hotandsticky

I like the Nationwide gold card - no overseas transaction charges.

WISE is a UK based foreign exchange and financial technology company - and very good they are too. They are not a bank. I use them for currency transfers but I don't leave deposits with them. Interest rates don't really interest me. Be warned 'retaining' a UK bank account is becoming very similar to 'opening one' with some banks. The perceived additional regulatory requirements are cited as the reason for not opening accounts for non-residents........it is only a small step to take that approach to existing accounts where the account holder is non-resident.

I have lived in Thailand for 16 years. Of course I need a UK bank account so I can control when I choose to remit money to Thailand. Government investments and private dividends are better paid into a UK account. I have accounts with 4 different UK banks + WISE. I also have credit cards with available credit of £80k - that is a useful back up. If you have any income, or particularly assets, in the UK then it is sensible to retain at least one bank account. Preferably with a UK address.

Oh please! I am sure that you have heard of Isaan culinary practices..

A fraction the Thaksinista 10,000 Baht for votes bribe.

Thaksin was no fan of Farangs.

There is a pdf version on that link.

https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/

I have done over 14 visas for my missus........very occasionally the arrival date is important (I always book flights before applying for the visa) and you are, of course, allowed to apply up to 3 months before the intended arrival date. Those going to the UK for the full 180 days might lose out if a random earlier start date was used. The intended arrival date (and exit date) is included in the application and I am sure most ECOs would use that date; I repeat the requested start date in my sponsor letter. On one occasion the expiry date was important because I wanted to make a summer visit and a Christmas visit with the same visa.

The validity date on a standard visitor visa is 6 months from the issue date (or intended date of arrival if that was requested). The holder can stay for 180 days and the visa is multiple entry.

How skillful. Is she Thai?

No beach? Who would have thought it?........

"Norbert"?

Do you have a link for that? My missus was told that she could not apply whilst she was in the UK on a standard visit visa.

Yes. No point in coming onto an internet forum to ask advice..........that wouldn't do.

Thank goodness we are all different. I detest banal village life - and I detest tourist know-it-alls. I think that I could survive the tourist longer than I could survive village life.

Yes please. I have registered but the system keeps quoting my previous address..................a look through those guidelines may shoe me where I went wrong.

Absolutely. But, past performance still remains the best indicator of what is likely happen in the future.

The Thai people would do sweet FA like they have done in the past. A bit of Thaksin funded insurrection maybe. You may wish for a pitch-fork uprising, but it isn't going to happen.

Oh, I don't know.....they always seem to be there when I don't want to see them.

Would you mind editing that post - you seem to have erroneously attributed the 'noise' comment to me,

You are actually applying to extend your permission to stay, that was originally granted under your original visa. If that original visa was a Non-Immigrant 'O-A' visa then insurance is required. I suspect that your permission is based on a Non-'O'. so the answer is Diddly-squat.

I think that he got out of bed on the wrong side this morning......

I understand that copies of such documents can be obtained from ANY amphur office.

21 hours ago, snoop1130 said: According to Thavisin, both individuals and the country suffer losses: individuals are unable to contribute their skills and expertise, while the country experiences a shortage of personnel capable of promoting economic growth and making constructive contributions. Conscription, he contended, results in a domestic brain drain, and the military should devise strategies to increase voluntary enlistment to render the process non-compulsory ... AND, they don't exactly fight anybody.