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And those of us who have received COVID jabs in Thailand will probably have had yet another 13-digit ID number stated in our certificates!

Which immigration office is it that requires this, please?

Not according to the Thai-bashing brigade on here, though!

Are you a well-remunerated PR consultant for the TGIA by any chance?

You might have been able to avoid this overstay with a medical extension of stay. Water under the bridge now, of course, and, as already said, probably won't be held against you in your present quest to revisit LOS. But worth bearing in mind IMHO should you be faced with a similar situation in future.

You'll also need the latest statement from your UK government occupational pension provider (are they MyCSP by any chance?).

Or maybe a number of transactions which took place over this 6-month period have been consolidated into a single line with the CMB coding? To prevent this from happening, Bangkok Bank passbooks should be updated at least once every 3 months. But, yes, Bangkok Bank PUM's don't automatically flip passbook pages.

Was it 1 of these 3 images that you had in mind? Credit advice note as required by Hua Hin.pdf Foreign transaction confirmation.pdf Monthly Deposits as required by Jomtien - obtainable only from branch where account opened.pdf

Reverberating bass thuds emanating from multi-megawatt sound systems mounted on pick-ups or at temples are my particular pet hate. Oh, and that along with dogs which insist on howling and/or barking loudly at 3.00AM.

Would be most unwise for your pal to risk on it being third time lucky in his case IMHO. It's the airline, rather than IMM, that he needs to worry about. Would just take a jobsworth airline check-in assistant in a particularly foul mood next time round to flatly deny him permission to board his oneway flight to BKK without an onward flight booking within the following 30 days.

In that case you'll definitely need monthly credit advice notes, as correctly advised by @Georgealbert. Highly unlikely that Citibank in the UK route your pension payments directly to Bangkok Bank, I think, but rather through an intermediary third bank at the Thai end. You'll need to establish with Citibank who this third bank is since it will be they, rather than Bangkok Bank, who will be responsible for issuing the necessary credit advice notes.

Can't see them getting very far in any event if they're still trying with their username and password for the Mk1 system!

Whenever I suffer withdrawal symptoms, I just head on a flight back to the UK and assuage them through a trip to a Tesco store there.

You should check what codings for these pension payments appear in your savings account passbook. If FTT (standing for Foreign Telegraphic Transfer) you probably won't need a credit advice statement since this particular coding confirms the foreign origin of your pension payments, which is what IMM are primarily concerned with here.

And yet, once you've reported the sale to HMRC and made the necessary CGT payment online within 60 days, you're still required to include in a subsequent tax return a completed SA108 form + detailed computation sheet which more or less repeats what you've already told HMRC online! What's the bloody point of that?

Based on my own experiences of dealng with CGT-related issues following the sale of my UK property a couple of years ago, I strongly suspect that what @KannikaP may well be struggling with in particular is that there are not ONE, nor even TWO, but THREE sources of info on the gov.uk website relating to CGT! https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax-uk-property/start/report-pay-capital-gains-tax-uk-property?_ga=2.31492087.898625034.1633235870-1552680673.1629876543 https://www.gov.uk/tax-sell-property https://www.gov.uk/guidance/capital-gains-tax-for-non-residents-uk-residential-property#CGT-report-pay Is it really beyond the capability of those "geniuses" in HMRC to boil these 3 sections down to 1?

By my reckoning about two-thirds of this particular form is completely irrelevant to standard renewals. On the basis that these constitute the overwhelming majority of applications for new and replacement passports processed by HMPO, is it really so unreasonable to expect those particular "geniuses" to be at least capable of devising a considerably shorter version of this form covering only the one-third which is relevant to standard renewals?

What I personally have got against the pink ID card in particular is that it doesn't include the single most crucial piece of personal information in our cases, namely the date when our current permission to stay in Thailand expires. Were it to do so I would be round to my amphur in a flash to check out the feasibility of applying for one (with fingers firmly crossed)!

Link (assuming, of course, that it wasn't the Bangkok Post where you read this)?

Until such time as the pink card can be made to act on an equal footing to our passports for ID purposes (presumably through the inclusion of the most important piece of personal information in our case, namely the date when our current permission to stay in Thailand is due to expire) then it strikes me as really not worth bothering about, as @scubascuba3 has said.

You might be best advised to include a completed version of the following form along with all the other docs needed for your next marriage extension application in any event: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/22.Transfer-Stamp-to-New-Passport-Form.pdf 2 and 8 on the second page can safely be ignored, I think. Nothing can beat the madness of the dreaded With-It Tower Passport Renewal Experience for us Brits at passport renewal time, I think, not even anything which the Immigration Bureau might throw at us!

Not just letting them know his new passport details, I think. Since he plans to enter Thailand with a 30-day visa exemption he needs to check with them specifically whether or not he will be permitted to board his return flight in the absence of a confirmed onward flight reservation out of Thailand within the following 30 days. IMHO he would be strongly advised to purchase a cheap throwaway ticket for an Air Asia flight within this period to a destination in an adjoining Asean country in any event.

Yes, we could well, I think, be the low-hanging fruit here in the RD's eyes. And, given the dual pricing tradition in LOS, could we seriously discount the possibility of being clobbered for tax at "special" foreigner rates which were, say, double the corresponding ones paid by locals?

I suspect that others, though, may have unwittingly had the light shone on them as a result of demands imposed on them by home country banks in the context of Common Reporting Standards (under pain of having their accounts with these banks closed) for specific evidence of their Thai tax residency in the form of a suitable reference number (i.e. a TIN).

If this means that we are going to have to report each and every last satang of each and every transfer from our home country during a particular Thai tax year, regardless of whether or not these transfers are derived from income earned pre-1/1/24 or covered by a DTA, I have to say that would find this a truly horrifying prospect. The obvious question which would then arise is how we could get such income exempted from the return. As I see things, this would almost certainly prove to be a time-consuming and protracted process which the RD would no doubt conduct at extreme leisure, and then only after we had provided them with reams of supporting paperwork (which would probably put to shame the amount of paperwork we provide to our immigration offices each year in support of extension of stay applications). In the meantime the RD would no doubt have gleefully and unhesitatingly provided us with a tax assessment based on the full amount declared in our tax return, and have insisted on 100% payment within whatever tight deadline they prescribe for tax payments.