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4 hours ago, billbenbob said:

I started reading the UK Boarder Agency guide to supporting documents again and am wondering if I have got things right it states you must complete an additional appendix depending on what application you are submitting so I have completed Appendix 2(VAF 4A. August 2018) which I assume is correct for a spouse visa ,but then it states you must attach this to the VAF 4A Personal Details form and submit with other documents When I look this form up VAF 4A it states for North Korea only .I just want some reassurance that I do not have to fill this form in it's confusing the way they word all this on there guide .I will be making another appointment with VFS on the 7 Th January just before my flight home to the UK.


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The form you need is here: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/733638/VAF4A-Appendix2-08-18.pdf

It's confusing the way the website is laid out, but this one is the one for everyone except North Korea. Don't ask me why they thought putting the North Korea one most prominently on that page was a good idea, because it's really bloody silly.

Hi all, thanks for this thread as it's been really informative. I'm coming to the end of getting everything ready for my wife's application but it's a complete logistical nightmare and is giving me real headaches.

So, assuming that I have all of the documents that we need (I have been using https://www.migrate.org.uk/spouse-visa-uk-2018/ which has been really useful) what are the next steps I should take?

I am currently here in the UK. My wife is in Thailand. She has her English Language test certificate, our translated marriage certificate, her TB certificate, our son's translated birth certificate. I will also have her print the completed application form from https://www.visa4uk.fco.gov.uk

My question is - everything else (financial docs, supporting letters, accommodation docs etc) are currently with me. I had been planning on sending them to her to take with her to her appointment with VFS, but reading here it looks like that's not needed, and all she'll need at that appointment is her passport and the application form? It would be much easier for me personally for her to send everything she has over to me so that I can check it's all correct, put it in a nice, ordered binder, and then send it to Sheffield myself. I really want to have this all straight in my mind before we submit this online application form and pay the stonking great fee.

Am I right in thinking that I won't need to send any of this over to her?

NokAir and Air Asia both do a Fly and Ride service from Nakhon Phanom to Don Muang. Picks you up at the riverfront or Ploy Palace Hotel.

Savannakhet is a quiet little town without much going on, but it's very laid back and I really do like the food there. The easy 1-year Non-O visas are the reason I go, but if you do go for a Visa, there are worse places to spend a couple of days. Avalon Residence is a little way out of town but is clean, cheap, and has very decent wifi.

You've spent 1300 of the past 1500 days in Australia. Obviously they don't think you're a genuine tourist. Frustrating, yes, but I can see where they're coming from. Isn't there a more permanent visa you could apply for, as you obviously spend so much time  in the country?

Just a quick update - she got the Visa. :)

22 hours ago, Tee2008 said:

I would be interested to learn the outcome of this. I'm dealing with something very similar at the moment, and there should be an appeal hearing in the UK next month.

I will let you know. I'm getting more and more nervous that she'll be denied and our family will be split up, but for now all we can do is hope and wait.

Thanks Bob, that's basically what we thought, and I'm glad she decided to tell the truth. It will be extremely unfortunate if she's denied the visa because they think she'll overstay - she's already facing a period of at least months apart from us while I get the necessary stuff together for her settlement visa, and if she can't come with us now it'll be that much longer. Fingers crossed!

My wife has just had a phone call regarding her UK visit visa application. This is the second one, and the first one she got fine without any hitches.

However, they asked a different question this time, and I'm wondering if circumstances are going to make things more difficult.

We have a 5 year old son, and would both like him to start school in the UK - so, for him and me, this will be a permanent move back. The plan is for her to come with us for a few months, then return here until I have enough tax returns to prove income to start the settlement visa process. 

The interviewer asked her about our son, and whether or not we planned for him to start school in England - she told him that yes, in the future we would like him to study there. Now I'm wondering if telling the truth was a good idea because they may think she'll overstay if she has to leave him behind. But, by the same token, lying about it may have put a spanner in the works for any future settlement visa application.

I'm mostly just posting to see if anyone else has been in a similar situation and how it panned out for you. The uncertainty is horrible, and we won't know the decision for another couple of weeks...

There are so many Chinese tourists that only a minority need to behave badly for this stereotype to perpetuate. I try not to be too prejudiced and to judge people on their own individual merits, but it's hard not to notice that when I see someone behaving loudly, uncouthly, or just plain rudely, more often than not they are Chinese. I've seen Chinese mothers let their child take a crap at the side of the road, in broad daylight, and then walk away and leave the mess there. At buffets they can be pushy, loud, and greedy. At tourist sites like temples they arrive in huge, loud groups, with no consideration for others around them, and will push and shove their way through. And just in general, they're loud and coarse and don't seem to have the same consideration for others that most people do.

As I said, I try in my life not to paint others with a broad brush, but it is hard not to notice these common traits that many Chinese people share.

7 hours ago, MaeJoMTB said:

You don't understand Thai society, not all Thai girls are sluts, not all Thai girls want to be sluts.

Simply having a boyfriend is considered being a slut? I feel sorry for your daughter.

It's quite easy to create a bootable USB stick that will install windows for you on a blank machine - the links KhunBENQ has given you will do the trick. If that looks too complicated, pretty much any of the IT stores in town will do it for you for a small fee, even JIB in Central. You'll just have to be sure that they actually install your legit copy and not whatever pirated version they normally use which will be bogged down with all sorts of crap you won't want or need. If you write down the serial number and give it to them, they should get the message and do it properly.

On 9/15/2017 at 5:10 PM, maeab101 said:

There is no cure though for dengue.

It's not a cure, it's a vaccine. Stops you from getting it in the first place.

11 minutes ago, hashmodha said:

I hope she can have access to  this thread.....can anyone  think how we can get this read by the two  ladies??

It's one thing to berate the guy for his selfish choices, it's quite another to try and interfere in his life. Let's just leave it at that, instead of starting some witchhunt that could ruin people's lives.

It was definitely a scammer. I asked him 'so Kasikorn are hiring Aussies now?', and he said 'Yeah, well they can't speak English, can they?' The guy didn't sound professional in the least, and was quite obviously fishing for info from the start.

I had a call out of the blue today, from a mobile phone number (not a typical call centre-looking number). It was an Australian bloke, who told me that he was with Kasikorn bank, and that someone with my name but an Iranian passport had tried to open an account in the city where I originally opened my own. He wanted to know was I Iranian (bloody obvious that I'm not from my name, which he knew) and if I wasn't, what was the country in my passport? I of course didn't give him any information, and soon hung up. What I'm wondering is how he knew A)my full name (including middle name)  the location of my bank branch and C) my phone number. Where could he have gotten this info from?

Your relationship with your wife isn't the same because you have a two year old child and that will tend to take the spark out of a relationship. It takes work, from both sides, to keep things going once kids arrive. And now, instead of supporting your wife and raising your child, you want to run off with the first other woman who looks at you. You need to take a long hard look at yourself, because the way you are behaving right now is pretty damn shameful.

I'm here in Savannakhet now on my 3rd trip getting this visa. Still as easy as anything - marriage certificate, copy of that, signed copies of wife's ID card and tabien Baan, copy of your passport photo page, two photos. As long as you have the marriage cert and wife's documents copies, no need to stress if you've forgotten anything else as the little shop opposite the consulate can do photos and copies. 

I turned up around 9.30 and there wasn't anybody else at the consulate at all. Savannakhet itself is still very sleepy and quite boring, but the wifi in Avalon Hotel is fast and the beer Lao is cheap :) 

The baguettes they make here are also to die for, they are amazing! All of the cafes and restaurants are happy to take Thai baht (notes) but you'll get some change in kip. 

She's a Podiatrist, but whenever I use that term people don't seem to know what it is, so I tend to just say Chiropodist. 

@perthperson Yes, she's registered with the HCPC. We went to see the health office here in Chiang Rai yesterday, and the manager there was very helpful. He did mention getting registered with the Ministry of Health, but hadn't ever heard of Chiropody or Podiatry and so couldn't give us any specific advice. There are some clinics already in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, so she'll call up a couple of them and see if they're looking for staff, or are willing to offer any advice.

@sisepuede419 I'm not sure why you consider my mother's profession to be that of a charlatan, are you even aware of what a Podiatrist/Chiropodist does? Or are you getting it mixed up with Chiropractor? 

My mother is 57 and a fully trained, accredited Chiropodist in the UK. I live here in Thailand - she is thinking about semi-retiring and coming to live here with us so as to spend more time with her Grandson, and she'd like to set up a clinic here. Does anyone have any insight into the legality of it? I can't see Chiropodist or anything like it on the list of banned jobs, so it should be fine as long as we go through the right channels and do it all legally with regards to work permit etc, shouldn't it? We are going to talk to the government health office today to see what they say, but I thought I'd ask here too to see if anyone has any insight or advice.

Internet speed doesn't really matter - you don't need high bandwidth to play online games at good speeds. What you do need is a good ping, and that's where the trouble comes in with Thai ISP's. Your opponents are likely to be in Europe or the US, and if that's the case your ping is going to be 200-250. Depending on the game, this can be tolerable or a horrible disadvantage. What makes it worse is that the international gateway out of Thailand gets clogged up in the evenings and weekends, and that will often add an EXTRA 200ms of latency to your connection outside of Thailand. This is most likely what's causing lag or rubberbanding issues, because I rarely see that happening at the 'standard' 200+ ping. Your only real option is to use a VPN (but I'm not sure how easy that is with a console) try a different ISP to see if their international routing is better, or find games that have servers located in or near Thailand and play those.

Works fine as long as your internet can handle the streaming. I used it for a month or so last year and never had any issues with it.

Yeah, I just want to play Breath of the Wild and then I'll be selling it. It's expensive to play one game, sure, but it's looking to be a classic and I should be able to recoup most of the costs once I'm done. I'm in Chiang Rai, but if I do find one cheap I'll happily sell it on to you once I'm done.