How can I open a bank account in Thailand with a tourist visa?

For those who are based in Bangkok and wish to increase your success rate, please let me know.

I can help you to open a bank account if you have proper documents.

I bet you wish you had not bothered potsing now lol 5555 Should just name the bank and branch (I know you mentioned previously) together with documents you provided and leave it at that. Then people can try their luck if they so wish but no guarantees. Just be happy you got an account at probably the best local bank. :-)

No worries Gump 🏆

You must be hansum man mak mak!

Todd

@Tod ********

had summarized this very well. My personal experiences of 20+ years suggest to me that what happens in any bank or immigration office across varies greatly, depending on location and even the infividual official employee you encounter. The early days of the DTV visa program opened the floodgates , now , coupled with an effort to stop money laundering and curtail digital scammers ,both immigration and banks are reacting.

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Funny guy. Funny post. Great example of someone who doesn't know what he's talking about.

I went to the immigration office and asked all questions on a DTV, no can't have a residence certificate, no cannot register at the house and the bank said no. Its a tourist visa and for that reason No, have to change visas. Now I know some have posted they have and I know with a property contact things can change. As explained everywhere is slightly different with interpretation of regulations and rules, but that's true about everything and in most places, you just may get lucky!

Banks no longer takes any notice of the residence certificat, after some Immigration Offices started handing them out prior to the 3 month required to be regarded as a resident, and no matter what visa scheme the tourist is on.

No Banks check by themselves that the applicant has stayed at a permanent adress for several months on a long lease

have a steady income every month, that is easy tracabel,

being on a genuin long term visa, not visa excempt, tourist and DTV ( which is tourist ).

Having a respectful approach to negotiate with the bank,

Put in a substansial amout on the account, which you can prove the origin of.

I’d say it’s mostly luck if you manage to open one with those documents. Many people have tried even with a residence certificate and still couldn’t do it.

incorrect information. even with a COR in your pocket you will not be able to open an account at 99,x% of banks… no matter what documents you present, they usually decline you because of the dtv. even if you present a bunch of other documents and go with a thai. it doesn’t matter.

It's common for people to have an individual experience at immigration/ embassy/ bank and then assume that is the way things are universally ... but infact requirements are different from day to day, office to office and even individual staff will create different criteria.

Amazing Thailand!

Even for Thai people nowaday not easy like this above information

The bank dont mind about your certificate of residence they mind on your visa holding ,and not all long term visa are allow to open bank acc as well

It is easy if you have the appropriate VISA.

it is not if you don't.

Dunno where you got that mis-information 😮 🙁

BUT

More than a few banks are turning people down left & right trying to open accounts on free entry stamps, tourist visas AND on DTV's (which are just glorified tourist visas) even IF they have a certificate of residence from the immigration office

Plus (at least in Bangkok) when you get a certificate of residence they don't make it out to a specific bank. It's just a boiler plate form that says your name, passport number and that you live at xxx address.

Now granted there are over 80 immigration offices so some might do it different BUT there are hundreds of posts on the inter-web related to thailand about people on DTV's who can't get a bank account open at all, and they've tried a LOT of branches

How about stating where you are in thailand, what immigration office issued you a "personalized" certificate of residence and what bank and branch you were able to "easily open an account" at?