@Jennifer **************

Could be they are taking ‘Residence Permits’ literally and exclusively to suit their purpose (reducing their workload).

Anonymous participant 371 Until recently I hadn’t been outside of Thailand for six years. Non-O Retirement plus extensions is the way to go if you don’t want to travel internationally.

Anonymous participant 371 Agree!

@Lester ********

They’ve upped from Personal Accident Insurance! Wife took out Thai Life (Life Insurance only) on me at age 66. 3,000 per month payable for 20 years. If I survive, all monthly premiums refunded plus a bonus. Payout upon death is 300,000 baht (nothing in the first two years). I don’t blame her, she has friends with falang husbands that turned alcoholic and left them nothing except their funeral bill.

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.