Norfolk Tractor Boy

Hi , and good evening, My sister-in-law has just received her family visit visa to the uk and is hoping to come to visit in about a weeks time, I would like to know if it is possible to buy a return ticket from bangkok to London from here in the uk for her , as every website i check just does flights from the UK , puzzled.

Also - If your airline tickets are for a 6 week stay, you would be better with the visa as they may refuse to take you without it.

Almost certainly. No visa ... no go.

I am in a similar situation. The wife is Thai and kids have Thai and UK passports . We are travelling to Thailand via the UK on BA. We will be staying in Thailand 35 days so I am currently in the process of getting a visa. I called BA and pointed out that I could get an extension when I arrived , but they still said I should get a visa BEFORE I travel as they can be fined heavily for allowing people on the flight without the proper documents and I did not want to risk not being allowed on the flight. So my intention is for the children to use UK passports to enter the UK and Thai passports to Thailand , the wife already has a UK visa and I will have a Thai visa.

Fellow tractor boy !!

Town fan ? It's not good at the moment ! the natives are getting restless!

You have to enter Thailand within three months of the Visa being issued.

Yes Town Fan here, you know it's really bad when a home draw with Hull is a good result !!

Cheers boogie, that's what i thought , so as i'm entering thailand on about dec 3rd i need to get a visa issued after the 3rd of sept i guess ,i will confirm with the thai consulate monday!

It's so true, drawing with hull city at home being a good result is desperate! I think we need a proven manager really and a chairman with a bit more passion and MONEY!!!

Also - If your airline tickets are for a 6 week stay, you would be better with the visa as they may refuse to take you without it.

Almost certainly. No visa ... no go.

I am in a similar situation. The wife is Thai and kids have Thai and UK passports . We are travelling to Thailand via the UK on BA. We will be staying in Thailand 35 days so I am currently in the process of getting a visa. I called BA and pointed out that I could get an extension when I arrived , but they still said I should get a visa BEFORE I travel as they can be fined heavily for allowing people on the flight without the proper documents and I did not want to risk not being allowed on the flight. So my intention is for the children to use UK passports to enter the UK and Thai passports to Thailand , the wife already has a UK visa and I will have a Thai visa.

Fellow tractor boy !!

Get a Tourist Visa , one or two entries , so you are really on the safe side .

For yr kid no prob , just have both passport handy all times , specially during check-in.

Cheers people , so it's just me who needs a visa. Which i will sort out asap.

Is there any reliable visa agencies here in the uk who will sort out a will for me for a reasonable price , as the thai embassey is miles away for me and you have to visit twice

Do it by post to one of the consulates (Hull and Cardiff are friendly), no visit required. My Non-O took less than a week door to door

yeah , i've just been on the hull consulate website, seems easy enough.

The only thing i don't understand is it says a 1 entry visa gives you a 60 day stay from entry and the visa is only valid for 3 months from date of issue, so does that mean i have to wait until about 1 month before i visit thailand or does it mean you must enter thailand within 3 months of the visa issue ?

Get a Tourist Visa , one or two entries , so you are really on the safe side .

For yr kid no prob , just have both passport handy all times , specially during check-in.

Cheers people , so it's just me who needs a visa. Which i will sort out asap.

Is there any reliable visa agencies here in the uk who will sort out a will for me for a reasonable price , as the thai embassey is miles away for me and you have to visit twice

Hi people, apologies if this in the wrong section.

I am going to thailand in december for 6 weeks ( been 5 times before ) with my wife and 1 year old child, I am a british citizen ,my wife is thai with thai pasport and uk visa and my child holds both a uk passport and a thai passport.

I would like to know if my child can visit thailand for 6 weeks using the thai passport and upon returning to the uk use the uk passport , is this ok?

Also i believe as my stay in thailand is over one month i need a visa, so is it better/easier to apply here in the uk or just sort it out when in thailand , or is it easier still to pop over the border and back again , say laos.

Any views/help is greatly appreciated, thanks .

Can anybody tell me is this storm likely to hit Nong Khai , north east thailand (isaan) as i have afew thousand rubber trees i'm abit concerned about?

The drop in arrivals couldn't be anything to do with tourists (and everyone else) being told they have to go back to their rooms at 1am or 2am or whenever the BIB decide to close down places on any particular night, could it? Or that they run the risk of arrest if they don't carry their passport every time they go out? Or they can't pop into 7-11 for a beer in the middle of a tropical afternoon? Or they face the prospect of being drug-tested while out for the evening? Or that prices are rising so sharply that Thailand is no longer the good deal that it used to be when compared to some of the neighbouring countries?

No. It couldn't possibly.

Things must have changed since i was last there in 2004 (songkran) never had any of the hassle you mention?

Is this to be expected when i come over for xmas/new year 2006/7 ?

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Thanks for those details, Richard. I'm having a bit of trouble with Firefox's encoding - I can't seem to make it stay with Thai ISO 8859-11. It kept changing back to Western 5889-1 (I think that was the one) so I've been a bit drastic  and removed English from Tools / Options / General / Languages and also I have set  Tools / View / Encoding / Auto Detect to "OFF".

The pages from this site are explicitly marked as being in the iso-8859-1 encoding! No 'auto-detection' is required!

If you use Firefox and don't have this problem, can you say what settings you have for languages, encoding, etc?

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One reason I've had no problems may be that I am using Windows XP. I have upgraded to Service Pack 2 (and am none to pleased to discover that IE now regards a lot of javascript as unsafe.)

Windows XP Settings:

Regional options: English (United Kingdom)

Location: United Kingdom

Language Settings:

Default: English (United-Kingdom) - United States - International

Other language/keyboard options set up:

English (United States) - US keyboard

Thai - Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock)

Catalan - KhmerOS - Khmer Unicode Keyboard

Switch between input languages: Left Alt + Shift

Advanced Text Services: Neither extended nor switched off.

Something makes Notepad think that the ANSI encoding includes TIS-620!

Firefox 1.0 settings

Tools/Options/General/Languages/Languages: Empty

Tools/Options/General/Languages/Default character encoding: ISO-8859-1 (Western)

View/Character encoding - no special setting - I usually just let it drift, so it's currently showing ISO-8859-1. When I was viewing Yahoo groups pages, I set it to UTF-8, and it stayed there.

Which version of Firefox are you using?

I have had form problems - see Thai-Language Firefox Issues, and I'm not sure how they are consistent with the behaviour seen on ThaiVisa.com. The only problem I've had here iwth Firefox has been with fonts for Thai, which is a relatively minor issue. As a solution, I seem to have made Tahoma the default font for nearly everything!

I followed the advice of JOCKSTER and as of yet have had no problems! . I was wondering though what is the difference between thai kedmanee & thai kedmanee (non shiftlock)

Also which font have people found to suit the thai alphabet best?