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So is there anything to stop people going to a restaurant and just ordering drink with no food? Maybe they'll get into the same hilarious tangle as the UK, where there were various attempts to define what was a "substantial meal" in pubs serving food, with suggestions that a Scotch Egg was sufficient.

Amazon will deduct any local tax and then add on carriage and what they think is the appropriate level of Thai import duty. If they have overestimated that, they will rebate the difference. It does work, and I once had a rebate from them. But it's an expensive way to buy things that are freely available here. I think InvadeIT would be a better bet, and much quicker than waiting for a keyboard from US or Europe.

I did it at Maptaphut office at the beginning of last year. I think I took copies of all the pages of my old passport, but I can't remember if they took all of them. Otherwise it was as Ubonjoe stated above. There was no fee. They filled two pages of the new passport with various stamps, starting with one noting all the details of my previous passport, a couple of stamps noting a previous conversion to Non-B status, plus another for my last entry in 2019, then a replica of the current retirement endorsement. They did it while I waited, it didn't take long. I asked them about a new TM30 slip, but they just took the one out of the old passport and stapled it into the new one.

Well, look on the bright side, that could make 90-day reports redundant.

Blast it! I'll just have to get a forged EU certificate then....off to the Kao San Road....

I update my bank book every month/six weeks, never been asked for a separate statement. The only slight hiccup I had was when a machine overprinted several entries, including the previous extension renewal date. At my next application the IO queried the missing date, and I pointed out the overprint. He referred it to a superior officer, and they let it go, I suppose because it was obvious that I always run a balance well above 800k. Now I'm always careful to refresh the book at the machine at the main local branch, as they seem to maintain the printer better than elsewhere.

The content in the linked article is slightly more interesting than the vanilla essence above, although nothing really new.

If you can avoid it, don't show them the UK passport, otherwise they are likely to stamp her in on that as a visitor. If, as Ubonjoe says, it is quick and easy to get an Emergency Travel Document, that's probably the best solution. During my time in UK Immigration Enforcement I dealt with a number of Thai illegals/overstayers, most of them without any means of identification, and their identities did not show up in our system. They were therefore removed on a simple A4 proforma with whatever name and address in Thailand they chose to give me. None of them were ever sent back. Many countries, the chief offenders being China and India, refuse to take back their nationals without a travel document, and then refuse to issue one because they claim the applicant's identity and nationality can not be verified. Thailand does not follow this scam, it takes responsibility for its own citizens, and for that reason I have long since thought that it should be easier for Thais to get a UK visa.

- and even British national must quarantine in designated hotel for 10 days.

Effectively, yes. It has become the norm to refer to visas or extensions as Non-O, Non-B Non-OA etc, but they are all "Non-Immigrant" visas/extensions because unless you have Permanent Residence or citizenship you are not applying for the settled status of an immigrant and must keep applying to renew your stay or get a new visa. So I am on a Non-Immigrant 'O' extension, which in shorthand on this forum is known as a "Non-O".

I'm well familiar with the Latin Mass, but I wondered if 'in nomina patrus' meant something else.

I assume I don't, because I searched for it on the NHS app and it didn't recognise me. I have become a non-person as far as the NHS is concerned, just one of the ways you become a second-class citizen if you decide to live abroad. By the way, I'm just curious, what does "et nomina patrus" signify?

What a joke. 1) Many like myself no longer have a GP. I very much doubt that registration with a GP can be done from overseas. 2) The newspaper I read has been full of complaints almost daily recently of patients who have had the utmost difficulty in getting to talk to a GP by phone, never mind actually see one.

I did it once about 11 years ago. I had a retirement visa from Hull, then a business opportunity came up which was too good to ignore. We were teamed up with a company in Pattaya and it was they who arranged my transfer to WP status. This involved in me being driven to the Cambodian border where, while I sat in the car, my retirement visa was cancelled and I was given a 30-day visit stamp. Then back at Pattaya I was given a 90-day extension as a WP applicant, followed by a 1-year 'B' extension. Later when the business came to a natural conclusion I had the WP cancelled and reverted to Retirement. Without the right connections I doubt any of that would have been possible.

Hmm. My second AZ jab is due in late October, precisely 12 weeks after the first one at MedPark hospital. I wonder whether the OP could indicate whether I might have cause for concern.

The guide may be useful for some, but it doesn't include AstraZeneca brewed in Thailand.

A week or so ago I had a phone call from a guy who addressed me by name and asked me if I wanted a Pfizer vaccination. I asked where he was calling from, and he said "My wife is public health worker but she no speak good English, so I am helping her". I said I had already had a first vaccination, so I did not wish to participate in a different programme. After a couple more attempts to tempt me with his Pfizer he gave up and rang off. I assumed it was a scam of some sort. There was a recent mention on one of the Youtube news channels of hospital and/or public health databases being hacked.

It is clickbait as it implies that all pensioners will now be liable for NI payments. Until now, when you reach pensionable age, now 66, you cease to be liable for NI contributions if you are still working. They now propose to levy the charge on any working income whatever your age. If you are past retirement age and don't have a job, you won't have to pay.

That relies on the hospital where you had the vaccines submitting your phone number to the Public Health Authority. If it's not shown on the documents given to the OP that's why the app doesn't let him in. If so, he has to get the hospital to put his phone number into the system.

INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATE OF VACCINATION OR PROPHYLAXIS: information and reference to vaccination against COVIS-19 on the cover!: Amazon.co.uk: INCEVA: 9798736420971: Books The price seems to have gone up by more than a couple of quid in the last two weeks.

Out of curiosity I bought a couple of these booklets, delivered a week or so ago, they weren't very expensive. As can be seen from the attached images they include a page for Covid vaccinations. I have no idea whether they will be any use for international travel, as I'm sure that when some international agreement emerges, the preferred option will be an app of some sort, and a document such as this will be met with worried frowns at check-in desks and passport controls. But surely they will have to provide some generally recognised alternative for those who don't have smartphones (see the hot topic that's running in another forum), and the paper you were issued where you were vaccinated might not cut it. So this might be it. Of course, the difficulty is getting it adequately filled in. My wife had her second vaccine at the local public hospital yesterday, and they declined to endorse her booklet. I'm not surprised, they were overrun at the time. I'll have a go with mine when I go for my second at the MedPark next month.

Additional to the info given by richard_smith237 it can record and display the details of your vaccination(s), should you need to produce this evidence anywhere, rather than carrying paper documents.

I admire your optimism. That ship sailed/sank a long time ago

I didn't have a smart phone until early last year when it seemed rather tedious (and pointless) writing down my name and phone number every time I went into Tesco - downloading the ThaiChana app and scanning a QR code seemed much less fuss. Now I wouldn't be without a smartphone, which amongst many advantages now carries the MorProm app showing my Covid vaccination. Incidentally, has anyone been pinged as a result of scanning the ThaiChana QR thing? Does it actually work? Signing/scanning yourself into our local Tesco these days seems as much honoured in the breach as the observance. Perhaps the real point of smartphones is the illusion of being in touch.

So would I.