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Where are "they" located in your case? The Chiang Mai or Jomtien immigration office??

@KiwiFire - the following link sets out the procedures you'll need to follow in this connection (assuming, of course, that NZ was where you and your wife got married!): https://www.govt.nz/browse/passports-citizenship-and-identity/proving-and-protecting-your-identity/use-your-nz-documents-overseas/

Ah, the scourge of the slow, clunky, user-unfriendly banking app which Thai banks seem intent on ramming down our throats in place of online banking come hell or high water! After 3 months of more often than not unsuccessful attempts at using the Bangkok Bank app I dumped it since this appeared to me preferable to succumbing to the urge of hurling my smartphone against a wall in sheer frustration.

Looks like this is, indeed, the case if you're claiming the new State Pension (i.e. a male born on or after 6 Apr 51). However, when I delayed claiming for the old pension from my 65th birthday in Aug 14 to Apr 15, I was paid at the increased Apr 15 triple-lock rate (and have been ever since).

Info on packages from next season: https://www.monomax.me/premierleague

This BBC news item includes statistical info on UK non-doms, which @Millian might find useful: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-32216346 Any further changes to UK non-dom status beyond those introduced last April will presumably be announced by the Chancellor in next October's Autumn Statement and come into force from the next UK tax year starting on 6 April 2026 at the earliest. In much the same way as any easing of the foreign remittances taxation requirement locally wll presumably come into force from the next Thai tax year starting on 1 January 2026 at the earliest - subject, of course, to all necessary legislative hurdles being surmounted in the meantime. That said, though, we should not forget that this is Thailand! 🤔

Begs the (to me) obvious question as to why HMPO continue to make such a song and dance about the need (as they see it) for a passport to be physically cancelled through a pair of scissors being wielded to its front cover. A totally unnecessary and superfluous requirement these days, I think.

The following thread illustrates perfectly why new accounts with Krungsri should now IMHO be avoided like the plague. I agree with @MJCM that Kasikorn is probably a safer bet.

Turning to the bottom end of the age range, isn't it just as unacceptable that Krungsri are seemingly more than happy to give the green light to kids from as young as 12 using their app for whatever nefarious banking purposes they might have in mind, in defiance of the express wishes of their parents or guardians? Clearly so much for there being any curbs on the banking activities of minors (or at least those aged 12+) in LOS, I think!

When it comes to the UK, though, you can't beat contactless for ease and simplicity in making payments up to £100 IMHO. Presumably the likeliest reason why this hasn't, unfortunately, caught on in Thailand has something to do with the annual 250 THB fee levied by Thai banks for their cards, whereas UK banks don't impose any such fee for their cards.

In this case he would need to apply for a fresh non-O visa before re-entering the country. This is because the option of a 90-day non-O conversion of a visa-exempt entry at his local immigration office won't be available in his case since he has been on overstay: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf And that, of course, would necessitate him obtaining a new passport first!

More a case of Thai banks getting their poxy banking apps sorted, I think.

Are you monitoring this conversation as well, Kasikorn?

"They" presumably being the Spanish Embassy in Bangkok. In which case it should IMHO be the clueless idiots working for that Embassy who were responsible for writing the wrong mailing address, to whom you should be directing your ire, not Thailand Post!

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