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Online 90 Day report rejected
OJAS replied to thedi's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
The clock will only be reset from the date you return to Thailand. If in due course you submit an online report within the acceptable timeframe for your revised due date (return date + 89 on the basis that the return date = Day 1 of the 90) - and, crucially, it is accepted - you should be OK. On the other hand, if it is rejected, meaning that you will then need to make a trip in person to CW, it is possible that the IO with whom you deal will spot the fact that you completely missed out on submitting your previous report due on 29 October and gleefully hit you with a 2,000 THB fine as a result. -
Might be worth a read: https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/residence-domicile-and-remittance-basis/rdrm20000
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Transferring Visa to new passport
OJAS replied to Westen's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
I would personally recommend that you use this passport, rather than your replacement Canadian one, to start all over again with a fresh non-O visa, as suggested by @Red Phoenix. Who knows if the brazenly moronic master of bungling incompetence and ineptitude in the Canadian Passport Office who was responsible for the willful destruction of your previous Canadian passport is still in post in 10 years' time when your new one will be due for renewal? (Although he hopefully doesn't have a twin brother working in the Irish Passport Office!) -
As already said you will, but please do make a point of checking that the immigration officer at BKK Arrivals has stamped your passport correctly before leaving their booth. They may also ask to see your flight boarding pass now that the TM6 is no more as far as arrivals by air (but not by land) are concerned.
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Passport Validity Requirements
OJAS replied to lazygourmet's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
You are presumably referring to an existing passport which has had the unexpired period of its predecessor added to its 10-year validity period up to a maximum of 9 months. No problems with using such passports to enter Thailand - the 10-year rule to which you refer only applies to Brits (and other non-EU nationals) intending to darken the hallowed turf of those European countries who are subject to the debatable whims and wishes of the EU. Unfortunately, thanks to this typically totally pointless EU rule (which, to the best of my knowledge, has not been replicated by any other country on this great planet of ours), the option of adding unexpired months to the validity period of replacement UK passports is no longer available.☹️ -
No Need for 90 day's reporting ?
OJAS replied to spetersen's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Hopefully you haven't forgotten to let Surin have a completed TM30, though!🙄 -
No Need for 90 day's reporting ?
OJAS replied to spetersen's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Yep, sums up Rayong's attitude towards resetting 90-day reporting clocks at annual extension of stay time perfectly in my experience. Happens some years but not in others. Depends on the particular officer you deal with, as you say - plus, crucially IMHO, which side of the bed they had got out of that morning. -
@Mike Teavee - how many digits does your mystical "new SA number" consist of?
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In addition many small landlords could, I strongly suspect, be finding themselves dragged into the 40% tax band while thresholds remain frozen.
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Might your accountant be trying to set up a Government Gateway account for you, I wonder? Seems OK for tax agents or advisers to operate such accounts on behalf of their clients if the following link is to be believed: https://www.gov.uk/log-in-register-hmrc-online-services/register
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Visa on Arrival, Visa Exemption.. Confusion!
OJAS replied to bluebird729's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Whereas more than acceptable, on the other hand, for those incompetent dimwits in charge of the HandyVisas website to do likewise, presumably? -
No Need for 90 day's reporting ?
OJAS replied to spetersen's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Looks like from the OP's user profile that it's the dreaded Jomtien office in his case! My immigration office (Rayong) reset my 90-day reporting clock when I last sought a retirement extension there, but kindly omitted to tell me that they had done this. I only found out after an online report based on the previous due date was rejected. -
I agree that using an agent is probably the best way to go for those of us who don't live within a stone's throw of the VFS offices in Bangkok or Chiang Mai. It is, however, outrageous IMHO that we Brits appear to be alone among Western nationals living in Thailand in having to fork out an extra 5,000 THB solely in order to make the cumbersome procedures with which we are faced at passport renewal time reasonably tolerable in practice.
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Renew Retirement Visa in Phuket
OJAS replied to John Phuket's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Of particular interest to the OP if he originally entered the country with a non-OA visa, having last used it for this purpose before 1 October 2019, is that Phuket are still not insisting on the mandatory health insurance requirement in such cases. The solitary non-rogue office in LOS in that regard, I believe! -
The recently proposed potential tax assessments
OJAS replied to Tony M's topic in Q&A, Ask the Consular Team
Suspect that the best we could hope for from the Embassy - should the RD, in the event, insist on verification of some UK tax-related document - would be confirmation of an agreement they had reached with the RD that a formally legalised version of said document would satisfy the verification requirement. Just imagine the potential bureaucratic nightmare of having to submit ourselves to the cumbersome process set out in the link below annually in the case of P60's and, heaven forbid, monthly in the case of pay statements, for instance! https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5b173648e5274a190383bc14/Legalisation_info_June_2018.pdf -
One thing that you should notice next year is that, once again, your annual extensions of stay will be dated from when your latest permission to stay expires rather than from when you applied for the extension (as was, I take it, the case this year because of your switch from retirement to marriage).
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Plus overstay, which is why he's in the IDC. If he was subject to litigation or court procedings at the time his latest permission to stay was due to expire, he could have applied for 90-day extensions under para 2.26 of Immigration Bureau Order 327/2557. Clearly both he and his lawyer missed a trick here, for which he is now (deservedly IMHO) suffering the consequences. .
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Getting a new passport while out of Thailand
OJAS replied to Guderian's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
Apparently IMM no longer need the Embassy's "visa transfer letter" for new passports obtained locally through VFS as well as back in the UK: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6461b0072c06a30013c05cff/Information_Note_Visa_transfer_to_new_passport.pdf -
Maintenance Notice - Forum Upgrade -Tuesday 17th - 6pm
OJAS replied to Support's topic in Forum Support Desk
And a particular thanks for the heads-up as to what this maintenance is all about. How I hate it when websites tell me that they're down for maintenance without providing any explanation as to what this supposed "maintenance" is all about - as, for instance, I experienced last Saturday when I tried unsuccessfully to access the French Embassy Bangkok website (during the daytime to boot, I should hasten to point out)!???? -
TM.30 reporting requirement change(?)
OJAS replied to mran66's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
I personally think that we need to await specific reports on here from anyone who has actually been required to file a fresh TM30 at Jomtien upon their return from foreign trips, before deciding whether or not any procedural change has been made at that particular office. How reliable a track record does the Pattaya Mail have when it comes to accurate (or otherwise) reporting? That said, Jomtien do have previous form when it comes to rogue requirements, as stated by @Liquorice. For instance, in the case of non-O conversions for retirement they require supporting 800k bank balances to be seasoned for 2 months, in contravention of the official rules stating that no such seasoning is necessary. And when it comes to regular annual retirement extension applications based on 800k in the bank they require applicants to return 3 months to the day later with concrete evidence that their account balances haven't dipped a single satang below the 800k minimum in the meantime. -
Stranded British man seeks help as wife takes passport and sails away
OJAS replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
You have got to be kidding, right! Bet you're a national of a country which doesn't subject its expats in Thailand to the rigours of the dreaded With-It Tower Passport Renewal Experience every 9/10 years or so! I would strongly advise you to take the considerable time out needed in order to learn, mark and inwardly digest all the contents of the following link so as to fully appreciate the convoluted bureaucratic nonsense we Brits in LOS are faced with at passport renewal time. More than just "a little paperwork" involved, I think!! https://www.passport.service.gov.uk/overseas/information/thailand/renew/adult -
Stranded British man seeks help as wife takes passport and sails away
OJAS replied to snoop1130's topic in Phuket News
Not to mention that he would also require a police report to enable him to replace his existing passport (which would be classed as lost and stolen) once back in the UK in any event. Even if his wife were to hand him back his existing passport once their return flight had touched down at LHR (or wherever) it would, to all intents and purposes, be useless for future foreign travel if HMPO had already taken steps to cancel it electronically in the meantime, most likely as a consequence of his applying for an emergency travel document. The link below sets out how he needs to go about obtainng such a document from the British Embassy in Bangkok: https://www.gov.uk/travel-urgently-from-abroad-without-uk-passport He should IMHO definitely alert Immigration at the earliest opportunity particularly if, as a result of all this shenanigans, he looks like overstaying on the existing 30-day visa-exempt permission to stay presumably granted to him when he entered Thailand. Although he would, in theory, be eligible for a further 30-day permission to stay this might, in practice, prove easier said than done to obtain on the basis of an emergency travel document - and definitely impossible, I would say, if he was in complete limbo without any formal travel document in his possession at the time he otherwise needed to apply for a 30-day extension. -
TM.30 reporting requirement change(?)
OJAS replied to mran66's topic in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits
If you're that concerned, why not take along a TM30 completed by your wife when you next apply for an annual extension, but only produce it, together with her tabien baan and ID card (originals + copies as previously advised), if IMM specifically ask for it? You might need to brace yourself for the possibiity of being hit with a small fine (typically 800 THB or thereabouts), but, depending on how long ago you last stayed away from your current address, this would be a risk you might have to run by filing a completed TM30 sooner rather than later in any event.