KevWaters

They offer a short stay 6 month visa and 1 year long term visa for an extra 300.If a person can't stay longer than 6 out of 12 months why offer a year at a higher cost? That's what is confusing me.

The direct.gov.uk website doesn't mention a maximum amount of time per year, just per visit. It doesn't make it easier by omitting how long a person needs to stay away for before they return either, or where they need to go.

Argh.....all a big incoherent mess :-(

A long term visa for £300 seems to cover a year but with a maximum stay of 6 months per visit.

Think my partner can fly out and straight back to activate the second stay? If so, think she will need to fly all the way back home or just to a neighbouring Country?

Anyone got any experience of this? The Gov.UK website says nothing about it.

....is not possible.

I want my partner and 5 month old son to stay with me in England whilst I complete 12 months of teacher training (PGCE) but it seems that I will have to spend 6 months without them. This is the last thing I want as I do not want to miss my son's first steps or first words.

So, I need a way around this. How can I get my partner the right to stay with me during my time in England whilst I'm completing the PGCE training?

I have thought about registering her onto a LEVEL 6 course at college. Can anyone suggest a course that has minimal hours, is not expensive and is not too difficult for a none native speaker to complete? A catering course may be most ideal.

Oh, there was also a Christmas present worth 60 pound that never arrived here either. Didn't expect Amazon to be sending that unrecorded. Annoyed by it all.

Thanks for the reply.

I've got my interview on the 2nd and my fathers birth certificate still hasn't arrived with me from England. It looks like 2 out of 3 unrecorded letters have gone awol in the last 3 weeks. I'd reschedule my appointment but my hotel is none refundable. Hopefully they'll accept my application and let me forward the certificate on at a later date.

Never send or have letters sent to you by unrecorded post.

Cheers. Having done some more research it looks like I may use "TN Translation" in Bangkok as they charge 250 baht per document if I am getting 5 or more translated.

I have read info online that says I need all Thai documents translated so that will be 1) Childs Birth Cert 2) Partners Birth Cert 3) Partners change of first name letter 4) Partners change of surname letter 5) Tambien Baan (House book) for Son 6) Tambien Baan (House book) for Partner

That should cover it

I have only had the required documents translated and stamped by a translation company in Chiang Mai. I hope that will suffice(!).

I used the same company as my friend used recently in order to obtain visitor visas to the UK for his thai girlf and thai born son, he was successful with their applications.

If you check the gov.uk website it doesn't seem to make any mention of having the translated documents then stamped by your consulate to ensure they are 'acceptable'.....this is the first ive heard about this....

Rob, which translation company did you use in Chiang Mai and what was the charge per document or page ?

Did anyone here translate the documents themselves and were they accepted without a certified stamp? I ask as someone within the Embassy is translating the documents for me but can not stamp them as such. Maybe I will need to take them elsewhere and make payment to get a stamp.

I've read that the Thai Birth Certificate can be used in place of a British one if stamped at the consulate. Sure I've seen mention of them being needed for this application too, but I may well be confused with the spouse visa application, which is a lot more stringent. Anyhow, it's only 200 baht a stamp and I can send the docs to a friend to translate and stamp at the consulate so no probe there. Will get it done to make sure.

About the bank detaiks, I hope someone can also answer this. Will the transaction occurring in the UK incur any additional bank charges should we use our Thai account?

I have only had the required documents translated and stamped by a translation company in Chiang Mai. I hope that will suffice(!).

I used the same company as my friend used recently in order to obtain visitor visas to the UK for his thai girlf and thai born son, he was successful with their applications.

If you check the gov.uk website it doesn't seem to make any mention of having the translated documents then stamped by your consulate to ensure they are 'acceptable'.....this is the first ive heard about this....

Also when your submitting the payment form, my actual (cardholders) address (and bank) is in the UK, though obviously I have an address in Thailand.

- Im assuming ill need to put my UK address here. Any advice would be welcome...

Going to submit my son's UK Passport Application on Friday at the Trendy Building in Bangkok.

Whilst I am sure I have all the original documents, necessary photocopies and supporting translation required, can anyone please confirm if the fathers and mothers copied documents require counter-signing and date??

Cheers

Good question, I assume they should each sign and date their own colour copies....but let us wait for the answer.....

Rob. did you only get a stamp from the translator company? Or did you get the consulate to stamp the translations too for 200 baht to show that they are acceptable?

Reading all sorts of conflicting info online about that, but people (or at least 1 person so far) here seem to have done fine without the consulate stamp.

Going to submit my son's UK Passport Application on Friday at the Trendy Building in Bangkok.

Whilst I am sure I have all the original documents, necessary photocopies and supporting translation required, can anyone please confirm if the fathers and mothers copied documents require counter-signing and date??

Cheers

Good question, I assume they should each sign and date their own colour copies....but let us wait for the answer.....

Rob. did you only get a stamp from the translator company? Or did you get the consulate to stamp the translations too for 200 baht to show that they are acceptable?

Reading all sorts of conflicting info online about that, but people (or at least 1 person so far) here seem to have done fine without the consulate stamp.

Thanks, and you guys didn't need your docs stamping at the consulate beforehand either?

There are two types of stamp, one from the translator to show they are registered and another from consulate to show it's a proper accepted translation. Do we not need the latter?

How much was the translation and the stamp at trendy building? Did you get your address book translated? (Tambien baan). That's quite a surprise I thought it could only be stamped at the consulate. Cheers

and is it possible to get someone else to go to the consulate and get these docs stamped on my behalf?

Hey,

I have an appointment in two weeks at the Trendy Building to submit the passport application.

I have been told that I need to get documents stamped at the consulate in Bangkok for 200 baht per page.

Can someone confirm whether it is only the translated birth certificate (wife and son) and tambien bahn (house book) that I need to get stamped? And if this 200 fee covers the document or if there is in fact a stamp needed on every page?

Doesn't the extra 3,000 required only apply if the child is not a British Citizen?? So they actually earn enough to stay as the 18,000 threshold applies to them? Unless the girl is not her natural daughter.....

I can't see there would be a financial requirement for someone who has full right to live in the Uk.

Can anyone answer the question about how much you paid to get the visa to get your son over to England to apply there? £83 or £383?

In case you're still waiting, you've got it wrong. £83 is for a single visit. The £300 is for a multi-visit visa. (These are nominal prices - add the cushion to the prices to ensure HMG does not lose out while money changers get their cut.)

There is some bad news though. From the thread British citizenship basics, it seems that such a visa may be refused if the ECO discovers the child is British. 7by7's initial posts are not relevant to this problem, and you may need to skim through the first 10 posts and then reread from the beginning.

Thanks for that, the government website does not state anything other than there is an 83 pound application fee. I presume that a single visit can last anything up to 6 months, right? So the cost of bringing my partner to stay with me and our son in the UK for 6 months would be 83 pound, rather than 300+ ?

I read through the link and see that it would be best to get his passport over here. I was born after 1983 so as per the regulations, I need to provide my parents birth certificates and marriage certificate. It's a little awkward as we are not in close contact.

Can anyone here who was born after 1983 and therefore needed to submit the certificates from their parents advise me whether short certificates would suffice instead of long/standard ones? It taken me 2 weeks to get a response from the official site last time and I was looking to get the certificates sent over in good time for the Christmas break so I could head to Bangkok and get it done.

Hope someone can advise.

Cheers

This just allows the politicians easier access to their mia nois as their partners will be elsewhere

Maybe he knew too much about the previous Koh Tao matter

What will the bar girls and boys do now ??

Withdraw cash from their own bank's ATMs?

"...customers would be unable to withdraw cash through ATMs of different banks other than that specified in their ATM cards,"

Ha Ha...was thinking along the lines of Foreigners not being able to draw out cash to pay the boys/girls--midnight-2am.

It said midnight on 14th until 2am on 15th (26 hours) if using an ATM of a different kind to that of your card.

Where did it mention the times for ALL ATMs? May have missed it.

Here on planet earth in the Kingdom of Thailand there will be a nation wide shut down of ATMs for a period of two hours from midnight on 14th Friday to 2am on 15th Saturday = 2 hours.

Are you on another time system?

That would be midnight on the 15th until 2am on the 15th. 00.00 is a new day my friend.

What will the bar girls and boys do now ??

Withdraw cash from their own bank's ATMs?

"...customers would be unable to withdraw cash through ATMs of different banks other than that specified in their ATM cards,"

Ha Ha...was thinking along the lines of Foreigners not being able to draw out cash to pay the boys/girls--midnight-2am.

It said midnight on 14th until 2am on 15th (26 hours) if using an ATM of a different kind to that of your card.

Where did it mention the times for ALL ATMs? May have missed it.

What definitely surprised me the most when coming here was to learn that THai monks actually eat flesh(meat)and their excuse is that they cannnot refuse what people give them-what a cop out.No way should any Buddhist eat flesh-AHIMSA-non-violence.buddhas whole mission was to steer people away from eating flesh when there is so much non-vioplent food available.

Besides that what I was also surprised with was how clean the Thai people are.

Same here. I didn't think meat eating Buddhists existed before arrival. Still think it's bonkers.

My first thought on arrival was that there were fewer Buddhist statues than I had imagined. Was expecting huge Buddhist heads by the roads as I drived past ha

The friendliness of the people...when I first came here I was out in the "boonies" between 3 small villages......the people were curious but very friendly and respectful (something on a downhill trend in the US).......CM was about 40 minutes away with a lot of interesting options to offer but in a small package city-wise.....I was not convinced after the first visit & came back once again - and found it to be as before.....

I landed in the CM area by chance - there may be other areas as nice with as much to offer but have not found it yet.....

If I had initially been stuck in BKK without venturing out I might not have returned to Thailand - I don't need/want/enjoy/seek the pulse/drum beat of a big city.....

Nice story, I live in a small village and would not want to live in a city, but I do wish I was a bit closer to a city than what I am.

Be careful what you wish for as the closer you get to a tourist city the less friendly the people tend to be. I went from isaan to the north and found this to be true.

I don't believe that soy milk lends itself to a "maker" as there are several steps to the process.

Wrong.

Already established

Seems like a bit of a gamble. Good luck with whatever decision you make.

An employer may dismiss an employee for no reason and only has to give thirty days' notice, or notice pay in lieu thereof, as well as pay severance pay (as discussed above). An employee does not need to give any such notice.

This answered my main question before I even asked it, thanks !

Anyone know how long it would take to get the notice and severance pay should they not pay out? Hopefully not 2 - 3 years like someone suggested above for other forms of litigation.