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.

@Per *********

- What's your problem DickHead?

@Barrie ************

- Thanks for the Correction

Also, you can go Tuesday - when Immigration is closed you go the next day open - no penalties or lost time

Observance of the anniversary of the former King's Birthday

I would say likely closed.. There should be a website for that office with an announcement and / or a calendar

Listening to the Expat news broadcast out of Pattaya ... it seems as in a number of other instances over the last 3-4 years No New Rule came into effect - rather just the degree and expectation an enforcement relative to the veracity of the financial content represented by Embassy Income Letter / Embassy Income Sworn Affidavit. In the case of the American Embassy I have know for a long time that for any document the consular services only vouches for the ID of the person signing a document - not for the content.

From my readings, generally speaking, Embassies do not routinely verify content of documents. The investigative burden is just too high. So in their known style Thai Immigration dusted off existing rules and asked foreign Embassies to assure the verification of the content of financial contained in the Income Affidavit / Letter. So until some other method of verification is officially announced by Thai Immigration the 800,000 baht in the bank is the required financial proof for 'retirement' Extensions. Things like 12 months of bank statements as an alternative have not been officially authorized - I read.

The elephant in the room on this is that in actuality many thousands of Expats cannot meet the proof of 65,000 a month.

Check in with local immigration within 24 hours of arrival.. Some offices require it.. Plus you will be registered with their computer system and give you a slip for the reporting date.

@Robert ******

- Then what visa would her Dependent Visa be referencing if it hasn't been issued yet? Maybe the Consulate will do it.

@Robert ******

- a non O Dependent visa cannot be applied for at a Consulate until the Primary visa upon which it would be Dependent is issued. Otherwise the Non O Application would be treated as a regular Non O and financial requirements would come into play