specialized consultancy visa service for foreign nationals.

Ispent a lot of my time looking carefully at the area and people�s needs and doing due diligence before my commitment to become a �specialist� visa consultant.

My team at Key Visa Co feels totally at home with the expats & foreign community and we endeavor to make every visa application a hassle free venture for our clients.

We understand the problems clients face and we make every effort to support them until satisfaction is reached. We are the official immigration advisors for the Pattaya expats club & I offer a lot of my time giving free advice to newcomers & expats in Pattaya specializing on retirement & long stay visa applications. I am offering a weekly advice clinic in this newspaper and today I am focusing on the most commonly asked questions by our clients.

Q, I recently lost my Thailand bank account book I went to my bank with my passport and they said that I had to go to the police station before they could give me a replacement bank book, what do they mean?

A, If you lose your Thailand bank account book it is a similar procedure if you lose your passport, you have to go to your local police station and make a report that you have lost your bank book, the police shall then give you a police report, take the report and your passport to the bank and they should give you a new bank book.

Q, We have just returned from Bangkok, I was applying for my Thai girlfriend and her daughter to come to the U.K. on holiday, my girlfriend has been to the U.K. Previously, but when we tried to apply for her daughter they said we needed a paper from the babies� father, Can you help?

A, I understand it can be confusing, when you apply for your partner�s child to travel to the U.K., it is always beneficial for your Thai partner to get a sole custody paper from the local Amphur (town hall) where the child�s birth is registered, what we have seen this a simple process for the Thai and can be given over the counter.

Q, I am currently applying for a tourist visa for my girlfriend to go to the U.K. My only concern is that I met her in a beer bar and I am worried that this will be detrimental to my application should I be truthful or not, What is your professional advice?

A, Being truthful is always the best policy, as far as your meeting place is concerned I do feel that embassies work with an open mind and the meeting place is a small insignificant part of the application when the clearing officer makes a decision with any type of application. It is based on the documents submitted as a whole and the presentation of the application not on specific points you have to make sure that application is presented to the best of your ability or you have the option of professional advice by a visa consultant which I feel is in most cases the best policy for success as I tell all my clients who employ my companies services to take there partner overseas I cannot wire a plug or fit carpets.

Q, I have a one year business visa and a working permit in Thailand. I plan to visit Australia next month for a holiday. I am aware that to protect my visa I need to go the� immigration bureau and obtain a re-entry permit which allows me to go out of Thailand and return and my business visa shall be covered, but people are telling me that I need a re-entry permit to cover my work permit. Is this correct?

�A, The answer to your question is no you do not need a re-entry permit to cover your working permit only for your business visa.

Q, I have my foreign child in Thailand with me and she has been enrolled into full time education and the immigration have converted her nonimmigrant visa into a one year visa for education purposes without much trouble. But myself I am 45 years old, not working in Thailand and not married to a Thai national and my nonimmigrant visa ha