Thread: Help with visa + passport please

Originally Posted by Bower

Nige, I know very little about these things but I would mention that with chipped passports UK border agents know every entry and exit your wife makes using her UK passport. She too being entitled to a pension one day does not need her travel records to show any discrepancies.

They know everything. Do shit right and don't lie - you will have "no let or hinderance" wherever you chose to go.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

Now I have just got the forms from the embassy .......

Do you mean the Thai embassy in London or one of the consulates ? The Thai embassy proper has always been the strictest in applying the letter of the law. Always better to apply from a consulate . Might be a bit more flexible.

Either way, it looks like the screws are being turned. 10 years from now there might be quite a few blokes facing long seperation from their Thai families because they won't be able to get over the bar.

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

^ Yeah cheers mate ,, but she will not qualify because she will not have worked there long enuf ,, her contributions so far will go along with the over paying I am doing , to help our Eastern block friends who are joining the party next January

Yes mate but if you contact the dept of work and pensions to check, it may be worth buying the extra years she needs, depending on her age and any future time she may spend in the UK. Working or not she can still buy non employed stamps to keep up, a very cheap option to ensure a pension in her own right.

That is from the Embassy / consulate ? in Hull BY mate ,, I have it here in B+W from them its not from the internet

Originally Posted by nigelandjan

That is from the Embassy / consulate ? in Hull BY mate ,, I have it here in B+W from them its not from the internet

Yes, Hull were so slack in the past and had so much posted on the net about it that eventually the inevitable happened and they had their wrists slapped and were made to tow the line.