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And my understanding of the Guide is that even those with permanent residency status will be subject to this bureaucratic nonsense!

And Malaysians?

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!

The whole thing is basically a ***** of the highest order, as things stand, I think!

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

From which the non-Scotland part of the UK appears to have been excluded!

And/or a new non-immigrant visa?

Those of a different cultural background excepted, of course.

Source, please. No mention in the OP.

What's that in English, please??

I don't have the Wise app installed on my smartphone yet can still log in on my laptop OK.

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

Were you (and they) given receipts?

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!

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.

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!

Not a word of apology from HMPO for their bungling incompetence and ineptitude, presumably?

@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

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!

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.

This form is only needed for a lost or stolen passport, not a damaged one.

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!

"Is it possible for a 72 year old man to have a relationship with a Thai lady, even though his income is only from American social security?" Maybe possible with American social security for all I know, but definitely not possible with a British frozen state pension, though.

@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,