Two Plus Two

Thanks all for your thoughtful replies. For the avoidance of angst I'll just go with re-entries. As it happens, I attended the immigration office to renew my extension this morning and they, as I kind of expected, said I shouldn't take the VE route.

I'm here on a retirement extension and have two trips this month. Will depart for trip 1 with a re-entry permit in passport A. Can I return from trip 1 and enter visa-exempt on passport B, leave on passport B and then return from trip 2 on Passport A with the re-entry permit? I'm guessing worst case is that VE might be declined and then will have to use the RE permit? It's not a big deal either way, just looking to save a little time and money.

Your mother swims out to passing ships.

A couple of times when I've been stuck in pending limbo with the due date looming, the Mrs has called the local office (Rayong) and they sorted it immediately. My most recent report took 8 days to clear without intervention.

I expect they meant Level 4 which is for departures.

I applied for the UK pension last September and have just received the first payments, so about 6 months to process Just mentioning it for info, not complaining.