[Watching Thai Tv with Google Chromecast]

For an update. AIS Play and Trueid both work on Chromecast which means you can watch Thai tv and most Western programs legally and on great quality streams very cheaply. 

True id is 499 baht a month and has everything the Gold package has apart from the Fox channels. This includes all Bein Sports channels It has many movies on demand as well. 

AIS play has various packages but the one I have is 99 baht a month, I get all Thai channels and also FOX Sports 1, 2 and 3. Also all the HBO channels on demand.

Netflix is on Chromecast so is Bein Sports Connect if you just want Premier League. Price is 555 baht till the end of the season and this includes many other leagues. 

Facebook takes over the Premier league next season and it supports Chromecast, however the choose to monetize the deal.

[Live Rugby League]

official broadcaster this year is watchNRL which is run by Fox for the league. 

[Vfs Track Your Application]

Lads, thanks for all your replies to this topic.

I wanted to canvas opinion on a matter arising from this visa application.

Before I knew that the visa company had screwed up the application (documents were not submitted), I emailed a local newspaper with the story as I saw it, ie. British Embassy not beliving we were coulple and beliving insufficient return. A journo phoned me this week and I explained the story had changed somewhat and we were going to make a fresh application.

The newpaper printed the story yesterday, focusing on my "hunger strike" and said I was making an appeal to the decision. I was pleased in a way, the story focused on the facts of the matter and they didn't spin it in a "sad bastard can't get a girlfriend, so he goes to Thailand bla bla bla" fashion, which I thought they would.

I did ponder whether the important documents were left out by my GF delibratly, so she would not get the visa as she wanted to end the relationship move on etc. However, the whole story does tie up and I would be very supprised if this was the case.

I would like to ask the more experenced posters whether this is a positive matter, ie bringing the harshness of the decision to the public domain and should I include the article in the new application as background? Or should I avoid it, so as not to make the Embassy "loose face" and be ultra critical.? Your advise would be helpfull.

ps have emailed my MP twice and called and left a message for him, but no reply. Maybe he thinks I'm a sad bastard who can't get ........bla .... bla

[Vfs Track Your Application]

GU22, this post is priceless for me.

Having spoke to her again, this scam is exaxtly what happened.

When she called me, I was under the impression she was speaking to VFS staff, in fact she wasn't. She got scammed, or rather we both did.

She never told me she met this lady outside.

She's gonna go and get her passport back, with documents, I hope they let her have them.

This visa application has put a serious strain on our relationship, which is nearly 2 years old now. I feel this is exactly what the Embassy want. Make you go through problems to see how the pair of us cope.

We both dont want to throw away all the good times we had living together with no problems for 15 months. It all feels like distant dreams now.

[Vfs Track Your Application]

Cheers for the replies.

Yes, produced land certificate,which I was witness to her receiving on the day she got it.

Curiusly, the refusal letter states that this document was not produced.

Either the Embassy or the visa company scewed up on this document. TGF is 100% sure it was there.

Produced her bank statments, 70,000 gradulaly builing up over our relationship.

The letter from her employer was dismissed in the refusal letter as a fake. Why did they not phone her employer to determine her employment status (why take this information in the application form)

With regards to the visa firm. I did not want to make an application with this or any firm, but submit it on its own merrits. When TGF got to VFS, she was told more likely to sucseed with a visa firm and was put onto a firm by an employee of VFS.

Refusal Letter in Full

You have applied for Entry Clearence to the UK as a visitor. However, I am not satisfied you meet the requirements of paragraph 41of the Imigration Rules and in particular that

You are genuinly seeking entry into the UK as a visitor for a limited period

You intend to leave the UK at the end of the period of your visit

You do not intend to take employment in the UK

Becuse

The underlying intention of your application is to visit your British sponsor, in the UK for a period of 3 months. There is an onus on you, under UK Imigration law, to demonstarate the genuiness of your intentions, but you have failed to do so. Although offers of support from a sponsor in the UK are, of course, taken into account, they do not outweigh the responsibility of the applicant to satisfy the ECO as to their own intentions.

It is stated in a letter enclosed in your application, that you and the sponsor have known each other for 16 months and you have resided with him in Pattaya for over one year. However you have failed to provide any satisfactory evidence to substantiate these claims or demonstrate that you are in a genuine ongoing relationship over a reasonable period of time. As such, I am not satisfied that you have known your sponsor as long as you claimwhich casts doubts on your intentionsas a genuine visitor to the UK.

You are a single person and without ties. You claim to own land in Thailand, yet have failed to produce any evidence of this claim. You state you have been employed at a photo express company since Oct 2006 earning a modest salary of 4500 baht per month. Yet your employment letter is of poor quality and could easily have been produced on a home computer and in the absence of any other evidence, I am not satisfied you are employed as claimed. Moreover, I am not satisfied that such employment alone would encourage your presence in your country, or you are socially and economicly well settled here. Accordingly, I am not satisfied you intend to leave the UK at the end of the period of your visit stated by you.

I therefore refuse your application.

Other than phone bills and photos, there is no evidence we lived together. The rental aggreement was in my name. However we lived happliy together for 16 months untill I returned to UK.

Yes she has a shit job, but she has only started work at the photo shop since I returned to UK. I phone her every day on landline at work and I am satisfied she is working there. I can read and speak Thai, so I feel it would be pretty hard for a girl to completly dupe me if she was, for example working in a bar.

I have emailed my MP about this refusal and an still feeling pretty low.I intend to take the decision to appeal, even though the letter states I have very little reason for appeal by law. I am refusing food and have not eaten for 2 days now.

I am strong.

[Vfs Track Your Application]

Lads, thanks for your advice.

Unfortunatly the visa was refused witout interview.

No proof of contact, no reason for return.

She has land register document 70,000 baht and job.

We have lived together for 14 months, I have Thai B Visa in my passport, with entry/exit visas.

I have Thai work permit/company. Have produced phone bills and mountains of photos.

Have genuine reason for my return to UK, mother tenminally ill, supported by letters from GP.

I own a house in UK, with land registry. I have over £10,000 in bank account.

She has no previous, brand new passport.

Refused without interview

I'm suicidal

[Vfs Track Your Application]

Hi All.

My TGF made an application for VV at VFS for British Embassy.

She has land, job and savings etc.

After only 2 days the message in the visa tracking page is

"The passport has been received from British Embassy, please collect the passport from the UK Visa Application Center where it was submitted."

No interview. First ever application, done by Visa firm.

I know this has been covered before by El Roberto, but has anyone ever got this message and been refused the visa without an interview?

She cannot get to VFS for a few days and the suspense is killing us.

What a stupid system.

Can anyone help. I am frantic.

[What Does A Farang Think?]

If shes nice, and the situation was right, I come out with my chat up line, in Thai,which has NEVER, EVER failed to get a positive response, " Excuse me, would you like to come shopping with me?"

[Refused Again!]

Its the Thai temple in Aston. It may help you if you pop down and speak to the monks. Not for everyone I know, but, belive me, they have seen and heard it all before. They may help with the visa as well. PM me if you want the address etc. Songkran festival was Sunday just gone. Was very enjoyable, but again, not for everyone.

[Refused Again!]

Have just read the whole 24 pages of this post. Like Spuddsy, I hail from Brummie land too. One thought struck me. Do the polite folks down at the British Embassy read this forum? It may have been the water fountin topic for weeks. In which case, they would be able to deduct who Spudsy is, as he tells us his city of residence and the time he is applying for the Visa. As he has addmitted she will be lying about marrage etc, I would advise my brummie friend to keep quiet on the details, if its not already too late.

Spuds, did you go to Songkran at the Thai temple in Aston?

Good luck