Olmate

24 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

Couldn't agree more.

Get  Ozzie Laurie Laurence! " Do the 5"! 🙏

33 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Glad that it wasn't a chunk of the main structure, but still vey much a concern if bits are being later attached to the main structure of buildings which are unsafe. 

Fascia =fascade! &

No, but was in Ozrecently, went to.clink...... But I did get similar from NAB  re credit card! Due diligence check.from Aus banks.Wtf!  Must.do it.seems.Check ID, location, income stream, financial worth, citizen of any other country.Rang  them few.daysago...Nitemare!  Anybody get similar? 

2 minutes ago, Djinn91 said:

 

No problems here either until now....

 

What's with the others stupid trolling?

 

This is an issue. BKK bank needs to get their act together and WISE is how 90%+ of expats transfer their money.

Whos trolling pray tell? 90%, no way! 

29 minutes ago, gargamon said:

Wow. Some people are still using BKK bank. Hard to believe.

Wow, some still using Wise, slow learner! 

Nisan @ Cambodia Tours and Travel, Soi Bucket wins hands down! 

On 5/24/2025 at 1:49 AM, Espanol said:

 

The best in what sense? Variety, quality, price...

 

The best in 'wanna be hi.so checkout snobs'! 

5 hours ago, shocky2012 said:

K tough guy.

Sorry I was too busy renting some of my properties today lol.

You have a right way of thinking, Natural selection at his finest.

Keep going!

Russians rent dung holes for sure, you,re on to it! lol

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

From OP first post...... 

"because of my own negligence, I miss calculated the amount of money I should kept in my account . Yep I know pretty stupid A" 

 

Actually I'm in similar boat. Obtained last extension Nov and  said to Thai partner "all good for another year.

Next day she dipped the 800k under  by 1500.

Immigration are so strict on this. 

Ohh.ok.i.cant read🤣

1 hour ago, DrJack54 said:

Not sure I follow. 

If the OP, made an error with financial compliance then immigration will not (generally) overlook that. 

I.think OP meant his application didnt reflect his actual true financial situation? 11yrs no problems? 

Surely you can correct your mistake by talking TO.IO, mistakes are usually easy to confirmvia.your.Bank statements etc?? 

On 5/22/2025 at 10:07 PM, shocky2012 said:

RIP to the young guy but then watch them try to put the blame on weed lol.

Guys, people dont just jump out of a window or shoot a gun because they smoked a blunt. Thats just not how it work.

Im curious to see his toxicology report. Wouldnt surprise me to see some harder drugs in his system.

Regardless, RIP to him. Its easy to get lost as a foreigner-expat here in Thailand.

Crap! Lost the day he left mommy, no loss to Thailand or Russia.

37 minutes ago, Merrill said:

A smile at last people are waking up. A long time ago 2020 I saw through the fear scam due to me living next to a huge hospital in the UK. Oh it was a huge plandemic based on fear. On a forum I predicted that that the next variant will be named “omega” well sadly the forum band me after many years for disinformation. they were right the variant was called “Omicron”, I had to rejoin under a different name. 

Shame you bothered if your contributions are similar as on here! lol.!!    (when are you actually moving here😭? 

13 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

 

Of course you enjoy it.

Lewie London is your new cult leader. 

 

1 hour ago, HappyExpat57 said:

 

This isn't the first time you've made a post like this. If you don't like it, don't click on the topic. It's quite easy to see who is posting from the avatar.

 

Many of us enjoy a rather disjointed but eloquently written story. Lewie gets a lot of likes and more than a few conversations stem from the stories.

 

You get a yellow flag and a yawn yourself.        🥱

Eloquent?... Crist pal, suggest to your tag team leader to use some Ozzie lingo.! lol

41 minutes ago, Mutt Daeng said:

Today's brekkie. Eggs slightly over cooked - not as runny as I like.

 

Lovely green tinge to the eggs😭

3 minutes ago, ChipButty said:

I thought that rule had been dropped years ago, obviously not, more fool the kids for sitting there and letting them do it, in a civilized world could that be considered assault? My grand daughter is only 5 years old you touch her hair she would burn the place down, 

You have obviously forgotten what the teacher/student relationship  was like as a newbie to primary school years.! 

4 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

I know.  I was just pointing out your comment was off topic.

Doesnt seem to effect other posterswho are contributing to the actual subject matter! 

14 hours ago, sandyf said:

In the early days of VFS, they took over from the embassy about 20 years ago, they had a great deal in the handling of applications. At no time have I ever indicated they were involved in making a decision, but if your application never passed through VFS no decision would be made. For some reason some want to distort the context of what gets said.

When my wife did her first application at Regent House she was interviewed for about 20 minutes by VFS staff. Some will dispute "interviews" were held, and I would agree, "interrogation" would be more appropriate. The view is that if it didn't happen to them,  it didn't happen to anyone.

VFS is a parasite used by governments to underhandedly deter people from applying for visas. When the Ukraine war started Priti Patel misled the House when she said she would put more staff on processing visas. She wasn't in a position to employ VFS staff and they would only allocate 2 members of staff.  

Thanks, exactly the case for Aust now: this time last year  Albo the PM said he would make the process easier, in fact it became impossible without using an agent here, or in Oz. Agents in Pattaya and Bkk  gaurantee a holiday visa (approx 20kbaht). Do they have Oz Embassy contacts? .. No its VFS.

Agree on the interview/interogation process, partner or relative not allowed in the VFS office, why is that, to appeal the knockback is expensive and fruitless! 

55 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The thread is about UK visas.

6 hours ago, Olmate said:

 

I was responding to the comment "they dont refuse the visa", not specifically UK.

And one cant read, same reply to you as.before! 🙃

30 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

They have no authority whatsoever. VfS are simply processing agents for UKVI.... a glorified post box if you like. That said, they have become more professional and helpful over recent years.

Gullible Englishmen aplenty here🤣

4 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

All UK visa decisions are made by UK civil servants working for UKVI.  

VFS have NO part in the decision making. They just take and check the applications before forwarding them on to UKVI.

On 5/11/2025 at 9:05 AM, Olmate said:

Thats exactly their job, yes or no! 

I was responding to the comment "they dont refuse the visa", not specifically UK.

14 hours ago, sandyf said:

You would have to show me where I said they did.

 

In the days where you had to had to hand over all the documentation to VFS, they had a great deal of influence on how quickly that documentation was passed to the embassy. Which in turn affected the time taken to get a decision. The point I made was they could speed that up if they chose to do so, or as things still stand, you can pay them to speed things up.

As I already said, current procedures have limited some of the influence they once had.

Both you two blokes are having a bob each way, VFS have a say/ no they don,t. Clearly they do or they would,nt exist. Ask any agent working in Trendy Building! 🤪

18 minutes ago, youreavinalaff said:

VFS cannot refuse applications. That's not their job.

Thats exactly their job, yes or no! 

36 minutes ago, RJRS1301 said:

RoboDebt is very significant, it put paid to the "fraud" issue,  the govt had to repay billions to those who were accused of debt, which was fraud by government against vulnerable humans

The Australian government has repaid over $751 million in unlawfully claimed debts and $112 million in compensation to approximately 400,000 people impacted by the Robodebt scheme. This brings the total settlement value to $1.2 billion, including debt waivers. The Robodebt scheme, which used income averaging to raise debts, was ruled unlawful by the Federal Court in 2019. 

These were people "accused" of fraud, so your hypothesis seems  disingenuous to say the least

 

?? 'disingenuous'!    thats something we might need to expand upon for KH! 🥺

14 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

I suppose why not give out more freebies.  After all, Australia is ONLY 1 trillion dollars in debt. 

You say on one hand the people are broke but on the other hand their bludgers??? Name your so called freebies???   NFI in action again.🥺