WHITESAND

When going to the UK am always told to take familly to uk q, on coming into Thailand use Thai q as i live here ,never a problem ,in fact this year the chap on the desk in Thailand asked if i had a familly here when i said yes he smiled and said welcome home.

I went back to the UK at the end of last month, on arriving at the Immigration queues, I noticed 5 people in the EU queue and an endless queue in the Non EU Passport holders line at Heathrow. I got my thai wife to line up in the Non EU passport holders queue, whilst I went to the EU Queue (British passport holder), I got to the IO and asked him if my wife could join me, I told him she was Thai, he said okay. I then left the IO and went to get my wife, we rejoined the queue for the EU passport holders, she was called forward the IO then asked her if she was travelling with anyone, I had stayed at the waiting line, he then told me to join her, asked her a few questions, asked me the last time I had been home, and wished us a pleasant stay.

Upon returning to Thailand, we joined a queue at Immigration that was quite short, my wife went first the IO said she should have used the Thai queue, but the queue was long and she wanted to stay with me, he then processed her paperwork and them mine and we were on our way.

Both Immigration officers were helpful and cheerful, unlike some reports on here have indicated.