blackcab

I thought it was maximum 1 month before.

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Tommy

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Moved to the Visas and Migration to Other Countries forum.

After you receive your passport in your new name visit this gov.uk site and register to vote. You will be asked about any name changes during the application. This will update your name in the electoral register. Credit reference agencies heavily use the unedited electoral register and will link your old and new name in this way. Immediately afterwards you then apply for your driving license. You will need to send the DVLA the original deed poll (which you will receive back). You then have your two primary pieces of identification, ie passport and driving license. You then contact your bank, credit card company, etc. one by one and change your name on any existing accounts/services. This process will automatically update credit reference agency files. If you enrol your deed poll your current financial providers will not automatically change your name. You have to apply to each provider individually. Here are the requirements from Santander, Capital One and Barclays. Later, when you apply for a new financial product you will always be asked about previous names you have held. You will also be required to provide identity documents from list A and list B, which would be your new passport (list A) and your new driving license (list B). Financial institutions will not ask to see your deed poll when opening a new account. I'm not trying to talk you out of enrolling your deed poll, just pointing out the unenrolled method does work, and that you will be completing exactly the same process regarding your passport, driving license and financial products whether your deed poll is enrolled or unenrolled.

If you go back to the UK think seriously about staying in the airport until you are sorted. Warm, dry, and I'm sure the care team will sort you out food and a shower, access to a telephone, etc. If you leave the airport you then become someone else's problem and you will have to start again. Ideally you do not want to be rough sleeping on the streets as things will spiral downhill very quickly. Getting accommodation from the council is complex. Shelter have this to say: https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/homelessness/get_help_from_the_council/who_qualifies_for_housing Specifically note the bit about Habitual Residence: "The council might ask you more about this if you've lived abroad in the last 2 years". Also, carefully read section 5 where you need a connection to an area. Just randomly picking Brighton without a reason won't work. You need to carefully consider what you say in advance because the council housing officer will look for any way to reject you, not any way to accept you.

Assuming you are going to land at Heathrow, contact Heathrow Travel Care before you take off and let them know when you will be arriving: http://heathrowtravelcare.co.uk/ Their contact details are at the top of each page. I don't think they can work miracles, but if you can sleep at the airport for a period of time I am sure they will be able to help you given enough time.

By all means use an enrolled deed poll if it makes you feel more comfortable, however I have attached the Home Office guidance for name changes on passports, and you will be able to see on page 12 that the guidance states: "Customers may also decide to change their name for other reasons and do this using: enrolled deed polls, unenrolled deed polls or change of name deeds statutory declarations acts of Parliament affidavits" It won't raise any red flags with the examining officer because it is explicitly allowed. Be aware though that if you are a permanent resident overseas you cannot use a deed poll to change your name. Unless you have applied for and received permanent residency in Thailand that probably won't apply to you. Names_-_Change_of_name_passport_applications.pdf

This topic has links in both English and Thai that I am sure will help:

I know a British citizen who changed their name while in Thailand. 1. They completed an unenrolled deed poll while in Thailand. Cost zero, was generated from the internet for free and witnessed by two Thai people. 2. Applied for a new passport through VFS/Trendy in the usual manner. VFS staff didn't want to accept the unenrolled deed poll because it didn't look impressive and wasn't covered in stamps and seals. The person insisted it was sent, and their new British passport came back with their new name in it. 3. At the same time they got a colour photocopy of their uninrolled deed poll translated into Thai and legalised by the MFA. 4. Old passport, new passport, letter from VFS and legalised translation of unenrolled deed poll was taken to Chaeng Wattana and Non B visa and multi re-entry was changed over to the new passport. 5. When leaving Thailand the first time after this the exit immigration officer asked to see the old passport as well as the new passport, but never since. It can be done.

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Moved to the Community Pub.

I'm sorry but I have not stayed in this hotel as a guest so I do not have any personal experience. I know the area well however.

It depends. If you don't mind walking a bit then it's OK if the room rate is amazing. If there is not much in it price wise I would go for somewhere a bit more convenient. Soi 49 is about halfway between BTS Thong Lo and BTS Ekkamai. It's going to be a 10 minute walk to get to the BTS station. Soi 49 has no formal sidewalk and it's not brightly lit at night, but it's a very safe neighbourhood. There is a small 7-Eleven at the start of the soi, but other than that you do need to plan ahead a bit as there not much on the soi for tourists. If you have a particular area you are interested in exploring you would be better staying closer to that area rather than further away even if the cost is slightly more. If you are thinking of using taxis/uber be aware that at rush hour the Soi 49 section of Sukhumvit Road can get extremely congested and it is quite possible to spend an hour and only move 200 meters or less.

@KIngsofisaan You will note that in my post I said "valid wills". I sincerely doubt you will find that valid wills are contested and overturned all the time. Wills where the testator was under duress or of unsound mind I agree may be declared invalid, but that would take evidence that I doubt will be available to the OP.

You can't sensibly contest a valid will, no matter how much you dislike the heirs. Having said that you might meet unscrupulous people who will tell you that you can, and they will get everything sorted, no problem at all, please pay a healthy deposit in advance thank you very much. And you will keep paying until you decide to cut your losses. That's not what you want to hear, but it's what you need to hear. Don't let anger cloud your better judgement.

Adobe

You can not prove what his intention was. Perhaps he ran out of money. Perhaps the people doing the earth filling ran off with his deposit. Perhaps he just changed his mind. I do see your point of view though, especially taken together with his other actions.

What he did was perfectly legal, and if he is filling his land it would be considered fair and reasonable. The Civil and Commercial Code, Section 1339 states: The owner of a piece of land is bound to take the water that flows naturally on to it from higher land. Water that flows naturally on to lower land and is necessary to such land may be retained by the owner of the higher land only to such extent as is indispensable to his land.

I have cleaned up the topic and replaced the word chanote with the words boundary markers.

Go back to the Land Office and explain to them what your neighbour is doing. Ask them to resurvey, and also ask them to explain to him where the boundary is. The Land Office can be quite forceful when then want to be. Having said that, this is why people tend to build up to the boundary of their property.

Estrogen

The member ranks have been refreshed. Ranks used to stop at 10,000 but as we have a number of long term members we have added a couple of higher level categories. The old ranks were: The new ranks are: At the time of making this post there is only one Grand Master, @webfact, who as you know posts the news on a daily basis. I wonder who will be the next member to achieve this status?