benlovesnuk

I can personally state, being here for almost 20 years, its per visit, at least in chiangmai immigration. This is why those on 1 year extensions dont want to use it for seasoning because they only have one if not going out. However, on A ME non O visa you can extend each 90 day stay because youve already gone out, and this renews your ability to get a 60 day extension on the end of each one. More over i dont have stay over when visiting Laos i can come straight back, having the visa. I dont need to get insurance. And when someone films you on a roof, of your own walkway home, the immigration police cant send you to jail, much to the annoyance of the officer who stated as such 5x as he came onto my wifes property... Does anyone know if your passport has to have a certain amount of time if trying to get extensions, etc..? I appreciate the serious verasity to which you gentlemen are trying to get me accurate information...

If you dont mind, when was that 60 day extension, recently...? You think it could be digital on a usb hdd with editable files, but no....yet thats the kind of digital technology i prefer, my own finger prints, i hold, not they do to lose to cyber thieves, but i digress... Thank you for your quick coherent replies

Ive always been told (and thus took) my wife as being needed at immigration to do 60 day extension, like 1 year extension, only savvanakhet you dont need your wife. Have i been tricked by the visa gods again...?

I just very much dislike immigration officers....the ones locally have always been caustic to my wife... But maybe youre correct

Im currently at the end of my ME non O (wife) visa, literally, the visa ended in october and im in my 90 day stay as a i popped out just before the end of it. My out stamp is 30th december, are there any updates or reasons i cant extend this at the end for 60 days at imigration..? My passport is running out of its 6 month to boot, validity to travel to Laos (27th november) so i need to renew it and with lead times of 4-5 weeks im cutting it close to out stamp on 30th december. 1 alternative is to go and take a short break in savvanahkhet in the next 2 weeks if online appointments are available and get a single entry 90 day, or just chance getting the passport in time. Any ideas, revelations or funny anecdotes welcome....

Ive spent many days in Laos, i have no issue staying in Laos it wasnt ideal at the time, of just being told that day it had changed yesterday, on the first trip... So i didnt have any clothing etc for a 2 day stay...otherwise i very much like laos people and their country. Id happily go to laos for 2 nights every days then deal with the scraping of the barrell immigration officers, who talk diwn to my wife and me for simply trying to live as a family...which they must hate, because...we are legally doing it...right. I wasnt expecting a welcome, and the issue was on the way out, not in...the guy who booked me in after Laos, was the same guy i had previous, and he was quite decent, profressional and in need of praise.

See it however you like, your semi-free in this country to do as you please. im just telling you what i observed, based on my situation, which isnt someone who happens to hold a METV. As i stated, i had a ME non o and the thai immigration officer stated confidently, i had to stay 2 days in Laos, after looking at my passport on exiting. Of course he was wrong, because its only his job, after all.... the Laos side, where the communist flag was flown, far more kind and dignified. As I dont have a METV and didnt mention it, its not really that you see it different to me because i didnt stipulate that wasnt the case, indeed, i actually infer it likely is. I just stated it seems to be focused on tourists most likely without a visa. In fact i generously leave my wording open ended to cover such a troublsome addled eyesight, which seems to cover your irrelevent pedanticism. "From what i understand its for tourists, not for visa holders, at least non o visas."

I have been to chiang khlong border multiple times this year. I was told by the bus ticket person the day after this change, that this was the case. Ready to fight with immigration, i waited on the laos side to be greeted by pleasant smiles and, oh you have wife visa, then no problem...paid my money no documents and got the new mini buses. Went back and got in after 2 hours. Went again, parked up, and went to immigration. This time the officer stated, "when you cum back..?" I said today. He said, "no no no, stay 2 days...." I said, "no, it will be today...." He didnt like that, and i didnt care. Once more i was told by the bus ticket lady.... Went over to the laos side, do you remember me? From a smile to a stamp. Quick beer, to bus. Back at thai side immigration, and let in. From what i understand its for tourists, not for visa holders, at least non o visas. The last time was early octocber.

Thank you, appreciated. Lets give it a go... my date is 30th december. New years in laos. Wait for reopening and hope this will be true. Good luck to everyone in their endeavours.

Like many here, i cant stand the majority of immigration officers and their arrogance leading them into their ignominious, insipid nature and went from extensions to ME non o visa, which is great apart from when they changed it all last year to be less convenient. i was one of the last to get it without seasoning, which stumped one one of the officers a 2nd time (1st time she didnt realize i was getting 60 day extension not 1 year and wrongly scolded me for not having pics, then i scolded her, and she shut up). Now im thinking of just getting 90 day 1 entry for 2k, extending for 60 days, rinse and repeat, have a holiday place in khao kho so not 12 hours from chiangmai. Thats almost half the year and 1 immigration event. People keep mentioning that even if you have 400k in for 2 months, there still might be issue, is this true or balderdash? I dont want to pay 5k for them to tell me its not.

The '60 day' he mentions, he specifically describes as an extension, he never mentions it as being a non O, not even in the quote you type under, misrepresenting his words, he correctly refers to it as an extension in that quote in relationship to the Non O visa single entry, which he correctly attributes the correct nomenclature to it. He states, "We can get a 60 day *extension* on the "Single-entry Non O based on marriage" for "visiting Thai spouse" He then asks, "My question is, can I get the one year "Non O based on marriage" extension whilst I am here on the 60 day extension to visit Thai spouse?" To which your answer should be, yes, (as mine would be because ive done this countless times) though you choose quite consciously, like many asean now cave dwellers on here, the high pompous road, through your explanation of repeating back to him what he asked of you. Yet, with the incorrect assertion you made, that he, not you, had confused and conflated wrongly the extension and the non O. He does indeed state 1 year extension with the parenthesis of relating it to the visa it is associated with, and instead of using brackets he uses quotation marks, but again thats not your quibble, its something to do with 60 days something or other...??..? Which clearly is an aberration of your mind, rather than real world events recorded that we minions under your rule can observe. Extensions are relative to their visa types, how do i know this, ive done many in almost 20 years ive been here and ive heard many authorities in immigration use this description of them, not least on their websites and because even they themselves get it wrong as professionals in the field. Where extensions are described, exactly as this gentleman had done so, with relationship to its visa that one is extending the permission of stay based upon, that criteria for applying for how it is regulated and what criteria must be presented. Eg. Can i get an extension relating to my visa non O that i would be applying for if instead i use business visa criteria? No. They are different. Ergo, the need for specificity in description of the relevant visa one wishes to extend, in asking a question about its constituent extension. Which by any young persons eyes and acuity, like my own, could tell, seems to be this constant attempt by many 'long standing members' on here to tell those seeking reasonable advice on state regulated obfuscated rules of law, the difference between a visa, an extension, and on, so much so, you see things that arent even there, just so you can point them out in your self appointed post no one cares for. You and many other high priests on here, (unlike other gentleman dearly missed) get push back and scorn all the time for this irreverant behaviour, and yet, you persist, and we should not be surprised, as you well know, you cant teach an old... farang civil restraint when scoring vacuous points on a forum they hold court in, its far more approriate to this ignominious old /new gaurd protecting the sacred secrets of immigration nomenclature regarding visas and extensions from unholy exageration or misuse... as if it matters, or has ever mattered 1 bit.

Hi all. I recently went to Chiangmai immigration, (on the wrong day, busy as hell) but still managed to get the visa put in. Many Chinese applicants got turned away as they had come to late to apply that day, many pleading with the front desk to no avail. After the chaos of the new system, where 1 person checks the documents hands to another to check, you'd think this would mean the document was ready to be stamped and signed off, picture taken, payment given off you go. You would be wrong. Numbers weren't being called out, (given as a ticket, as you walk in through the covid time machine) so again chaos prevailed. Many Chinese in front had to sign, add, change documents, making the preapproved check, a complete waste of time. This happened to me, because I didn't add birth certificates ( it wasnt on list of documents), albeit I had them ready and waiting when asked inside. No-one outside knew. My main concern about this visa change was the section regarding my wife's surname, it mentions a document 6.1.3 to state her status before marriage. I didn't have it. I asked 7 days ago when getting my visa exempt extended, to which I was told, I only needed kor ror 2,3. Ok fine. The 2 things that were an issue for immigration; were the photos, the print place cropped them badly. The second being my wife's name change. Now, my wife went from her family name to mine. This can be seen on the Kor ror 3 document, and tabien baan when her parents had briefly lived with us whilst changing houses, ie same name. The immigration office dealing with the application had an issue, asking where the document was, and strangely showing another applicants documentation to show it in the tabien baan. Showing us their photos sitting on the bed... I informed her that the officer previously, had said it was not necessary, at this moment a senior officer came over and asked for my wifes ID. As she could see my wife's ID had my name on it, that was apparently enough to satisfy the issue. After that, my passport was given back, with collection date receipt and told to come to desk no3 on the date specified. With that at 5.10pm we fled to our freedom, with only a confused Chinese family and a single woman behind us left to sort. Hopefully the visa is kosher, and then its onto the visa 1 year extension.

DNA testing – For first time child cases (first passport for a child) applying for British citizenship and who have been offered by His Majesty’s Passport Office to take their DNA test at a VFS Global Visa Application Centre. VFS staff will contact you by email once we receive the notification from HMPO. The DNA testing company will send your results directly to HMPO, and to the email address you have provided to HMPO, after DNA samples have been collected for all family members. The indicative costs of DNA testing is as follows: £150 per family member sampled in country of application; or £200 per family member sampled in the UK. This guff at the top is clearly meant to confuse. I will be going to get my sons first passport he is 8. My eldest already has one albeit needs renewing. I was born after jan 1, 1982 which means I have to provide my parents birth and marriage certificates to prove I'm British, to pass on my Britishness to my son. I will be refusing dna testing. I will if needs be, complaining to the embassy and my local mp, who helped previously when my wife was applying for settlement visa and then was delay, if this is what vfs are mandating.

What I posted is from the UK governments website, not some company working on their behalf. As it states quite clearly what is necessary or not, any company suggesting you *need* to do x, y or z should be pointed to the the states own requirements, that they are working on behalf of. If you want to do a DNA test that is upto you, but its not a requirement, and, more importantly, they have no power to insist you take it. Because VFS is a company, and they make money, this is probably the angle that they try to use in order to get you to pay more money, like their other products that they make seem would be of use to you.

This guidance tells HM Passport Office staff: that we follow Home Office DNA guidance that we cannot require customers to provide DNA evidence as part of their passport application that we have no specific statutory power to require DNA evidence what we do when we receive DNA evidence to support a British passport application