Thailand Visa company offers UK visa for 10,000 Baht
Like every consumer you want to pay as little as possible for any service or product, we are all the same in this respect. When you are looking for a visa company in Thailand to arrange a UK visa for your Thai spouse, never pay any money upfront, not even the visa fee. There are professional visa consultants in Thailand that will help you obtain a visa for your Thai spouse. But there are more that are primarily after your money. The basic costs involved for obtaining a UK Tourist visa including visa fees, translations etc come to more than 10,000 Baht and that is if you know how to do the visa. So a visa company that offers you a visa for 10,000 Baht are actually losing money, or as is proven to be the case keep asking you for more and more money throughout the application.
If you get involved with this type of Thai Visa Company this is what will happen. After you pay the fee and start to give your documents they will ask for more money for Translations, for the application, copies, phone calls etc. You will send the extra money of 5,000 or 10,000 baht with promises from the Thai visa company that no more money will be needed, but it will.
You may find that you have paid extra money from the starting price of 10,000 baht and have now paid in total 50,000 baht; however the visa has not even been applied for.
visa consultant will apply for the UK visa knowing that they will be refused
Often this type of visa consultant will apply for the UK visa knowing that they will be refused. After all what is the benefit of getting a visa, they have been paid in advance and they also know that you will pay more. If the visa is refused, the visa company will explain that it is your fault, even though they are the visa consultant.
Paid 150,000 Baht for a UK tourist visa
If you ask for your documents so you can try a different company, they will not give you your documents back without a further payment. What they are trying to do is get you to reapply for the visa with them. Of course more costs will be involved. I know of one guy who finally paid 150,000 Baht for a UK tourist visa for his Thai girlfriend. He did get the visa, however if he would have dealt with a company that asks for no money until the visa has been issued he could have paid a fraction of this price and received the visa months prior.
When dealing with a Thailand visa company
When dealing with a Thailand visa company and you are looking for a UK visa, do not pay any money upfront, after all you do not have to as there are good companies that will offer their visa services without the need of payment until you have been awarded the visa. A fool and their money are easily parted. When in Thailand don’t fall for a trick you would not fall for at home.
Find out if your Thai wife - Thai girlfriend can get a uk Visa
I went to a visa company in Thailand for a settlement visa. Spoke to the guy he was really nice pleasent chap. He got me interested in using them to apply for my wifes visa. I travelled back to the UK and within 2 days of landing back in the UK his counterpart based in England was on the phone. He seemed nice on the phone so spoke away to him told him I wanted my wife back in the UK.
I never heard from him for a couple of weeks then out the blue a phone call demanding money as he was flying over to Thailand that weekend. He asked for an initial £1000 stating that if i wanted her visa then deposit this money in the account by Friday. His closing statement was if you want the best pay the money.
I went back to Thailand about 3 months later and decided to apply for my wifes visa myself. It is hard work and time consumming but worth it. It took me about 10-15 trips to Bangkok and alot of running around for translations etc. Total cost before the visa fee around 25000 baht at that time about £350. When I had all the paperwork we travelled up to the Embassy on the Tuesday. Handed in our application along with the fee 18500 baht £285. The lady at the Embassy was really freindly and gave us a website to check our visa application. On the Wednesday we received a phonecall I answered and they asked to speak to my wife. They spoke to her for 5 min tops. On the Thursday we checked our applications progress just to see. To our surprise it application had been processed and approved. We picked it up on the Friday. 4 days from applying to being aproved I could not beleive our luck.
That Friday I took great pleasure in returning to the Visa company and telling them I had applied a and recieved my wifes visa in 4 days and for about £350 less than they wanted as an inittial payment. The guy was like what you have applied for it and waiting for the interview. No was my reply I have applied and been aproved and have it back all in 4 days. I took great pleasure in showing him the passport with the visa and telling him that his partner cant be that good as he said it would take upto 16 weeks with interviews etc. My parting shot on leaving his office was If you want the best possible person to apply for a visa he better talk to me not his partner.