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Make an appointment to go there. Download the form and complete it before you go. Copy of every page of your passport to be submitted with the form, your passport is handed back to you, return with it when notified that the replacement is available for collection. P.S. If your wife is dual national, copies of both passports must be declared and submitted, name in passports must be the same.

Copies of reusable items, good idea. For Rayong Office the multiple pictures wheeze wouldn't work, because they come round to visit. My pal does marriage extensions, and my missis is the "friendly neighbour", we go round for the visit every year. The process on the day seems very laid back and only takes a few minutes. The pile of paperwork seems a bit of a workup compared with my retirement extension, and a second trip to the office is required to pick up the passport with the new extension, but the less stringent financial requirement is certainly a factor for some.

I didn't know it's possible to change usernames. I don't much like mine. I guess it's getting on for 20 years ago when I signed up. I had been lurking for a while and then saw a rumour that George was thinking of charging for new subscribers, so I thought "must do it quick". When the username panel came up my mind went totally blank, and all I could think of was a password which I then used on one of the several databases I had to access at work - and stuck with it ever since.

When you arrived at Suvarnabhumi I assume you had to present your new passport for endorsement by an Immigration Officer there, where they have the technology to scan and verify a passport. I don't think provincial offices have the technology or the training to do this, hence the requirement for the embassy letter to assure them that the document presented wasn't bought on the Kao San Road.

Good question, but I bet that, as with everything else, it depends where you are reporting. I didn't bother cancelling the "pending" report which remained unapproved on day 90 and went to the office (Rayong), got the slip for next reporting, no problem. Later the same day my phone pinged, and there was my online approval, with a different next reporting date. I used the online date next time round, no problem. Make of that what you will.

It should do, the legislation has already been passed, but I wonder how efficient local authorities will be in implementing it. I'm coming up to 14 years away, so am still in the system, and don't expect to have much of a problem. Perhaps you won't, as you were previously registered, but how it will work out for people who have been out for a long time remains to be seen. I haven't read the legislation, but I remember seeing something about them wanting to take tougher measures against voting fraud, so I don't know if that will make it harder to get registered, or for postal voting. My son does my vote by post. Most commentators are still talking about an election next autumn. If anyone wants to be registered I would advise finding out about it and applying before the summer.

The only practical way to vote from here (and I suspect almost anywhere else from overseas) is to appoint a proxy. If you have a family member or a friend whom you trust to vote as you wish that works ok. My son does it for me. Once set up, renewal is a simple exchange of emails every year, at least that's the way it works with my local authority.

I'm not sure that there is a "rush" to EV's in Thailand. On my middle-class moo ban of approaching 200 houses I see about 6 or 7 EVs buzzing round which have all appeared in the last year or so. If I changed my car I would seriously think about a small EV but as long as my 3-litre turbodiesel is performing well I can't justify the change financially, even though I have a 3kw solar system on the roof, because we do relatively little mileage these days. I recently watched a video of a chap driving from Greater Manchester to the South Coast in an EV, and he had a really frustrating time finding somewhere to get a charge. It's clear that in the UK the infrastructure and capacity are inadequate. What would be adequate in a populous country like Thailand is anybody's guess. Simple maths suggests that if all cars were electric and it takes at least 30 minutes to get a recharge as opposed to 5 mins for a fuel refill, then in busy places such as motorways and main roads then 6 times the number of charging points as opposed to fuel pumps would be required. My mind started to boggle the other day as I tried to follow one of these threads about registering on all the apps and booking at charging points in Thailand and the charge cutting off after 50-minutes. Perhaps it was poorly explained, but it seemed quite complicated, and I can't imagine the average Thai driver wanting to bother very much. I don't think I do either.

That seems very excessive. Perhaps we're not comparing like for like but from memory I paid around 30k baht to get an umbilical hernia fixed at the Bangkok Rayong Hospital about 5 years ago. That was with local anaesthetic.

For anyone who wants to try and get their head round it, here it is:- CARSON AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (coe.int)

In fact all those reciprocal agreements go back several decades. As part of the argument put to the ECHR, Blair's lawyers argued that pension increases can only be paid in countries with which the UK has 'reciprocal agreements', and that to extend increases outside these arrangements would negate their ability to conclude other such agreements in the future. However, that argument is utterly threadbare, given that the government announced well over twenty years ago its intention not to make any further reciprocal agreements. But the ECHR bought it anyway. Quite why the British Government needs an agreement with another country to pay us whatever they decide is beyond me. We are victims of a totally anachronistic system, but it has been that way long before any of us decided to retire to the affected countries. The collective votes even of all 500,000 are spread potentially across 650 constituencies, so we have no real clout and our compatriots in Blighty don't care about us. A few thousand votes on yet another petition won't change anything.

You mean payslips or a P60 Who knows what would be acceptable, who would require it, and whether they would demand some verification, which doubtless the Consulate will be unwilling to provide - as they already profess their inability to verify sources of income for immigration purposes?

It's difficult to provide any rational explanation as they don't seem able to themselves. Whenever they are challenged in an interview they just start raving about "the climate crisis".

In 2011 I had a work permit for a year. Thank goodness I kept a copy. It doesn't show an expiry date. It's good to know that a K-Bank transfer is an easy process if I need it.

Well, as long as they don't do the same as the last time there were forecasts of a rice shortage during Yinglak's time in power, and they bought up huge quantities at a guaranteed inflated price. In the event there was no real shortage and Thailand lost its position as the world's leading rice exporter to other countries such as Vietnam.

Or some of them got so bored with pretending to "work from home" that they decided to actually turn up to the office.

I inferred from your subsequent post that Labour in power might be more sympathetic to our cause. It was the Blair government that fought for the status quo tooth and nail all the way to the European Court of Human Rights, so I don't expect Starmer to view us as a priority. Perhaps we agree that at any time, these petitions are worse than useless.

If you imagine a Labour Government will do anything about this, dream on.

There will never be a good time. A petition on this subject crops up on average every couple of years or so, and none of them have had any effect at all. I don't sign them any more, because I've realised that they are a con job, a Blair invention to give us little people the illusion that our opinion counts for something. If a petition achieves 10k signatures the Government department concerned is obliged to respond, which it does by trotting out a justification of its current policy - and that's it. If 100k signatures are racked up, it triggers a debate in the House of Commons, to which a Government Minister responds, again with a repeat of current policy. There was such a debate a few years back, although it wasn't triggered by one of these petitions, but by a Private Members Motion (10 Minute Rule Bill, or something like that). It was sponsored by Sir Roger Gale MP, who as part of his speech actually read out an email I had sent him on the subject.* After a glib response by a Junior Minister, that was that. From memory, only once has one of these petitions ever succeeded in shifting Government policy, in the Blair/Brown era when there was a massive protest against a fuel duty increase, with many millions of signatures. Otherwise all that happens is that a civil servant waves the bit of paper denoting the few thousand signatures and says, "Well, Minister, there is no great demand for any change, I'll just respond as before, shall I?" - and another one bites the dust. No-one should be under any illusion that there is any great support back in Blighty for the anachronistic rules governing our pensions to be changed, in fact there are some who say that having chosen to desert the country we're not entitled to anything at all. So don't waste your time signing these petitions. Writing to your MP occasionally makes an impression, although that too is a long way from getting any change. *Hansard, 20 April 2017, Volume 624, Column 828

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Dear me, you're a barrel of laughs, aren't you?. As an aficionado of old British comedy tv, perhaps you remember the Monty Python sketch about the irritating to55er who sat next to somebody saying "Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean?" Fits you to a T, squire.

There was a brief period a while back when there was immediate approval of an online submission, which could only have been computer generated. From memory, it only happened for me once, maybe twice. I guess that got dropped because too many jobs were at risk, and the system is now as you say.

Rain in the rainy season - whatever next?

Presumably you're asking on the Consular website because you hope a Consular Officer will reply. If they do bother, all they will probably do is refer you to the HMRC website. You need to consult a tax lawyer, supplying your history and all current details.

Why, did they think they are entitled to a job for life?