What should I do if I can't get a bank account or a non-immigrant visa in Thailand?

@Nigel *************

I disagree, they just don't want us abusing the rules when we get here.

@Nigel *************

Thailand doesn't want incompetent self-obsessed people acting all superior when they feck up

@Nigel *************

only their money

LBH (Losers Back Home) who go abroad and complain when they should constantly give gratitude for the incredible kindness and hospitality of Thai people. The American government barely grants visas at all to Thai people. But arrogance and ignorance are common features of our Western culture lately. They want a double standard and thankfully won't get it.

@นาตาชา *******

Yep, yet these are often the same people who complain that immigrants are ruining their country. Hypocrites

@นาตาชา *******

very big difference between unfiltered (illegal) mass immigration from third world countries and relatively limited legal immigration from first world country "expats".

NEVER support corruption

NEVER support corruption

@Martin ********

agents have been cracked down on now. They are in limbo themselves. No services as before.

@Martin ********

Except the agents have been shut down as well.

Crooks.

They impersonate themselves as a Thai Embassy, how can anyone trust such a compagny.

@Simon ******

once approved for the non o imm visa. How long do u have to enter thailand

@Simon ******

Nong Khai immigration will not give you a certificate of residency to open a bank account. They will give you one for a driver's license after the Dept. of Transportation requests it. The banks in Nong Khai won't request it so immigration won't grant it. Went through this in November. The banks also will not accept a copy of the CoR that I provided to get my driver's license. I had a 90 day Non-O Evisa, TM 30 and a driver's license and was still told no until a kind lady helped me out in Si Chiang Mai at KrungThai bank. That was after I went to every bank I could find in Tha Bo, Nong Khai and Si Chiang Mai.

@Simon ******

RC will not help with bank account.

@John ********

first time in Thailand?

Don’t get your hopes up.

You will still have a hard time to get a bank account, until you have stayed several months in Thailand at a permanent adress on a long lease.

Banks in Thailand are like everywhere in the world, interested in having good stable custormers, that have a permanent address, a steady easy traceable income, and use the account all year round.

That is why the banks are reluctant to give accounts to people on short time ( read: tourist ) visas, and who only spend part of the year in Thailand.

Don’t expect to get a residence certificat, until you have stayed at a permanent adress in at least 3 month, since that is what the residence certificat should confirm.

Furthermore the added attention on whitewashing of money, is an added burden on the banks, so reluctant depositing large amounts isn’t a guaranteed way to open an account.

The value of a resident certificat, had gone down, since Immigration Officers are giving them to people that are not on a longterm visa, or have stayed severel months at 1 adress in Thailand, so even if it is a formal requirement, the bank make up their own assesment of the stability of the want-to-be customer.

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@John ********

ridiculous only because you didn’t respect their rules.

Lucky that you found a back door workaround

Hey

@John ********

, I.m curious to know what the Thai Embassy in Cambodia tells you what you.ll need to get your Non O visa there. I can tell you you will need to show a statement of bank funds, but they never told me how much. (I currently am living in Siem Reap but worked in Phnom pehn before getting a retire visa here)

Can we try to stay in contact? I have been to the Thai Embassy in PP less than two years ago, and still have the Non O visa application.

( I.ll try to send you a Private Message, PM, now but if I.m unsucessful sending the message, can you send me one?

@John *******

visa company can't open a bank account anymore either.

@Jenny *****

over exaggerated!

On year 25 this trip.

@Jenny *****

I won't stay in place like that.

@David *********

wow , really !!!

I quess your missing the point that with these new crack down and new immigration laws that they are pushing people away from their family. If I am forced to leave than so is my support for all the people I support. I won't continue from a far. I will support My wife and that's it. There is consequences for their actions. They are not hurting me, they are only hurting thais with their stupid policy that change by the mood of the day

They are helping their neighboring countries by pushing the hand that feeds them...so what I am reading the people that used agency to fund the money for retirement probably won't be able to renew with the agency...what is disturbing is they disrupt Thai families that rely on financial help from farang husband's.

@Steve ******

can get 30 day at airport