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@Rc ******
UK and other countries aren’t even using stamps now. I foolishly got a vanity stamp from a museum there last year…I say foolishly because at the time I didn’t know I’d be coming to Thailand at the end of the year and they’d be using up my pages like nobody’s business. 🤣
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@Andy ***********
Oh no, I want to make it as seamless as possible. 😆 🙏 Thank you!
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@Andy ***********
I have a US passport. At any rate, I’ll figure out what to do when I reach that point, if I ever do the way it’s going. I have a 10-yr visa in India so I can stay there long-term if needed.
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@Andy ***********
No, not really. Police are jurisdictional, not national. So, in order to get an accurate record of any criminal record I might have (I don’t have one, but I’d have to prove that I don’t), I would have to contact the police departments in each of the six jurisdictions I’ve lived in since age 18 to get reports from each. And I am skeptical that the departments where I lived from 1980-2000 would have any record that I even lived there by now. I could try the FBI, but I don’t know if they have records of anything other than federal crimes. Anyway, I’ll cross these bridges when I come to them. Just trying to glean some info while I await word from the Thai government re: my retirement visa application. Thank you.
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@Andy ***********
But which jurisdiction? I’ve lived in many. Do I have to try to obtain one from each?
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@Ruth ******
To add on to this, how would you get a police report in general? In the US, you have local and state police, and since I don’t have a record, what would I do—request a letter indicating that I’ve never been arrested? And from each of the jurisdictions I’ve lived in (quite a few)? It’s all mind-boggling to me.
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@Stuart **********
No, but I have applied for a retirement visa, which I submitted while traveling in a nearby country.
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@Wayne *******
Sounds like any plans I’d try to make with my late wife…”Honey, where do you want to go?” “It’s up to you.” “No, it’s up to you!” Etc. 😆
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