jesimps

I was going to be facetious, but poster #2 beat me to it. You have to be quick on here!

3 hours ago, smedly said:

correct - an O-A Retirement Visa can be "extended" by a year by crossing a border

 

an extension of stay is completely different and has its own set of financial rules in country - people need to calm down and stop reading stuff that isn't there and is unrelated to this announcement 

I hope you're right Smedders, but I think you're wrong. 

3 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

You will get free NHS treatment if you can show that you have returned to the UK to live there.

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You'll probably get it anyway. I read recently that the hospitals have given up checking the passports of health tourists. Too much work. I'd imagine a Brit with an NHS number will have no problem bluffing his way in.

2 hours ago, rodknock said:

i am 71 and a couple of quotes were 80,000 to 94,000baht.

this on top of my monthly 65,000baht for immigration

i guess i am f--ked!!

Me too. If it also applies to those on marriage visas I reckon I'll reluctantly have to move elsewhere.

30 minutes ago, mrfaroukh said:

If you have extra money to waste send it to me. I have never spend more than one to two hours for this process. So if you want to waste few thousand to avoid this time go ahead

There're far too many smart <deleted> on here stating the obvious, the OP knows all this I should imagine. He'd be a lot more appreciative I'm sure if you just answered his question. It's difficult to read these threads on retirement these days because of the incredibly smug brigade.

9 hours ago, Lenny Jones said:

You are retired.  You have the time, what's the hurry?.  You have the financial requirements - generally the biggest hurdle. All you need to do is to make sure you have all the required paperwork - photos less than 6 months old, medical certificate less than 7 days old, proof of where you live.

Why throw 10-20k baht at an agent?

 

Because he wants to. If I could afford it, I'd do the same.

18 minutes ago, ChrisKC said:

Genuine, honest and within-the-radar Immigration Bosses could learn a lot from these threads.

If you find one, you should have him stuffed and put on display.

8 minutes ago, Peterw42 said:

It appears people still don't understand agent extensions.

Agent extensions are not clandestine operations done in back alleys using fake bank documents. They are not illegal.

 

Agent extensions are done in broad daylight by high ranking IOs with the discretionary power to approve an extension, with or without a bank book, with or without seasoned funds. The stamp/extension in your passport is 100% legal.

 

Read the immigration act or any of the police orders, you will find a paragraph that says something like " An IO of a certain rank has discretionary powers to approve an extension with out the normal requirements".

 

The agents are still operating, they are still in contact with the high ranking IOs, who are still using their discretionary powers to legally approve legal extensions.

Some cynics would say that the rule changes were done to encourage more people to use the agents rather than to stamp it out. Not me of course, I think TI is completely unbent.....

1 hour ago, shy coconut said:

How would leaving the EU change anything in Blackburn or Bradford?

Pretty obvious if you lived there under certain EU rules.

1 hour ago, Cats4ever said:

Not my dog fight but .............................................. I haven't been in Britain since 1973, holiday, work and travel then for 18 months. It seems that the old "<deleted> begin at Calais" mob are still active. I have no idea of the economics of staying or leaving but the reasons need to be divorced from chauvinism.

Am I the only person who thinks Farage is a smooth operating creep?

His personality doesn't matter, he's staunchly Brexit and obviously on the side of the people who voted to leave the EU three years ago and are still waiting. Besides, I'd rather have dinner with him than May, Corbyn and Cable. At least we could talk about football, beer and other interesting things. Imagine being stuck between the other three, almost as bad as being stuck with Merkel, Macron and Juncker.

"Britain's two biggest parties endured a drubbing at the polls this month when voters expressed their frustration with the Brexit deadlock at local elections."

Nothing to do with the "deadlock" more because of the main parties, especially the Tories, failing to carry out the democratic wishes of the people by not delivering Brexit three years after it was voted for in the referendum. People are also livid that leaving on WTO rules has been voted out by parliament, effectively putting the EU in a very powerful position in negotiations.

Doesn't surprise me, my Thai wife teaches English at school, so I see the papers set by the various examination boards and they are appalling. It's the questions that need marking and correcting, not the answers. I feel for the poor kids having to decypher these questions, even I would fail one of these papers. Just like Thai Immigration, most of the questions are ambiguous and on multi choice papers (which most are) all or none of the answers could be correct. Fortunately, if my wife sets papers for her classes, she first gives them to me to check over and correct before she presents them to the kids. I'm no Will Shakespeare, but I knock spots of the local exam boards.

20 minutes ago, evadgib said:

The answers you have received couldn't have been clearer and would be supported by an FoI request if any doubts remain. For Brits this falls into a category known as "The Embassy ain't doin' Nuffink" but in reality it usually means that the person hasn't done any homework or worse still, has listened to a bloke-in-a-pub. (???? )

HTH

Nonsense! All the embassies had to do was to verify the official letters from the pension services (at least in the cases of those receiving pensions). Please don't give me the twaddle about letters can be forged, because anything can be forged, and if not forged, obtained by corruption. Passports can be forged, so can bank books, bank letters, official stamps and signatures etc. Where does it stop? All the embassies have to say is that they verify the pension letters provided by Mr ........... Nothing will convince me that all the other embassies outside of the fab 4 are complying with the new Thai requirements, instead they're doing their best to help their citizens.

Having been a member of the British Foreign Service for many years I can vouch that of all the concerns of the Bangkok embassy, British citizens abroad is the least significant.