hotandsticky

The police don't actually have the right to check your immigration status - that is the role of Immigration. But - I am not going to argue with them if asked (I never have been in 17 years) and I always carry a copy of my passport ID page plus last extension stamps.

I agree that it is necessary to be able to show ID........but that does not need to be a passport.

Ah.......the ignorance of youth.....

....or didn't want to see....

So, which law is that? Perhaps you can post the relevant section of the Civil & Commercial Code to confirm your comment. Let me give you a clue - you won't find it.

Do you have stats /evidence to back up that assertion?

I take your point.......but worse than 'usual'. Would YOU go on a Monday?

No explanation needed. The payment authority is standalone and anyone can pay.....agents like Key Visa often offer to use their card.

No. The card transaction is undertaken by HMPO. Just put your card details on the payment form - and sign it.

So bank notes have to have a current likeness? I suggest that you look at other countries banknotes.

Yes. If you are using an agent you will need to ask them to let you have it (until it is time for collection of the new passport - it is needed at that point)

I guess you are not too familiar with Royalty and it's history. I know many of your countrymen who would give their right arm for some of that history, tradition and quality.

British passports had been taking 13 weeks and VfS standard advice was 11 weeks.. It is pleasing to report that I have heard of 3 cases this week that were all back at Trendy within 6 weeks.

Best to be armed with a flask of coffee and sandwiches looking at the horrendous queues when I went past yesterday! ????

I agree with you....but I was replying to Liverpool Lou's comment.

We are not talking about dogs...... his comment was about a child. Read, comprehend before posting

Life is what you make it.........Oh, and there are no bars on the windows.

I do hope that you are not condoning overstay - or other illegal activities................................

....or paying an agent.

What a ridiculously stupid comment!

Is the Non-Imm 'O' 12 month, multiple entry visa, based on marriage still easily available?

That is also typical of everywhere I have traveled in Thailand in the last year or so.

You wouldn't pay anything like that for a small room in Pattaya. Your comparison should be with 5k pm. 7 years payback if you take into account annual maintenance costs

Thailand has very clear laws and very clear rules of intestacy. That said, ultimate power rests with a court - which is ultimately responsible for granting Probate. Wills and signatures DO matter, and will always matter. Anyone would be foolish to doubt the legal validity of leases and usufructs. My partner could sell 'our' land even with the existence of the usufruct in my favour....that is little different to someone in the west selling a house with a sitting tenant. Nobody in their right mind would buy 'our' land subject to my rights of occupation and to the 'fruits of the land'. (My partner calls the land 'ours' - I don't, it is hers).

That shouldn't be necessary as he says a TM30 has been submitted.