@Lynda *******

as a citizen of the UK you could leave the country and return for 60 days using a visa exemption entry. This is not a visa - it is a visa exemption entry and does not need an application at all - you just arrive and present your passport. This visa exemption entry can also be extended at an immigration office once for an additional 30 days.

@Lynda *******

so if 30 November will be 60 days since your TR visa was stamped into your passport (on the day you arrived in Thailand), you can go to an immigration office and get one extension of your visa for 30 days more on top of that 60 days. After that you will need a new visa altogether.

Canberra Thai embassy in Australia has just issued us a TR visa (60 days extendable to 90) with one way ticket inbound and outbound ticket at 70 days.

Yes

Let’s all open a bank.

That way we won’t have to struggle with Thai ones.

So the passport page, separate passport photo and drivers licence (as proof of resi. address) all went in as .jpgs. The airline bookings and hotel booking were accepted as .pdfs

@Brandon ***********

Thank you for your answer 😀👍

Thank you for your answer 😀👍

Pretty much everything we do has some sort of rules. Drinking, driving, drugs, murder. Smart people learn to live with them. Once you have a pension you can take it overseas and do all the things in my post. The question was about the two years before you have a pension. Put up with rules for a long term gain.

@Prince******

I understand how it works. I wasn’t trying to explain how it works. I was trying to explain how different trips could lead to different outcomes. But thanks for the heads up.

@Bob *******

there are definitely top level rules about the provision of each of the services you referred to. But then in order to apply those rules there are decision making guidelines for the Centrelink employee that is delegated to apply the rules. Where it gets grey, is that each time you travel, the travel will not be exactly like the last time you travelled and, along with that, it is open to that Centrelink employee to interpret the guidelines as they personally understand them. Sometimes your travel fits the guidelines perfectly so the decision making is easy. Sometimes the combination of factors about your travel is complicated. Then again some Centrelink employees might be said to understand the rules and guidelines well and others maybe a bit less so. From there, inconsistencies will always arise.