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You could find yourself waiting 72 hours to get your passport stamped in any event if you were to find yourself stuck at the back of an exceedingly long queue of foreigners at Arrivals, with each person in front of you clutching a mobile for what could well turn out to be a lengthy process of accessing an app from it in order to squirt info into a QR reader, followed by an inevitably further long wait while said QR reader decides whether or not what you have squirted into it is deemed sufficiently acceptable to enable you to proceed forward!
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So presumably the powers-that-be in Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia & (?) Myannmar issue these passes to their nationals who live within striking distance of the Thai border, in the same way as their Thai counterparts issue such passes to similarly eligible Thai nationals if this link is to be believed? https://www.dopa.go.th/public_service/service_guide404/view405
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British Expats' Thai Villa Xanax Empire Lands them in Jail
OJAS replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Those of a different cultural background excepted, of course. -
British Widow's Heartbreak: Husband's Death Brings Bureaucratic Ordeal
OJAS replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Source, please. No mention in the OP. -
Thailand Considers Shortening Visa-Free Stays for Chinese Tourists
OJAS replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
What's that in English, please?? -
Wise Money Transfer
OJAS replied to auntyedna's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
I don't have the Wise app installed on my smartphone yet can still log in on my laptop OK. -
U.K. passport renewal question
OJAS replied to Andrew Dwyer's topic in UK & Europe Topics and Events
If you don't, you might, instead, wish to lodge a complaint with them online by following this link: https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/help/what-do-you-want-to-do -
So do you really think that it would be much better for you Americans to be forced to make physical trips to your embassy in Bangkok or consulate in Chiang Mai from wherever you live in Thailand in order to submit renewal applications in person, followed by further physical trips a few weeks later in order to collect your replacement passports? Because this is the sort of cumbersome bureaucratic nonsense we Brits renewing our passports from Thailand are faced with, believe it or not!
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Indeed! And in colour to boot!! In addition, what is the rationale for requiring us to provide specific proof of our address, bearing in mind that HMPO won't send our replacement passports directly to us? IMHO the whole UK passport renewal process from Thailand is stuck in some medieval time warp, bearing in mind that even the snail mail service dating back a couple of hundred years is apparently considered by HMPO to be far too technologically advanced to permit its use for submitting renewal applications! Let alone the internet, the use of which HMPO seem to be encouraging for passport renewals from practically everywhere on this great planet of ours, with the notable exception of LOS for some absurd and mysterious reason!! Anyway, here endeth this rant about the UK passport renewal process from Thailand.
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UK International State Pension calculation.
OJAS replied to phetphet's topic in UK & Europe Topics and Events
Based on my experience 10 years ago, you should be. I became eligible for the State Pension in August 2014 but delayed claiming it until April 2015, as a result of which I was able to obtain at least 1 annual triple-lock increase! -
U.K. passport renewal question
OJAS replied to Andrew Dwyer's topic in UK & Europe Topics and Events
Not a word of apology from HMPO for their bungling incompetence and ineptitude, presumably? -
Pension Tax Filing Report - Rejected
OJAS replied to patrickl's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
@patrickl + double-check what the Thailand/Switzerland DTA might have to say on the matter: https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/download/nation/switzerland_e.pdf -
Tax Clearance Certificate
OJAS replied to morning glory's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
Indeed, if tax filings were ever linked to the IMM extension of stay process, I can see this being achieved through tax clearance certificates. -
The particular country (i.e. the UK) that requires paper applications to be physically submitted to an office located in Bangkok or Chiang Mai and for replacement passports to be physically collected from said office a few weeks later definitely needs a major wake-up call, I think!
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Two-sided is how I printed it a couple of years ago, with no adverse reaction from VFS or their HMPO masters back in the UK.
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This form is only needed for a lost or stolen passport, not a damaged one.
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Only 1 copy of each and every passport page needed, whether it includes IMM visas and stamps or not. You also need to copy the first 2 and last 2 pages containing pure verbiage - plus, for good measure, the front and back covers. In particular, please note that colour copies of everything are insisted on by HMPO for some ridiculous reason. People are constantly complaining on here about the amount of paperwork generated by IMM at extension of stay time, but the UK passport renewal process from Thailand really takes the biscuit in that regard IMHO!
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Emergency travel document question
OJAS replied to 248900_1469958220's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
@248900_1469958220 - in this connection I understand that, as a British national, you will require 1 or other of the following visa types in order to be able to enter Australia: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/evisitor-651#Overview https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-listing/electronic-travel-authority-601 Whether you will be able to get a visa linked to an emergency travel document strikes me as being highly complex at best and completely impossible at worst,