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If I remember, she doesn't have to actually be here for her partner to submit the application, pay and book the appointment which could give her some breathing space. FLR is not a five minute job at all when it comes to gathering info and documentation to prove that the've been living together for the previous 30 months.
If her partner can put it all together. Lots will be the same as the first FLR but she will have to be back before the 30th April. How close to the 30th she leaves it before she comes back is another thing but if her partner sends her the receipt and paperwork for the appointment, the NHS surcharge and for the visa. If she is questioned by Border Force when she comes back she can show the documents to them. I wouldn’t leave coming back until the last minute.
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I get it but now you know how to fix the refusal it should be fairly straightforward. As I mentioned, there are plenty on here who have experience and are happy to help. If you have to go with a visa company go with Thai Visa Express. You are likely to get dodgy advice from anywhere else. My wife's UK visa journey started in 2015 and successfully applied for six different visas followed by citizenship and her first UK passport without any issues. Good to hear your partner is on board. It makes ALL the difference.
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On 3/16/2024 at 4:28 PM, Rich888 said:
Thanks...we already got rejected once, I don't want to take any chances next time
With the help of this forum and one other I was guided through the process for three visit visas, a settlement visa, two FLRs, an ILR and a citizenship application. No visa company was required.
Most of the work that is done will be the gathering of info by your partner and all you have to do is collate it and present it The main hurdle is showing ties to Thailand. My now wife's only ties were her family and her job. Fortunately she had a great boss who provided a letter for her to use in the application.
What were the reason(s) for rejection?
You will have to address the reason(s) for refusal in any subsequent application.
You take a chance with a visit visa application whether you use a visa company or not. As has been suggested Thai Visa Express is the only one worth considering unless you find another that is OISC registered.
Whenever you apply for a visa it's really important that you ignore any of the suggestions from your wife's mates and her Facebook friends.
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For our trip to Iceland I just did screenshots of what I planned on booking for the Danish Embassy and they were quite happy. The bonus was that they created the Schengen visa while we waited. Only then did I book the tickets.
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On 3/21/2024 at 9:48 AM, TTSIssues said:
If she really needs to go to Bangkok she could always take the first flight up and the last flight back to phuket, she doesnt have to take a bus.
amazing to hear she doesn’t have an email address - I thought everyone had one by now. 🤣
None of my Thai wife's family have email addresses. Young or old. I had to set one up for my step son so he could join something a while back. I can’t remember what but he was 17 at the time.
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On 3/20/2024 at 5:58 PM, andych said:Looking at applying for a UK Visitor visa for my friend in Patong to visit UK in August for a few weeks, no problems at my end regard sponsorship and accommodation.
Asked 2 visa agents in 1 in Bangkok, with an office in Phuket and 1 in Patong, both insisting she need to travel to Bangkok British embassy, but i thought it was done by VFS in Phuket?
Plus Bangkok is 12 hours by bus so she will lose 3 days work.
1 agent said they will accompany her to the Embassy but visa fees not included making them very expensive, and other does include fees, and based only 15 minutes walk from her work.
I would try to do it myself but worried if i make a mistake on the forms, and she doesn't have an email address yet, think of setting 1 up solely for visa application that we can both use?So does she have to go to Bangkok Embassy? or just use VFS in Phuket?Thanks in advance?I recommend you do it yourself. It's not a complex process and the people on here will always help. The main hurdle is the reason to return to Thailand and if I remember from your previous posts your girlfriend has a steady job. The rest is pretty straightforward and your GF will be supplying you with most of the information. Back in 2015 I knew nothing about the process and with the info needed from my wife she was given three visit visas in less than seven months. The last visa we applied for was a two year visit visa before deciding to get married and went for a settlement visa. It's worth £80ish to go to Phuket rather than the schlep to Bangkok. The option wasn't available back in 2015. The only visa company I would trust is Thai Visa Express. Most of the others will give you inaccurate info. One of our Thai friends here in the UK was banned from applying for ten years for doing something dodgy and taking the wrong advice.
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On 3/9/2024 at 4:29 AM, andych said:
A quick update for all the doubters and naysayers.
Turned up unexpected on Monday, she is working, see me at table and yelped and starts crying. Runs over and hugs me saying I am a week early.
I had already booked a room in hotel opposite for 1 night with option to extend.
Any way we are in Karon and talking. And the best part is her debt.
150000 baht
I could pay it off and she pay me back. But I want her to pay the debt her self if she was to move to England. She says something about reconciliation of debt. Her English is not the best
Planning for visitors visa in August for 2 months.
My wife's English was not the best when we met but almost ten years later it's as good as it will ever be. She understands almost everything that is said to her and you have that perfect fall back using Google Translate if you need to explain something specific. 150,000 baht is less than £3500 so not the end of the world to a Brit. To a Thai it's a huge amount of money. I think I mentioned it before but my wife wife used her job as her only reason to return and she was successful in two 6 months visas and a two year visa. She had almost nothing to do with them apart from gathering the information.
You need to find out if she has been making payments to the credit card company and if she is paying more than the minimum each month so that the debt is going down.
I wish you luck. Meeting my wife back in 2015 was the best thing that ever happened to me. Ignore the naysayers. Too many on here who have been bitten before and want to tell the world about it and always assume the worst.
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I remember playing with time lapse and cartoons in my teens but it's so much easier now and I fancy having a play around myself. What sort of interval do you use between shots, out of interest or does it depend on your subject?
I have a Sony RX10 MKIV that has a an optical 24-1200 zoom that could be interesting. It can be controlled by computer with the Sony app but the limitation is a minimum of ten seconds between each photo. Too long for clouds and stuff.
I also have a full frame 5D MKII with the 70-200 mm should be on another level when it comes to image quality and a 3rd party intervalometer is £15 on eBay.
I'm also on a mission to sell a load of my stuff that is hardly ever used although I do get an occasional income by renting out some of it through FatLama.
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Magic Lantern looks mighty interesting and I already have a couple of 60Ds and a 5D MII that I can’t bear to part with and I've wanted to play with timelapse for a long time. Thanks for posting this.
To the op. What is your budget and what length zoom are you looking for?
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On 2/1/2024 at 9:57 PM, killblues said:
Thanks but yes , I’m sure I’ve explored all options. It’s not downloading the statements that’s the issue (I can print or save historical statements) it’s the fact that if I want to trigger an up to date one then I have to make a withdrawal/lose a months interest. The only other option is to take a screen print but doing so doesn’t show my name on the printout (sorry, I probably didn’t make that clear in my o.p.)
Surely if you leave it a week or two the date of the statement you are after will be a historical statement? I find it hard to believe a bank could charge you a months interest just so you can find out how much cash you have in your account. I bank with Santander, Nationwide and First Direct and I can download statements with all of my details at the top and the logo any time I want to. I have done for numerous visas. The statements are identical to those they used to post to me until I ticked the box to "save the planet".
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22 hours ago, andych said:
Did she have any assets in Thailand? Or was the lob being still open enough? Thanks
No. Nothing apart from how close she was to her family BUT she had spent the previous 20 years of her life working from home and sending money home each month. No assets.
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On 1/20/2024 at 2:29 AM, GinBoy2 said:
Language is tough.
As I've said before my wife grew up in her teenage years in Chicago, then lived in Singapore where we met. When our son was young we did like almost all multilingual parents only spoke in one language at a time until he'd mastered them all.
After that we generally always spoke English at home, except when my wife is really angry at me and it devolves into a Lao/Thai tirade, which since I speak both I understand.
On the flip side, if I'm really pissed off with her I revert to Spanish, which she doesn't understand, but knows it's bad!
But not sure I could live with someone where our mutual communication was severely limited.
Not saying I need in depth conversation on particle physics, but just everyday chit chat on the weather, work, dinner, and my personal favorite politics which we argue about constantly. She loves Trump!
Maybe it's the arguing thing I'd miss, rather than the default Thai female screaming
She sounds like a wise woman politically. My wife's English is streets ahead of what it was when she first came here in 2015. We occasionally discuss particle physics with the help of Google Translate.
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On 1/19/2024 at 6:21 PM, still kicking said:
It will be hard she has no reason to go back
She does as her boss has said he will keep her job open for three months. It was my wife's only reason to return back in 2015.
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That's a relief for many people. Why they didn't clarify it sooner is beyond me.
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5 hours ago, theoldgit said:
I submitted an application last year and used a downloaded statement, which of course then needed to then be uploaded onto the UKVI application site.
There were no questions asked and the application was successful.
I don’t know if downloaded statements are routinely accepted, but they worked just fine for me.
I don't think they did until we were allowed to upload all of the information digitally. They seem to allow far more than they did.
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My wife was lucky. Less than a two week wait for her citizenship ceremony. It was a big surprise that she was given her first passport so quickly as the surname in her Thai passport didn't match her citizenship certificate.
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On 11/24/2023 at 11:27 AM, Lacessit said:
I got back from 6 months in Australia in September, I could feel myself relaxing as I flew into Bangkok.
In Oz, I was reduced to wearing three layers of clothing, and watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory.
Turn the TV off and go out and do something!
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On 11/25/2023 at 12:15 PM, bignok said:
All expensive on Xmas
Not that expensive. My local is charging £11.99 for 2 courses of Christmas dinner. Third course is £3.00. Their food is very good. I've eaten many steaks in their and the landlord is the chef.
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On 11/23/2023 at 1:16 PM, bignok said:
$145 for xmas lunch in a pub. Ffs I can stay in a hotel for 5 nights for less than that.
You are going to the wrong pub!
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The general rule in the UK is that the names must be the same but there are quite a few reasons why some from other countries can't. They treated my wife's case as an exception. It's all on here:
I was worried my wife was going to have problems getting a UK passport at all without having to travel to Thailand to change her name. In my research the Thai Embassy came up trumps. It's possible to change the details on a tabian baan (sp) without going to Thailand. It took almost a week before they replied but you need to give a member of your family or friend, power of attorney and they can do it for you.
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On 10/23/2023 at 3:28 AM, FruitPudding said:
Jesus, 800 baht almost for a takeaway fish n' chips in the UK?
It's less than half the price for a 'sit in' cod n' chips in an English pub in Bangkok.
Around £10 in West London.
Her citizenship took 15 weeks and her UK passport took ten days.
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On 11/1/2023 at 7:25 AM, digbeth said:
so if your name doesn't match something earlier like birth certificate, you'd have to provide the name change certificate too, and in case of other countries, certified translation x2, if you can live with that rather than the long name it's up to you.
What recently surprised me was that my wife's only name change from almost years ago was actually printed on her UK citizenship certificate. When she divorced she changed her surname back to her family (maiden) name and changed her first name at the same time.
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On 10/23/2023 at 1:03 AM, OJAS said:
I agree that using an agent is probably the best way to go for those of us who don't live within a stone's throw of the VFS offices in Bangkok or Chiang Mai. It is, however, outrageous IMHO that we Brits appear to be alone among Western nationals living in Thailand in having to fork out an extra 5,000 THB solely in order to make the cumbersome procedures with which we are faced at passport renewal time reasonably tolerable in practice.
I'm pretty certain it was Teresa May who came up with the matching names requirement when she was the Home Secretary and I'm not sure that it works both ways. ie. It's a UK requirement, not a Thai requirement.
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On 10/19/2023 at 4:33 PM, Maybole said:
Just confirm your PS. My wife has her Thai Passport in her Thai name, but her UK one in mine.
Same here. It took a grovelling letter to the Passport Office in London as my wife's Thai passport was in her maiden name but they simply added an observation page to her shiny new British passport. I was amazed to see it arrive in 10 days so I had a bit of pressure from the missus to book somewhere so she could use it for the first time.
On 11/4/2023 at 2:18 PM, Neeranam said:She will not be able to renew her British passport.
I was told that I can't renew my British passport if I have a different name on my Thai one.
It is possible but I explained to the pp office that my wife would change her name the next time she or we go to Thailand. She did try in 2019 but found she needed our marriage certificate and a translation while she was in Thailand. The annoying thing for us was we submitted my wife's citizenship in her maiden name so her two passports would have matching surnames and part way through the process the HO called and offered to change her citizenship certificate to her married name. All done and dusted now thank goodness.
Schengen Visa to Spain
in Visas and migration to other countries
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There are definitely midges and mosquitos in Scotland. I ended up in A&E last time we were up there and we weren't that far from Glasgow. Bitten on the thigh by a mozzy and I got a nasty infection. It was painful driving back home.
We went on honeymoon to Jersey and no extra documentation needed. If I remember correctly you cannot just fly to Southern Ireland on a UK visit visa but people have flown to Belfast and driven across the border with no problems.
Spain is not one of the friendliest countries to issue Schengen visas (more hoops to jump through) but when we went to Iceland in 2017, they did it while we waited at the Danish Embassy in London. I didn’t have booking for Iceland either (Only screenshots showing the intended booking.) and they didn't ask for financials.