Did Bangkok Bank offer the option of purchasing Personal Accident or Life Insurance?

@David ******

Yes, married to a Thai. Took 4 years to get mine. They requested a translated and certified copy of my passport. I had already provided this for registration of marriage but they insisted upon another copy. I didn’t want to go to British Embassy in Bangkok again so gave up. Wife spoke to the Amphur Customer Service Manager by chance at one of our local blood donor sessions. He told his staff to copy the scanned image over and I got my Yellow Book and Pink Card next day.

@David ******

Depends on your District Office (Amphur). Mine only had two requirements; 1) Married, 2) Resident over 12 months.

Very sorry to hear this. It’s both arrogant and unfair that the Embassy can’t (won’t) state their reason for ‘cancellation’. Hopefully someone who has had success at either Penang or Jakarta will advise shortly.

@Sar ***

Exactly! It’s immoral to accept money, refuse to provide the service and not inform why!

Not informing you why they cancelled your application isn’t acceptable. You don’t know what they consider to be wrong so you can’t avoid repetition. I would contact your bank/credit card company and request a chargeback. There has been a report of someone doing this. Their bank asked the Embassy for an explanation. Embassy didn’t respond thus bank authorised the chargeback.

If it’s any consolation, my Thai wife was denied a tourist visa for USA. Her Aunt owns a house and runs her own Thai restaurant in Amarillo. My Thai sister-in-law was denied for Australia. More recently, sister-in-laws fiancé who is retired and lives in Netherlands applied for her Schengen Tourist Visa. That was also denied. He made ‘enquiries’ and was advised that there almost certainly was no problem with the information submitted and that if he applied again it would be successful. Exactly what did happen! A subsequent application later the same year went through first time. I suspect it’s a government ‘weeding’ process to reduce their workload by dissuading ‘chancers’.

@Marb *******

You need to read it again and try to comprehend. To manage your DTV without applying for extensions at local immigration office you have to exit Thailand every 180 days. That’s twice per year.

It’s every 180 days (without an extension) not once a year as you state.

As Brandon has already advised, whether you can make changes/cancel and, if so, the charges (if applicable) involved depend upon your ticket class. I’m now reluctant to book onward flights in advance of arrival because my last two international arrivals at Suvarnabhumi were delayed by 24 hours.