What are the issues with transferring money from Wise to Bangkok Bank and other Thai banks?

@Roger *******

do you guys ever actually do a retirement visa? They need bank statements that clearly show FTT. If you have no direct qualified experience please stop staring the pot.

@Roger *******

my pot. You have zero relevance to this thread.

@Roger *******

however you like.....

@Peter **********

Pffffff 🙄

@Peter **********

Who is talking about visa or year extensions ?? This was only a proof if international transfer. Yes I DO (already 8) year extensions but from a country which still has income statements.

@Peter ***************

yawn. I know the process. Doing it correctly as before no longer shows FTT

@Peter **********

I never needed a statement, but I just looked one time. And, as expected it DOES mention FTT as you call it.

@Phil *****

yes, the IO told mento bring a letter called ‘Credit Advice’ for the entire 12 months deposits

@Jackie ***********

you can check the labeling on your banking app or download a statement to email

@Sean *********

Yep. Back to normal

@Jackie ***********

may I ask how it was labeled?

@Sean *********

Its coded on statement as Foreign TT

@Jackie ***********

thats is exactly the label you need

FOREIGN T/T

My problematic September deposit was labeled

DEP TRF FR E-CH

This is a local Thai bank to Thai bank transfer.

I went to the intermediate Bank - Kasikorn International Services and requested a FET form to attach to my extension package June 2026

@Sean *********

Im hoping transfers are back to normal. Waiting for the transaction history to update on the app.

@John ********

I read that Thai banks have imposed a 50k baht incoming per transaction limit. I just wanted to know if that limit has already come into effect or not as I need to transfer more than that into kasikorn from wise.

@Bill ******

this tag is an internal transfer between Thai Banks.

If your transfer was routed through Kasikorn Bank and then to Bangkok Bank. I believe you will need the following.

I did this this week for the September transfer. For the rest of the year I will do SWIFT transfers to avoid this potential problem.

1. An FET letter from K-bank International Services. K-bank will likely ask you to bring a receipt for the deposit from Bangkok bank first.

2. Bangkok Bank will only provide the receipt from the branch where the account was opened.

At least two branches here in Bangkok told me that I needed to drive to Buriram where I opened the original account to get this receipt.

@Sean *********

Been down this road before. The banks and Wise p@ss me off with this crap. Kasikorn do not issue a FET anymore. They will issue a letter stating they are international transfers for 200 Baht to show immigration what they are. The E stands for external not internal. I don't know Wise are doing but they certainly don't follow their name. Swift is a messaging system and a corrupt one at that. No money changes hands by the way. Look it up!

@Bill ******

interesting 🤔

I thought the letter I received was FET but then it is all in Thai so I did not know that for a fact.

Does the E standing for external qualify for the purposes of immigrations monthly 65k foreign transaction?

If SWIFT is to be avoided then what would be an alternative secure transfer method?

@Andreas ********

yes, but in the WISE case it just started being a problem Sep 2025.

I Went through the confirmation process you suggest this week to secure documentation for my SEP 2025 international transfer.