Robm579

For marriage I had to show income to "registrar" here...

I wrote a number on a form and got it stamped at the Brittish embassy in BKK... They didn't even look at it... It's BS..!

I'd not lived in Uk for 12 years! ... But I was in Thailand under my Uk passport .. So that's what they needed...

Decided to stay here with retirement visa... Which is easier and not "controlled" by my delightful wife...

I understand that for marriage visa you need 400k in the bank here... And for retirement visa 800k...

A somewhat exaggerated ( and untrue) tale of the process involved in obtaining a statement of income from the BE where PROOF of the claimed income has to be provided.

Now only undertaken by post.

Neither exaggerated nor untrue... It took about one hour in the queue at BE... BKK...

I cannot comment on what happens today...this was 6 years ago...and was for the purposes of getting married...

And from memory it cost 200bht...

The only thing that struck me was how complicated it was to actually get married... A status which confers no rights or privalleges that I'm aware of... But, if I had chosen to "shack-up" with numerous women and have multiple kids ... No problem...!

There never was a need to show or prove income in order to get married !

I think time has distorted your memory about what was obtained from the BE !

Ok ... Whatever you say... Not interested in arguing ...

As clearly you are the font of all wisdom...

For marriage I had to show income to "registrar" here...

I wrote a number on a form and got it stamped at the Brittish embassy in BKK... They didn't even look at it... It's BS..!

I'd not lived in Uk for 12 years! ... But I was in Thailand under my Uk passport .. So that's what they needed...

Decided to stay here with retirement visa... Which is easier and not "controlled" by my delightful wife...

I understand that for marriage visa you need 400k in the bank here... And for retirement visa 800k...

A somewhat exaggerated ( and untrue) tale of the process involved in obtaining a statement of income from the BE where PROOF of the claimed income has to be provided.

Now only undertaken by post.

Neither exaggerated nor untrue... It took about one hour in the queue at BE... BKK...

I cannot comment on what happens today...this was 6 years ago...and was for the purposes of getting married...

And from memory it cost 200bht...

The only thing that struck me was how complicated it was to actually get married... A status which confers no rights or privalleges that I'm aware of... But, if I had chosen to "shack-up" with numerous women and have multiple kids ... No problem...!

For marriage I had to show income to "registrar" here...

I wrote a number on a form and got it stamped at the Brittish embassy in BKK... They didn't even look at it... It's BS..!

I'd not lived in Uk for 12 years! ... But I was in Thailand under my Uk passport .. So that's what they needed...

Decided to stay here with retirement visa... Which is easier and not "controlled" by my delightful wife...

I understand that for marriage visa you need 400k in the bank here... And for retirement visa 800k...