Can I use monthly bank transfers to qualify for a Thai visa if I earn a minimum income in my home country?

So you have to make 40k a month within thailand? I love in Thailand, but travel to work in the US. I make well over that. Just curious

It is 400,000 in the bank or 40,000 a month. But each province interprets that a little differently where the money comes from how long it has to be there

Transferring money is the easy part. You have to also live with her and not piss her off too much. Compared to that Immigration is the easy part :)

Honestly it ticks me off a bit, I’m in and out of Thailand supporting my family for over twenty years, put kids through college, yet still have to jump through hoops to live with my family. Insane.

Recent reports that the transfer method is no longer working for marriage extensions at some immigration offices. They're now only accepting 40,000 per month if you work in Thailand and can show your salary is above this.

40K is for married, 65K for single

You need to show you've paid tax

I was told at immigration that the 40k a month had to be income made in Thailand and I couldn't just use my transfers from my UK bank to my Thai bank over the last year.

This is the requirements from the immigration regarding extension of stay based on Thai marriage. More and more offices are saying if you don't legally work in thailand and make the minimum 40K baht a month salary to meet the monthly income requirements based on marriage extension you cannot use monthly incoming transfers from overseas of 40K baht a month for the previous 12 months. It's just a crap shoot on whether your immigration office will or won't allow it, and they wouldn't allow it on the first yearly extension off a 90 day Non-O because you wouldn't have a year's worth of 40K baht a month transfers <- meaning you either legally work here with a work permit and the appropriate minimum salary, your embassy still issues the income affidavit OR you bank the funds.

As John said, you need a history of 12 transfers from abroad into your Thai Bank account.

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It depends where you are in the process. You can't use 40k baht per month for either an initial visa or the first annual extension of that. You need to have 12 months worth of 40k per month to get the 2nd extension if you are not going to use the 400k method