foreverlomsak

I thought if you use an agent like key visa, they posted it back to you. By Trendy he does not mean an agent called Trendy, but the HMPO office in the Trendy Building. HMPO require you to collect it from them so they can cancel your old passport. At least that was my experience from a couple of years ago.

1. officially 2 months before application, some offices insist on the old 3 months 2. see 1 above 3. for an initial Non O Retirement application it needs to be a foreign transfer, subsequently no

If you use the update machine it often overwrites previous entries, and I presume that it is possible for a consolidated entry to zero out and therefore not show that the account could have gone under during the period.

In Thailand they're liable to sneak up behind you especially if you're in a pedestrian only area.

I transferred from Work Permit/B Visa to retirement (800K in bank), without any requirement to show where the money had come from.

"Are inhouse drug tests normally conducted?" would be a better question in my opinion

send for Big Joke

should read "nightly basis" and the police are too busy at night sleeping, it's also too dangerous for them to be out in the dark as they might get accosted by the "ladies of the night", which we keep getting told don't exist in Pattaya.

who is going to give the voters their "backhanders" if there are no corrupt people anymore, no money no vote.

Most bank branches have update machines like ATM's, some are multi-function machines, that is they can do deposits and book updates as well as ATM withdrawals, some are single purpose, at least where I am that is what is available. Of course updates in the book can also be done by tellers inside the bank.

yes

don't know, but I've seen many signs in the past saying "Free beer tomorrow" never managed to get any yet, but will keep trying.

which is why my Immigration office askes for an annual statement as well a copy of the book, even though I have never had a consolidated entry, but quite often the update machine overprints a previous entry making it unreadable.

and probably did the same if they had access to motorcycles without check. In real rural areas quite possibly only buffalos were available, or what I had to put up with Scotland my feet.

Out where I live a lot of the parents are picked up about 5:30/6:00 in the morning to work in fields or local factories, not getting home until 12/13 hours later. What the kids get up to in the meantime they have no knowledge, and nobody will tell the parents as it may cause problems for interfering in their families lives.

It's comes under the heading of population control.

I've said it before it's too dangerous for the police to be out at night, so they'll be asleep somewhere, also they can't see infractions in daylight so how can you expect the police to see them during the dark.

Was the last day, before going back to school following day, had stayed there a number of times before during rainy season and never a hint of standing water in the Soi, let alone flooding.

or maybe the roof of the hotel.

Overnight flood water is rising fast, where you parked is on slightly higher ground but still flooding, only way out is through deeper water, what do you do a) abandon the car or b) chance the deeper water or c) ...................... This happened to me a few years ago, I took my pickup out slowly, but cars were still travelling at normalish speeds creating massive bow waves.

About 2 years ago they turned up to dig a trench at the start of the Soi I live on and then lay a concrete drainage channel, took about 3 months to complete 100 yards. Two associated problems 1. It's doesn't connect to the streams at either end and 2. It's not on the side of the road where the water collects and pools

Most currencies, apart from the USD, have seen big swings in the last couple of weeks, GBP lost 8% but gained most of it back by the weekend. The problem as I see it (and I'm probably wrong) is that the Thais really only gauge the strength of the THB against the USD and the USD is very strong just now.

Wrong, they are asleep, it's too dangerous for them out on the roads.

Read what I wrote! It said nothing opening an account, I was depositing money into my children's accounts, i.e. trying to give the bank money in Thai Baht.

Of course they do, and be aware of the HMRC automatically assuming you get the annual increases to your DWP pension and hence a reduction to your other pensions tax free amount. This happened to my father to the tune of over 900GBP before he spoke to me about it. In my case I have 2 private pensions, a small annual one which is a fixed amount and a larger monthly pension which has annual increases. They set my tax code based on the monthly getting no increases and gave the small one all the remaining allowance. OK for year 1, but year 2 tax was deducted despite the total income being 5,000GBP less than the personal allowance. In neither case was there any problem getting a refund, I just wrote to them explaining the correct situation, they were quite quick to reply.