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Yes thank you, i have thought of that route already we live in Sattahip, not far from Jomtien just off the Sukomvit Road area, next question is can anyone suggest an agent in that area that can do the job and roughly outline prices etc. i've obviously got money for a marriage visa in the bank, and a retirement visa is double that anount, so an agent would provide the differance, as i understand it, which is about all i understand of retirement route! Thank you Dr Jack and all who responded to my post, and good luck to all of you!

Did my marriage ext yesterday 24th feb Jomtien IO two new girls at the counter 6, the girl we had, picked on everything plus wanted two extra photos kitchen and bedroom the lady on the counter in previous years was no problem two photos outside house one showing house number etc, and two inside, with this new girl every form scrutinised plus old pasport and new passport looking at every single page over and over by this new girl, glad my wife had taken care i just sat there as usual totally ignored except to countersign ever single form that she pulled out from the heap, took about 2 hours in all at IO, wife went back alone today with two extra photos required, and did the 90 day clockin at the same time,completly ridiculous waste of time,this is my 12th ext and as others have said, same thing every year, very tireing for a 87 yr old semi invalid bloke like me sitting in a wheelchair!

Thanks have tried AOMEI which is a good one it shows up as dsk1 but that's all, will not inialise so cannot go any further Thanks for your help.

Thannks i have tried the easeus drive you mentioed it does not even see the my TOSHIBA HDD, though i can feel the disk spinning and that's about all must be something to do with the pick-up or whatever it's called,thanks again for your help.

I too have a 1tb HDD from Toshiba bought a couple of years ago,worked well for a while then suddenly stopped for no reason that i can find, does not show up my computor etc. have tried all manner of differant disk checks, usually it does not even show up, on windows disk management it shows up as disk1 but will not inialise so cannot proceed any further, think it must be Toshiba fault, as i have a much smaller less well known HDD that has worked without fail for may years, any help?

China has got it right, they regard Islam and followers as having a mental illness, nothing less!

I call him KIPPER as in two faced and gutless.

The Admiralty refers them a Union Jacks where ever they are flown, and have stated long ago that it is not a problem to refer to them as union jacks!

I will try that next year, mail here in Thailand is very hap hazard sometimes very quick other times not so, i have had mail turn up 3 months later, why they can't use email for some things that are not so important, i do'nt know!

Getting back to my original opening post my proof of life letter turned up, it had taken two months to get here, my pension had been stopped, hence the phone call as outlined in the opener, i did write them a letter stating my pension was now ok after the phone call, did't expect a answer and did't get one, civil servants i presume working from home, poor dears, probably rushed of their feet.

It the ECHR that blocked every Rawanda flight, it has to go!

Yes, what happened to that big barge thing that the tories had, i know that bonehead starmer emptied it on his first couple of days in power, is still aeond i wonder!

Yes, the georgie woman excepted my phone call after going through many checks, then finally said ok it should take a couple of days for the money to arrive in my UK account, though i'm told it's more than a couple of days!

Got it sorted finally by phone (although the email address by "ppguy" looks promising) after a fairly long wait finally got through to a lady with a Newcastle accent who went through a check list and fialy accepted i was still alive, as others have mentioned it appears to be a proof of life form that i never received! So i would like to thank everybody again, that provided very helpful advice that put me on the right track. Just waiting now for missing paymets to appear on my UK bank account, (fingers crossed) will be checking everyday of course!

Thank you and others for your quick replies, would you know the email address you quoted by chance? i try to avoid phone calls as my 86 yr old ears are not so good these days, so email would be a good start!

My UK (DWP) was paid into my UK bank (Halifax Bank) every week without fail, until recentley when it has suddenely stopped, the last payment being 2nd May, has anyone else had this problem? I thought maybe they (DWP) had put me onto monthly payments with bothering to infom me which under this shambles of a government we've now got, could well be! Anyone any knowledge of this to put my mind at rest!

Slightly of topic, but seeing starmer standing proudly in front of a union jack flag is sickening, when he does everything he can to put british people at the back of queue for just about everything, unless it's paying taxes the we are right up front!

Don't know if this has been mentioned, when we in the EU this unfair practise was brought up, tony blair that well known so called socialist fought tooth and nail to get it stopped and apparently was succefull (sp) good old toe eh!

Don't you mean useful idiot, much more fitting when it involves Starmer!

Quite, he still looking for his cervix poor chap!

Thank you very much for your precise infrmation, and a happy Christmas to you!

Where in Jom thien is the tax office? an what would i need to take with me to abtain the reqired info., an lastly being not very mobile wheelchair bound) could my wife do this alone, being 86 yr old i am at a loss trying to get my old brain around this new requirement ! Any help would be very much appreciated and thank you all

Youmean like Avatars (sp) then!

If understand correctly this TIN number can be obtained from your bank, is that correct? and does anyone know where the local tax office in Satahip/Pattaya thanks for any help provided!

Intolerance not according obama,how he said that without laughing i don't know!