Proof Of Address Needed For Uk Crb Check

[Longbow212]

Hi

I am moving back to the UK and require proof of my residence here in Thailand for a CRB check. A bank statement and bills are requested with my name and address on. Only problem is I have very little documentation to proof where i live

The whole procedure is a pain in the arse as the CRB fail to realise life here is very different from back home and people cannot put down roots so easily as back home. By sheer luck I signed up for a mobile phone contract so will be able to wait for the next bill to come through. However, I have no knowledge of paper bank statements being issued.

Does anyone have any experience with providing this kind of documentation for back home? Did you manage to get hold of a paper bank statement? If so how did you do it?

Thanks

[Moonrakers]

I tried through my Bangkok Bank account recently and was told 'cannot'. Fortunately the people who needed it accepted my apartment rental contract even though it was in Thai.

[PattayaParent]

What's a CRB check?

Do you have to give it to UK authorities or Thai?

Go to Immigration and ask for a residence letter that you need to get a driving license which states your address.

Get it translated if needed, otherwise go to the Brit Embassy, or consulate in Pattaya, and ask them to issue one.

[Longbow212]

What's a CRB check?

Do you have to give it to UK authorities or Thai?

Go to Immigration and ask for a residence letter that you need to get a driving license which states your address.

Get it translated if needed, otherwise go to the Brit Embassy, or consulate in Pattaya, and ask them to issue one.

It's a criminal record check and for the UK authorities. They are quite specific about the documents they require, although as official an embassy letter is it is not on their "list".

[Thongkorn]

If you are in the UK go on line, they will ask your past addresses, maybe in the last ten years, start from there.

[PattayaParent]

I read on TV somewhere that someone got a criminal record check from the Thai police.

Filled in a form and it took 10 days if I remember right.

Try a search

[Longbow212]

If you are in the UK go on line, they will ask your past addresses, maybe in the last ten years, start from there.

I am not in the UK. I just need documentation to prove to the UK authorities what my current address is before I return and work.

I read on TV somewhere that someone got a criminal record check from the Thai police.

Filled in a form and it took 10 days if I remember right.

Try a search

The Thai police check is a not what I require documentation for, this is a detailed UK criminal records check of all my addresses over the last 5 years including any time spent abroad for more than 6 months. They also require a Thai police check but that is not where the difficulties lay. The difficulty lays in acquiring documentation such as utility bills, bank statements etc. Hopefully the bank can give me what I want tomorrow. I will also try applying for store cards just for the documentation.

Thank you for your input

[rak sa_ngop]

I have been through this quite a few times already. You need original copies of bank statements and/or a utility bill in your name at your current address. If the bills are in Thai you will have to have them translated into English, but they will usually accept translations from an ordinary street translating company especially if there is some sort of red? stamp on it.(about 600 baht per page)

The problem for you I think lies in the fact that you have no correspondence yet. If you have a offshore UK bank account, change its address to Thailand. Getting a utility bill is going to be difficult if you are renting. The mobile phone bill should work for you once the bill comes through and you have it translated.

Everybank imposes a different set of requirements, and I suspect that the main deterent to money laundering comes in putting suspect people off by the complexity of regulations. If you talk to the bank on the phone once your application is in place you will probably be OK.

The latest set of requirements by the Alliance & Leicester (Santander) requires proof of the source of your wealth i.e. payslips, bank statements, income receipts blah blah blah.

Takes hours to fill in the account application form just to apply for a 2 year fixed income fund, (and I have 2 other accounts at the same bank already).

Good luck.

[PattayaParent]

^ I don't think he needs it to apply for a bank account, it seems to be part of some job application but I don't see how a UK CRB can attest that he has no criminal record in Thailand? Discovery Scotland for example are only interested in UK addresses, not overseas.

[noise]

Go to Immigration and ask for a residence letter that you need to get a driving license which states your address.

It's a criminal record check and for the UK authorities. They are quite specific about the documents they require, although as official an embassy letter is it is not on their "list".

They can print out your account activity for any period of time from the computer; have you asked them for that? Or, if you have on line access to your account just print your own statement. Then go to your branch manager and get a letter like the one people get to verify amount on deposit for a visa and just ask that they include your address on it also (if it does not already have it). Submit the two. The letter showing a certain baht amount matching your printed statements should suffice.

As a back up or alternative, copy each page of your bank book and ask your branch manager to stamp and initial it, i.e., certify it as a true copy. Or you sign each page of the copy and he/she will be certifying you signed it (will look the same in the UK). Add the letter to that or submit all 3.

I have had my manager certify my signature on a document and it was accepted in the U.S., so I assume it would be in the UK also. It should be if for no other reason that this is all you have.

[PattayaParent]

^ I don't think he needs it to apply for a bank account, it seems to be part of some job application but I don't see how a UK CRB can attest that he has no criminal record in Thailand? Discovery Scotland for example are only interested in UK addresses, not overseas.

Or is it to do with non-domicile status for remittance?

[Riley'sLife]

Can someone please clarify which "UK authorities" require a British Citizen (presumably) to submit documents as mentioned, and for what purpose they are required. Never heard of this, perhaps because I have never been in the OP's situation, but I would like to be aware of the reason/purpose, just in case!

Many thanks.