Bird on the Wire

Don't do yersel' down, Enji: it's evident you're a member.

Even my limited Thai language skills allow me to identify

หนังสือเดินทาง

as meaning "passport".

I'd never encountered the following word

อิเล็กทรอนิกส์

until I sat back and realised that it's a sound-for-sound transliteration from English of "electronic(s)".

Can you show you've been living together for at least 2 years? If so your partner's a family member.

Use VAF1B.

Even Zola Budd and John Barnes had to naturalise before getting a British passport. Also that Belgian bloke who played for Wales (Pat van der Hauwe?) - he of the mysterious stab wound that was rumoured to be as a result of being caught shagging another bloke's wife.

I say Mrs. Brigante7 needs to naturalise before getting a British passport. How about a little side bet? £100.00 placed with a third party should do it.

What happened to my last post?

An explanation would be nice!

I presume that people who subscribe to these threads will at least get the content by e-mail, so can read it, even if deleted.

Straight from the Norse's mouth:-

http://www.udi.no/templates/Tema.aspx?id=7579

Seems Mossfinn has it right.

Hello , , my thai wife has been here in the uk with me for nearly two years , her visa runs out in aug 2009 , but she is now pregenant and due at the end of july , she is not in work although i am, and she has not been to colledge on any english language coarse, we know that she will not pass the life in uk test , nor would i!. and were a bit worried about what to do , as the time her visa runs out is around the time our baby is due , we would appreciate any helpfull info , thanks

Praps I'm an ol fart but I cant understand a word youve rit it is now just a stream of consciousness or is it.... punktuasian wat da fuks dat?

Ive no idea

Evidently!

You do that sun you make sure theres enough wonga to cover the stint of yer birds stay and dont let no one say you is thik for your endlis streem of drivel jus cos your thik dusnt meen you shudnt take sum bird back too the emerald I'll

Hi. I don't know if this is the right bit to be posting in, but I'd be thankful for any help which those in the know can give.

The laptop (Vista) is set up for Thai Kedmanee keyboard and happily displays the language bar, allowing me to switch between EN and TH. However, when typing in Thai (Word document) the "mai toh" shows up as a square around the preceding consonant.

I don't know if it makes a difference, but I'm not using an actual keyboard with the Thai characters set out on it, but a Roman alphabet keyboard for which I press the "H" key to obtain "mai toh".

As regular readers will know , this is quite a normal story for those seeking a UK visitors visa. ....

Yaketyyak, if there is any merit in your above post perhaps you would like to explain how over 90% of visit visa applicants each year manage to be successful?...

It's good to see the old sparring partners of GU22 and Atlastaname/Silomfan/et al back again. All that's needed now is the return of Topfield and we'll have a full house.

Come on Toppers, where are you?

Its a shame that on the biggest forum for visa information there is so little help

Are we reading different websites?

If you're looking for someone to provide a panacea, that is never going to happen: everyone's circumstances are different and it is up to you to interpret the general information available and apply it to your own situation.

What are you looking for? Are you searching for someone to guarantee your bird a visa? If so, you may as well go and pay one of the dodgy outfits a small fortune and not get your money back when your bird is refused.

Hello,

Is everybody on this forum so lame they have no advice or is the explanation that nobody here is actually in thailand with a wife or daughter and wanting them to come home/UK.

Paul

Christ, with an attitude like that, I'm surprised anyone has deigned to answer. What makes you think you're so f*cking important that they must answer your question? No-one gets paid to contribute on here. Ungrateful sod!

Your parents have coughed up 500 notes to employ a firm of advisers: ask them, it's what they're there for.

The OP asks a simple question - can I revoke my wife's visa - to which there seems a simple answer of "no", yet this has turned in to a windy thread cos all the relationship "experts" have jumped onboard.

Looking back to Pattaya from Wongamat

Nong Nooch Gardens

Nong Nooch Gardens

Whilst the majority adhere to capitalist principles, what else should one expect? After all, capitalism is the exploitation of man by man, so perhaps we shouldn't be so surprised.

Every time I read, or hear a farang say "mai" is a word that is spoken with different pronunciations, it just drives me batty.

And here's me thinking you'd independently reached that state: just goes to show how wrong one can be.

^ What a weird contribution.

If the OP thinks the Scouser was negligent, he wouldn't be singing his praises on here. He'd be suing the a*se off him through the courts.

We don't know what the circumstances of the application were, so it seems yaketyyak has got his own unspoken agenda by jumping straight in and insinuating that Scouser was at fault for the original decline. That is unless yaketyyak has any personal knowledge of the OP's case?

What I understand from the OP is that he was more than happy with Scouser's job. Here's what he said:-

the professional advice I have been given has been invaluable

I cannot recommend highly enough the advisor that I used

The success is primarily down to your superb advice

I quite agree. My point was largely pure rather than applied.

The risk per contact (which as mentioned may be greater than 1/2000 in some cases) times the number of contacts = the person's risk, do the math and you'll see that a man who, for example, has unprotected sex with a prostitute about once a week for years racks up quite a risk indeed...

Surely the maths states that if the probability of contracting HIV is 1/2000 per encounter with an HIV+ partner, then, on a level playing field, each time you have unprotected intercourse, it is still 1/2000 probability: i.e. having unprotected sex 2000 times does not mean that you will definitely contract HIV? The probability of rolling a six with one die is 1/6. That does not mean that if you roll it six times, you will certainly throw a six - you might throw six sixes or none at all.

The odds on winning the UK lottery are something like 14,000,000 to 1, yet I'll wager that most of those who find the probability of female to male HIV infection a risk worth taking, also buy lottery tickets. Well, it is all a matter of luck, I suppose - on both counts.

I don't buy in to the arguments of those who rely upon quackery and contorted science to deny that HIV either exists or is the threat it is. The empirical evidence is just too great.

Scouse, you're not the only one in this business and it seems Azzzey has set himself up as an immigration advisor and pops over here for a bit of guidance when he doesn't know what he doing.

Don't know if I'm allowed to post links to other forums on here, but if you want the details I can send 'em to you by PM.

It's not one of your punters, is it Azzzey?

No i agree with the law, if you dont speak any english then how can they get what they want, if thais want to go to England then they have to learn to speak the laungauge, but most thaies do not want to learn English and i speak from experience in teaching young thai students, but even here now in thailand all teacher's have to learn to speak some thai this is a new rule from ministry of Education, and i totally agree with it ( yes i can speak some thai)

i really can not see your problem the goverment is not telling you who or not to fall in love with as you know when you fall in love with a thai even before this rule it took time to get visa's to go anywhere out of thailand so during that time if your true love really loves you she/he would want to learn your langauge, it took a friend of mine 5 months to get her visa so true love always pervails

I can see why your students don't get far in their English language studies.

Just as I thought.

Ta.

A pal of mine has a Thai girlfriend in Pattaya. She recently applied for a UK visit visa and used an agency to prepare her papers. Her visa request was turned down because it seems that this agency included a job reference saying that she works for them, which she has never done, and the British embassy cottoned on to this.

What, if any, legal recourse does me mate have?