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.. and reigned over supremely by that heinous absolute monarch known as Queen Ursula of Europe from opulent palaces in Brussels and Strasbourg.

So, sadly, no chance of being stripped of his British citizenship any time soon, then? ☹️

So still expecting to have his cake and eat it. No change there, then.

While at the same time embracing the parasite clutches of that mob over the pond in Brussels. Not exactly "independence", is it?

Can't open the link, unfortunately. But at the end of the day it will all depend, I suppose, on whether Age UK will have at their disposal the clout needed in order to overcome that immovable force known as DWP's Sir Humphrey. Somehow I doubt it.

May have something to do with the introduction of the new State Pension for men born after 6 April 1951 and women after 6 April 1953, perhaps? https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension In any event it definitely looks like a matter of further insult being added to injury since April 2015 when it comes to the frozen pension issue in our case!

Well, that definitely wasn't so in my case! Having double-checked the correspondence I had with DWP at the time of my claim, I can confirm that I am, indeed, being paid on the basis of the April 2015 Basic Pension weekly rate of £115.95. That said, though, maybe things have, indeed, now changed as a result of all the various changes which have taken place on the State Pension front over the past 9 years?? The following link might contain useful info for the OP: https://www.gov.uk/deferring-state-pension EDIT: I see that @Polar Bear has already provided this link!

As alluded to by @Polar Bear, a particular advantage to those of us living in LOS of doing this is that your State Pension could then be frozen at a higher rate than would otherwise have been the case had you claimed when you first became eligible. For instance, even though I became eligible in August 2014 I delayed claiming until April 2015 so as to get at least 1 triple lock increase under my belt!

Yeah, right, so when are we likely to see YOUR version of the Simple Tax Guide on here, then? Or does carping negatively from the sidelines float your boat more?

Probably best for him to obtain a tourist visa if he's planning to stay in Thailand for more than 30 days IMHO.

But hello the TT ones, though

Top one for me (and, I suspect, a fair few other Brits as well) is whether we shall be required to file RD returns in respect of State Pension remittances, especially where these are the sole sources of our assessable income and bearing in mind the existence of various exemptions and allowances totaliing up to 500k pa, which could therefore, in practice, reduce the RD tax bill to zero (my perpetually frozen State Pension, for example, works out at around 300k pa which is, however, still well in excess of the 120k annual assessable income threshold above which tax returns are supposedly required).

Yes, I strongly suspect that Customs back in our home countries (as well as their Thai counterparts in the case of mail going in the opposite direction) are the true villains of the peace here rather than individual mailing services.

Not just us but also immigration officers! 😁

So does this mean that there will be a date after which all banknotes bearing the late Queen's image will cease to be legal tender, as was the case when paper notes were replaced by polymer versions not so long ago?

And when it comes to our Irish cousins, it would appear that the only way in which they can renew their passports from Thailand is by doing do online! https://www.ireland.ie/en/thailand/bangkok/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passports/

Assuming that the office you'll be dealing with is Chaengwattana as stated in your OP, @TylerBKK's 4 March post in the following thread provides a comprehensive list of all relevant requirements in their case:

100% correct in the case of non-O visa conversions for retirement. For the benefit of the individual(s) who appear(s) to be suffering from a bout of confusion in reaction to your post, this is IMHO perfectly clear from the official guidance which has been issued by the Immigration Bureau: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

Indeed, contrast the ease and grace with which our American cousins, for example, are faced with at passport renewal time, when compared to the cumbersome nonsense which HMPO have, in their infinite wisdom, inflicted on us Brits: https://th.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/passports/adult-passport-renew/

It should not be forgotten, though, that agents' fees (typically in the order of 5,000 THB) represent a significant additional cost in themselves - which is the point I was making.

Of particular interest to those of us renewing from Thailand is that the cost of a standard paper application when applying from overseas will increase to £112.50 for adults and £77.00 for children. Added to which are, of course, the costs of the 2 enforced route marches to VFS offices in Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Yet a standard online application when applying from overseas will only rise to £101.00 for adults and £65.50 for children! All the more totally inexcusable for those incompetent clowns in HMPO to steadfastly refuse to make this faciity available to those of us renewing from Thailand for some ridiculous reason or other. I think!!🤬 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/update-on-passport-application-fees

This appears to imply, however, that there may be other land immigration checkpoints in addition to these 8 at which the TM6 requirement will not be relaxed!

Don't know where you got that info from, but the version of the TM47 form currently downloadable from the Immigration Bureau website includes the following statement at the very end: (The fine of Overdue Notification is not exceeding 5,000 Baht) https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/18.Form-TM-47.pdf

Surely no worse than the annual ritualistic 31 December / 1 January nonsense, though, from which there, sadly, appears to be no escape anywhere on this great planet of ours. Even if you try and avoid it by staying in as I always do these days, there's still no getting away from the pyromaniac lunatics who take great delight in terrorising their (and your) neighbourhoods by setting off volleys of loud fireworks just after midnight.😡

So he'll only be banned from entering Thailand again for 5 years. Had he been nabbed 15+ days later (allowing for the fact that 2024 is a leap year), he would have received a 10-year ban! https://www.tratimmigration.com/thailand-visa-overstay-regulations/