2 minutes ago, Deepinthailand said:

Do you really belive the banks are in bed with the immigration!!!!. Selling a house in UK now have to get a letter from a solicitor here before they will sell it due to the money laundering regulations. If I was in UK selling have to prove who I am still with ID/passport and a current working phone number land line or mobile so it's not only here regulations are getting g tighter and having to prove who you are by means of ID.

Before you can sell it or before you can transfer the proceeds of the sale to Thailand?

Just now, SaintLouisBlues said:

Before you can sell it or before you can transfer the proceeds of the sale to Thailand?

Both, estate agents need a solicitors letter first then have to send same solicitors letter to my solicitor. Who will then act and on completion send the money only to my UK bank account. They will not send it abroad well thats not right they will bit so much hassle.  I have to tell them I live abroad so they can take full control everything done on line.

1 minute ago, Deepinthailand said:

Both, estate agents need a solicitors letter first then have to send same solicitors letter to my solicitor. Who will then act and on completion send the money only to my UK bank account. They will not send it abroad well thats not right they will bit so much hassle.  I have to tell them I live abroad so they can take full control everything done on line.

Sounds like some obscure Brit requirement if  a Brit estate agent needs a solicitor's letter before you can sell your own property in Britain.

41 minutes ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

 

 

36 minutes ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

Sounds like some obscure Brit requirement if  a Brit estate agent needs a solicitor's letter before you can sell your own property in Britain.

If I was there would still have to prove who I am but beaus I'm here needs a solicitors verification of me and for money laundering purposes.  But a bit off thread now

9 hours ago, dbrenn said:

Had to show my Thai ID when sending a package to the UK recently.

Many criminals mail drugs using someone else's name and return address, yes you could use a fake passport but don't forget to smile at the camera. Ex-rays are only as good as the reader, and many common items look like drugs. The hardest part for the criminal is the receiver has to sign for it at the other end, so if they detect the drugs the cops can get you when you sign.

8 hours ago, Grubster said:

don't forget to smile at the camera

Smiling in passport photos is now verboten

13 hours ago, Deepinthailand said:

If I was there would still have to prove who I am but beaus I'm here needs a solicitors verification of me and for money laundering purposes.  But a bit off thread now

Ok so proving who you are to sell your property and proving who you are for money laundering purposes are two entirely separate and unrelated requirements. They happen to be conflated in this circumstance because you're abroad (and want to remit the proceeds to a non-UK bank rather than the UK bank where you are currently a customer???). None of that has anything to do with the Thai bureaucracy, and everything to do with the worldwide insistence on "know your customer"

5 hours ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

Ok so proving who you are to sell your property and proving who you are for money laundering purposes are two entirely separate and unrelated requirements. They happen to be conflated in this circumstance because you're abroad (and want to remit the proceeds to a non-UK bank rather than the UK bank where you are currently a customer???). None of that has anything to do with the Thai bureaucracy, and everything to do with the worldwide insistence on "know your customer"

Er no I clearly stated money will be deposited to UK bank. I was pointing out that Bureaucracy is in fact on the increase world wide not just in our adopted country. 

5 hours ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

Smiling in passport photos is now verboten

I meant the camera in the post office.

1 hour ago, Deepinthailand said:

I was pointing out that Bureaucracy is in fact on the increase world wide not just in our adopted country. 

Exactly - it's known as "Know your customer", as I said

4 minutes ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

Exactly - it's known as "Know your customer", as I said

Whatever you say I call it bureaucracy and more paper work.

1 minute ago, Deepinthailand said:

Whatever you say I call it bureaucracy and more paper work.

And what do you propose doing about it, or are you just going to keep entertaining us by whingeing?