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Have you downloaded this package from the website. http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/downloads/Ab%...tion%20Pack.doc

It has everything in it that you need other than your passport and photos. And of course the fee.

Yes I did I looked at what it was asking and the only evidence I can give is a letter from my gf.

The others Marriage certificate (don't have one of them), Pension Book (I am too young) and Sponser Letter, (I can get one of them)

Do you need any bank statements, etc?

"Evidence substantiating purpose of visit:

Extra evidence, as detailed below, is required only for Non-Immigrant Visas Categories “B” and “ED”:-

Category “B” = Letter from sponsor or copy of company documents or valid work permit

Category “ED” = Sponsor letter from educational establishment

Category “O” = Copy of Marriage Cert (if married to Thai national) or Pension Book or Sponsor Letter"

Except from the Thai Consulate application form, am I correct in saying that all I need as evidence to get my Non Immigration "O" is a letter saying that my gf will sponser me. In both English and Thai (just to be safe)

Does anyone know the format that works best?

Items I was thinking of sending also can you tell me if these are needed

1 My recent Bank Statement (signed)

2 Her Recent Bank Statement (signed)

3 Copy of her House Registration (signed)

4 Copy of her Thai ID (signed)

5 Copy of her Passport (signed)

Just thinking that this is too easy, compared what the UK Government expects for a Thai to get a Tourists Visa.

How does this compare with the Hull Embassy in UK, I hear the Hull is the best in the UK.

I am in Azerbaijan at present but I am from UK originally.

Some-one was asking about telephone calls to Thailand have a look at www.niftylist.co.uk/calls This gives you 0844 and cheaper for landlines than mobiles but overall still very cheap.

MSN, Yahoo Messenger and Skype can all be better and free with computer to computer

Keep all transcripts for prove of communications.

Some-one was asking about telephone calls to Thailand have a look at www.niftylist.co.uk/calls This gives you 0844 and cheaper for landlines than mobiles but overall still very cheap.

MSN, Yahoo Messenger and Skype can all be better and free with computer to computer

Keep all transcripts for prove of communications.

There used to be one in Siam Square but the Bib closed it down.

If you have any problems for oxygen and it is not just to be hip then you can call http://www.medicoxoxygen.com/foreign1.html who will deliver to your hotel or wherever.

Bumrungrad I found to be a good hospital also I did a medical for a mortgage in Bangkok Hospital in Pattaya which ws screening for security purposes, so I got the Blood Test for HIV, Blood in Urine, ECG.

Both very professional alot more so than those back on the NHS back home in UK

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A big congratulations and I bet your Wife and Son are happier too.

Next thing is to get into sorts with your Son, do the Daddy & Son things.

Get a Dog, etc just keep out of the things that may tempt you like going to a soccer match then afew beers after the game....

YOU Can do it, hopefully you will not need that Valium stuff at the Detox make you feel like sh*&e

Keep to the UK way of doing the job right. Lift the tiles and sand down the floor and lay a self leveling film then do your tiles.

Tell the missus that if is expensive to do rework.

Where is your land located, how big is it & how much do you want to sell it for?

Some photos / maps would help.

Best way to sell it is go to as many agents as posibble set up a few viewings and go from there.

If you can afford a new car and she would like one then go for it.

However my mother used to say "Wants never gets" it depeds how she asks you for a new car.

If she drives well and she has a reason for getting a Jazz then go for it eg cheaper to run etc etc if it just to show herfriends you really really love her then change to a never cheaper model of wife.

Again depending how long she has been with you, oif one month give her one weeks money no notice, if 2 months give her 3 weeks money and finally anything more than 3 months give her one months money.

No notice should be worked just let her go.

My suggestion would be if they have national Thai holidays, if you require for them to work those holidays then get an agreement one month beforehand that they have to work them.

Another day would be selected and a uplift (not double would be paid) Only hard and fast rules may be Songkran holidays where all Thai get to go home.

Days off if your maid works for you on her off days (she has no where else to go) then you could count these as holidays and she can accrue them.

As you say this is your time of need if she doesn't step up to the plate fire and get another one.

I have had 3 maids plus a sister working for us over the years.

Wife selects them so they are all ugly.

No1 Was OK last 3 months from Burma, she had to be told what to do, never did the cooking the missus does that, only ironing and general cleaning rate 5000K a month left after 3 months.

No2 Was an old Thai lady she used to get up at 5 am to wash the floors I always thought there was a burgarlar was in the house she left after 3 months

No3 Was Burmesse the missus never trusted her at all and if we were out we had to have the misus Dad take care of the house, she was always on the telephone to her bf she lasted 3 months.

A footnote to this is I usualy came home every 3 months and they left shortly afterwards not sure if I was to blame.

Lastly was missus sister, managed to get her salary increased to 6,000 a month she lasted well alothugh it was like eggshells if she never did something correct I would have to diplometically highlight to the missus.

She was on a home visit fell pregnant with her husband and that was the end of that she lasted the longest about 6 months.

Missus tried to get her back, even so she was still pregnant but I put my foot down on that.

I have now decided that we are doing without, so no more politics within the household.

What is the situation with visa runs how often and is she living in the country to the approval of our BiB?

Hi, I'm going to Southeast Asia for 11 weeks I want to spend a short time volunteering on rice farm. I was just wondering if anyone knows, or has any idea where the best place would be to start. Either in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos or Vietnam. I really want to use this experience to learn more about the culture and the way of life and see to how people relate to their environment. I spent last year teaching in Africa so I'm used to the poorest of conditions.

Also if anyone has the contacts of schools near the northern hill tribes which I maybe able to teach in, I'd be very grateful.

As a final thing I really interested in being able to find a factory which I could have a look around and maybe speak some people in their lunch break. Again if anyone has any contacts or ideas please let me know.

Thanks

You can't work this mean volunteering its same job and you need work permit in Thailand

I'm literally talking about a day, maybe two. Should I really be that worried about a work permit?

My cousin has a rice farm in Phitchit it is off the main drag so other Thai's will not see you but you will not need shoes you just walk the water in your bare feet. Only one or 2 days will not give you enough time for your toe nails to go black with the water.

How much is the family paying for the 20 rai they rent ? that should give you an idea ,Thais are not known to pay over market rates.

500-1000 baht per rai is average in our area.

They said the rates were 1000 baht for high season and 700 baht for the low season.

Sounds about right, most Thais only lease for the one cropping and then walk away, a Google of Thailand rice yields will show you why leasing rates are so low.

With yields as low as 250kg per rai and undetermined prices that could be as low as 8k per tonne, a gross return of 2k per rai doesnt give you much to play with.

These figures are at the low end of the scale admittedly .

Does anyone have information of the yeild for Rice Farms in the Phitchit area, also missus' cousin is planning to do 2 and maybe 3 crops. I have never seen him do only 1 one crop to his own farm since I have been going there.

What sucess rates is there for 3 crops?

Boy the Issan guys have it hard up there only one crop per year.

OK I have read 35 pages of funny thread it has kept me amused most of the day (slow reader), it is almost certain that he has OCD but even with OCD no-one has the right to give staff a hard time when it is not their fault.

Thankfully CarlBKK gave us a few laughs alone the way but on the serious note he has managed to let it be known that the "Mark" attitude is not one he displaying as a member Expat Community of upstanding citizen and has slightly modified his attitiude to the staff etc.

One of the people I feel sorry for in all this is his poor partner/wife.

Must pop into there one day hopefully see him there.

The reason why it does not tell you if you are successful or not is that the VFS are not allowed to open your application when it is returned from the BE.

Last application my missus made went like clockwork alot better than the old days where you have to be outside the BE at 4am in the morning to have a chance to get the application submitted.

Thank God for Central!!!!

In the news recently http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...n-gap-year.html

Their website (I have no connection with this company) http://www.traakit.co.uk/

What fun could you have tracking you Farang Boyfriend, Your Thai gf in Issan who says she is back working but is really back in the bar.

Tracking your kids going to school or bunking off early.

I am sure they will be a few other suggestions.

i saw in the emporium parking garage that there is a valet parking section, but i do not see where you go to do so. and... what other malls offer this very important service?

It's available for us at, The Mall, Ngam Wong Wang. However we very rarely use it as although we visit the mall most days we park in either HomePro or TESCO and walk a short distance. If we park in the mall we have a long drive to the u-turn and that then takes us back past the mall on the other side of the road, from there it's usually a quick drive home.

They gave us the sticker, persumably, as we have access to the Platignum Lounge.

To get that access you need to 1-spend quite a lot of money in the Mall or 2 have a CityM Platignum Visa

Hope this info helps

My missus does the same it is because she doesn't want to spend the extra money on fuel, you would think "The Mall" got an access right of way at the back to come out at Homepro or LPN condos.

As for JG grow up!!!!

First point. OK, I use Bank of Scotland / Halifax (19.50) per transaction, I too had the tellermake a mistake by the teller of sending it in THB instead of GBP, I went onto the Bangkok Bank website for that day & found out the rate that I would have got and calculated what I had lost by the error in the transaction.

Met with the Manager of my branch and discussed with him about the teller mistake and he refunded me the difference.

Another way to send money overseas is to give your Gf/wife to be an Nationwide ATM card and just transfer money into it, at present only Bank of Ayuttaya are not charging fees for foreign ATM withdrawal. Limited to 15,000 baht per day unless you have multiple accounts.

Second point If this is the only the first time you have sent money over to Thailand I am suspecting you have not known your gf/ wife to be long, this is probably the more serious thing.

Question. Would you get married to a farang in Farangland with her only knowing her a short period of time?

I need to to go to BKK to attend an event at the Landmark from 3 to 5 pm immediately after which I want to leave BKK. I would be going by car.

Can someone tell me the quicker choice of the following?

1) drive to the Landmark and park there - bearing in mind the traffic, especially for a non bkk resident.

2) park somewhere else and taxi/bts to/from Landmark? (in this case please specify a suitable parking place).

Need to be leaving in two days.

Many thanks in advance.

Take the Highway to the Suk turnoff

What about Food Land also on Soi 5 but when your coming out you have to go down to out from Soi 5 onto soi 7 then back noto Soi 11 you are then taken to Soi 3 which then brings you back onto Highway

It is really better getting the BTS or MRT to your desitation at that time of the bad.

After my disaster of my first Farang wife (housewife) where we had a joint bank account. I was the earner she looked after my son however spent every penny I got I vowed it would not happen again.

So I set about giving my new Thai girlfriend as an allowance to look after all the bills, her daughters who stay with us and common groceries etc.

However there was times that her bank balance went down over a number of months since she had alot of unforeseen bills etc. when I asked her why she didn't ask for more money her answer was she didn't like asking (as if she didn't manage her money properly)

An agreement was then made to one a month to send funds to her account to keep it at a certain level. (this sometimes doesn't happen like when the GBP dropped like a stone we waited for 3 months)

After several tests over the years (8 wonderful years) I know that she is trustworthy, and is a good money manager.

She doesn't send money to the family, they all work, even when her parents were living she never sent money home as her parents attitude was to keep money for her kids.

When I am out of work she will look after me from our savings (hers and mines) and any other income we have coming in.

I do not ask her permission to spend our money, she does ask to spend our even down to the little things 3000 baht etc that is away from the normal budget items, tried to get her out of the habit but I know what comes into the household budget and how it is all spent. Down to the groceries, telephone bill, water bill, schooling fees, uniforms, fuel for the car.

I used the on line lawyer and his charges were 7200 to prepare the two wills. The work was carried out with great efficiency and the wills seem to be watertight.

I recommend

Who is the online lawyer here?

I stay in Prathum Thani any recommendations?