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Police is checking if the Visa is still valid.

And they did this without opening the passport?

I let my wife beg on the steet and when i get home i give her a bowl of rice and take the money.

So beat that

I make her buy her own rice - so beat that

I imagine that the airlines will be able to check electronically as they do with other nationalities. As a UK citizen I don't need a visa but I do need to apply online for permission to travel, the airlines have always checked this when I have checked in and whilst I have always printed off the confirmation from the Australian website I have never been asked to show it.

That said, I can still see problems at check in with visa nationals.

The annoying thing is that it costs more to get a letter from the UK Embassy than it does to get an extension of permission to remain in Thailand.

All you do is to show them proof of your pension or other income and they fill in the template, money for old rope.

The words "p*ss up" and "brewery" spring to mind

Read the post people it is about taking the children to England not his WIFE!!!

Sorry beano224, you're too quick for me

It's a bit of a drawn out process but you can bring her over on a fiance visa, after 6-months she can apply for a marriage visa, which will also last for 2-years, then indefinite leave to remain if the marriage still stands.

The OP is talking about his wife's children, so not really sure you are suggesting a fiancé visa.

I think the OP needs to elaborate a little, where is your wife, is she in the UK with you? who and where is the children's father?

I agree that flying into Suvarnabhumi is probably best, but there really isn't a lot in it.

Don't forget that a new passport takes about ten working days so you need to factor that in. Unless you need to travel to Bangkok you can apply by post, though you have to rely on the Thai postal system, though EMS is pretty secure.

http://ukinthailand.fco.gov.uk/en/passport...ing-in-thailand

Are you saying that someone who is given ILE still has to pay £820 (any source please) for ILR ? Just what for exactly ?

Yes the fee required by the UKBA for Indefinite Leave to Remain is £820 providing the application is submitted by post, if it's submitted in person it's £1020. Just for what exactly? you rightly ask, to cover their costs - absolutely amazing.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/ukresidency/cost/

I presume that you have already read this http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/settleme...plicationtypes/ which talks about settlement in the UK.

Going back to your original question, as has been said by others, the passport will be retained by UK Visas until the application has been processed. I think you would be on dodgy ground if you used two passports as UK Visas require all passports, current and previous, with the application.

She need to have evidence, that she has booked/made a reservation for a return ticket, and a travel/health insurance for the duration of her stay, to get her visa in most embassies. She must have it, when she hand in the application.

But the OP is talking about travel to the UK where there is no such requirement for a return ticket and travel/health insurance at the application for Entry Clearance stage, though she might be asked for a return ticket on arrival in the UK.

Schengen States, on the other hand, require proof of confirmed travel and accomodation as well as travel insurance when the application is submitted.

I notice also that is cheaper to book in the UK so why not book the flight in the UK, BKK to LHR and LHR to BKK. I fly tomorrow with Jet via Mumbai, I booked with STA travel, who sent me an electronic ticket, so it could be emailed and the flight £400 return, have a couple of hours each way in Mumbai. This is the way I plan to do it in the future to dove tail with my outward and return flights, one to pick her up and bring her and then one to return to the sun.

If the journey originates from Thailand you will still pay the higher rate, the cost is based on where the journey commences not where the ticket is purchased.

Another thing to note, is that your gf is going to have to show the ticket at the time of visa application. You should check your embassy website for all the documents required.

You should indeed check the advice from UK Visas, the advice used to be that you should not to purchase a ticket until the visa is granted, I'm pretty sure this is still the case.

1. The reluctance of Thai drivers to stop at a zebra crossing, when pedestrians are hovering on the kerb.

2. If for example in the UK, you require to turn right at a crossroad and an oncoming driver flashes his lights at you. It means he is allowing you to turn across and into your intended road. But in Thailand......!

Two very good examples, and is probably why when I booked a hire car via the internet for UK car hire the price doubled when I entered my Thai address.

You are absolutely right "Me&Mrs Jones", a lot of people do benefit from this forum and best of all it's all free thanks to the efforts of many of the posters, 7by7 in particular.

Well done and keep up the good work.

By the way "Me&Mrs Jones", I really enjoyed your movie, or was that your friends the Smiths?

PS - Don't forget that these guys are not professionals and never claim to be, if your application is very complicated, and very few are, you should follow the advice of 7by7 and use a professional, and by that I mean a proper one and not the cowboys lurking around Regent House.

What's with all these bored English teachers picking up on spelling and grammar? The OP asked a pretty simple question, even if in the wrong forum.

Can anybody do 90 day reporting at the new office?

Or those with an extension of stay based on retirement? I really don't want to trust the postal method even though it seems to work in most cases.

Maybe one day we will be able to do it online, can only live in hope.

Do have any link info on the New French Visa system comming on 01 Feb? (VISAFRANCE) I looked at the China web site (english) and looks like to follow the VAC UK system

This is the info from the French Embassy website, it says the new site will be available soon, hope this helps.

http://www.ambafrance-th.org/spip.php?article1252

You cannot actually apply for both visas at the same time, but she could apply for a Schengen Visa as soon as the UK Visa is in the bank, I'm sure that's what you meant.

It could be done but it would be very tight and it would depend on when next week she is actually travelling to the UK.

She would need to make an appointment with the French Visa Section to deposit the application, I note there are appointments from tomorrow onwards. She would need to supply basically the same information as for the UK Visa, with the addition of confirmed travel and accomodation and travel insurance, I suspect this might be a problem. If all this is available it could be done, but whilst the French turn round applications in a couple of days, as I say, it would be very tight, the people at the Embassy will tell her if it could be done.

For the information of others the French Visa Section is outsourcing the process of depositing applications from the end of January.

The reason to return is totally different from you as a sponsor funding the trip.

Are we to presume that your fiancee wishes to go to the UK for a holiday? if so, as you have suggested, she needs to demonstrate that she has a reason to return to Thailand after her trip, job, studies, property and the like.

Your original question was about sponsorship and that's what others have given you advice about, but the issue of her return is certainly something she needs to address.

Air Asia's website states that they will refund passenger taxes paid by the passenger but not passed onto the authorities in the event of a missed flight, you have to email AA for the refund.

Given AA's apparent reluctance to answer emails I wondered if anybody had actually received such a refund in these circumastances?

I suppose it depends on if the entire trip is on one carrier and he can check his luggage through and get a boarding card for the second leg, I would have thought it's doable, subject to the first aircraft arriving on time.

Have a good one, may 2010 be good for you and those guys in the red shirts.

Hopefully you will make it over in 2010.

In fact Thai Airways is flying that route as well ex BKK, meaning that Bangkok air lost the monopoly it had on this route for many years...great for ourselves customers...hope they allow Air Asia to fly it on a near future as well....

Except that Bangkok Airways actually own the airport and to some extent are still able to affect the prices.

I am not a great fan of BHP as i feel they are a complete rip off with their prices, but this just shows that they are none worse than the rest.

Indeed, in fact in today's Bangkok Post there was a letter from somebody who came across a medical emergency in Patpong and asked somebody to call a hospital. The hospital, with the word Christian in it's name, would do nothing unless the caller would act as a guarantor for the cost of any possible medical treatment, seemingly expecting anybody coming across a medical emergency to be prepared to meet the bill in the event the victim was unable to do so. It's not surprising that anybody coming across such an emergency would simply turn the other cheek.

Whilst you cannot expect any or organisation to work for nothing what ever happened to compassion, medical ethics and a duty of care?

You are of course right in saying that they all as bad as each other.