20 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Well I have to agree with you on one point. Chiang Mai is a far more agreeable place to visit than Bangkok! I can't stand that city.

 

However the next time my passport comes up for renewal I'll be 80! Travelling to either city from my home here in Sakon Nakhon will, I suspect be a daunting prospect , so an agent it will have to be.

I'm not old, well not too old, but I use an agent for absolutely everything here.  The less I have to interact with Authority the better. I'm also as lazy as hell now and I just can't be arsed to make the effort to do stuff myself. 

Unrelated to UK….   the U.S. passports are taking longer 

6 hours ago, NoshowJones said:

Oh dear, did I not say I was on holiday in the UK and got a new passport there? I used my old passport to get there which had a re entry permit, and the new one to come back and entered visa exempt because my old one had not arrived.

My confusion arose because in replying to a post that said, in part, "but the blame for that is fully on the UK Passport Office, not Key Visa".  You said "I disagree with that 100%"

 

Others may, like me, have been similarly confused.

 

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VFS are not infallible, I applied myself for my sons first U.K. Passport at. VFS Global in Bangkok, I submitted all the required documentation which they checked. 
A week later I received an email from the U.K. Passport office, our sons Mother should have signed the form, we are not married. We had to write a letter signed by her verifying the application.

The next renewal I used Key Visa meaning I didn’t have to to do 2 trips to Bangkok, one to drop it of and 1 to collect it.

I think we can close this topic now, thus ending the bickering.

l think it’s been established that Key Visa is one of the numerous agencies up and down the country who will submit an application on behalf of the applicant, and forward the new passport when it arrives at VFS.

Forum members may be advised to check if agencies retain the current passport during the application process,some do and this could cause problems to the applicant.