How can I apply for a long-term visa in Thailand if I can't open a bank account?

for my long term, nonOA, not needed a bankaccount. Well, your 1st Non OA. Then I got very easy a bankaccount at Kasikorn.

There is a lot of comments and good advice here already

Get your non o visa from Thai embassy in your own country before you come makes it a lot more easier

You apply for the Non Imm O visa based on marriage outside of Thailand, no Thai bank account required

You can do it.... Barely.... With a tourist visa. I did this and know it is possible.

Get your Thai marriage certificates. There are two official certificates and you will need both for immigration.

Go to the immigration office with your wife to register your address (TM-30). If your wife owns the house she can certify it. If not you need to have your landlord complete it before you go to immigration. They will staple a small form in your passport.

I opened an account at Kasikorn bank. Take your wife with you, passport with certificate or residency and your marriage certificates.

The funds have to marinate in the account (no less than two months) before applying for the Visa.

Go to immigration and get your extension or travel out of the country and back while the funds marinate.

After the funds have been in the account for two months go to the immigration office with your wife, marriage certificates, passport, bank verification letter (available at the immigration office (don't trust the website as it may not be the correct form for your office), ten pictures (2 per sheet) of you and your wife at home together (one must show the house number and one must show the complete front of the house), translated copies of passport and birth certificate (and copies of the originals) and 1,900 baht in cash. You will need to sign the photos and all copies of your passport.

They will keep your passport and you will wait for up to 45 days for the Visa approval. Do not let your bank account drop below the minimum amount during this time. Immigration will send an officer to your house to take more photos and interview a neighbor to verify you live there.

Once approved it will be valid for 90 days. Then you at 60 days you will apply for the one year extension. Keep your money in the account while you wait for the Visa to be approved and returned to you.

Once approved you get to do your first 90 day extension at the immigration office but every check-in after that can be done online.

I may have missed a couple of things but that is the gist of it.

Good luck. It's not bad, just a lot of waiting.

There are forms you can fill out there. Let your wife complete them.

I used an agency to do the initial visa and bank account to save all the trouble.

Use Agent

You get a visa via thai evisa system. Outside of thailand. you proof finances via your foreign bank account for that. 3 months visa… you come to thailand, get the 3 months stamp. you then visit a bank and open an account. then you transfer the money. before 3 months are over you visit the local immigration office and extend your stay for 12 months and repeat that every year.

alternatively you get the non-oa and have almost 2 years without money in a thai bank account. time to figure things out.

Use a legal company

Obtaining a bank account is not too difficult. But try to be recommended by a big client of a particular branch. There is still a recommendation form for that.

The 90-day single entry Non-Imm-O "family" visa and how to obtain a one-year extension of your stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife.

There is the "90-day single entry Non-Imm-O Family visa" option, which you can apply by the e-visa online system before you fly to Thailand.

You must provide a financial proof for both the 90-day visa and later at immigration for the application for a "one-year extension of the temporary stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife."

For the application to the initial visa, you EITHER have at least 400,000 THB (approximately $ 12,000) in a bank account in your sole name. In most countries, the e-visa application requires the upload of three months of account statements

(It is irrelevant for the visa application where the account is located – as long as there is a proof that the account is in your sole name)

However, when applying for the "1-year extension" from out of the 90-days stay permit you get stamped in upon entering Thailand, the 400,000 THB must have been in your Thai bank account for 2 months, and this “seasoning” must be proven with a "bank letter of guarantee" (in Thai: rab roong thanakan).

OR you use the income affidavit of your embassy in Thailand (only if applicable - as many embassies do not issue it any more. These are the embassies of the UK, the USA, Australia and Canada)

In case your embassy issues an income affidavit, you need to provide evidence of an income/pension of at least 40,000 THB (approximately $1200 USD).

For the application to the initial 90-days visa in your home country, you can use your original marriage documents.

However, for the application to the “1-year extension”, Immigration requires a Thai marriage registry printout - the Kor Ror 22 or 2 (whichever applies). This printout must be current, printed freshly by an Amphur office.

This is possible only if your marriage has already officially been acknowledged in Thailand. If you married outside of Thailand and your marriage has not been registered in Thailand, yet, you need to take action. It would require a legalization of your original marriage documents from the Thai embassy in your country that you are legally married, and this has to be co-legalized by the MfA in Bangkok, before you can register your marriage on the Amphur office.

The requirements may vary slightly between every one of the 85 Immigration offices in Thailand, this is why it is recommended to visit them right after you entered and ask for the list of requirements for the "extension of the temporary stay permit based on being married to a Thai wife."

What almost all immigration offices have in common is that they will only serve you if you have been properly registered at your place of accommodation via a TM30 registration.

Immigration normally will issue the "1-year extension of the stay permit" for 4 weeks "under consideration." They will ask for photos of the two of you together in front of your house, with the house number visible, a photo of you in the living room, in the bedroom, etc.

They will ask for a hand-drawn map of the route from your house to the Immigration office, or the Google Maps coordinates.

Some offices require not only the presence of your wife, but also of one witness.

Immigration will pay a visit at your home during these four weeks (with prior notice) and will question your neighbours about whether your marriage is "real."

After this visit, you visit Immigration and collect the stamp with your one-year extension of the temporary stay permit. (EOS)

NOTE: keep the 400,000 THB deposit in your bank account at least until you have gathered up the 1-year Marriage Extension stamp. You are free to spend the deposit, however the 400,000 THB need to be back in your account 2 months prior (some Immigrations ask for 3 months) to your next application for the 1-year extended stay permit.

NOTE: Always purchase a re-entry permit for your EOS.

A single re-entry costs 1000 THB, a multiple re-entry will be 3,800 THB.

The re-entry permit keeps your stay permit valid in case you leave the country. If you leave without a re-entry permit, your EOS will become invalid.

PLEASE use the correct terminology:

Technically spoken, there is no "visa extension", and the 1-year extension is not a “marriage visa”. Immigration does not extend any visa. That's technically not possible.

The use of this wording is improper English. You use the “90-days marriage visa” for entering Thailand, the visa becomes invalid. You will get stamped in for a 90-days stay permit. You then apply for a one-year extension of this stay permit. A stay permit is not a visa.

For an extension in Thailand, obtain a residence certificate from immigration and get a Thai SIM card. If that is still not sufficient, ask immigration for a written confirmation stating that you require a Thai bank account in order to apply for long term stay. Alternatively, you can be registered in your wife’s house book and apply for your own yellow house book to present to the bank.

Need to apply non O visa outside Thailand first they will give you 90 day can do online . After visa granted you will get e- visa to enter Thailand and you can use that E visa for open bank account .

And before your 90 day visa expired you can apply 1 year non o long term visa at immigration where you are living.

You apply for the visa matching your purpose before you travel to Thailand, Normally either a 90 day Non-O visa based on marriage or retirement. You travel to Thailand open a bank account, deposit the required funds for 2 months then apply for a 12 month extension of stay. To open the bank account you will probably need a residence certificate from your local immigration office and a Thai SIM registered against your passport. If you are taking marriage route and didn't get married in Thailand there are some additional hoops to jump through

What visa are you on? Or did you enter exempt of visa?

Start the process in your home country with a Non O visa application.

You don't need a Thai bank account to purchase a visa from a Thai embassy. You just need to show proof of funds from any bank account you have. Visas are meant to be purchased before going to a country.