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I mistyped my name when I booking a flight to Portugal with BA just over a week ago. How I missed it, I don't know but I did. I called BA and they fixed it but it took 24 hours to show on the updated booking. The typo still hadn’t gone on the car hire and hotel booking though but there was no problem with either of them.

Thank  you. It's far less complicated than any other visa. The stumbling block on it is the two referees that are required.

13 hours ago, globalThailand said:

I may be wrong / naïve but isn't the fact we have ILR and a BRP evidence itself that the applicant resides in the UK? 

According to my wife's application you do.

After you have completed the questions you will receive a checklist of the requirements you need to provide. The following is one of them that they requested from my wife that we submitted to UKVCAS for her citizenship today.

"Proof of living in the UK for Mrs PK for 5 years if applying in your own right or 3 years if applying as the spouse of a British Citizen."

We provided a couple of letters from my wife's bank and our joint account, council tax bills for three years and a whole bunch of Covid test results that we provided to the Office of National Statistics over three years. They allowed the latter for ILR too as we took the tests at home together over Covid and beyond.

There was no need for any financial information.

My Thai Missus turned 45 a couple of days ago. She is a shade over 5 feet and her weight is around 8 stone plus or minus a single kilo. Her eight never varies more than a kilo. We don't eat bread, red meat, or fast food or fizzy drinks. I still enjoy an occasional steak if we eat out. She goes veggy for a few weeks every few months. She is always doing stretching exercises, we also walk a lot and it works for her. Not so much for me!

I'm unable to find it at the moment. I'm hoping one of the professional who know about this can confirm it. I will look further later when we have finished work.

I'm not sure how long ago your wife got her UK passport but the rules were changed a while back and my wife's new passport, (assuming she gets citizenship, of course), will be in her maiden name. So both of her passports will be in her maiden name and she would like them in her married name. They no longer allow a Thai and British passport to have different names. It would have been good to get them changed but it's not a huge problem.

So there is no way that a family member get the necessary change in the Tabien Baan? My wife had her latest Thai ID card supplied by the Embassy in London. It's very frustrating.

If I have put this in the wrong forum please move it. My wife's Thai passport is still in her maiden name and we have always wanted to get it changed to her married name. I can see problems further down the line if we don't get it changed before we apply for her first UK passport after citizenship which will be going in on the 18th May.

Can anybody let me know if it's to change her name without being in Thailand and what's involved?

Thanks.

No. I am happy to do it myself.

Thanks. She has no entry stamps in her latest passport that was renewed in 2020. I will take her previous passport with us to UKVCAS and upload scans of the stamps. Having said that she only has a single entry into the UK in the last five years and that was returning from a two week holiday to Thailand.

My wife has finally made it to the citizenship stage and I have a query about the proof of living in the UK over the last three years. "Proof of living in the UK for Mrs PK for 5 years if applying in your own right or 3 years if applying as the spouse of a British Citizen" is what it says on the checklist. It's a bit vague (unlike the previous criteria for her other visas) and I've come up with very little about what is actually required and what I can use. I have annual council tax bills with my wife's name on. Bank statements and also a whole host of Covid test results from the ONS that we have been having since October 2020 where they visited every month. (They were fine for ILR.) Does anybody know what else is required please? TIA.

They definitely don't have the inhibitions exhibited by many western women.

2 hours ago, atyclb said:

does deductive reasoning count for common sense?

 

why is the shower curtain inside the tub??  duhhhhh

 

 

it happens to other people non thai. thanks for the enlightenment

It's my pleasure. Is it also possible that most showers in Thailand don't have curtains so she had never come across a shower curtain before? I have stayed in many Thai hotels with and without my wife and most showers are totally separate to the bath. Most showers have a tiled floor and wall with a drain at the bottom. No curtain needed. I had never come across a bum gun before until we stayed at my wife's sister's house. I had to ask and I don't have a uni degree.

20 hours ago, atyclb said:

a recent date (car, real job, uni degree no less) pushes the shower curtain outside of the bathtub and floods the room. i explain to her the curtain is to keep the water inside and away from the floor.  she has an "einstein moment" and looks absolutely amazed with this concept. 

I have known some extremely clever people with no common sense. Something like this is not exclusive to Thai women.

14 hours ago, Destiny1990 said:

Her limited English skills that are obstructing her from getting into long nonsense conversations with me.

Or possibly your limited or non existent Thai skills that prevent you having a long nonsense conversation with her... ????

rom what you have said

23 hours ago, Jack19290 said:

I take what you said on board and will 100% listen, like I said i don't be sending money unless she goes home and if she doesn't I don't mind speaking with her and seeing her over FaceTime and seeing her when I go out there.  

Not sure why you are discussing money at this stage. You haven't known her long. Just go with the flow and if you get requests for cash simply address it positively or negatively according to your feelings at the time. From what you have said she hasn’t demanded any cash or if she has it's been a small amount. Your current approach is doomed to failure if all you are thinking is, when is she going to ask for cash.

You obviously like her a lot. Just enjoy it and be prepared to walk away if you need to. Sounds like you originally met her for all the right reasons. ie. You fancied the pants off each other. My wife was a keeper a few weeks after I met her. Your girlfriend might be the same but not if you are sitting there waiting for her to demand money for her dad's sick buffalo.

14 hours ago, NanLaew said:

...especially a crap one like 'Private Dancer' 

Stephen Leather is an excellent author but Private Dancer is a real turkey and his worst book by far.

40 minutes ago, Ctkong said:

My my , 17 pages and counting... this is a thread close to our hearts. 

 

 

 

 

And close to many empty or partially empty wallets. Hence the cynicism. As I said in my first post on this thread. They all crawl out when somebody makes a genuine post and add their own brand of vitriol. It would have been 5 pages without that.

And that dating site probably has many "players" and probably no different from a bar.

We met in January 2015. Four trips to Thailand between January and two visit visas that overlapped and we married in the UK in June 2016. I waited until I was 59 to get married for the first time and she was and is a keeper. Can't imagine life without her.

14 minutes ago, Elkski said:

I'm glad you found a submissive woman who smiles all day.   

This wasn't directed at me but my wife is not submissive at all. If she has something to say, she will say it. One big difference. When she does, it's over in five minutes. Not a five day sulk.

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Good one. For alot of us, I can say it is about a woman feeling comfortable within her skin. And liking, and cherishing the fact that she is a real woman. That is very sexy. In the west, not many women can say that. There is a huge amount of confusion about what it means to be a woman there. And many woman there are larger, and more masculine than many of us. Not to mention to ongoing "war on men". Who wants to be a victim of that? 

 

Here, we are talking about real women, who know how to act like a women, and manifest the dignity, within femininity. Good sex is only a part of this whole equation. It is my belief that most Thai women do not really like sex too much. They do it, as it is expected of them. But, most are not great lovers. Of course there are exceptions. But, if you are really fortunate, you will be able to find one who is a great companion. Mine is amazing. Fun to be around on a daily basis. Kind, sweet, funny, smart, and lovely. And emotionally consistent from day to day. I never found that set of qualities in a woman in the west. Never.  

 

The biggest part of the problem, is the extreme emasculation that is taking place in the West. Most men, in the US, Europe, and Oz, are no longer real men, when it comes to dealing with their women. Their women have made their lives so difficult, and alot of women have gotten so far away from their innate femininity, and have become dominant, and super controlling, and men just go along with it. So, when we meet a woman here, who knows how to behave like a real woman, it is so refreshing. 

 

But, take your time. Time is always your ally. It is never their ally. Most try to push the agenda. Push back. I took 9 years before marrying my woman here. And she has become a BETTER version of herself, since we got married! In a million years, that would not have happened in the US.

 

For the men out there who are trying to find their way, in this rather complicated arena, always remember one thing. Take your time. If it is good, it is only going to get better. If there are issues, they are going to reveal themselves over time. 2 years minimum, before you commit any significant sum of cash, or commit to marriage. And that is two years, full time! Be like Bond. Do as Bond would do. Be a man. Man up. Now is the time to show who you are. 

A really good post that I totally relate to.

"Emotionally consistent" from day to day presumably means not being a moody cow? Yep with most of the western women I have been with they all seem to lack emotionally consistency. I could never say that about my Thai wife. She has a happy disposition. She always wakes up with a smile and it's rare for us to argue and almost always due to a misunderstanding. If we do argue, it's forgotten in minutes. She is also totally uninhibited and has none of the hangups that seem to be ingrained in western women. Her almost child-like joy in things is infectious. We were like kids playing in the snow a few days ago. I have been told by my family that I have changed a lot in the last few years and all of it is for the better.

My wife is five feet tall and her healthy, looking great, weight is 48-50 kgs. She spent a few weeks back in her village between visas a couple of years ago and worked the fields for a couple of weeks for her family and her weight dropped to less than 47 kgs. She was looking too skinny but her own huge appetite for food and good food put that right in a week or two.

There are western women who are the same size and weight as my wife but many of them are probably that weight because they have an eating disorder...

I found BUPA in Thailand to be fine for my wife. Never had a claim but the policy was enough for anything but the absolute case scenario. You are being very pessimistic.

www.bupa.co.th

I know you didn’t ask but I’d be interested in knowing what reason to return your girlfriend is relying on for her visit visa. Applying for the whole six months is unlikely to succeed unless the application is bullet proof.

Surely the best way would be to order a certificate and see what is on it? If it's clear go ahead and apply for a visa. If the drug possession is on it he'll probably have to forget the idea or take legal advice.

You haven't mentioned which nationality your friend is.

UK visa applications ask about criminal history and I have no doubt that Canada does too but you haven’t really supplied enough info.

3 hours ago, theoldgit said:

I also understand that the Spanish aren't the easiest to deal with here in Thailand.

Or at the Embassy in the UK...Basically they ask for paperwork that is totally unnecessary for a Schengen visa. If you are willing to jump through the hoops it shouldn't be a problem.

Your wife's visit visas will have almost certainly have been multi entry. 

For me there are too many places in the UK to visit before we start on other countries like Spain. None of the Channel Islands require a visa if your wife has a UK VV.