Red Phoenix

This is excellent advice from Lemsta69, and probably your best option if your wife refuses to co-operate for your upcoming extension. So apply for an e-Visa to Laos, Cambodia or Vietnam, and then do a border-run making sure to re-enter before 31st March. That will provide you with a 45-day Permission to stay, which can be one-time extended for 30 days. If you apply immediately after return for a new UK passport, that will provide 75 days for the new Passport to arrive. That should be enough, but in case it is not you could then pay your wife or one of your children a hefty sum to accompany you to the Imm Office for an additional 60-day extension to visit your family. Note than when you bought a Re-Entry Permit for your current Permission to stay, that it would complicate things. In case of a single Re-Entry Permit you would have to first do a border-run to 'use up' that single re-entry, and you would be stamped in again till your current permission to stay date. And only then would you be able to go for the process as outlined higher. If you bought a Multiple Entry Re-Entry Permit you would have to wait till 4th June before a border-run will provide you with a Visa Exempt permit to stay (and it's well possible that after 31st March the current prolonged 45-days for a Visa Exempt entry will be back to 30 days, so instead of 75 days for the new UK passport to arrive, you would only have 60 days).

Which goes to show he didn't know everything, and to believe that suffering could be extinguished has to be a bit weird, IMO. Hi TBL, His answer does not show 'that the Buddha didn't know everything' as you state. But rather that the level of the person asking the question was such that he would not benefit from the answer (and would as good as certain misinterpret it to fit his pre-conceptions).

As I wrote before, I recently opened an N26 internet Bank-Account from Thailand using my Belgian passport and mobile with Thai SIM. N26 has similar or better conditions than Revolut but is only available for EU passport-holders (I did provide a Belgian address, although I am living in Thailand). But I looked it up for Revolut and indeed to open a Bank-account in UK you need proof of address residing there. The Revolut users in Thailand, probably opened the account while they were still residing in UK.

Really? Is that a sort of law ? Not saying you're wrong, but can you give an example ? Hi mauGR1, A question is meaningful FOR YOU when the answer or answers to it are helpful FOR YOU. This is not only true for very mundane questions but also for philosophical concepts as addressed on the God sub-forum. A simple example: It would not be meaningful to ask for directions, when you don't know where you want to go. Missing that essential piece of knowledge, will make it impossible to provide a helpful direct answer. In other words answers to questions will only be helpful when the receiver can place them in his/her frame-of-reference. When someone asks a metaphysical question to which the answer is totally out of his world-view, it will as good as always be to no avail trying to answer. The answer - even if fully correct - will have no anchor-points in the questioner's world-view and it will be rejected or distorted by his pre-conceptions. While that same answer can be an Aha-erlebnis for those that do have the necessary background to appreciate it. I vividly remember the endless discussions we had 2 years ago with members that had no clue about spirituality and always equaled it with organized religion. Missing that essential concept, their questions were often unanswerable by more knowledgeable members.

In order to ask a meaningful question, you need to know already half of the answer...

A fitting cartoon to celebrate my return to the God sub-Forum, after a long ban for speaking truth about covid and the jabs...

As long as signing up for an Account does not require EVIDENCE of you living in the UK, you can simply give the address of a relative or friend (that's what I did when I signed up for the EU-based N26 Internet Bank). The signing-up process will normally ask for a selfie of your Passport and a selfie of yourself (to ensure that the passport is indeed from you). I would also suggest you open a new thread 'Any UK citizens in Thailand using REVOLUT' as I am pretty sure that there are several < e.g. Neeranam, who was former UK and has now Thai citizenship, and wrote that he has Revolut >

https://www.revolut.com/ Then click on the +44 mobile number and change to +66 for Thailand

Just Google 'Opening a REVOLUT account while in Thailand'. Note: Instead of trying to do it on a mobile, try opening the Revolut-site on a laptop computer, and there you will have the option to input a Thai mobile number.

When you meet the requirements to apply for a 1-year Non Imm O-A Visa in your home-county AND you have a Health-Insurance Policy that meets the Non Imm O-A requirements, it could be worthwhile to switch to a Non Imm O-A Visa, provided you go at least once every 2 years to your home-country and during your stay there apply for a NEW Non Imm O-A Visa. The benefit of doing so is that: 1 - There is no need to keep any funds semi-permanently on a Thai personal bank-account (thus freeing up 800k/400K on your Thai bank-account); 2 - There is no need to visit an Imm Office during the 2-year period that the Non Imm O-A Visa can provide you (this is literally so when you do your 90-day reports on-line). 3 - The 1-year Non Imm O-A Visa is multiple-entry the first year (but you should only buy single-entry Re-Entry Permits in the 2nd year for your trips abroad, and REFRAIN fromr doing so for your return-trip to your home-country, thus 'killing' your current Permit to stay and being able to apply for a new Non Imm O-A Visa in your home-country). NOTE 1: The above was my plan to stay in Thailand and avoid parking +800K semi-permanently on a Thai bank-account, but because of COVID restrictions at the time when I should have left to my home-country I was forced to switch to a Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement. NOTE 2: The minimum coverage (and annual fee) for a Non Imm O-A compliant Health Insurance policy has been upped in mean time. But if you opt for a Health Insurance policy to cover you while in Thailand, it will still be worthwhile to opt for one that meets the Non Imm O-A requirements, in order to 'enjoy' the benefits of the Non Imm O-A Visa.

Good advice by Salerno, covering all the main points. I presume you are not officially married to a Thai citizen, or that you have Thai dependant children. If that would be the case, you could also opt to apply for a Non Imm O Visa for reason of marriage or for reason of dependant children, which requires more documentation to provide with your application but with much lower financial requirements to be met.

There are many expats living in Thailand that make use of Revolut. I did take a look on their website, and you are able to open an account using a Thai mobile number. To subscribe they will ask for your personal details, and a UK resident should then give an address in UK (e.g. from friends/relatives), but for opening the account you only need your passport and have a selfie-made to prove that it is you opening it. NOTE: That I do not have a Revolut account, but as EU citizen I opened an account with the N26 Internet-bank, and gave the address that I use when visiting Europe. And I can make transfers and withdrawals from my N26 account while in Thailand using my mobile phone with thai SIM-card. Would be very strange if that were not possible when using Revolut.

The question posed in this thread was whether you would be wiling to limit your personal movement in order to 'save the planet from man-made global warming'. Stating it like this implies that personal movement has a considerable negative effect on the planet (otherwise why would it need 'saving'). And the statement raises many additional questions, the main one being to which degree global warming is actually 'man-made'. It is well known that the climate effect of even one volcanic eruption is incomparably larger than the human contribution of entire nations. Of course it makes sense to avoid polluting the environment, and to ensure that our cities are livable, but not by imposing senseless restrictions that are sold as necessary to combat global warming.

False. Connda's Poll-question as well as the first sentence of his post was. Will you support laws and regulations that will limit your personal movement to no more than a 15 minute drive from your place of residence in order to save the planet from man-made global warming?

Just for clarification > I am not against transforming city centers to make them livable (parks, green areas, pedestrian only walking streets, etc.). But what I am vehemently against are restrictions on where you can go, enforced by CCTV everywhere to monitor compliance with the green rules. And hyped 'climate change' as the excuse to mandate these and other measures to control you. When you put a Green Label on it, you will always get supporters that believe that the proposed measures/mandates will help 'save the planet'. Thereby obstructing the more relevant question of 'Who benefits' (spoiler alert: NOT you).

After the disastrous medical experiment of the last 3 years to 'keep everyone safe', it's good to see that the Authorities' latest 15 minute city plans for the common good and 'saving the planet' are not embraced enthusiastically by those that would have to live in those virtual prisons...

I opened an N26 Internet-Bank account from Thailand, and as Internet-Banks do not have branche-offices, you just need your passport to make an account. N26 is EU-based so it will thus not be possible to do this as Uk citizen, but REVOLUT has largely the same benefits as N26 and an account can be opened by a UK citizen irrespective of where you are living.

The whole 'climate thing' is a total hoax, it should be called 'green-washing for profit'.

Also > As you already extended your Non Imm O-A compliant Health Insurance Policy, you might as well re-apply for a Non Imm O-A Visa at the Thai Embassy of your home-country once you are home again. But it might be useful to contact the insurer and ask whether it would be possible to update and re-issue your policy on a date prior but close to your next departure to Thailand. Otherwise if you use the current policy you subscribed to, the Non Imm O-A Visa will be capped to the expiry date of your current policy.

And note that if 30 days is not sufficient for your travel plans, that instead of a same day border-run, that you could simply stay in Cambodia or Laos for a short holiday and return to Thailand 30 days before your scheduled departure date back home.

It's not clear yet whether the temporary 45 days Permit to stay instead of the regular 30 days for a Visa Exempt entry will be prolonged, as that temporary measure to entice tourists to stay longer in the country, was foreseen only till March 31. If 30 days is sufficient for you, you could either do a border-run on the last days of your current 45 days Permit to stay (note that you would lose some of the days from that 45 day Permit if you do it before expiry date). Or alternatively - and actually cheaper, easier and more convenient - is to visit a local Immigration Office and apply for a 30 day extension of stay (costs 1.900 THB). It will be provided on the spot and it will be added to the expiry date of your current 45 days Permit to Stay. The Immigration Office might require when applying for that 30-day extension to show a TM-30 as proof of where you are staying in their province. Simply ask your Hotel/Guesthouse to provide you with a copy of the TM-30 (by law they need to fill those whenever a foreigner is staying at their premises). And if you are staying with friends, simply book a cheap Hotel-room the day before you apply, you don't even have to stay there (and can probably get a huge discount if you tell them you just need the TM-30 and will not make use of the room).

I only see one aggressive monkey on the first picture...

Two questions for clarification of what you wrote: #1 - Did you have a Re-Entry Permit when you last entered Thailand? Without such re-entry permit the Visa you had is being voided, and you then receive a Visa Exempt 45-day permit to stay. #2 - Is your Passport validity shorter than the Permit to stay that the Non Imm O-A Visa entry would provide you? That might explain the 26 October permit you received, instead of a 13 December one.

Hi Mike, sorry my bad. You are correct that when using https://onwardticket.com/ you can buy the onward-flight reservation booking in advance and have it scheduled to be delivered immediately or on the day of your choice. And that reservation will only be cancelled 2 or 3 days before that onward-flight 'departure' date. I seem to recall that there are some onward-flight service companies that cancel it automatically 2 or 3 days after they sent the reservation to you, and in that case you should of course order it close to your departure date.

Those that plan to stay longer term - like the Russians you mention - will still apply for the extensions but only do it 15 days later, so Immigration is not loosing 3 million THB, they will only get it 15 days later. And for those that do not intend to stay longer than 30 days, it doesn't matter. So imo the premisse to up the 30-day to 45-days in order to entice Tourists to plan for a longer stay than 30 days in Thailand, was indeed correct. Thai Immigration could do a database query to see how many tourists did return to their destination in the period of 30 to 45 days after their Visa Exempt entry. The number of days from those that did stay longer than 30 days, would be a fair indicator whether the scheme was succesful. I know that it was a temporary measure, but they might consider prolonging it when that indicator showed a considerable number of 'extra days' spent in Thailand