Waterloo
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On 23/09/2017 at 6:24 AM, khwaibah said:
Its the same visa he will get at the Cambodian Embassy in Bangkok. This crossing will try to sting him for 1100 to 1500 baht.
did the crossing on the 27th August and can confirm I was stung for 1500 baht and the issuing officer blatantly pealed off the 500 baht tea money and put it in his own pocket in front of me, but what are you going to do!
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Cheers
very helpful I make 30 usd about 1000 thb will just take the hit, cheaper than driving to the other border crossing.
Believe the village is only about an hour from the border and a member of the extended family will drive us there, good to know prices on the other side.
Thanks for taking the time much appreciated
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Sorry just re read my post was in a hurry to get out the door to a meeting.
I am a uk passport holder in the uk will shortly fly to Thailand, want to visit Siam Reap from Surin.
Hope that is now clear.
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Hi
I will shortly be visiting to the in laws in Surin and whilst there fancy popping across the border to Surin, looking on the Cambodian consulate website e-visa's do not appear to be supported at the Chong Chom border crossing and visa's on arrival are only available at the international airports?
Do I have any other choices, the Poi Pet crossing would be a 5 hour drive so would prefer to cross at Chong Chom.
Cheers for any useful information in advance
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As Steady has already said talk to your Bank before leaving to check but I don't think it should be to much trouble.
The Wife popped home recently to complete the sale on a property and after supplying the paperwork the bank asked for had no trouble transferring £35,000.
She has lived in the UK for almost 10 years now and has UK citizenship.
One of the documents she provided was her British passport to show she was now settled in the UK and hence her reason for transferring the proceeds of the sale.
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4 hours ago, samran said:
Thanks for thinking of me. Don't post too much these days!
Not saying he's done anything wrong, but the OP just should have held his ground and asked to speak to a supervisor who would have overruled the IO. A Thai citizen shouldnt have been denied unrestricted entry.
i suspect howver the 'reason' was that the kids don't have any exit stamps out of thailand in their Thai passports. If the kids were born OS that is to be expected, but if born in thailand they either left on an old Thai passport or the pareents decided to have them leave on the foreign passport. Would be interesting to know which one is the case.
long and short of it, if this happens again, create an almighty fuss and get a supervisor to over rule the IO.
for what it is worth as well, me and my blond haired blue eyed kids and wife arrived back from Europe on the weekend where we'd be using our oz and nz passports.
We all got stamped back into the country no worries on our Thai passports.
Both our children were born in the UK and never had a problem with them entering Thailand on there Thai passports even when they were brand new with no Thai exit visa!
They always leave the UK on there British passports and enter Thailand on their Thai passports and then reverse the process.
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Out of curiosity when ever this subject is discussed it is always in relation to travel out of Thailand.
My wife has taken our 2 children a number of times without me to spend time with there Yai and to immerse them in the language and it has never been an issue.
They are currently out there now having waved them of only last Saturday, have we just been lucky or is this just an issue when flying out of some country's?
The children are 3&5 have dual nationality and we are legally married living in the UK.
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Assuming you have to go to London we went about 6 weeks ago to renew our Son's passport and were in and out in under an hour including the biometrics, new passport received in under 4 weeks.
When you download the forms from the website they will tell you, you need to make an appointment, not sure why you still end up queuing the appointment seems to have no relevance.
That aside I thought the service has improved over the last couple of years and they have spent money improving the facilities and opening more desk's.
Hopefully you will be lucky and able to do it closer to home but I haven't read any blogs recently mentioning the service.
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Cheers for all the responses greatly appreciated
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A thread last December seems to confirm that the child should not have a problem.
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/879580-child-returning-to-thailand-with-expired-passport/
You might need a notarized consent letter from the missing parent for the Thai passport. Not sure if this applies to renewals.
- Both parents can accompany the child to apply for an e-Passport and sign the parental consent form.or
- One parent must accompany the child to apply for an e-Passport. The other parent can appear and sign the parental consent form when he/she picks-up the e-Passport.
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- One parent must accompany the child, signs the parental consent form, and submits a notarized consent letter of the non-appearing parent.
Cheers can't get the second link to work at the moment but I think the problem is this end will try again latter with another computer.
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Hi Guys
The wife will be taking our 2 children (2 & 5) to visit her mother for 7 weeks leaving in early July, both the children have Thai and UK passports.
Unfortunately the five year olds passport will expire this month.
Now we have an appointment at the Thai embassy next week to apply for a new one and we will be comfortably inside the 8 weeks they quote for processing, but I was wondering if it would not be easier to apply for the new one whilst she is in Thailand.
I have often read on here that you will be allowed to enter a country on an expired passport if your expired passport proves you are a national of that country and the five year olds UK passport is up to date so no problem getting on the plane.
Can anyone see a problem with this, I will not be travelling out with them as I have to stay home for work reasons
,when we applied for his first passport in London they did insist both parents were present?Obviously she could always get an extension in his UK passport, or do a visa run being close to the Cambodia border.
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sounds like ignorance on the part of the employer, I know of lots of people including my own wife who legally worked whilst on ILR
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Shocking increase, I thought the system was already self financing with regard to visa's, I guess they want the visa fees to pay for all functions including border officers and enforcement!
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Hi has anyone applied for there partners first UK passport recently?
In section 4 of the form under parents details it states that if both parents were born outside the country that you must then fill in section 8 giving the grandparents details, now clearly this is so that they can determine if the applicant is entitled to a British passport through decent.
The Wife received her Naturalization certificate in June and we have put the relevant details in section 5 so surely her grandparents details are irrelevant?
I can't find anywhere in the guidance notes that under these circumstances that there is no need to file in section 8
any thoughts guys?
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My wife and children have just been given citizenship. Just got the good news through, on 24th September.
Ceremony planned for next Tuesday.
Congratulations, hope you enjoy the day as much as we did.
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Thanks fbf. Hadn't considered starting an FLR file quite so soon, was just going to relax for a year or 2 without thinking of any more visa applications!
Sounds like you've got things very well organised, I'll try to do the same. I'm flying out the last week of October and we will return to the UK the following week, so not long now.
This is good advice we didn't do it and were left scrabbling around when the time came
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The main benefit is not having to deal with the Home Office or UKVI because you are no longer subject to immigration control. That has to be a massive, massive benefit!
It is not easy to pass, could be much better (even useful) but it is what it is! It is equally 'unfair' to all non-EU nationals but this type of test is common elsewhere in the world.
I would say priceless.
Yes the system can be difficult and frustrating, it certainly is expensive, but I for one sleep better now in the thought that no matter how they change the rules in the future my family's future together is secure.
Added the Wife to the electoral role last week, and our little boy started primary school this week, he looked very smart in his uniform.
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Just checked my posts we applied 25th March 2015 received the good news on the 7th May 2015 and citizenship was on the 2nd June 2015
That was very quick. They seemed to have slowed down a bit
Good Luck it's a stressful time
Just to say we really enjoyed the Wife's citizenship ceremony, Newbury council made a real effort.
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There was a not very flattering inspection of the naturalisation process - http://icinspector.independent.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Nationality-Report-web.pdf
• referees were never contacted to verify that they had agreed to act as a referee, to determine their suitability, or to check that they had sufficient knowledge of the applicant; and • checks were not conducted to determine if referees had been convicted of an imprisonable offence in the last ten years, despite the guidance to applicants indicating that such an individual would not be accepted as a referee.
This was 2014 so it would be nice to think something has happened since to change things. Becoming British is a big event and care should be taken to make sure the right people are approved and the wrong ones refused.
It was also suggested that:
We recommend that the Home Office: Performs random police checks for referees and takes appropriate action where the random 5% referee check on British citizens identifies inconsistencies with the information held by Her Majesty’s Passport Office.
It was also stated that meeting the six month target:
4.89 While this was a good performance, we noted that the six-month target did not appear to be very challenging.
Straying off topic somewhat but asking referees if they have been contacted is unlikely to be much of an indicator of the stage of processing.
Cheers Bob
Just read the section on Referees, pretty well confirms my suspicions.
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anecdotally it is my belief Referees are rarely contacted, non of the Wife's referees were ever contacted from when she first entered the country on a student visa till the end of the process when she became a citizen.
During that time there were 2 student visa's, 2 Flr's 1 ILR 1 Citizenship on top of which I have also acted as a referee on a number of passport applications and have never heard a pep!
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I'm curious as to how often Referee's are actually contacted, non of ours were throughout the whole process?
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Just checked my posts we applied 25th March 2015 received the good news on the 7th May 2015 and citizenship was on the 2nd June 2015
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The Wife had her Citizenship Ceremony only a couple of months ago and I am pretty sure from memory that we waited 6 weeks before hearing the good news
,when we applied for his first passport in London they did insist both parents were present?
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yes but where in Thailand?