OJAS

What goes at Jomtien and Hua Hin doesn't recessarily go at Chaengwattana! And vice versa, of course!!

Presumably you were able to provide proof of a submitted TM30 stating that you were staying at an address within their catchment area?

So if he receives a life sentence he'll presumably be deported in a box eventually.

Periodically I do simple bank transfers from my UK to Wise GBP accounts, the latter having a Thai address.

No question of me being offered the mobile app download option when I applied for a retirement extension at Maptaput last year. Instead I was told in no uncertain terms to go away and not come back until I had obtained a fully stamped and signed 12-month statement from a local bank branch.

All the more reason to file returns to the TRD come hell or high water, I think - even if it means submitting these direct to their Bangkok HQ if our local offices refuse to accept them, as I am planning to do if need be.

More a case of minimising the risk of the TRD eventually coming back to bite me in the backside than feeling a bit better in the short term, I think.

On the subject of TEDA's, it strikes me as totally unacceptable that we won't, as I understand things, know for certain how much these will amount to for the 2024 tax year, both collectively and individually, until such time as the TRD publish their new forms. Contrast this with the UK where Rachel Reeves confirmed in her Budget speech on 30 October that the existing £12,570 tax-free allowance will continue to apply until the 2027/28 tax year!

And I personally would not be prepared to accept the word of a minion at my local tax office if they told me that I didn't need to file. If they refused to accept the tax return which I intend to submit for the 2024 tax year, then I would instead submit it in paper form by EMS postage to TRD's HQ office in Bangkok under cover of a suitable letter (written in English, of course).

Do you also have to do all other IMM-related business (in particular 90-day reports) with CW?

Why can't you obtain your work extension (presumably based on an original non-B visa) at Rayong Immigration? Something to do with your employer being based in Bangkok, perhaps? Or maybe because work extensions are the sole preserve of CW nationwide (just as non-O conversions were once upon a time in the dim and distant past)?

Suspect that only those in the other country who issued you with the PR ID card to which you refer can answer this question.

So did you just complete the red-starred fields? When I did so for my latest online report a couple of weeks ago, this, too, was initially rejected on the grounds of "Incomplete information provided". So I completed all remaining fields and resubmitted, with approval by my office (Rayong) being forthcoming the next day. I strongly suspect that the sole piece of additional info which is considered so absolutely desperately essentially vital by IMM as a prerequisite to their approval of online 90-day reports is your phone number. For some mysterious reason this is an optional field in the online system, yet mandatory on a paper TM47! However, I was taking no chances, so gave 'em the full Monty instead.

If you are also in receipt of the UK State Pension then, yes, you will probably need to file a tax return here. But, depending on what the 2024 tax forms say once the TRD have finally got their finger out and issued them, you may only need to declare your State Pension income and not that arising from your UK Government occupational pension.

OP - although the notification form makes no mention of this, I would imagine that a certified English translation of your daughter's police report will be required. Alternatively, it might be possible for your daughter's passport loss to be reported online by following the link below (although I haven't checked this in any detail): https://www.gov.uk/report-a-lost-or-stolen-passport Finally, if you require any further advice on this matter, you may need to contact HMPO direct in the UK, as set out under the "If you need advice" heading in the following link (not sure whether you'll get very far with VFS): https://www.gov.uk/passport-advice-line

I strongly suspect that he'll need to provide a completed version of the following form, in addition to all the other docs required for a passport renewal from Thailand: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6446453f814c6600128d04ae/LS01_0223.pdf

Presumably an exception from having an onward flight ticket rather than a ticket for which he issued you a boarding pass??

This is, indeed, Thailand, as you say. My latest online report was initially rejected by my local office (Rayong) on the vague grounds of insufficient information having been provided. This despite all mandatory asterisked fields having been completed! So I resubmitted it after completing all remaining fields, and, thankfully, it was approved the next day.

All too reminiscent of this "little" incident dating back to 2001, I think: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-31978271

Whether or not an updated TM30 is needed when doing business at CW (or any other immigration office, for that matter) seems to be dependent on 2 things:- (1) The particular officer you find yourself dealing with; and (2) More importantly, the particular side of the bed said officer got out of that morning.

You may wish to be aware of the official Immigration Bureau guidance on obtaining a non-O visa conversion for retirement linked below: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

The following link sets out the procedures for recovering money held on dormant NatWest accounts: https://www.natwest.com/current-accounts/dormant-accounts.html On the off-chance that the deceased individual did, indeed, make out a UK will then the appointed executors of his UK estate would, I think, be best placed to deal with this matter. Otherwise little hope, I'm afraid - certainly no action which you yourself could take personally, it would appear.

In common with this individual:

Provided that he doesn't unknowingly to the OP install counterfeit software, though. If he does then this might work OK for about 6 months, after which the OP could find himself back at square 1. Can vouch for this happening to me a couple of times before I switched to the free version of WPS Office, which does the job just fine for me these days.

I came across it after clicking on your original https://thaivisa-express.com link by:- (1) scrolling down & clicking on READ MORE under the UK VISAS heading, then (2) scrolling down 3 levels with the offending statement then appearing on the left-hand side. Not sure where you got the 21/7/2021 publication date from, but this is not explicitly stated in the offending statement as I would have expected it to be, consistent with what I understand to be good website management practice. More importantly, I would have expected Thai Visa Express to have taken down the offending statement from their website completely once VFS had reopened their UK Visas office, again consistent with good website management practice. How many more potential visa applicants are going to be totally misled - not to mention unnecessarily alarmed - by this offending statement until such time as Thai Visa Express feel sufficiently motivated as to take it down from their website completely?