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Changes of 30 day visa exempt entries to longer periods have happened before, always temporary. The most recent was the increase from 30 to 45 days in October 2022 which lasted for six months.

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Keep in mind also the rates will rise after the current deadline for back payments expires in April 2025.

The number of years required depends on how many years an individual was contracted out and could be anywhere between 35 and 47 years under the new state pension. Assuming the statement is correct and updated, you can buy about 1½ years more of pension before maxing it out adding £6.32 (& £3.63 for the final part year), this payment would be recouped within about 3 years of receiving the pension. If you're going to top up, use 2020-21 and 2021-22 and save 50 quid.

Rookie mistake. He went out that evening looking for a lap dance and somehow woke up the next day in Lapland.

ASEAN Visa sounds like a good name for a forum...

A red handed swede sounds more like a turnip, or perhaps even a beetroot.

Sounds like he was upsetting his neighbour on a regular basis to the extent that the neighbour filed a complaint. Yes, if you're making noisy zoom calls at unsociable hours in a studio apartment with thin walls you're going to get in trouble. If he'd been discreet and not caused trouble for people around him he'd most certainly have been left alone like many others are. From an interview a few years ago with the Chiang Mai Work Permit Office: 4. A foreigner sits in his apartment in Chiang Mai and teaches Chinese students online via Skype. The verdict: " Officially, work, however it is not a main concern to our office now, so we allow the foreigner to do this without a work permit. " This verdict considers the scale of the work and the environment. https://www.chiangmailocator.com/wiki-can-digital-nomads-legally-work-in-thailand-p177

The current administration has set the goal of 80 million tourist arrivals by 2027, double the previous high.

There's no history of deportations of online workers here, immigration have admitted in the past that they have no interest in pursuing this. The exceptions that hit the news were people working out of organised call centres. Elite were actually pitching their product to digital nomads and remote workers last summer (including not needing to pay taxes), but this all fell flat when the new tax laws were announced in the Autumn. The DTV looks like it's been set up to capitalise on this same loophole. "My mate nate" was not a remote worker, he's always targeted Thais locally. He was in the news after he upset people with some ill-judged pranks and there was some kerfuffle regarding his work permit which he wound up sorting out.

It's sent by courier, you're given a track and trace number. Mine arrived in Birmingham about 3 days after my VFS appointment.

Whippets are a bit of a greyh̶o̶u̶n̶d̶ area legally.

Not sure what country you're from, but as far as the pound is concerned the only two major resets in the past 20 years were after the global financial crash in 2008, and Brexit in 2016. Thai coups had nothing to do with it, and exchange rates were recovering significantly in the first couple of years after the last coup in 2014. If you're from the US you'll no doubt remember the lamentable exchange rates around 2011-13 when the USD regularly dipped below 30.

Looks likely that she was - the amount of a full state pension in 2000 (frozen 3 years after she retired) would have been £67.50pw / £292.50 per month.

The UK - Philippines reciprocal agreement was signed in 1989.

This was instigated by the Philippines government in the 1980's. https://www.sss.gov.ph/sss/appmanager/pages.jsp?page=SocSecAgreement

It always has been in the past when longer visa exempt entries are brought in for a temporary period.

Elite was too successful. Membership increased around fivefold over the past five years, hence the need to increase prices and reduce numbers. Interestingly one of main the target areas for the new packages they released last summer was tax advantages for digital nomads, just a few weeks before the tax changes were announced by the new government.

I guess "grey-zone" as it's the area that immigration have always admitted they have no interest in or capacity for policing.

They roll these out from time to time, usually for six months. Last time was the increase to 45 days visa exempt entry between October 2022 - March 2023.

These seem to be temporary stimulus measures - for instance, prior to the latest announcement India and Taiwan were put on the visa exempt entry list for six months expiring 24th May.

Visa on arrival is only applicable to the limited list of nationalities in the table above. These countries are not approved to receive a visa exempt entry.

This is incorrect, visa on arrival is not a visa purchased in advance from an embassy. VOA are typically non extendable and valid for just 15 days.

She weighs less than 2 kg?

They were never going to get far with that misplaced apostrophe!