Can I switch from maintaining ฿800,000 in my Thai bank account for my Non-O visa to doing ฿65,000 monthly without a year of monthly deposits?

𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗲? You're dreaming. There is abso-tively, posi-lutely no way you can meet the proof of funds for monthly income method without bringing in the funds each month

As Lloyd pointed out IF you want to switch from banked money method to monthly income method and your embassy here doesn't offer the affidavit of income notary, you can only use international transfers to a thai bank account in your name only, each month every month for the previous 12 months before you apply for your extension.

That's the ONLY way to meet the proof of funds on monthly income method

AND

While you're doing that you also need to meet the seasoning requirements of the banked money method for the extension you're currently on <- keep the 800K baht in the account for 3 months after the extension was granted and then don't let the balance go below 400K baht the rest of the year

What interest rate range is paid on the 800,000 deposit? Ballpark figure will do. Can't find it online and I'm not in Thailand yet.

Having a fixed of 800.000 baht you can live for less every year,adding some transfers While with the income monthly way you need for ever that amount

Yes,it works from the second year

I used 65k for years but got such a hard time I moved to 800k. At Jomtien they want proof of source of income, eg pension certificate.

None

Yeah and slim just left town😂

I did all that last year, 65,000 religiously, got letter from the bank confirming o’seas transfer. Was still required to get letter from embassy confirming that income, which they don’t do. Also I wasn’t in Bangkok so wasn’t going there. Ended up giving up and sticking to the 800,000 method.

Only if your embassy can provide a letter. Otherwise as mentioned you need to follow through with both methods for the initial year.

Best to ask at Immigration

My wife has just switched we arrived a year ago on non O 800k . She had to show 12 deposits of 65k + with a letter from the bank confirming the deposits . They were insistent on this . Hope this helps obviously this is our experience in Chiang Mai .

Forget the slim .. it's none! 🤷‍♂️

When you want to switch from deposit to monthly, for the first year you need to maintain BOTH methods, ie, the 800k in the bank AND the 12 monthly deposits, then after that you can change to monthly payments.