British Embassy Hua Hin Representative

[PET]

I am sorry but you are still wrong about the requirements because you do not need original documents.

Copies of passport front page, 3 months bank accounts showing pension payments and copy documentation from the pension providers confirming the amounts on the bank statements.

All this information is freely available on the embassy web site

[Governor]

They charge a fee of 2315B plus an administration fee of 200B which can be paid by postal order from the post office or a bankers draft making it payable to The British Embassy.

Never ceases to amaze what a rip of this is, you present all your paper work to a Locally Employed staff member, who earns in the region of 1,400 Baht a day, they print off a template then stick a batch of them under the nose of a Consular Official to sign, nice little earner.

I realise that the cost is set centrally and is supposed to ensure the "service" is cost neutral, and there is more than staff salaries to take account of, there are the on costs like the cheap bar in the embassy, The Queen Vic, the swimming pool and things like that, but it's still a rip off.

[PET]

I am sorry but you are still wrong about the requirements because you do not need original documents.

Copies of passport front page, 3 months bank accounts showing pension payments and copy documentation from the pension providers confirming the amounts on the bank statements.

All this information is freely available on the embassy web site

Just to advise my letter was sent by the embassy within 4 days and based upon supplying the documentation I stated above