UKresonant

Also in the e-mail they commented that current processing time, was 10-15 days......

I'll just cut and paste this in here as well for info..... I received an e-mail back from London (02May23), a lot of cut and paste but the essentials I was looking for/understand it to be ( but only intending July/Aug this summer ) Staying with family Financial evidence showing savings.... £10000 multi Non-O £1000 single entry Non-o e.g. Bank Statement, proof of earnings, for at least one month. The Red bold Paragraph implies, non-B and non-O staying with family, it will be a single entry (Please do not submit multiple entries) The Visa fee is non-refundable. Which suggests to me, it still as I thought it was since June 2019, if you just go on the e-visa system and ask for a multi non-O, you will likely end up with a Single entry Non-O (£60) after applying for a Multi (£150). They are not saying absolutely you can't get a Multi. But they cannot and have no way of refunding the difference in the Visa fee if you end up with a SE. Accommodation hotel booking for the first few nights will be acceptable (I presume that will be enough to get a initial TM30 in the system perhaps) Looking ahead, I hope I can Get a Multi-non O, but can only get back to Thailand to see the wife, this year and till summer 2025, during the UK school holidays!

I received an e-mail back from London, a lot of cut and paste but the essentials I was looking for/understand it to be Staying with family Financial evidence showing savings.... £10000 multi Non-O £1000 single entry Non-o e.g. Bank Statement, proof of earnings, for at least one month. The Red bold Paragraph implies, non-B and non-O staying with family, it will be a single entry (Please do not submit multiple entries) The Visa fee is non-refundable. Which suggests to me, it still as I thought it was since June 2019, if you just go on the e-visa system and ask for a multi non-O, you will likely end up with a Single entry Non-O (£60) after applying for a Multi (£150). They are not saying absolutely you can't get a Multi. But they cannot and have no way of refunding the difference in the Visa fee if you end up with a SE. Accommodation hotel booking for the first few nights will be acceptable (I presume that will be enough to get a initial TM30 in the system perhaps) (Past experience with London they will try and get you what they are allowed to get you. Many years ago dad had the application with them and there was a rule change, instead of two tourist entries the gave him a single non-O so in time for his trip to post the Passport back, but then found after that he could get a non-O ME retired Visa from then until 2018-19, which was better for 177 days total on three trips p.a.) OP good luck with your Multi!

My Daughter born in Fife, Scotland, U.K has a UK Birth Cert and a Thai Birth Cert issued by the Embassy in London. She maintains a Thai Passport, next trip to London in 2025 ????. I think her ID card has expired. She still uses maiden name, as though you can renew the ID card (last time we looked) via the Embassy, you would have to go to the local office in Thailand to get the first one, or to amend it (which the daughter does not want to do). Her Son, now 3 years, is Blonde/Blue eyes, could perhaps ask for Thai Birth Cert/passport, but reckon he would still get dual pricing! My son now 15 (born in Phitsanulok) has Thai birth Cert, and British Birth Cert, as I registered his Birth at the Embassy a month after he was born (Don't know if the British Embassy still offers the service?) and as well as the Embassy issued Cert, I can (and he will be able to) order further copies from "People of Scotland" Registrar.

A few days ago I emailed the London Embassy asking about the Non-O ME. I asked for A. (something else) B. The income level for non-O Single Entry and non-O ME to visit wife (as for an ME they asked for £1400/m for one in 2018 and £1500/m for one in 2019 Q2, as listed on the London website. Later I found (on here) that they did not enforce that then. I cannot find any such requirement on the current website. The e-system seems to suggest to check with London. C. Do they actual issue non-O ME now? (as they discontinued them for .for a while, just after they got the e-visa system June 2019. I was actually in the Embassy Jan 2020 and someone was getting told he could not get the ME).. I watch with interest, with what they come back with for my questions and your situation! The £10000 thing use to be the fall-back option for the retirement non-O if you did not have a state pension / pension other etc. I'm hoping that it is just that the template of supporting docs, like the e-visa TR/TRME, is general for that group of Visa's.

Is it not checking-in at the airport that may be more of a worry? better check with your carrier in advance. I knew someone who (long while ago) came on a EVA ticket, and their final return was EVA as it was "open", but in between they went back to Thailand for a few weeks on KLM ticket , but KLM were not going to let them back on the return to the UK, until they sighted the detail of the EVA back to Thailand Ticket. (Standard 6m UK visitor). after getting a panic phone call at the check-in, I said there is a copy in your organiser "Oh" sorted! Not e-tickets at that time. The 10 year visitor Visa the wife has, would not work well if you had to show the Flight detail....???? If you had a stack of frequent flyer points, an award ticket is maybe useful, as you could cancel and get most of the points back for a small fee, if your airline insisted on seeing a ticket..

The UK tax residency could perhaps be about 90 days (present at at the end of each day) in the UK ongoing or even less if just a transition year, with the sufficient ties criteria, e.g. accommodation available in the UK etc.. Most of the guidance is designed for folk not wanting to be tax resident where I was wanting to ensure I was always UK tax resident. It seemed to me ideal to have a years money in hand if possible, and two accounts, fund one and send to Thailand after the 1st Jan the following year, whilst the other account is accumulating the next years Thailand budget. not always possible though.

Probably not if it did not exceed the dividend allowance or the Capital Gains Allowance (but keep all the details in an archive). But if doing a UK Tax return anyway of course include the detail.. Should max out ISAs before you move to Thailand and in the year you move (If not already there).

For Voluntary NI contributions, in relation to UK state pension it is perhaps mainly useful for the year 2016-2017 or later.. I have had a contracted out pension mostly, and was contracted in from about 2015, 40 years solid NI record but need another 6 years NI to get the current max state pension, voluntary contributions quoted as circa £830 per year, which still could be a good deal BUT only if the .Gov does not move the goal posts again. I qualified for full state pension in 2010 (30yearsNI) goal-post move in 2015 again but almost instantly qualified for max state pension ( 35 years NI). System change in 2016 leaves me with 6 years Short! May do 3 years Voluntary (if pro-rata, will have to check), but Think anything else will go in the private pension...Hopefully may return to work this year, and get the other 3 years paid that way. The UK Gov is still pushing the line, "we are all living longer" which is nonsense now, if anything the trend has reversed now. One of the biggest drivers of the trend was movement from heavy industry to light in past decades, which is largely over. With unexplained (as yet) excess deaths, COV, cost of living crisis (heating/food quality) seems implausible that life expectancy is still going up in the UK and similar, The Son never got Child benefit in Thailand for 0-13years, even though I was always working fulltime and paying NI in the UK (Days in Lieu and holidays, always in Thailand). Payout was based around the political hobby, rather than being run as insurance. Now in the UK, with the Son doing High school, and found they, some time ago, withdrew the NI credits that used to go with the Child Benefit, for kids over over 12years. (never lucky). Sorry if a bit negative...Happy New Year! ????????

I had a Samsung Microwave with the grill and hot air-blast, would recommend one of them, defrosts cooks and crisps up the food, Wasn't built in but had the fold down door. I had been considering it for a few months, it was then on sale, deal for just over 10k baht display model, only missing it original box, discounted from about 15k baht. in home pro. (2019). Then a few months later I was back in the UK. (don't have one here, yet ????, as the old one is extremely reliable ????).