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9 minutes ago, sandyf said:

You would need to show me where that option appears in the online system. As far as I can see there are no options for Non O regarding retirement, only O-A and O-X.

Maybe you should reconsider your comment on incorrect posts.

In the Non O section there is a section near the bottom stating if you are in receipt of the UK State Pension.

Just now, Scoobydoo1 said:

I heard that Hull in the UK are also no longer issuing one year multiple entry non O visas. I always used to go Birmingham when I was back there but that has now closed. Are there any other consulates in the UK that issue them?

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Hull haven’t been issuing Multi Entry for a couple of years at least.

27 minutes ago, sumrit said:

My wife has been many times over the last 25 years.

 

Off the top of my head but there are many more.

 

• Initial visa cost
• proof of relationship
• detailed information about the sponsor
• Proof of adequate funds to live on
• proof of address
• not allowed to work
• itinery for the holiday (sometimes)
• medical care costs

 

The majority of those conditions apply in Thailand but once you have the Visa you don’t have jump through hoops and visit Immigration.

3 minutes ago, sumrit said:

Look at the restrictions people have on a temporary (tourist type) visa when going to the UK then tell Thailand is worse (or more expensive)

What restrictions, my GF has been too the U.K. twice recently, she applied for Visa, I sponsored her. Arrived in the U.K. passed  through Border Control, no TM28/30, no 90 Day Reporting, left the U.K. with no need to pass through Border Control again. 

6 minutes ago, sumrit said:

You can stay for a year if you get the correct visa/extension, then can repeat/renew immediately. 

 

Its your choice not to.

Providing you are in a position to tie up 800/400k in a Thai Bank for the rest of your life. 

14 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

If married then you can extend any entry by 60 days for 1900 baht...

Not married and no plans too.

1 minute ago, Percy P said:

But a single entry none immigrant visa is still available then do as said .

Single entry only gives me 90 Days then I would have too leave Thailand and get another Single Entry for another 90 Days ?

36 minutes ago, cornishcarlos said:

 

Only if you re-enter before 4th April 2020...

Thanks for the reply, I won’t be coming back till May so will have to apply for a new Visa obviously the Non O Multi Entry won’t be available.

8 hours ago, yogi100 said:

I got that same visa for 125 quid just before they put it up to 150 quid. Also from London in March '19.

It expires March 2020.

I'm in receipt of a STATE Pension. 

Are you positive it's a Non - O. Mine is not.

What does it say under category? 

Passport states NON-IMM O, MULTIPLE..

41 minutes ago, Denim said:

Yes. Just back from there yesterday.

No problems on the Thai side but swarms of young Chinese clogging up Burmese immigration applying for some kind of visa. Had to shoulder my way to the front of a long queue to explain I was only doing a turnaround. Had I not done so would have been there over an hour instead of usual 5 minutes..

My current Non O Multi Entry expires on April the 4th 2020, if I leave in Match 2020 will I still get another 3 months from the date I re-enter Thailand ?

42 minutes ago, PST said:

Easy really, get SE NON O from London (90 days), leave day before visa expires (you'd be leaving the same time anyway if you were on a ME NON O), go to the nearest Embassy outside of Thailand that's currently still issuing ME NON O, get the ME NON O, and utilize it for 15 months, thus effectively getting 18 months overall, admittedly you have paid for 2 visas, but you actually get a longer period of stay by 90 days

 

Joe.

Yes but would they issue me one on me being in receipt of my U.K. Pension ?

3 minutes ago, fresher said:

I am retired and have been travelling to Chiang Mai twice a year for 10-12 weeks at a time, basically spending the winter months on holiday there and coming home to the UK for Christmas with my family. I spend the summer in my UK home. The 12 month Non-O multiple entry visa has been the perfect document. What do I do now? The single entry is only 60 days, and I don't have a permanent address in Thailand for a bank account and retirement visa. Any suggestions?

It’s 90 Days Single Entry.

3 minutes ago, Letseng said:

This has been the financial requirement when applying in Munich Thai consulate for a while.

They now have a few add. requirements.

Before it was Multi Entry which you could ‘squeeze’ 15 months from, now it’s Single Entry 90 Days only.

3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

No

They can still get a single entry non-o visa and apply an extension of stay based upon their spouses extension or OA visa entry.

I have a Non O Immigrant Multi Entry based on me being in receipt of my UK Pension from London which allows me 90 Days in Thailand.

Does it now mean I can only have a Single Entry then have too apply again when I go back too the UK every 90 Days at £150 ?

My current Non O Multi Entry expires on April the 4th 2020, if I leave in Match 2020 will I still get another 3 months from the date I re-enter Thailand ?

8 minutes ago, Autonuaq said:

Should be filled out with the address you stay or go to when you arrive at the airport.

 

They occasionally check this with you and if the tm30 not the same with the actual arrival report in the tm6 you have to provide a good reason why not. Good reason why is accepted. Report Thai home addres and stay at hotel you have to explain why. I my case it was not a problem

Your address in not shown on the stub of the TM6 and the data base at the airport is not linked to the Immigration Offices, that’s why a TM28/30 has to be done.

32 minutes ago, Foexie said:

      On ‎6‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 3:00 AM, cornishcarlos said:

I'm pretty sure they don't care... 

Just put down any address you want ????

 

who is going to check that ? ? ?

 

They just want a name of any hotel on the paper. 1 Time i did not give a name on the paper, they stopped me and said i need to fill in a hotel. I said i didn't know yet what hotel i was going to stay in.

No problem he said. Just give a name.

I don’t believe they actually input your address, they don’t have the time. they for me only check that the details in the magnetic strip are the same as the details on the main page plus that you are not ‘flagged up’ on the system.

I can’t see why you have to fill in an Arrival Card, they don’t copy any of the details from it re address etc.There is a bar code which I don’t see what purpose that serves, I have mislaid mine and filled a new one in at the airport so the bar codes wouldn’t match.

The UK have now stopped using Arrival Cards.

5 minutes ago, champers said:

Blackpool and San Francisco have coped OK for decades.

Yes but the rails hunt been submerged in water.

1 minute ago, geisha said:

Taxis, Baht buses , motorbikes, tour buses, all should be banned from where the tram runs. Flood drainage works done before or at the same time as preparing the rails. Special licence taxis allowed to do hotel pick ups drop offs , hospitals etc, from a central taxi station. Barriers put up, police presence on all entrances. CCTV cameras everywhere. All these things exist in popular tourist areas around the world. One of the best examples is Nice. Two big multi story parking buildings at either end of Pattaya would work wonders too. One can only hope that the research team they employ are experts and know the particular problems of Pattaya . People will complain, but will eventually get used to it. The change in the air you’ breath will be truly amazing ! 

In the perfect world not a problem but this Thailand where common sense doesn’t prevail unfortunately.

2 minutes ago, tabacione said:

Big problems in Pattaya are 2:

 

1 a road like Soi Buakhaow a two-way traffic despite being very narrow and with many roadside activities, while roads are wider like Beach Road and Second Road are one-way.

 

2 taxi drivers who do what they want, stop everywhere without a minimum rule.
The police said 2 years ago that it reduced the number of taxis in Soi Buakhao to avoid traffic congestion, the rule lasted about a month and now taxis do what they still want.

 

Certainly a solution, like a tram would be very valid.

Does the proposed Tram Line go down Soi Bukhao, I don’t think so which would make it even busier with Baht Buses looking for business.

it states quite clearly on Baht Buses that they only stop at recognised stops, there isn’t any on Soi Bukhao.

I am sure a couple of years ago they stopped Baht Buses going along Soi Bukhao but as been quoted it didn’t last very long basically because it was never enforced,

We went through BKK a few weeks ago, the Thai Line was only for Thais with an E Passport, my Thai partner who doesn’t have an E Passport had too stand with me in the Farang line. 

On the way back there was a line for Thais with a non E Passport, I went through that gate with her.

Before the E Passports were introduced I always went though the Thai line with her.

2 minutes ago, luckyluke said:

Don't think the business owners there would be happy with this. 

 

Or than, eventually, remove all businesses from Soi Bukhao. 

Make Buakhao traffic free apart from delivery drivers from Nikon Court too Pattaya Klang.

Multiple accidents when scooter wheels get stuck in the rails I would think plus more overhead wires. The money should be spend on the flooding problems first, 

8 hours ago, Ulic said:

The later the better. Yes, socialization is important but that can be done at home with friends and neighbors. School at a young age is just babysitting not an early educational start. Kids need to be quite mature to learn in a school environment. Kids learning to speak two (or more) languages at the same time will develop linguistic skills a little later than single-language children but will be better off and far more advanced in the long run. Keep your kids at home, play with them and expose them to the joy of learning not the drudgery of rote memorization. 

Keep them at home with friends and neighbours, what friends and neighbours, they are at work all day, their kids are either ‘farmed’ out too the Grandparents or at school. 

Its the same in the UK, both parents have too work to make ends meet, children are in in Nursery from a few months.

Yes in the old days Mother stayed at home like all Mothers did whilst the Father was the breadwinner unfortunately its not like that in the modern world.