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Yah ill definitley go and get it locally before I fly, just to be safe. Thanks again for your help mate, appreciate it.

Yah, i was all over the place in the way I explained it. Its an extension of stay I have, not a visa. Someone else has explained it all. Cheers though :)

Thanks Sheryll... I got there eventually 🙂 Ill make sure to get get a re-entry before I go. Thanks!

Yup, will do. Thanks!

Thats smashing, thanks for sticking with it, ha! I genuinely didn't know that - so its technically not a visa I have. Its an extension. Christ, how on earth did I not know that? That makes everything so much easier though. The thought of spending an extra few days in London while i faff around at the Thai embassy. The sooner I get out of there, the better. Really appreciate the advice, thanks so much.

Im so sorry for being unlear with this. To be honest, my wife organizes everything each year, and I am hazy about what it is i actually have. It is definitely a non-immigrant 'O' visa with a 'USED' stamp on it. Each year, I visit the local immigration in Udon for an extension of stay based on that expired non-O visa.

Thanks for sticking with this - sorry if I am not being completely clear. I am British, but I live in Thailand. I got a non immigrant visa (now expired) in 2018. Every year since then I have extended it at my local immigration office in Udon. I always thought it was classed as a non immigrant O, but just looking at it now, I may be wrong. Im not entirely sure what it is, and I appreciate that makes me sound even more clueless than I already sound lol. Each year the wife and I visit the local immigration in Udon and get a 12 month extension. I know i am inviting a bunch of scorn here lol but i genuinely don't know what type of visa that is. I always refer to it as a marriage visa, but i am unsure what the official term is. Either way, you are saying I can simply turn up at Swampy, present both passports, and I am good to go - then i just visit local immigration in Udon, and they transfer over?

By the way, I have a non immigrant O visa that does not expire untill next May.

Thanks for that. I'm pleasantly surprised - you mean I don't have to visit the Thai Embassy in London at all? Just for clarity - I am obviously going to be in London anyway, on route to another country for a few weeks. While I am there my passports expiration date will cross over the 6 month line, so I need to get a new passport (same day premium service). Just saying that in case it sounds like I am going to London just to transfer my Thai visa lol. So I simply travel back to Thailand with my new and old passport, and immigration will transfer the old visa into the new at the airport? I googled that and was under the impression you couldn't do that?

Hi there. Can anyone tell me the turnaround time for transferring a non immigrant O visa into a renewed British passport at the Thai embassy in London? I will have my new passport, and my old expired passport with visa ready to present. Is same day possible? Also, do we still need to provide a letter from the British embassy? Apparently I also need to provide a certificate of residence for Thailand? Will I get away with simply showing my pink ID card? I need to apply for a renewal at British passport office in London, and then dash over to the Thai embassy - hopefully in under 24 hours, is that too ambitious? Thanks!

Oh Jog on, Doctor Phil. What are you my life coach? It was a perfectly simple question. "Is it reasonable to be disgruntled". That's all I wondered. I didn't ask for life lessons on acting mature and responsible.

Absolutely, everytime without fail, there is always one sarcastic cock, isn't there, on these forums.

Can you read? I said we had fallen out. We haven't spoke in years - I'm going to ring his bell and say hey mate, any chance of cutting down the tree that's spewing buckets of leaves on my drive, forcing me to climb up a ladder twice a week to clear the gutters? I'm not going to reach out to a poo yai baan. I don't even know why I said that. I'm not a busy body who goes around complaining to 'village heads'....I hadn't even thought that far ahead. I don't know how I'm going to sort it, to be honest. I only wanted to gauge a little opinion from my fellow man to grasp if it's something I SHOULD be bothered about in the first place. And for the record, it's hardly the end of the world. I can live with sweeping up the yard for an hour every day. Sod it. But there is the odd moment here and there when I think "is this fair??" The thought most often occurs to me when I am teetering in the top rung of a stepladder, scooping handfuls of leaves into a sodding bucket. That's the bit I'm struggling with. I can't decide if it's fair of me to be bothered by it. I just wondered what others thought. That's the whole purpose of this post.

I can't believe I have reached a point in life where I am writing a post about something like this. I think I may have crossed the line into grumpy old man territory at just 51 years of age. My next door neighbor, a fellow westerner chap, has a tree whose branches overhang my property (my front drive) No big deal. I don't care if a tree overhangs my property - I like trees and this is quite a nice tree, actually. This particular tree is about 10 meters high and 5 m wide. Around 1or 2m of the tree hangs over my property. Again, no big deal. The issue is, for the last year or so, it has been shedding leaves at a rate at which I can only describe as MENTAL. Our properties are not particularly big. They are just pretty average three-bedroom detached houses. While the tree is extraordinarily big for the size of the property, I believe it is the type of tree that needs pruning or clipping (whatever the term is) to stop it growing out of control. I might be wrong. The wife mentioned something about it needed to be clipped though. Anyway, it has always shed its leaves regardless of season. I don't care about a few leaves on my driveway. I would just wait a week or so untill every tile is covered and then sweep them up into a pile. The problem is that this has turned into a daily job, and I now spend about an hour every morning sweeping up tons of tiny little leaves. There are so many of the damn things you just can't ignore it - I mean they cover every tile and bit of concrete. I sweep them up. The next morning, every tile and bit of drive is covered. They also stain the tiles when wet. Obviously the stain comes off but it does require a little bit of scrubbing - which is just more work on top of the hours worth of sweeping you are doing every day. What I want to know is, do I have a right to complain about this? Am I being a grumpy old man by even being concerned about this? In an Ideal World we would have a friendly neighborly chat about it but the problem is we fell out a few years ago, although we used to get on quite well. He is a nice enough bloke actually, but he does harbor a few daft conspiracy theories about the world and I got tired of him constantly banging on about them every day. It sparked a disagreement one day which would evolve and fester over the years into something bigger, and as a result we staunchly do not speak to each other. So, if I do complain about this I suspect I'm going to have to take it to the poo yai baan or whatever his name is - not that that would make any difference. Thinking about it, I don't even know if we have a poo ya baan. Thinking about it further, would the poo yai baan even give a sh*t? Or maybe pop a letter through his door politely asking him to sort it out. I don't know... I haven't thought that far ahead yet, but whatever my course of action is, before I embark on it, I want to know if I am being unreasonable to do so, before doing so? I get so annoyed when I am sweeping them up every morning, but then a part of my brain goes "just chill out man, consider it exercise, live and let live". But then the other half of my brain goes "no, this is out of order, you are basically doing one hour worth of physical labor every day because of this guy - a guy who believes the royal family are our reptilian overlords". I guess the whole point of this long rambling post is to inquire, out of curiosity, which side of my brain I should side with?

It started 4 years ago with tendonitis in my left elbow, out of nowhere. For a few years, my left arm was completely out of action—I couldn't even lift a kettle to make tea. After 3 years, it started to improve, and now it is 80% better. Then, around a year ago, the same issue occurred in my right elbow. For the last 12 months, my right arm has been out of action. Squeezing my right hand to grip something or lifting something really hurts. I have tried specific exercises and bought this special twisty thing that's supposed to help. I wear tight bandages and straps. Nothing helps. And now, over the last few months, both shoulders have started hurting. If I stretch in either direction, it hurts. To give you an example, while driving the car earlier, I stretched onto the back seat to grab something with my left arm and let out an audible yelp. The pain radiates from my shoulders down both arms to the forearms. The closer to the shoulder, the more painful it is. The pain is worse in the morning. My question is, who on earth do I see about this? A regular doctor? A specialist of some sort? More importantly, what could it be? It seems strange that I would get tendon issues in both elbows, followed by shoulder issues. Is this some sort of strange disease, or have you guys heard of this kind of thing before? As a side note, I do have heart disease (coronary artery). It's not the main arteries, and it's only a low blockage. While I know there is no such thing as 'mild' heart disease, I definitely don't have a serious case of it. I'm worried that it could be related though. Shoulder/arm pain is a symptom, apparently, of heart failure. In both shoulders, though? And both elbows? Suggestions would be appreciated. I don't want to bounce from doctor to doctor—it would be great if I could get an idea of specialty. I live in Udon Thani, there are a few hospitals here, but none of them are known for having many specialists. For what it's worth, I am 51 years old. Thanks for taking the time to read this - any suggestions appreciated 🙂