What is the best bank to open an account for a married visa in Thailand, and what are the requirements?

After trying three, I found k-bank to be the easiest. Stop in... The branch will tell you what they need.

Travel to Vientiane Laos and use your normal bank statements. Trust me. Once you get the non-O, have tour wife take you to Kasikorn and bring all of your documents.

I saved a lot of hassle by using an agent.

Garry Palmer, take your wife with you, makes it much easier pal

Kasikorn or SCB which ever nearer to your home

Happy birthday

Avoid Bangkok Bank

Kasikorn

If you are now on a tourist visa near impossible to open a thai bank account 😀

Any bank near your home in Thailand except Bangkok bank. Maybe ask your wife. Moreover, you need a long term visa first.

The minimum requirement for opening a bank account is always a long-term visa, meaning at least a Non-Immigrant O, O/A, LTR, or O/X type visa, or an Elite Privilege visa.

Some bank employees will claim you need a work permit, but this is a fabrication and simply not true.

You cannot open a bank account on a tourist visa or visa-exempt entry visa (you can, yet only possible at a very high cost through a handful of agents).

To open a Thai bank account all by yourself, you must first be registered at a residence using a TM30 form.

Then you obtain a "certificate of residence" from Immigration, in which Immigration requests the bank to open an account for you (you must tell Immigration what the COR will be intended for).

You will also need a Thai mobile phone number. The SIM card must be registered in your name and passport number. Show the COR at the phone shop (but don't hand it over!) and ask for confirmation of the registration (or likewise a note about it on the receipt).

If bank employees become uncooperative and keep making up new requirements to get rid of you, go to another bank (I recommend Kasikorn and SCB).

If it still doesn't work after several attempts, use an agent, this should cost something like 5000 Baht.

Does anybody ever read the previous posts on here?

Are you asking about the getting the VISA, or getting the EXTENSION? The visa is the 90 day non-O visa, and the extension is the 1-year that you apply for from immigration. An extension is not a visa, it's an extension.

You can not get the visa inside of Thailand unless you already have a Thai bank account.

If you already have the visa and you're actually asking about the extension, then most people have been going to Kasikorn. Avoid Bangkok Bank. You're going to need a residence certificate from immigration.