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You need to be a bit more careful over what they are asking. It is not like going to the airport, as far as they are concerned the 6 months would from when the visa could be used by, as visas are normally to be used within 3 months you would need about 9 months on passport. Unlike checking in, your intended date of travel could easily change. A hard lesson but mistakes like this are easily made. One time without thinking I booked to come here at short notice and got denied boarding with 5 and a half months on passport. Talked to a supervisor who phoned Thailand and was allowed to board on sight of a return ticket. What was even worse I had taken Easyjet to Amsterdam to catch China Airlines flight which would have made denial of boarding even more inconvenient. If you are planning to stay any length of time you could have a bit of a problem. Depending on where you stay there is a good chance you could get an appointment at the passport office almost straight away and delivery is guaranteed within 7 days, a couple of weeks ago mine took 5 days. I then applied for Non O visa which took 48 hours. I appreciate it is tight on your intended travel but the one advantage is the visa comes by email and you can be anywhere to receive it. Good luck.

Got it in one.

You can only speak for yourself. I had no passport translation, only one photo taken at time, no suit or tie. Blue book doesn't come into it for a new build. No witnesses or any fee, other than a few baht photocopy. One thing I have never heard anyone else mention, I had to wait 6 weeks while they did a police check.

I am registered at the hospitals with mine. Got the yellow book in 2010, pink card came a few years later and I changed hospital registrations. One hospital I use takes your passport and passes it around with the docs. Using the ID card it becomes same as a Thai, they put it in a plastic sleeve and staple it to the docs, much better arrangement. When the pandemic came along the hospital where I see the cardiologist put me on Mor Phrom, I didn't have to do anything. I was vaccinated about 9am the day the vaccine rollout started while most others were complaining that they were being left out of it. Go for it, you never know what is round the corner.

None so blind as those that don't want to see.

There is another thread running on that issue.

The application is 4 stages, Eligibility, Applicant details, Travel information and Supporting documents. You haven't said from/to where the problem occurred. I assume from the fact you said you can see ALL aplication details you cannot get past the 4th stage, the supporting documents. One reason the system will not move past this point is if there has not been an upload for every question, or that uploads do not meet requirements, should be JPEG for stages 1/2 and JPEG/PDF for stage 4, all uploads are limited to 3MB. Would be worth checking through your responses again, apart from the first 2 questions they can all be edited.

Just in case you are not already aware, the same day service is currently suspended, has been for a few months now. You may well have enough time to use the standard service but if not you will need to make an appointment for the one week service which will get you the new passport in 7 days. However the old passport can be 10 - 14 days later, although mine did come a few days after the new one.

You will find it on the upper R/H side of page 4.

Yes, pages 1 & 2 (passport & photo) should be JPEG normally used for digital images. JPG and JPEG are in fact the same, former is a left over from when file extensions were limited to 3 letters. For page 4(supporting documents) PDF can be used. If you need to submit more than one document for a question it is much easier to combine in PDF than JPEG. You can only upload one document per question.

You are perfectly free to believe that the VAT paid by professional scroungers comes close to a lifetime of NI and income tax, plus VAT. Social security benefits come from income tax so if you have never paid income tax they are effectively free.

Your reference to "These people" says a lot about the value of your comment.

It is free to those that never pay, others have to pay for them.

Why do you think you need to be clearer. You really think that after nearly 20 years I do not know how to read google emails, that is even worse than the guy that tried to tell me I need to set it up properly. When Gmail.com started out the domain name was already in use in UK and Germany so a different domain name had to be used until they resolved the issue. Now both domain names point to the same mailbox. As I said "Not quite" , didn't start out the same but ended up in the same place.

Not quite, googlemail.com was used in the UK prior to 2010 when it was discontinued and merged with Gmail. My post was a roundabout way to indicate I am not a novice with google as implied by a previous post, for various reasons I manage 4 google accounts, the android box being one of them.

When the e-visa was rolled out in the UK, 2017?, the ME option was greyed out. The UK was the first country following China and the ME option was never available for China. Sometime after the rollout started in the UK the ME option did become available, it was still available when I did a SE on marriage 21st Sept. It is possible that this is a country specific option and if the update was across the whole E-visa platform it could be that the option has defaulted to off and will need to be reinstated for the specified countries, which may well take some time.

My main google account is "googlemail.com"

If you re enter via a land border you will be required to complete a TM6, you should enter the re-entry stamp number in the field marked "visa". First time I did it I left the visa field blank, IO filled it in but didn't lok too happy.

If he already has a bank account then that is half the battle with someone coming to Thailand on long term basis. When he is ready to come back the best option is to get SE Non O visa based on marriage from local embassy. Not that difficult and a lot less paperwork than he will need when doing extension. Can use the funds in Thai account to support visa application.

Take it that you had difficulty understanding this statement from immigration " In addition, the visa applicant must be outside of Thailand at the time of application."

I have no idea why you cannot wrap your head around the fact that visas can only be applied for outside the country. Historical rhetoric on this forum doesn't make it right.

A sad loss to the industry at such an early age. I saw the Honeycombs with Honey Lantree on drums at the California in Dunstable in 1964. Always something different with live performance.

The TM47 has been the form used for 90 day reporting since Pontius was a pilot. Sri Ratcha is also Chonburi Immigration and they have always used the recognised method. I can't see how anyone can complain about standardisation within the same immigration dept. The online system is effectively the new standard and I suspect all other office created short cuts will be abandoned. I have been doing online since 2015 and never had a problem other than the system being down now and again. No big deal if you haven't left it too late. Has become a good deal easier with the latest version.

If I am reading your post right it sounds like you plan to return to the UK before making the application for a retirement visa. If that is the the case why not just apply for a multi entry retirement visa straight off, rather than the tourist visa. It would give you a year to sort out the bank account and more chance of success with a 12 month visa.

Good grief, another that cannot see the obvious. Q. Can you enter a country when you have never left? A. No.