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Without wishing to play down the seriousness of what's being alleged by the teenagers mother, I have to wonder why, or even how, a person seemingly with a high profile media prensence, would/could make contact with some random teenager and pay them serious amounts of cash to send photos or even perform such acts. Likewise why/how would this child contact the tv presenter and offer their services, if indeed it was they who insitigated the interaction. I'm not sure that I buy the claims of the mother that this so called interaction has driven the child to drugs.

You joined this forum nearly four years ago, so I assume that whilst you could be Russian, you're probably not an actual refugee.

Thanks you

My wife is asking if there are automated passport control gates at Suvarnabhumi for Thai Citizens on departure, I'm pretty sure they're only for arrivals, does anybody know for sure? Thanks

I'm also approaching 76, being aware that some pensioners were receiving these I called them and they advised that one was posted to me on 8 January, I still haven't received it, or indeed a letter from my bank in the IoM requesting a witnessed copy of my wifes new passport, the bank called me to advise that the form was on its way, but they also sent it via email, as did the DWP following my call. Coincidently I'll be in the UK shortly so will send them both from London on arrival.

I renewed my passport via Hong Kong in 2013, I don't recall sending my passport off then. I renewed again last month, I certainly didn't need to send it then. There may have been some changes in between, but I don't recall any. VFS snip the old passport when the new one is collected, passports are retained by the applicant during the application process, thus enabling the applicant to comply with the years old rule here in Thailand that a foreigners passport must be available for inspection at short notice.

You are of course entitled to your view, Brexit certainly isn’t delivering what we were promised, but hang on to your dreams.

But that's still a physical pick up by somebody, agent or friend.

I think you really believe that to be true.

Surely two physical visits are required, one to submit the application and a second to collect the new one and have the old passport clipped. Though, yes, an agent could be employed to carry out both transactions.

So a uniformed off duty police officer, with a gun, is ok?

I'm just glad I don't live in the US, don't tip there at your peril. ☹️

Whilst I'm inclined to agree with your view, it doesn't look like this guy was cornered by paparazzi, he seems to be quite happy to pose with his silicone friend.

Has she got a sister?

If you're content to feed corruption, and make it more difficult for the applicants following, then there's probably no drama.

Well this didn't last very long "According to Royal Thai Police spokesman Pol General Roi Ingkhapairoj, Thai police are being ordered to no longer give nationality information of foreigners arrested for alleged crimes in Thailand to the media"

I paid these fees recently and thought I was being clever by using a card from our joint account in the UK, the fee is set by the Goverment in Sterling, the UKVI then publish a figure in USD, and then, supposidly helpfully, charge applicants in Thailand in THB. The amount debited from our UK Bank Account was £1,674, against the statutory fee of £1,538 for a visa application and £2,005 against the statutory fee of £1,872 for the NHS Surcharge. I nice little profit for somebody, and a lesson learned for us.

I use these guys https://www.facebook.com/salmonhouse102/ they're based in Hua Hin, but they do ship and they're pretty good. I suppose it depends on how much you get through.

Thanks to everybody who has offered suggestions, very much appreciated. Regarding the advice about opening an account in my name only, the fact that I use our joint account doesn't seem to be the issue, the problem seems to be that Santander don't include my name, or indeed either of our names, when they transfer the funds, maybe just an account number, the one we've had for years, and Wise have screenshots of. I indicated that I would contact Santander, I've done so, lets see what they have to say. Thanks again for the suggestions.

I don’t have a MC Account, maybe something to explore.

I use Santander International in the Isle of Man, not Santander UK, I don’t know if there’s a difference. As I said in my OP the issue seems to be that my bank no longer includes the name of the account holder when they transfer funds, it has worked from our joint account for years.

When I am prompted to enter my bank details it asks if it’s from a joint account and when I confirm that, my wife’s name comes up automatically, the problem seems to be that Santander International no longer seem to name the account holder.

Not so easy to open another account in the UK from here in Thailand.

First of all my apologies for starting yet another Wise thread, but I'm not sure that my issue neatly falls into the other threads about Wise. I've recently encountered an problem with the way my UK Bank, Santander International, transfers the cash to fund my transfer to Wise, and whilst I've got over it, it's time consuming for me, and I'm not sure that I want to jump through the hoops every month. I've been using (Transfer)Wise for many years, and have always transferred the funds from the joint account my wife and I hold with Santander International. Last month, after transferring the funds as usual, I received an email from Wise advising that there was a problem as they couldn't confirm it was me that transferred the funds, and they were pausing my transfer. They, or their system, asked if their was another account holder, despite the fact that during the transfer the system asked if I was sending from a stand alone or joint account, I was asked for the other account holders name, I sent my wifes name again. A couple of hours later I checked the account again, and it now said that they still couldn't identify who had sent the funds, and requested a screenshot of the transaction from my bank, I did this, it was accepted fairly quickly and the transfer then went ahead. As expected the issue arose again this month, save their was no email alert, same questions, and the same requests for my wifes name and later the same request for a screenshot of the transaction, though a far longer period between updates on the App, and no emails. I eventually called their call centre in Singapore, the lass there was pretty helpful, I was asked to upload the screenshot again, she acknowledge receipt and shortly afterwards the transaction resumed. Later in the day I received this email from Wise: "After checking with the team, the process is triggered because when Santander sends the funds, your name is not included. Therefore, the process will always be triggered if you send from that account because we would need more supported documents to proceed the transfer. We understand this might not be the best transfer flow for you, but it's because we are a regulated financial institution. We need to follow both international and local rules - It helps us to protect customers' money and data." Whilst I will make contact with Santander for a solution, I'm not sure that I really want to go through this every month, even if it does save me a a small amount of cash. I have a couple of alternative options I could consider, I could get Santander to send the funds directly, though when I did this pre Transferwise they used an intermediary bank which doubled the transfer fee, or I could use Bangkok Bank in London to transfer the funds, in both cases I would get less Baht for my Pounds, and would have to pay a receiving fee here, but it would be less stressfull. I could of course maintain the required funds in an account here, but there are reasons why isn't practical for us. Has anybody else encountered this?

I’ve got a flight next month and, as I’m only away for four days, I was considering parking in the car park alongside the main terminal. I would be interested to learn how busy the car park is these days, and is the current daily rate still 250 Baht a day? Thanks in advance.