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You seem to be confusing Residential Address with Correspondence Address, l think there is a difference. l wonder if those who use an address of a friend or family member ensure they’re on the Electoral Register at the address, l know from recent experience that, at least some, banks use this to check that their potential new customers comply with their criteria. https://www.ukpostbox.com/blog/correspondence-address-and-residential-address-differences#:~:text=What is a Residential Address,of 183 days per year.

This was the quote in yesterdays Telegraph “An FCA spokesman said lenders can set their own restrictions on accounts, but customers must be treated fairly. They added: “Banks may set their own requirements on country of residence for account holders and must comply with local law and regulation when serving customers outside the UK. Whether or not banks decide to extend services to customers outside of the UK is a commercial decision for them, but we expect them to treat their customers fairly, comply with equalities legislation, and provide adequate notice to the customer if they decide to close their account. Customers who feel they have had their accounts closed unfairly have the right to complain to the Financial Ombudsman Service.”

VFS charge 1560 Baht for those who wish to submit their application without making an appointment.

That’s not quite correct, the passport fee is correct but VFS don’t charge for processing applications and forwarding them to the UK. The courier fee is charged, and collected, by the UKPA for sending the new passport from the UK to Thailand.

Hefty increase for ILR as well, l’m assuming these are the increases Sunak announced to fund the Civil Servants pay rises. He also said he’ll increase the NHS Surcharge, though l haven’t seen an announcement on that yet.

This has nothing to do with visas, I’ll move the thread to a more appropriate forum.

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I’m not sure that migrants are welcome with open arms, many arrive in the UK illegally and we’re more or less stuck with them until they can they can be removed. If you’re detained then of course you will be put in some sort of detention accommodation, you cannot detain people on the streets. it is very difficult to find accommodation for Immigration Detainees, nobody wants Immigration Removal Centres in their back yard, people complain if they’re accommodated on barges or two to a room in a run down seaside hotel, the Government are really on a hiding to nothing, they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t. it’s really not easy to get rid of illegal immigrants or failed asylum seekers, you can’t just put an undocumented person on a plane and expect the destination country to accept them without question. l have every sympathy with the OP and people in a similar position, including military veterans, but those are separate issue which do need to be addressed.

Tourist Visa

So are you going to share the nationalities of the intended applicants or leave us to guess? Fellow members will try to advise or offer personal experiences but you really need to give fellow posters a fighting chance rather than just picking arguments.

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Transam is spot on, the unexpired period on a UK passport is no longer added on to a renewed passport, that concession ended in September 2018. Your current passport is still valid until it’s expiry date, except for entry to countries that have a rule that a passport must be no more than ten years old when the holder leaves the jurisdiction, the Schengen Area is one of those jurisdictions. It wasn’t an issue when the UK was a member of the EU, but it’s something that became an issue once we left, we were warned that as third country nationals we no longer benefited from the concession, it would seem the benefits outweighed the inconvenience.

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They certainly would send to Hua Hin from their Bangkok office, l suspect they would also do so from Chiang Mai. When she applies she would pay a nominal fee for courier delivery (they send EMS) and she would also write the delivery address on the envelope, so assuming you already have the address, l don’t think there would be a problem. My wife applied for her visa earlier this year and was going to collect from Bangkok as we had a new address, she later asked if they would sent to our new Hua Hin address, and they did.

It wasn’t really a suggestion, l was pointing out their disclaimer following the advice from the guy who posted link.

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This old thread was started over a decade ago by a member who was asking if his UK State Pension could be paid directly to Thailand, and has been answered. It has nothing to do with pensions being frozen, there have been numerous threads directed at this injustice. The imposition of Ultra High Emission Zones in certain areas in the UK is also not a topic for debate here, though it’s probably worth saying that far from the British people just nodding to say ok, there have numerous protests and court cases on the issue, l suspect that may have missed the reports in the media. You might not be aware that these restrictions have also been introduced in parts of mainland China, including Hong Kong, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy etc etc, where there have been similar protests.

if you use your current passport to get a further extension you could only get an extension until the expiry of your current passport, so you are correct - maybe the IO was trying to be helpful. My renewal took three weeks over the Christmas/New Year period, don’t know how long they’re currently taking.

Yes she can, but obviously not whilst in UK on a visit.

We’re currently in the UK and have come across numerous retailers who would only accept card payments. My wife even purchased a single Krispy Kreme doughnut at a stall in a shopping mall, and they would only accept card payments. l have however noticed a few shops having signs near tills complaining that the banks charge them high fees to process cards and asking customers to pay cash if they could, but all l came across would still take cards.

This thread is about Settlement Visas, l needed to clarify to prevent false hopes.

Maintaining a UK bank account, and having a pension paid into it, will not in itself mean that you will receive the annual increases, and neither will the fact that you own property in the UK, you actually have to declare to the DWP that you are ordinarily resident in the UK. Many people lie and claim they’re ordinarily resident, some use friends or families addresses whilst others use the address of a property they own but don’t live in, l suspect that most, if not all, get away with it. l am aware that the DWP have taken to checking Council Tax records and Credit Agencies, I’ve no idea if that’s making any difference to the issue.

No, as I mentioned, l wasn’t resident in the UK. l just had my pensions paid into my UK based account, and transferred what l needed as and when.

But the guy you’ve responded hasn’t mentioned that he might be in the UK, in fact he’s posting from Thailand. I was clarifying your answer that if he had his pension paid into a UK account he would receive the uplift, obviously it’s not automatic, and certainly not on what he said.

For settlement?