How does the UK Embassy's decision affect British citizens needing a Retirement Extension in Thailand?

I close the commenting. It is a decision of the UK Embassy, not from Immigration. Tens of Thousend of complaints should be nice but I read in another comment that Italians and Dutch has the most expats living in Thailand and the amound was less then 6.000 pro country.

The British Embassy or any other Foreign Embassy are not to blame on this issue. After pretending for 10-12 years that they didn't know that the financial content of Embassy Income Letters / Income Affidavits were not being validated by the Foreign Embassies, Thai Immigration back in May insisted that the financial content be substantiated by the Foreign Embassies Consular Services staff assure as soon as possible that financial content is being validated.

Embassy Consular Services have never been in the business of verifying the content of routine financial declarations as done by Expats. Rather only the ID and Signature were being verified.. The Brit Embassy said we cannot venture into such a costly and potentially legally risky service.

So Thai Immigration is left holding the bag. They can either back off or deal with tens of thousands of complaints or devise their own verification procedures.

UPDATE coming tomorrow. Saturday 13th.

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Hmmm Cue the Thai lawyers with a new ‘Financial Accounting Retirement Certification for Ex-pat’s’ or F.A.R.C.E. For short, 15,000 Baht a year. 😉

US Embassy still notarize financial statements. Do not require proof

Bitcoin starting look interesting yet?

The £ will rise when the UK has a stable government and strong economic outlooks,

Australia has the same issues.

The market buys the rumour and sells the fact. The rumours in, hard exit, anything better and the pound benefits from the 1.30 area, my guess.

But I’m not sure that’s correct. The £ is currently at bargain basement prices, factored at a problematic, no deal Brexit. ANY DEAL better than No Deal will see the £ rise, and this is what we all expect

Looks like I'll be applying for my Irish passport after all.

For expats to be treated in such a cavalier fashion is quite disgraceful. My army and state pension have been sent to Thailand for some time now. Am I now to expect my Thai bank to wade through my account to show monthly transfers - while I stand waiting at the counter? Seems unlikely. For expats with no lump sum this is all going to end in tears and severe hardship for many - and quite soon for those that require proof within the next few months.

Pathetic that people don't know the difference between a diplomatic mission and an office of consular affairs.

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My Canadian embassy told me they too will stop, I went for my letter of income lastweek and the woman at my Canadian embssy BKK ,(who has been their for years) told me this was coming ,I asked why ,she replied ''too much paper work'

Seems it's a 5 million baht HISO visa full amount in low interest bank account or move !

If your Canadian, you may wish to watch your government website pages.

I'm reading they are about to make an announcement.

On multiple occasions the British embassy charged me 50 gbp for a piece of A4 with a fancy stamp and could not be bothered to check if my UK Government pension was legit or not ! These want us gone the UK are complicit - were all doomed !

Thai Visa forum crashed after one comment lol

this is a total nightmare

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The Dutch Ambassy changed this last year. From just a letter which you send to them with a monthly income to get stamped and returned, now you have to show your income, tax payments and they can check with the tax office in the Netherlands if your figures are correct.

The rules of Thai Immigration did not change. Thai Immigration wants to see an amount in your Thai bank or an Income statement of monthly income from your Embassy. It is the UK Embassy that changed their rules.

This is a big blow.

The embassy affidavit route was so much easier than the hoops one has to jump through by going through the bank account process.

just looked at the embassy website see no evidence of the above

I believe you can still go through the Foreign Commonwealth Office to attain this Document. However you will need to check.

Not good. Thin edge of the wedge. Thai Immigration already want US nationals to prove their income. Now UK will no longer issue, they say, because they cannot confirm income figures. Australian Stat Des are still accepted. But for how long. Soon, I believe, only way to get a retirement / Marriage Visa will be to have the require funds in a Thai bank. Poor show for us expats.