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Meant to give an update. We turned up and they kept giving excuses, think they didn't want to help us. So we went to Kalasin, spent a couple of hours there and came out with ou marriage certificates.

Just returned from Jomtien and Bangkok, and i am a cider drinker, Thatchers Katy or Rattler being my choice. Tried Moose but a bit sweet, and found in Jomtien a wholesaler selling Thatchers Gold, 4 x 500ml cans about £13 and i see them in expat bars for 200-300 Thb a drink. I understand the limit is 1 litre of alcohol per person, but what are the chances, risk, if i bought 4 or 8 cans or bottles in to Phuket at Xmas for me and my wife to enjoy in the hotel? Oh she is Thai and enjoys cider as well, having tried it in Bangkok last year for the first time. Aspalls draught.

Found the Somdet Amphoe, staying near there for 4 nights in June, and been told to just turn up with our documents and ID😄

Thanks everyone. Just found out her address is registered in Bangkok. Where she got married and divorced. Found the Kalasin Amphur, she is going to call them monday to make arrangements.

We have legalised the affirmation from British Embassy, now we want to get married, in Kalasin in June but can not find any details of where to go, or can we get married in Bangkok? her Tabien Ban is in Somdet i think. And we put on the affirmation we hoped to marry in Kalasin. Just get a marriage certificate, no wedding ceremonies' planned.Thanks

I have contacted Thai Visa Express, and probably will use Paul. More expensive but more trustworthy. Just waiting for some details from my friend in Thailand, then will forward it off to TVE Thank you.

Looking at applying for a UK Visitor visa for my friend in Patong to visit UK in August for a few weeks, no problems at my end regard sponsorship and accommodation. Asked 2 visa agents in 1 in Bangkok, with an office in Phuket and 1 in Patong, both insisting she need to travel to Bangkok British embassy, but i thought it was done by VFS in Phuket? Plus Bangkok is 12 hours by bus so she will lose 3 days work. 1 agent said they will accompany her to the Embassy but visa fees not included making them very expensive, and other does include fees, and based only 15 minutes walk from her work. I would try to do it myself but worried if i make a mistake on the forms, and she doesn't have an email address yet, think of setting 1 up solely for visa application that we can both use? So does she have to go to Bangkok Embassy? or just use VFS in Phuket? Thanks in advance?

Another factor is my age, I want to stop working in 5 or 6 years before i am 65 years old. I will be having some savings soon, and thanks to the last 2 posters for positive comments. Regards payments i thginkshe is making what she can afford to pay, just got back and I think I get the impression, apart from being deeply in love with me becuase she seems so caring and kind, always holding my hand and her smile is beaming after a few days with me, she wants to escape Thailand. Going back over in June and hopefully have news about visa for her, and her divorce being finalsed.

A quick update for all the doubters and naysayers. Turned up unexpected on Monday, she is working, see me at table and yelped and starts crying. Runs over and hugs me saying I am a week early. I had already booked a room in hotel opposite for 1 night with option to extend. Any way we are in Karon and talking. And the best part is her debt. 150000 baht I could pay it off and she pay me back. But I want her to pay the debt her self if she was to move to England. She says something about reconciliation of debt. Her English is not the best Planning for visitors visa in August for 2 months.

I think it is because she has no one close there, And again i tried to ask about the debt, not to pay it off but if there was any help . She said again it is credit card, and she will pay it of her self. I won't help her out financially. Maybe see if there is help available. But I do think she is either being very clever, or is not very smart person, immature I would say.

Thanks, as you say i am taking my time. Being cautious, and rereading messages. . I feel it is at least 75% true, trying to put pieces together as I go on. The main thing is trust, which for me is hard due my past relationships. But the one thing is she has not asked me for any money, or had a single baht off me yet, since the meal when I first saw her. And has offered to pay for meals when we are out a few times. Offered next time I visit later this year, we go and visit Kalasin, but she doesn't want to go back she says.

Met 3 times in last year, with 1 week alone together. Keep in touch every day.

Again thanks Mike, I feel comfortable in her company when we are together, but i am also in my mind questioning her replies to me, 99% are good, rest maybe because of translation and also my past trust of women. Again I am keeping an open mind, ready to drop and block all contact if anything is wrong.

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Thanks Mike, but I am approaching 60 and time I feel is not on my side. I am doing what I can, and google translate is good on transcribe 😉 only people she did speak to was her friend and a work colleague , her boss i think. Nothing to worry about after I re-read the transcripts. But me being me, I still have a very tiny bit of doubt in my mind, say 1%. Bearing in mind I have had a couple bad experiences in past with women.