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The thing with this is that the mother will not be present at immigration, these are the people you need to convince. How did you get on when you got your daughter her visa? Was there any mention of her just travelling with you?
The other problem you may have is when you get to immigration at your destination, they may well question you there. When we took our niece without her permmision letter, the Thai immigration officer made a note in her passport that he had spoken to her parents but told us there was no gaurantee that she would be admitted.
I do hope all goes well for you for all your sakes.
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20 hours ago, DLang said:
MFA have confirmed they cannot do it.
Rang the Amphur in her home district and they have no idea about it. Never heard of it. Never given one.
Which may be to our advantage. Might be able to print out an example, send copies of everything from all ID's and passports and tickets and birth certs and marriage certs to her family and maybe they can get them to do it.
When we got the letter for our niece only the parents went to the amphur. They took with them copies of my passport, my wifes passport, her ID card,the tabien bann and the childs birth certificate. When they issued the letter our names and passport numbers were stated in the letter. The letter was in Thai so we had to have it translated for her visa. When the visa was issued our passport numbers were on it stating that at least one of us must accompany her.
On exiting Thailand we showed them the letter of consent and when we got to the UK the immigration officer asked for the consent letter but then saw that our passport numbers were on the visa so we did not have to show it.
So to recap, only the mother needs to go to the amphur and copies of your passport should suffice.
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Had this problem, not with daughter but our niece. It can only be done at the amphur where the parent(s) are registered. The reason being that the letter is issued and then recorded in a ledger at the amphur. The mfa would not be able to do this.
Regarding the post that says phone the airline, it is nothing to do with them as you would not get as far as the plane, immigration would get you first. We took our niece with us on a holiday to Hong Kong not knowing about the letter and we were stopped by immigration. After many phone calls to parents we were eventualy granted permission to fly but it really was squeaky bum time and I would never take a chance again
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3 hours ago, 7by7 said:
As I said above
However, having checked I see that Standard visitor visa; 3. Documents you must provide now says
No idea when that changed.
Have noticed a few changes since the last application, 12 months ago, most interesting one was that there was only english in the drop down menu for choosing language for any communication.
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23 hours ago, rasg said:
My reason for asking is that the last time we applied for a visa some documents were not returned to us and this caused us difficulty in getting them replaced and we are reluctant to enclose the house papers and the house book.
Did you supply copies last time? Maybe they kept the originals because you didn't? Just a thought.
I just had a look at the Gov website and there is nothing to say that you need to supply originals. You are only the second person I have heard of where paperwork wasn't returned. I had a look at what we supplied for my wife's two visit visas in 2015 and we sent originals and copies of her passport, tabian baan and divorce papers along with the translations. A copy was made of her ID card and she was asked to sign it at VFS after they had taken a look at the original. Copies only of my passport and visa pages.
I supplied copies and originals, we asked for originals to be returned, one birth cert and our translated marriage papers, certified by the mfa ,were not returned. Look again on the gov website, it states originals and nothing about them being retuned by request.
By the way first application was 12 months ago , jan 2016, things have changed since then.
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Am in the process of applying for second visitor visa for my wife. Having downloaded the application and checklist it asks for ORIGINAL documents . I know her passport has to be enclosed and we have had the following supporting documents copied and translated, the Tabbien baan ,
House ownership papers and our marriage certificate. I have also copied my passports showing our trips together and my status of Thai living.
Do we have to enclose the original documents or just give sight of them?
My reason for asking is that the last time we applied for a visa some documents were not returned to us and this caused us difficulty in getting them replaced and we are reluctant to enclose the house papers and the house book.
Many thanks for any help from someone who has had recent experience
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55, when you look at the forum heading and sub-headings all are refered to as "visas or visa extentions", no mention at all of " extention of stay".
Then you wonder why people are confused
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Does anyone know if it is possible to obtain a UK settlement visa for our Thai niece.
My predicimate is as follows, our Thai niece who is six years old lives with us and we fully support and take care of her. She has visited the UK with us before on a visitors visa and traveled out of the country with her parents permission.
My elderly mother lives in the UK and needs heart surgery.I am going to the UK to take care of her and would like my wife to accompany me. We think the care required would be long term so I have thought about applying for a settlement visa. The problem is there is nobody to take care of our niece so we want her to come as well. As this could be long term we are concerned about her schooling so we thought if we could get her a settlement visa as well she could go to school in the UK.
As I am living here on a retirement visa we would go down the savings route instead of employment and I have adequate finances to cover this.
Do you think it possible for us to obtain a visa for her?
We visited the adoption centre yesterday to seek information about that but we were told that could take up to two years.
Any help/advice would be most welcome. Thanks.
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We have a situation similar to you where as our niece lives with us. May I ask do you have to obtain a permmision letter from the amphur every time you leave the country or is there a time limit on the letter?
Thank you
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Thank you all so much for your help, it is a bit of a worrying time for me so this info is re-assuring. My wife will have to return to Thailand before the start of November because thats when school re opens so it will be a month maximum
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My wife obtained a visitors visa for the UK in march this year and we visited the UK and returned to Thailand on 30 April. Her visa expired on 5 September.
My elderly Mother who lives on her own requires heart surgery and I will return to the Uk to care for her. This is scheduled for October and I would like my wife to accompany me.
So my question is would she be allowed to apply for another visa or is there a waiting time?
Many thanks for any help
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58 minutes ago, Foreign Jim said:
Lost in translation: My family surname is transliterated incorrectly. (It's only a couple of syllables) This is not the first time this has happened where someone has incorrectly put the wrong Thai vowel on a document. These mistakes are so frustrating because now we have to spend more time and money getting my passport translated again, so another government agency can redo my daughter's birth certificate. There's no consistency in translations here, and while it's easy to point the finger at the translators, some of whom work in offices right in the same building, I also blame the brain-dead, middle aged, pencil pushing morons who are employed to handle an issue like this. Does calling out minutiae make them feel like they are doing their jobs? What could possibly be wrong with fudging a little grey area as one <deleted> vowel, a mistake they made? We were there with all the correct documents. It takes a lot of effort to travel to that place with kids. I had to take time off of work, spend money for taxi rides, spend money for another 'proper' translation of my passport, and eventually will have to make another visit. We will go to a different location, one in a mall that my wife knows about and try to get this done. I just have no faith in Thais or their system, and getting out of here for a bit will certainly do me good.
Ok, I understand what you mean. We went through something similar when we had translation done for our marriage papers. They rejected the submitted papers, said my wifes name was not translated correctly. There are a couple of ways to spell her name and the traslation company asked her to write down the correct version and she did but the mfa rejected it. Had to go through the whole process again.
I know how frustrated these things make you but it just seems normal to them.
Maybe a good thing to try another place where there does not seem to be so much "officialdom" with them.
Good luck, and try to keep calm.
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What exactly went wrong? We went with our nieces mother ( who is far from the sharpest tool in the box) to get her passport and I was amazed at how helpful they were. How did translation come into getting a Thai passport when all the required documents are in Thai? One thing that sticks clearly in my mind is that they asked the mother how her name should be written in English script and she did not have a clue so the passport official wrote it down and told the mother that is how it should be written on all papers that require anything but Thai script.
Maybe try again at a different office. There is one opened up near us at a Big C superstore.
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Fot the passport you will need the childs birth certificate and ID card(if she has one) , the blue book where she is registered and the mothers ID card and blue book. You can get the passport from changwattana, we went to Bang Na, but I think it has moved from there now. Cost 1000 baht and 35 for ems to send the passport to you. It is a pretty straight forward process and they take the photos so no worries there.Turnaround is a couple of days, but allow a week if you are having it posted to you
For the permission letter you have to go to your local amphur with your wife, her Id card and the blue book. Take your passport as well because they will name you and use your passport number in the letter. Again it is pretty straightforward, they give you the letter and register it in their book. You will have to get it translated into English.
You may also need to show the letter to Thai immigration before you leave Thailand with her so keep it handy.
Hope this helps
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5 hours ago, smellyskater said:
Thank you for taking the time to share this williewolf. What was "Trendy"?
I want to have every option covered. Belt and braces!
Thanks
"Trendy" is the building in Bangkok where you submit the application
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On 25/08/2016 at 8:04 PM, smellyskater said:
I'm still looking for advice if anyone can share an experience. Or do people avoid traveling with sons and daughters?!
Thanks
This is our recent experience, not with a daughter, but with our niece who lives with us. The father makes no provision for the child. To obtain the passport he had to attend the passport office with the child and her mother. This was a couple of years ago and he did co-operate.
Earlier this year we wanted to take the niece with us to the uk. We stated and provided evidence that the niece lives with us and we were her sole providers and the mother and father lived apart. We went to the amphur with her mother and obtained a letter stating that she gave permission for the girl to travel with us. In the uk visa guidelines it states that the PARENT/GAURDIAN must give permission( note singular) We then submitted the application and before doing so I asked at Trendy if one parents permission was enough, they said yes, only one parent.
The application was refused because the eco wanted both parents permmision, although we had stated in the application the father was not around.
We then had to try and get him to go to the amphur. Things were not going too well so we said if he would not co-operate he would have to provide for the child whilst we were away. He then went to the amphur and did the same permission letter as the mother .
Obviously we had to pay again so I would suggest do all you can to get this permission letter
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5 hours ago, scooterboy said:
About 2 or 3 weeks ago I bought an MXQ 4K Android Box from Lazada (recommended by one of the TV moderators, I think). It works very well and I have no complaints whatsoever.
It came loaded with apps and Kodi - but easy to remove the unwanted things. Ordering and delivery very easy.
http://www.lazada.co.th/catalog/?q=+MXQ+4K+Android+Box
Cheers
Yes i use lazada. The only thing with that box that i can see is that it only has 1gb ram , i was looking to upgrade to something with 2gb, thanks any way
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14 hours ago, johng said:
@williewolf Can you tell us the exact make and model of your Android box please.
Yes its a himedia q1. Bought it in the early days of kodi. It has always been a bit tempremental, but has served its purpose until now when i want to add fonts!!
What box are you using?
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3 hours ago, Berty100 said:
It is not possible that when installing any kodi version it shows as a different version. If it shows as Kodi 14, that mean that version is somewhere on your box and you have to uninstall it first.
Go to Android>setting> apps and try to locate that app in any of the sections, then uninstall it from there.
Failing to find it in the apps, you will have to use Rootexplorer or ES Explorer to manually locate the folder and delete it.
Anothwer option is to install SPMC from Playstore, as it is a fork of Kodi ( actually the exact same thing) and they can operate next to each other on the same box.
For the media folder in SPMC you select com.sempermax.spmc instead of org.xbmc.kodi
You should download either SPMC(old) or the new version, but in the latter case you have to go to settings>appearance>skin and change the skin to confluence.
Update: I have installed spmc and exactly the same thing is happening, no choice of fonts in subtitles. The only thing is when I added them to spmc and restarted kodi it did not keep kicking me out. So now i have two kodi,xbmc & spmc, at least i can keep one version stable with a build on for viewing and mess about with the other one. I am now sure the problem lies within the box, so maybe its time to update it.
I think i will start a new thread on box reccomendations as a lot seems to have changed since my last purchase. Thanks again everyone for helping, at least I can now watch a movie with subtitles if i want on my laptop
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14 minutes ago, johng said:
Maybe the file system on the android box is mounted read only ? I have had that problem before you copy files over it looks like it worked but refresh the view files are not there,
Could also be permissions problems but normally that throws an error up.
Yes i think so, please see my reply to berty as well
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1 hour ago, Berty100 said:
What is the exact problem with your box?
What box are you using.
Any Kodi installation can be removed by uninstalling in Android settings> apps.
It is not possible to have 2 version of kodi on one box, unless it is a minix and the other version is the minix modified xbmc, version
To copy and paste the fonts folder in to your .kodi>media folder you need Rootexplorer or ES Explorer, and have hiiden files enabled in the app. You can't do this with Android file explorer.
I'm nbot sure it makes a difference, but the folder should be named fonts, not FONTS or Fonts
Put the fonts folder with all te required fonts inside on a usb drive. Open Rootexplorer or ES Explorer and copy the fonts folder on your usb drive, then paste the folder into Root>sdcard>android>data>org.xbmc.kodi>files>.kodi>media
To edit an .xml file again you need one of the two apps mentioned above, then long press on the .xml file, and select open with text editor.
The problem i have is i cannot get the choice of fonts to show in the subtitles menu, it just shows arial or teletext fonts.
I have re1installed kodi many times and after unistalling it it shows kodi helix ver 14 (although it will not open)
I have followed exactly the procedure you gave many times but the fonts dont show. If i power off the box when it restarts i cannot open kodi, thus having to re install it and go through the whole procedure again with the same results, so i am just going round in circles.
Now the interesting part, you asked what make the box was, well it just says "himedia" i dont remember the model number so i googled himedia and i think its h8. I came across a thread , himedia.ca. jarvis16, and it seems from that a lot of people have had trouble and there is a firmware upgrade to eliminate this.
The only thing with that is its close to the weekend and i like to watch the football and if i make any mistakes there will be no football!,
So i think i will leave it until monday and have a go then. If you have time would you care to look at the thread and give me your opinion please
Many thanks
Willie
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On 17/08/2016 at 8:19 PM, Berty100 said:
Keep in mind you need to create a folder "Fonts" in the media folder and paste the font in that folder you just created.
I also tried the ArialUni font, and the file I have is much larger actually than the one posted here (23Mb), but it worked only certain Thai subtitles where the AD-TT-Garuda works on all Thai subtitles regardless how they are coded.
Thanks. I tried your font on my laptop, works fine and took just a couple of minutes to install and see it working. The android box, well, still no joy. I am going to have one more crack at it today and if its no good b#lls to it, it has started to take over my life lol.
My box is a couple of years old and when the new version of kodi is released i think i may struggle even more.
I even tried editing the xml file but it would not let me , so i think something is rooted to the box. I have tried clearing everything from the box as far as i could but there is an old version of kodi still there
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7 hours ago, Berty100 said:
Arial.ttf is available in the standard Kodi installation and does not support Thai fonts.
The one you need is AD-TT Garuda Regular
Create a folder named Fonts in the Kodi>Media folder, then copy and paste the ttached file into it. Next open Kodi and in System>video> subtitles select AD-TT Garuda reguler.ttf
Thanks for that, but i was replying to the person who posted the font, he had renamed it ARIAL, (note the capital letters to differentiate).
The font i have working on my laptop is arialuni.
I will try your font tommorow, thank you
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17 hours ago, Peterw42 said:
Were are you located williewolf ?
Bangkok. I think the problem lies within my box. I deleted everything to do a fresh start but an old version of kodi was still there. I think that this must have come pre loaded on the box and i cannot get rid of it and it is causing a confliction in the program. I am now looking at different ways to back up and transfer from my laptop to the box. Its an old android 4.2 box and when kodi updates to version 17 i think i will have more problems so it may be a case of a new box
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