NanLaew

I have been a forum member for a long time and I have never heard any member who offers advice being asserted as infallible or claiming to be infallible themselves. Yes, seriously.

Just for information, looking at the visa information page for the Royal Thai Consulate General in HCMC, they require proof of financials. 2.4.1. Thai spouse: Guarantee letter from Thai Spouse, can be Thai or English Copy of Thai marriage certificate - If an applicant has another national marriage certificate, the document will need to be translated in English by a notary public - For Vietnamese marriage certificate need to be legalized by Department of External Relation in Ho chi Minh City (Address: 6 Alexandre De Rhodes, Quận 1, TP.HCM) Certified copy of Thai spouse’s ID card Certified copy of house registration book Other relevant document, for example copy of Thai child’s birth certificate with their passport/Id card 2.4.2. Thai child(ren) Copy of Thai child’s birth certificate with their passport/Id card Certified copy of house registration book 2.5. Applicant’s financial statement of adequate finance is required. Also note the need for "certified"copies of ID card and Tibian Bahn without any suggestion as to what is considered an acceptable body to do that certification. https://hochiminh.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/non-immigrant-o-accompanying-thai-spouse-and-family-members

I have a City & Guilds in Planning and Scheduling.

A signed copy of the wife's passport is on the official list of required documents but it was not requested when I submitted my application two days ago. The official list says ONLY a signed Thai passport copy or does it include ID card? Seems bizarre as it assumes that all Thai spouses will have a passport.

A bit like what now? Count? Is this a competition? You're funny. Strange funny I mean. What I read from all this is don't put all your CSI eggs in one basket solely based on the mangled translation of single news source being quoted on an English-language forum. You appear to find this "contrast" between reports over +24 hours as something quite remarkable and suggesting that it's hitherto unknown in the annals of crime busting (armchair and otherwise). Someone once told me that solving a crime is an evolving process of sometimes endless discovery. It'll come to me, bear with me. Bonus Tip, no charge: Are you aware that the most unreliable witnesses in any crime investigation are those claiming to be eye witnesses? Typically they are the first to be discounted due to being notoriously unreliable. They are also too easily picked apart by any half-decent defence or prosecuting lawyer if they ever get on a witness stand. Stick with me on this. You may learn something. PS: It was Holmes that told me.

Accept what now? When a foreigner repeatedly denigrates Thailand, its people, its culture and everything else Thai like the RTP, usually with the derisory 'Thainess' label, that's anti-Thai. It isn't unique to alleged murders. LOL You mean when a spouse is allegedly murdered don't you? Not sure where you pulled that man-hater 'argument' from but it's so patently ill-formed, I guess you aren't in the same league as Clouseau and Poirot after all. You honestly haven't a Watson's do you? Virtue signalling? @Liverpool Lou and I (and probably a few others) are simply having a jolly good wheeze at your armchair theatrics. They're almost as bad as your armchair sleuthing. PS: It's an alleged murder now. Try and keep up.

Orgy? Hardly. I just quietly thought he may have topped himself.

Not considered by you of course but I did. However, I kept my own counsel while others blamed evil, cheating Thai womenfolk and the like.

Makes sense to whom? You "probably" need a new shovel by now, no?

Yes, anti-Thai, anti-Thailand and usually drenched in misogyny. All quite tedious.

Hey! You! Armchair guy! Read the news. His wife was with him in Germany. Taking "initial evidence" and the "laws of probability", I would guess that right now, Clouseau's laughing at you.

Amazing how many members picked up on the rather tenuous 'cheating wife' hypothesis and ran with it, some of them repeatedly so. Maybe they're a bit jaded from personal or anecdotal experience, some of them repeatedly so?

Can't understand my Mrs. Whenever we go to a noodle restaurant she puts at least two spoonfulls of sugar in my bowl. I tell her I neither want nor need it but she persists. Does she know she's the primary benefactor on your life insurance or is she just winging it?

You sir have a simply awesome armchair.

Very simplistic. Your notion about learning from the 'real world' I mean. Your suggestion that all they do is play games and do food porn on FB is a redundant trope same as gurning about Thaksin is. There's probably more than enough generational enlightenment to go around in all the places that matter (that's only Bangkok by the way) but it probably takes more than just motivation or someone willing to die to make any change. Apart from their indolence and death not having the same cache as it has in the west, nobody's going to break a sweat or martyr themselves for change so suck it up. It is what it is (and what it will forever be).

It seems he comes to your mind when I write about corruption... Yup, you still got it bad.

Still got that pesky Thaksinsomnia, eh?

You new here 'bwana?

The OP was not almost refused entry. The IO asked the usual questions, that's all. Maybe it's the stress of getting the prenupts done? You do have a prenupt?

Look where Kevin lives.

Depends how many hairs you have left, I'd rather let a barber do it for 100+, much easier It's a sad indictment of our times that the comb over that served our forefathers so well is no longer considered to be an option.

Pretty gutless performance by the dashcam car, no? Can't punch down and pass a small lorry? Maybe if he took the fake plastic 'sports' grill off the hood/bonnet, he would get a few more inches per second. Looks like he was intent on following the truck at the end so he could give him a baleful stare from behind his dark tinted windows.

Except your Thai born wife was doing these changes in Thailand. The procedures for the locals can be cut and dried but any similar dealings by a foreigner is fraught with the incorrect translation, letter from embassy or certified by MOFA circus. Don't the UK authorities issue some formal documentation with the before/after details of the name change by deed poll? I recall reading a fairly recent post about someone seeking advice on what's needed for Thai immigration to transfer/renew an extension when the same person is presenting their new passport with their new name (deed poll change). I recall mention of there being two official methods of doing the name change in the UK but only one provides this supporting documentation? If the OP's friend still has full control over the existing, old-name accounts, including online access, why not open new account(s) and do regular transfers from old to new accounts over a period of time?

THAI? The airline?

Children or teenagers? If you are not a teenager yourself, then it's EQUALLY wrong. Any suggestion that it may be more acceptable with "teenagers over 15, who likely have anyhow sex" is just plain creepy.