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Earlier this month HMPO debited my credit card fro 2 applications made in March. This suggests that HMO are working and my passports are being processed.

Is there any news on VFS re-opening anytime soon?

Impossible to reason with some people...........OVER AND OUT!!!!!!!

10 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

The laws are not about drinking, the laws are to discourage congregating, drinking, eating, playing monopoly etc all leads to a grouping of people.

All using a common bathroom, breathing in a confined space, Theoretically, all your guests could be touching the same doorbell.

Just as we would if we all went to a restaurant, albeit not drinking alcohol. I would like to think my home is cleaner than the average restaurant.  Its all a bloody farce!

12 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

This is not about drinking, it is about social gatherings................................... in Thailand the two are often inextricably linked.

 

 

Hopefully, you haven't got so many friends so as to make it a mass gathering that might attract the attention of the authorities.

 

 

If in doubt just disguise it as a monk party.

Good idea, but you wouldn't see me dead in a saffron robe, let alone socialising with monks, real or otherwise !

If I invite a couple of friends round to my home, and we sit and eat food that I prepared all sitting 2m, apart  (much the same as if we were all in a restaurant) and I had a few beers (in my own home) but my friends didn't drink, would that be OK or fall foul of the law?

This the most ridiculous thing I have read in my 33 years here in Thailand. Is it just a new rule off the top of someones head? Has it been thought out? Doesn't look like it, or if it has lets have some details in full

What happens with all the deliveries to Tesco. Makro and every other shop, which come from another province. Will the delivery drivers have to be quarantined for 14 days?  What about those that live close to the Buriram border, that either need to enter Buriram for a hospital appointment, or leave the province for a similar reason? I could go on and on................................

And those UK citizens whose passports have expired or will shortly expire and have no way of renewing them??? They are technically in Thailand illegally. Will their previous extension be extended beyond the lifetime of their passport?

No help on this from either the British Embassy or UK HMPO.

A darned sight lower then the usual 5% per month minimum from the loan sharks

14 minutes ago, essox essox said:

YOU HAVE TO COLLECT NEW PASSPORT....as one has to sign for it....they WILL NOT POST....

Correct.......they will not post. You also have to present your old passport for cancellation before they will hand over the new passport.

3 hours ago, theoldgit said:

The updated advice published today helpfully says:

"British nationals abroad who need to apply for a passport

If your country‘s VAC is closed, you won’t be able to apply for a British passport. If you urgently need to travel to the UK, you can apply for an emergency travel document"

 

It doesn't advise what applicants who are waiting for their new passports to be delivered should do, however visa applicants have been supplied with this email address [email protected]

The recipient address  is [email protected]   NO full stop after .com.
 

1 hour ago, OJAS said:

 

But at least those incompetent clowns at HMPO have finally got round to informing us on that site that the passport renewal service is no longer available from Thailand until God knows when!

 

So there is no passport service from Thailand and VFS are shut.

What about the probably hundreds of passport renewals that have been submitted to VFS, but the new passports are yet to arrive back. I know of 6 people waiting new passports, one of which expires this week. The person concerned will therefore be illegally in Thailand with no valid visa.

With the British Embassy remaining open, it would surely be simple for HMPO to send completed pasports to the Embassy, or better still courier them direct to the passport holder instead of to VFS as usual, just as was done in the past when applications were submitted to Hong Kong. But HMPO rejected that idea when I put it to them. perhaps because they didn't think of it first!!!!!!!

On 4/13/2020 at 8:31 AM, essox essox said:

trendy house WILL NOT send by post.....one has to collect new passport in person....AS YOU HAVE TO SIGN FOR the new one !!!

To collect your new UK passport from VFS, either self or using an agent, your old passport has to be submitted for them to cancel and cut the corner off. No old passport, then no new one!!!

My agent in Bangkok was told by VFS some 2 weeks ago that new passports "in the pipeline" would be sent back to VFS and could be collected from VFS in the usual way, since they would have a skeleton staff.

Posts above and elsewhere seem to suggest that VFS is closed in its entirety

Can anyone advise the true position please?

19 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

Contact your (Irish?) Embassy.

It is not for me, but a British expat teacher who I am trying to help. From past experience I don't imagine for one minute the Br Embassy will help. other than supply an emergency travel document. And that would not be needed as nobody can leave Thailand!

Just now, Tanoshi said:

You mean the VFS centre.

It's closed.

I am given to understand that whilst VFS is closed for new passport and visa applications,  British passport renewals in the system, will be returned to VFS in the usual way, and a skeleton staff will advise re arrival and collection details.

2 minutes ago, andy8017 said:

I am waiting for a passport renewal  sent to HMPO by EMS after lock down in March ,no reply to E.mails or phone ,?

Surely passport  renewals for Brits have to be applied for at VFS. How come you submitted it by EMS direct to HMPO?

7 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

You could apply for another (presumably) 1 year extension, which will only be granted to the expiry date of your Passport. Hopefully by then the VFS centre may have reopened.

Unfortunately both the visa extension and passport expire on the same day at the end of April

What is/will be the position of an expat whose British passport is almost finished (visa extension to end of April) who cannot renew the passport as VFS are no longer accepting renewal applications. 

2 minutes ago, Mung said:

treat people like animals they are going to act like animals. It's easy to see that countries that have decent facilities and care for the wellbeing of their prisoners, have lower crime rates. 

Many are in the worlds monkey houses, because they acted like animals in the first place. Prison life needs to be harsh so as hopefully to act as a deterrent

2 hours ago, Jip99 said:

That is why he was in there....... ????

 

 

I remember the day the monkey wagon took him there from the local nick.

Wasn't it the back of a pick up truck, with Colin waving to all and sundry?

4 hours ago, Mung said:

At least in Scotland they are not laying on the floor side by side with 99 other inmates, lights switched on 24/7 

And neither would they be if they hadn't committed the crime