What steps should I take to open a bank account for my non-O retirement visa in Thailand?

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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A Thai Bankaccount has never been a requirement to get DTV, on the contrary it has been one of the big advantage over other visa, that you could get DTV as long as you could show 500.000 Baht equivalent in any bank anywhere in the world.

It has never been the intention that DTV visaholders should be in need of a Thai bankaccount.

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Get an agent to assist and it'll all get done in under a day.

Some immigration offices will allow you to change a tourist or exempt to an O visa which is valid for 3 months. As soon as you've done this you should be able to open a bank account, deposit your funds, when seasoned go back to immigration for 1 year extension based on retirement.

You're missing the relevant visa You need to get that first from outside Thailand. Its a non O visa which gives you 3 months Time enough to open a bank account season funds and then apply for a 1 year "extension based on retirement" Cost 1900 thb

My understanding is, don’t be put off by refusal, try different banks of the same name, banks are not inter related to each other. keep trying as some banks are more accommodating than others. Preferably in your province or area because banks don’t recognise one another, the bank where you open an account will be your bank

Go see visa agency they will help

You have missed the bus....banks doesn't allow tourist to opened bank acct anymore since last year those who did it are lucky ether with the help of agent or not...it seems the only route is to apply a non O outside of thailand and come into thailand with that and open a bank acct

I’ll be in the same position in a few months.

A friend went into BangkokBank recently & they told her they would open one with a TM30 & obvs all your I.D.s

But it seems to be a fluid response dep on what day it is & if the person you ask CBA. 🤷‍♂️ ……good luck.

Visas are supposed to be obtained from embassies. That's what you are missing. So you need to go to a Thai embassy, apply for the visa (no Thai bank account required), and then use that visa to open a Thai bank account. Why would they give a bank account to a tourist?