NanLaew

He forgets to get some KY?

Quite the pigeonholer too. Maybe next time, ask RainMan, or blackturtleneck if he too has any peristeronic inclinations?

Which bank? Which Channel Island? And probably more to the point, when was that no-fee, no-minimums account first opened, and what are the rules that one needs to abide by to make sure it retains the no-fee, no-minimums status? In other news, I now qualify for the East Lancs bus pass.

Absolutely incorrect if you reside outside of IoM or CI and are aiming to open an offshore account. If you wanted to open an onshore account at a local bank over there then, yes, you would need to be a resident there and would need to prove local residency. Yes, my imprecision, I apologize. A non-resident can indeed open a new offshore account in these jurisdictions on the proviso that a substantial opening deposit is made, and a significant balance is retained. As suggested earlier, offshore banking is largely a quest to sign-up customers with a high net worth and keep them hooked up to their bespoke milking machines.

Opening a new account in IoM or CI requires that you be resident there.

I stand corrected, thanks.

What's the ED visa you've been on for, and what's the one you're planning to get for?

Keep in mind that some countries and most airlines have rules on the minimum validity remaining on a passport. You can only fly to your home country on an expired travel document which is OK if there's a non-stop service to UK (which there isn't) so airlines and airports that you will transit through may challenge your right to travel with/through them. Have you checked out the only two websites you should be looking at with regard to your passport renewal, namely: 1 ) the UK's own passport renewal advice, and 2 ) VFS's ?

The OP has six-and-a-half weeks to do the renewal via VFS Trendy in Bangkok if he gets that application filed by this weekend. All this thread will do is attract all the bad news bears with irrelevant negative experiences from many years ago who probably were not in exactly the same situation. So plenty of time if you get jiggy with it and can provide exactly what's required. PS: You can do walk-in, no-appointment passport renewals at VFS Trendy. Now I know that may entail taking time off from work in Phuket so just in case it's seen as an option (school holidays, etc..).

Which is why Thailand recently decided to get better acquainted with the OECD and another reason the Thai Revenue Department have activated a long-standing tax law on tax-residency that's eating up great gobs of Petabytes of bandwidth on this forum alone. In banking terms, KYC does mean 'know your customer' but in the OECD's membership rules, KYC means 'know your country'.

Ah, so you've been watching, eh?

Eeewwww........

You mean "Never used them and have absolutely no idea how to use one or how they even work anyway"?

Do you mean you have a 1-year extension of stay issued by immigration in Thailand (Thai spouse) that expires in September?

Excellent. Now, how about 45 in 2025 and 46 in 2026?

I had a friend that tried to correct something like this. He regretted it, made it actually worse and wished he had never had the operation.... On the other hand, my mum refused to see a foot specialist about her 'bad feet' when in her 60's. She was a virtual cripple before she was 80.

Wow, there are two mistakes right there. 1 ) Retiring early. 2 ) Calling Pattaya paradise. All pre-existing forum credibility shot all to buggery over a pointless Thai cultural cock wave with a fellow member.

Apart from (all) that, it's bloody good here, and... a nd

There will be a great wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Nothing to see here. Hun Sen is simply dropping by to collect on that loan before Thaksin carks it.

Where else would an itinerant bin-dipper keep his wedge? In a safe in his condo?

Ah, so that was you, eh? Good point though, and chances are if you do hear some prolonged 'horning' going on, it's undoubtedly a foreigner (like the German chap trying to park out front of a Soi Buakhao gogo bar). Dumbkopf.

The UK uses a third party called VFS for their visa application screening, not a formal interview per-se and not done by actual embassy or consular staff. The first time, when the VFS office was down Rajdamri, my wife described it as 'intimidating' but that was her first application. The next two were at their Sukhumvit location and more of a box-check of provided documents. There was a debate at that time about how different VFS staff were deciding that some documents were not needed and handing them back. Some failed applicant's partners suggested that having important supporting documents 'screened out' by poorly trained VFS staff was the cause of their rejection. I told my wife that if a VFS interviewer decides to take something out, she has no right to do that and insist that ALL submitted paperwork be included. She didn't have to do this. All approved and made several trips over the years.

possibly had no cash to pay fare so offer a solution that was next day................... You mean like back in my youth when it was considered cool and fair game for young lads with their own cars to offer girls a lift home from the dance, only to pull into a lay by or quiet place on the way and ask for some "solution" to be extracted with the only other option being for the girl to walk home?

Yes, but like Pattaya and Samui, it's also a sizeable enclave of Farangistan in Thailand.