@Lee **********

Well, I guess it's just too hot for me to live in Thailand. Although I am considering somewhere cooler in the hills of Chaing Mai. Plus I live near London and am used to a busy city with endless things to do.

I have enrolled my wife on a nursing course in Phuket so she can eventually get a work visa for the U.K. I also don't like the Farang culture in Thailand. It makes me quite annoyed when taxi drivers in Phuket rip me off. An English guy like me was also stabbed in Patong recently, by a 'taxi mafia', gang member. Thailand is not all kind smiles and buddist empathy. There is a very dark side that I have discovered. I'm sure it's a perfect place to live for many, but not me.

@Graeme *****

Yes. Some visa officer appointed to look at this Visa Application was in the Qata embassy. They don't process UK Thai visa applications to the U.K in Thailand to avoid corruption I'm guessing. They send them off to other embassies in other countries. I'm in the UK now and there is about to be a government change. At the moment there is a big problem with immigration here. 2.5 million immigrants in the last two years. So they are trying every trick to refuse visas of any kind. I married my Thai girlfriend this year but I can't live with her because you basically have to be very rich to do it. And I'm a secondary school teacher here.

@Graeme *****

I was refused the first visitor visa partly because I had not bought a return ticket. REFUSED, reason 3. I pointed this out to the visa Centre and they agreed their website says "Do not by a plane ticket until you have a visa".

She still could not catch the flight I had paid for. I bought the return ticket and the second application passed.

Approx , £100 Bronze service VISA, £20 extra document upload at visa centre.If you did it online yourself for a visitor visa.

You must prove she will stay with you in the UK or have hotel funds etc. Plus prove she will have a very good reason to return to Thailand.

Avoid agents if you can... as Jonny Diamond said, do it yourself. You have to provide all the documents for the agent anyhow! So you might as well do it yourself. No guarantee you will get a visa though as the U.K government do not want any more immigration to the U.K so are trying to deter any visa applications of any kind.

I provided all the correct documents required for my wife's first application for a visitors visa and she was refused! I ended up flying to Bankok to have a few words with the manager at the visa Centre and the lady then ensured the next application was approved. I also got my MP involved in he U.K.to ensure pressure was put on the officers reviewing the visa application.

@Rob ******

I know someone who had to buy the return ticket at the check in desk of the airline when trying to board the plane. They had to go get cash too. 🤔 so it defo happens.