sandyf

Website was ok yesterday and still ok today. https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/thailand/renew/adult

Highlights your profound ability to think you know what has posted, rather than bother to read what gets said. A trait displayed by previous self appointed gurus.

Garbage. I was here during the 2006 coup, only army I saw was on the slip roads to the new airport, not a shot fired. Lived here since middle of 2008 and yes there have been problems in Bangkok from time to time but to say the people took to the streets against the military is gross exageration. Only a percentage of the population were involved in the protests with gatherings in Bangkok, perhaps you think Bangkok is Thailand.

There is no need for a replacement seat, you could have it recovered. My wife had the drivers seat on a Nissan pickup done, think it was 900 baht. Did it while we waited and you could choose the fabric. It is a fairly common practice so I am sure if you shop around you could find somewhere.

I depends what you are doing. Late last year I had problems with 3 BB and kicked them into touch. I bough a sim router and the same sim but it hasn't been a great success. I use Kodi and had to limit the link size to less than 1GB or it would start buffering. Same if I stream for more than a couple of hours. The savings have now paid for the router and sim so I will be going back to an ISP shortly. Speedtests are not that reliable, the proof of the pudding is in the watching.

The value is irrelevant, nothing more than a starting point. Facial recognition was used in the government We Travel Together scheme, only a question of time before it encroaches into everything.

Another classic deliberate misinterpretation. It doesn't really matter what you or anyone else thinks, entering Thailand visa exempt with the intention of staying long term is a deliberate circumvention of established visa conventions. Why the Thai government allows it to continue is anyone's guess, but if done away with there would be less whinging and no rogue offices.

Good distortion. Now tell us how many countries allow visa status conversion of visa exempt entry. If people want things in Thailand to be as good as their nanny state, shouldn't that also apply to visa policy. Of course hypocrites want everything to suit their own point of view.

Indeed. The bulk of applications to visit family in Thailand will be based on marriage and the preference of the Thai authorities is that you visit on a SE visa and then extend that visa. It is in the DNA of IOs around the world to be suspicious of marital relationships. Visiting a child wouldn't be seen in the same way.

For some time after the roll out of the E-visa in the UK the ME option for Non O visiting family was greyed out and not available. When I did one last Aug I noticed the ME option had become active, and it still is.

Make your mind up. Everyday this forum is full of complaints about Thailands lack of international convention. Only hypocrites want it both ways.

You are missing the point. International convention is you enter a country with an appropriate visa, or are you trying to dispute that fact. If people try and bypass the recognised procedures in place at Thai embassies and consulates and run into problems, for whatever reason, they have no grounds for complaint.

Nothing moralistic about it. Only hypocrites want Thailand to conform to international convention, when it suits.

Wrong, it is called KYC.

Indeed. If people do not want to enter the country with an appropriate visa then they must accept the consequences of that decision rather than whinging about it. Isn't it time Thailand started to follow international convention.

My account was opened in the year 2000, visa exempt and with the address Room 235 Apex Hotel. In 2009 I had aquired a second account at the local branch and there was no question over anything when I registered for online banking. In 2014 I received the attached letterwhich was aimed at online banking and I had to travel to Pattaya to amend the account details, they wouldn't do it at the local branch. When I went to Pattaya nobody knew anything about it and I had to wait till the manager was free. The manager spoke very good English and had recently been to a seminar on the revised BOT regulations introduced earlier that year. She provided a bit of background and said it would probably take some years for the changes to be implemented generally, with an upgrade to the system they were implementing the changes immediately for existing online banking customers. At the time I was on ME Non O and that was considered an acceptable visa. Many on this forum dismissed it as banking propaganda but time has proven things are not as easy as they once were.

If you are planning to get a retirement visa it should have been done prior to travelling to Thailand. banks would be more co-operative with the correct type of visa. There is nothing new in the stance banks are taking. I have letter from 2014 that pointed out that a change in BOT regulations required foreigners to have a work permit or long term visa.

Siamburi do the Panda brand, a similar product from Egypt. Not quite as good as Laughing Cow but significantly cheaper at about 85 baht.

That is a misleading comment. Bank statements and a Balance Confirmation letter are two separate documents. At my bank the former can be obtained over the counter but the latter must be ordered and signed by a manager. Immigration will often require both.

Unless I am mistaken the thread is about a foreign national entering the UK so how can an anti foreigner culture be irrelevant? It was always difficult for foreign nationals and particularly Thai but became even more so when Theresa May brought in the "hostile environment" and the changes that followed. Brexit merely confirmed that a large percentage of the UK population were in favour of keeping foreigners out.

Obviously constructive coments are not a strong point.

That is the company that I use, and yes you can change your address on an HSBC account without any proof. I had been doing it for about 18 months when the bank somehow detected that the address I had been using from "ukpostbox", their prime street address service, was in fact a PO Box in disguise.

I did say it was discretionary. I am also a customer from the Midland days and it was over 10 years ago they picked up the fact the address I was using was a PO box in disguise. I was allowed to keep the account provided I kept my pensions going into the account and provided contact and bank account details in Thailand. They also allowed me to continue using the PO box address.

Why assume you know other peoples business?

FACTS fly in the face of your post.