BF get 3rd Irish Visa!

[colmx]

Hi All
Happy to report that my Thai BF of the last 4.5 years got his 3rd Irish visitor Visa today! :cheers:

Most old timers on the board will remember the saga of getting his first visa - which took 1.5 years to secure.

There is no Irish Embassy in Bkk - just a consulate, so the applications get forwarded to the Embassy in KL

His second visa application last year went far easier than the first application. And took just 1 week

This 3rd application took a little longer (1.5 weeks) and was nearly scuppered by the girl in BKK who was processing the application and insisted on originals of all paperwork (despite being told on 2 previous occasions that the only orignal required was his passport) And despite him telling her she had a "black heart"!

But thankfully in the end it all worked out!
So this time 10 weeks he'll be back for another month or 2...

Thanks as always to a certain unnamed board member for his help with some of the paperwork!

Hi colmx, although as a reasonably new member here I am not aware of your previous posts, I would like to say I am delighted for you. The type of news in your post, is of a type that I am always happy to hear about, especially having been down that road on numerous occasions myself in the past.


Choc Dee to both you and the BF colmx .


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Good news Colmx, you did have to fight hard for that first visa, so I am happy for both of you that things have become more straightforward these days.

Since celebrating our Civil Partnership in London last December we have had some rocky times (to put it mildly!!!) including time apart, but as I write this my Thai partner is at work (I am supposed to be working at home this morning!!). Living together has become easier since he started working, mainly because he is not so bored I think. It is hard when I am working and he has nothing to do but keep house (he is definitely not a ladyboy, and keeping house is not his forte, although he cooks very well).

Any relationship with an age gap (he is 30 and I am 48), and cultural differences as profound as Thai to UK, is going to be hard work. But for now at least I have decided to keep on working at it.

Good luck Colmx, enjoy your time together!

.Since celebrating our Civil Partnership in London last December we have had some rocky times (to put it mildly!!!)... But for now at least I have decided to keep on working at it.

Not we?

[Smiles]

Well, three quarters of the thread is gone, but BUMP anyway.

Cheers ...

[jinks]

Well, three quarters of the thread is gone

Yes the crap was moved your highness, as was the wx40afp answer to your post.

It is such a nice happy, cheerful, wonderfully fulfilling story I edited and split the crap into the other thread.

Just for once, I really wanted a nice untainted thread.

Leave granted to appeal to a higher court.

[Smiles]

" ... Leave granted to appeal to a higher court. ... "
I already did ... the Court of Public Opinion! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: ( http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/fo ... 11777.html (http://www.sawatdee-gay-thailand.com/forum/moving-splitting-wrecking-dismembering-threads-t11777.html) )

Cheers ...

It is hard when I am working and he has nothing to do but keep house (he is definitely not a ladyboy, and keeping house is not his forte,...Any relationship with an age gap (he is 30 and I am 48), and cultural differences as profound as Thai to UK, is going to be hard work. But for now at least I have decided to keep on working at it.

This is how I read it:

"I'm stuck with him. After all that time and money spent bringing him over and telling the whole world about it, I realise that we are not compatible in more ways than one, not least of which is that he is a lazy ass and probably straight. I'll carry on pretending that he actually loves me in a mystical, unfathomable Thai way until I've gone completely broke and made a total fool of myself."

It is hard when I am working and he has nothing to do but keep house (he is definitely not a ladyboy, and keeping house is not his forte,...Any relationship with an age gap (he is 30 and I am 48), and cultural differences as profound as Thai to UK, is going to be hard work. But for now at least I have decided to keep on working at it.

This is how I read it:

"I'm stuck with him. After all that time and money spent bringing him over and telling the whole world about it, I realise that we are not compatible in more ways than one, not least of which is that he is a lazy ass and probably straight. I'll carry on pretending that he actually loves me in a mystical, unfathomable Thai way until I've gone completely broke and made a total fool of myself."

Sounds spot on to me Yimsuai.

Also, if the Thai man doesn't want it to work, this may be his way of saying it instead of the confrontational route.

My partner is working, and enjoying it too. As I stated before life has become easier for both of us since he started in his job.

My partner is not straight, he is gay. Otherwise I would not have entered into a Civil Partnership with him.

My finances are fine thanks. I pay the bills I have always paid, and would have to pay whether I was living with a partner or not. The costs of bringing my partner to the UK have not been that high, and now he pays his own way, and contributes to the food bills etc.

I somewhat foolishly thought that I was not "telling the world" about my relationship, but sharing my story with an interested group on a forum which was appropriate. Naievely I even thought there might be some support to be found here.

For those who may still be interested, our relationship has required hard work from both of us, and we are both committed to continuing to work hard to ensure a happy and fulfilling life together now and in the future.

[Brad the Impala]

They are indeed strange responses. sometimes it just seems that everyone wants to project the worst interpretation onto everyone else's realationship.

Wanking their subconscious over the parade really.

[GWMinUS]

For those who may still be interested, our relationship has required hard work from both of us, and we are both committed to continuing to work hard to ensure a happy and fulfilling life together now and in the future.

Any meaningful relationship does!!
My Lover and I have been together for 39 years.
He is also a westerner, not a Thai.
And we make it in spite of some bumpy times.
I wish you the best and know you will ignore the nay-sayers!!!

My partner is working, and enjoying it too. As I stated before life has become easier for both of us since he started in his job.

My partner is not straight, he is gay. Otherwise I would not have entered into a Civil Partnership with him.

My finances are fine thanks. I pay the bills I have always paid, and would have to pay whether I was living with a partner or not. The costs of bringing my partner to the UK have not been that high, and now he pays his own way, and contributes to the food bills etc.

I somewhat foolishly thought that I was not "telling the world" about my relationship, but sharing my story with an interested group on a forum which was appropriate. Naievely I even thought there might be some support to be found here.

For those who may still be interested, our relationship has required hard work from both of us, and we are both committed to continuing to work hard to ensure a happy and fulfilling life together now and in the future.


Not really strange responses,

A bit of reality thrown in, you ae going to get diverse responses when you post on a board with people with all kinds of ideals, age groups, Nationalties and backgrounds.

If you only want applause, you should have joined the circus!

All relationships take a lot of hard work, commitment and self sacrifice, not just a Farang/Thai civil partnership.

Don't take it personal, if you're happy with it, That's the only important thing that matters.

Writing to a forum, you seldom get the answer you want, but you might get a cross section of responses, some of which you think are useful, so you listen, others you think are not, so you disregard them.

Good luck with it.

[colmx]

There was an Election yesterday in Ireland....

Very happy to report that the current Minister for Justice... Michael McDowell, who personally rejected my BFs first visa application on its 2nd appeal has lost his seat in the Dail (Irish Parliament)

This guy completely blocked the application - despite the intervention of some pretty heavy weight politicians (Dept of Justice in charge of Visas in Ireland) In the meantime he let the country be over-run with Eastern Europeans and Nigerians...

He has now been forced to retire from politics.... And his party (the coalition paty in the Irish government) has been left in tatters

Couldn't have happened to a nicer man or party :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

Following this election we can now hopefully push ahead with civil partnership laws similar to the UK and I can forget about this visa ordeal every time BF wants to come here....

(or maybe thats just wishful thinking!)

[Aunty]

There was an Election yesterday in Ireland....
Very happy to report that the current Minister for Justice... Michael McDowell, who personally rejected my BFs first visa application on its 2nd appeal has lost his seat in the Dail (Irish Parliament)

Well you should send him a wee little card of congratulations saying it couldn't have happened to a nicer more deserving man. God bless you.

Why dont you post his email address on here and i will send the bludger and spiv an email .
These politicians are bludgers and spivs and they expect us to pay taxes whilst they use the public credit cards and public money as one MP in Sydney has,to pick up boys from Kings Cross who were underage,just google Milton Orkopoulous,hopefully this prick ,when found guilty will get fucked up the arse in jail.
Not to mention fuckwit Patrick Power ,chief prosecutor Sydney Central Court,who was found guilty of possessing child porn,naked images of boys on his computer,last week,and was sentenced to a months jail,well he can get fucked too.


You do have such a nice way with words!!!

For those who may still be interested, our relationship has required hard work from both of us, and we are both committed to continuing to work hard to ensure a happy and fulfilling life together now and in the future.

Thank you, dear. Underneath all that smugness, I don't see a single mention of mutual affection, caring, LOVE, passion, kindness, empathy - you know, the usual things one expects to hear from a budding relationship. You must be a graduate of the pete1969 Accounting School of Love (ASHOL). It goes without saying that relationships require hard work. But that hard work usually comes in mid stream not when you're just sailing off on your honeymoon. I'd say you were doomed from the start but who cares what a little old pussy like me thinks. Get back to us in six months and we'll see how you're doing. I'll have you know that I am not above saying "I TOLD YOU SO."