Let me be absolutely clear - Darren is a con man. It has been a while since anyone has posted on this site but I am writing here in the hope that I can stop someone else from being taken in by this awful man and his lies. Read on... I approached Darren to organise a settlement visa for me with a cast iron case as I had been planning it for over 2 years. As a busy working professional I thought I would employ someone who knew what they were doing to take the stress out of it for me. He was very keen for me to send a 25, 000 baht deposit before starting any work, which I duly did, together with all the prepared documents and associated preparation. I assumed that within a month or so we would simply be waiting for the visa decision to be made. To cut a long story short, what then followed for 2.5 months was a series of lies and fob offs. Messages stopped being replied and e-mails were ignored. In desperation, my thai partner visited the office 3 times and each time was told that everything was happening and Darren was in regular contact with me (which he wasn't). My partner contacted two other people she knew who were also waiting for Darren to process their visa's and we had the horror of realising that they too were finding themselves banging against the same brick wall. It eventually became clear that in 2.5 months, Darren had done NOTHING. He was simply a conman that relies on obtaining hefty deposits from people and then just fobbs them off/ignores them forever. A nice way to earn a living! I am surprised that there are actually so few negative comments plastered over the net about his shoddy practices but I also understand that his 'repuation' is quite well known in Pattaya. After 2.5 months I cut my losses and applied for the visa directly myself online. I was actually surprised how easy it was and the visa followed 35 days after our application. Make your own choice but if I can prevent a few more people lining his pocket for nothing and having their lives put on hold by his shady lies and deceit than I am pleased to have helped.