban wouldn't be required. This is the culture that exists in the west, but is not something culturally easy for Thais so it seems. Hence these peculiar rules apply.

I wonder how much the debt is? How much is it worth stabbing yourself in the stomach for?

Doesn't one offer kindness to benefit someone in need? At what point can kindness be taken advantage of?

Amazing what rain can do.

I hate it when I get tricked into getting a <deleted>.

Yep, left me and my young family stranded in KL and basically couldn't give a f##! Was my go-to airlines, now a very very last option.

Another blow to tourism.