@Matt ******

you realy do not get it do you? You exist in your little bubble and criticise anyone who is outside it with no knowledge or interest in their circumstances. I find it quite astonishing that you are prepared to prove so much ignorance in a public forum. Do you not even understand that in the current situation if I returned to the UK for a Visa I would not be allowed back into Thailand for many months or maybe longer? That is why i have stayed here hoping that a way to extend my Visa would become possible as it would be in normal circumstances. Do you get it now.

@Matt ******

it's been legal to live in Thailand without a Visa since a global pandemic swept the globe and travel became dangerous or impossible ( I thought you would have known that). I have no desire to live anywhere illegally but as you have completely ignored the point I made in my last post I fail to see any point in trying to explain it again.

@Bim ******

I had not looked at it that way but you are right. If all those on amnesty many if whom have been supporting their communities through covid and able to continue doing so, are kicked out it will not be long before those with the correct stamp are targeted for eviction. The smirk will then disappear pdq.

@Matt ******

maybe some of us have decided they like it here and want to stay. Have you got a problem with that? The reasoning behind not having the correct Visa now is simply the fact that it is not possible to get one. In normal circumstances I would have returned to the UK, got the correct Visa and be back here by now complete with cash from a house sale.

There are a lot of people in this group whose first language is not English; if we start to use abbreviations because we are too lazy to write the correct word then a lot of them simply will not understand what is written. That would be a shame. When so many try so hard to write in English I think those of us who were brought up with it should use it correctly. I agree with Garrett and to be honest I dont understand some if it either. SMH, SMD mean nothing to me.

@Wendy ******

if you can extend your Visa why not do it now?

@Gordon ********

can be of you are an arse. hole

@Tod ********

you and Todd have given me the confidence to wait it out and see what happens. Oh, and i finally managed to get a bank account opened in my name today. Things are looking up.

@Paulie ********

that was my question too.

@Tod ********

so basically you are saying that the immigration officers in two offices dont know their stuff either. You might be right. Anyway I am perfectly happy to admit when I dont know much about a topic and that us why I have been to immigration for information on a number of occssions. It is also why I joined this group but with so many different opinions and distortions of the facts I have not found it very helpful.