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More in hope than expectation I got hold of two of those Yellow books last week. My wife goes for her second vaccination at the local public hospital on Tuesday. I'll be amazed if they actually endorse her book. I'm slightly more hopeful for when I go to the MedPark for mine next month.

I had the same problem. I asked MedPark, where I had my first vaccination, to submit my phone number to the relevant place, which they did, and my vax now shows up on the MorProm app.

It seems to me that extensions issued under 2.23 of the Police Order are based on the fiction that applicants are no longer Thai nationals. The wording is "In the case of a person who used to have Thai nationality or whose parent is or was of Thai nationality visiting relatives or returning to his or her original homeland." Thailand seems to be a bit uncomfortable with the concept of dual nationality, so situations like the OP's arise, compounded by the tendency of some immigration officers to apply their personal interpretations and prejudices. A few years back a Thai lady who had lived in the UK for 30 years, never been back to Thailand, came to stay with us a couple of times. The first time she visited on her UK passport, but applied for and obtained a Thai passport, intending to stay longer the next time. Arriving at Suvarnabhumi on the second occasion she was unwise enough to show the IO both her passports. He declined to admit her on her Thai passport on the grounds that it contained no evidence of travel or any endorsements showing her status in the UK, and insisted on stamping her UK passport for 30 days as a visitor. She went to immigration locally and they gave her a year under 2.23, which suited her at the time. They advised her not to show her UK passport at Thai borders. If I were the OP I would just ignore the visit stamps in his kid's passports.

Sadly, that is the case. I think that often it is based on the assumption that we no longer pay any tax to the UK, which is not true of most pensioners.

You would only have had to show your passport to the airline at check-in, as reassurance to them of your admissibility to Thailand as you were probably on the return part of your ticket. There haven't been regular immigration embarkation controls at UK ports and airports since the mid-1990s.

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Thanks, I suspected as much.

It won't let me register, I get a message like 'API error'. I wonder if it's because on the MedPark certificate (first dose) my phone number is not recorded, just entered as "null". Unless it's a temporary glitch I suppose I have to wait to get that fixed on my second visit, which is not until late October. In the meantime, I doubt I will be refused service in any of my local restaurants.

Well, good luck with that. It's not that I don't feel just the same, but they are likely to hit you with a fine. As best I understand it, you have to submit the Passenger Locator Form before you travel, and coming from Thailand you'll have to declare a quarantine hotel booking. If you don't turn up or abscond after a couple of days. they're bound to know, and whilst you may evade them for the length of your stay you effectively become a fugitive. Let us know how you get on.

As of this afternoon, clicking on anything causes the bottom third of the screen to be blocked off by advertising. Combined with the panel down the side, the result is barely more than 1/3rd of the screen that I actually want to look at. If it's still like that tomorrow I'm done with Aseannow, I don't need such irritation.

This from the latest 'Bangkok Documentary' issued by the Embassy:- NHS COVID Passes/Vaccine Passports are currently not available for people who have been vaccinated outside of the UK. The UK government however recognises it needs to consider how to treat British Nationals who have been vaccinated overseas. Work is ongoing to determine which non-UK vaccines may be recognised. I suppose it's too much to hope that they will enable British citizens to enrol on the NHS app and enter their vaccination details. I guess there are some here who can access the app anyway because they've not been away so long that their NHS record has been deleted, as mine has.

Pedantic, I know, but it's 10 years from the date of issue. But the result is that for those who have to apply for annual extensions, you are likely to have to renew it after 9 years or accept an extension of less than a year.

No, it means people from British Overseas Territories like the Falklands, also the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, and diplomatic staff who got themselves vaccinated, not peasants like you or me. So British Embassy staff who have had Astra Zeneca in Bangkok are exempt, while my AZ vaccination in Bangkok (obtained no thanks to them) counts for nothing.

That's for the maximum, I think. This is what the DWP website says:- To get the full basic State Pension you need a total of 30 qualifying years of National Insurance contributions or credits. This means you were either: working and paying National Insurance getting National Insurance Credits, for example for unemployment, sickness or as a parent or carer paying voluntary National Insurance contributions If you have fewer than 30 qualifying years, your basic State Pension will be less than £137.60 per week but you might be able to top up by paying voluntary National Insurance contributions.

To maintain ILR you have to be away from the UK for less than two years. Regarding pension, there is no widows state pension, and if you lived and worked in the UK you must have, as best I remember, at least ten years of contributions to qualify for a minimum pension. My wife fell a little short of that, so I bought extra years to top her up above the minimum. There is a limit to the extra years you can buy, but I can't remember what that is.

That is actually all you need. The point is that the Passport Office aren't really interested in your address in Thailand, because they're not going to post anything to you. What the immigration stamp in your passport tells them is that you are legally staying in Thailand and that Thai Immigration have had sight of your passport, so there's a sporting chance that it is genuine.

...unlike the British Chamber of Commerce. I would be going to Pattaya tomorrow for a vaccination arranged by them if I hadn't already had my first dose at MedPark in Bangkok two weeks ago.