Joe *******
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@Michael *******
you didn't say this was 40 years ago otherwise I wouldn't have bothered to comment.
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@Dave *********
yes you and thousands of others, including myself, have married thai girls without any problems, how is that relevant to this post, the post is about Michael not having
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0 thb to buy beachfront land but farangs aren't allowed in Thailand and probably was a scam, surly you know this!!
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@Dave *********
, so you got married in 1974, what has that got to do with this post?
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@Michael *******
probably a scam, you probably had a lucky escape and didn't lose your money.
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@Bart *************
thank you your reply, yes they don't make it easy for us, I heard that immigration will come to the house and talk to the neighbours, we have friends on one side of us so hopefully that might help.
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@Bart *************
, genuine question, why is it better to have a retirement visa than a marriage visa, what are the drawbacks to marriage visa, I want to marry my girlfriend and not have to have 800,000thb sitting in a thai bank doing nothing.
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@David *********
I agree, if you can be together all the time then yes the relationship will probably be better, but sometimes life isn't that straightforward.
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@David *********
that's not necessarily the case, maybe she's has her family or a child to take care of and cant leave them or maybe she doesn't want to go to the UK, most Brits in Thailand are here because they/we don't want to be in the UK anymore.
Joe ********
I had that problem last year so I phoned the embassy in London, I explained the problem and the lady took my payment by credit card. Try your application again on a laptop or pc, the layout is better, I did this last Monday and had no problems.
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@Adam *******
thank you for your advice, I'll give that a go 👍