Red Phoenix

Thailand is a very big country, so would be useful to mention the province/city where you are located for people interested...

Hi Amy, You did not enter on a Tourist Visa, but you entered Thailand Visa Exempt (without a Visa) which provided you with a 45-day Permit to stay stamped in your passport on entry by Thai border Immigration. The information you received in previous responses is fully correct. But be aware that some Imm Offices do require more time than 15 days left on your Permit to stay when applying for the 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of marriage. As you would be applying in Phuket, do check on the number of remaining days required there. In case you are too late already, you would have to apply first for either a 30-day extension or for a 60-day extension for reason of visiting your Thai husband. An extension of stay - irrespective of the period it will provide - costs 1900,- THB.

Unfortunately for applicants having to navigate the Thai Immigration jungle, what you wrote is largely true. However if you are 100% sure that you are in full compliance with the Immigration requirements (e.g. when on previous occasions you were not challenged by the Imm Officer), you could politely ask to speak to the Imm Officer in charge. Obviously if also the Head Honcho of that Office insists, you then politely apology for not having been aware of the rule that you are challenged on. Local Imm Offices can impose additional requirements on top of the 'official' ones, which results in the inconsistency in requirements depending in which Imm Office you apply.

Just for clarification > If a Thai Embassy/Consulate requires additional evidence like an onward flight to an international destination during the METV validity and/or a Hotel booking on arrival, just 'stating' that you did so won't cut it. But it would be easy to make an onward-flight reservation that is automatically cancelled days before flight departure (typical cost 10-15 US $ for such service). Similarly it would be simply a matter of booking a Hotel that allows free cancellation up till day of supposed arrival (preferably one that does not require credit-card booking). Indeed both 'false' but using those methods there is no way that the Thai Embassy/Consulate could dispute or reject such bookings as they are genuine reservations.

You are right. So here: Sunmaster in-action...

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The most sensible thing you've written in a long time. But before you surprise me with yet another resurrection, I will just use the block function and be done with it. Bye Sunmaster in action...

That's a really sad story. in his case he should have used an Agent or a friend to enquire about his options when not being able to go to Immigration for his extension due to being hospitalized.

Yes, that would be possible. And it's the reason that some Imm Offices also require proof of the SOURCE of the income. Also be aware that even if your local Imm Office does not require such evidence of Source of Income, that the individual Imm Officer handling your application CAN ask for it. Note: Unless the Imm Office specifically requires a certain Source of Income (e.g. pension provider), you could be claiming monthly rental income from abroad. So it would be possible to have a friend/relative transfer you every month at approx same time a fixed sum in foreign currency (above the THB limit required) and specifying it as 'property rental fee for month X'.

Being spiritually inclined does not mean that you have to give up your sexuality. On the contrary, it means fully embracing and enjoying it. Seeing it as 'dirt' indicates that you have not yet come to terms with that part of being human.

I would never make multiple day trips in Thailand without my Passport. You never know what could happen that you need it. But of course I do not carry the passport with me all the time, but leave it at a safe place at my destination, because losing or damaging it would be an administrative nightmare. And I have pictures of Passport ID-page and latest Permit to stay pages on my phone, and if those are not sufficient when queried by Authorities and if they don't accept other ID like my thai driver license, I will simply go get the Passport (never happened by the way).

Indeed, even if your wife is currently not willing to help you out to apply for your next extension, a sufficiently large sum of money will probably buy her co-operation which would solve the whole matter.

When you get your new UK Passport, you will not immediately be able to apply for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement, as you need to be 50 years at date of application. But with that new passport you could once again leave Thailand before the end of the Permit to stay, and apply at a Thai Embassy/Consulate in a neighbouring country for a Multiple-Entry Tourist Visa, which will allow you with 2 in-between border-runs to stay almost 9 months in Thailand. So that should be sufficient to bridge the time till you are 50 and can apply for the 90-day Non Imm O Visa for reason of retirement.

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.