Does anyone know if Bangkok Bank will issue a yearly statement on line, only showing deposits made?. Retirement renewal visa coming up next month and want to change to 65k+ deposits each month.
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The question revolves around whether Bangkok Bank can provide an online statement that only displays the relevant monthly deposits for a retirement renewal visa. The community discusses various experiences, indicating that while you can download monthly statements, immigration often requires these to be stamped by the bank. Many users suggest alternatives such as requesting an official letter from the bank listing the deposit amounts and dates, highlighting that experiences may vary by bank branch and immigration office. Some recommend switching to other banks for handling monthly transfers to ensure easier compliance with immigration requirements.
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Just done the same. Got a 12 month statement. 5 working days and 200 baht. Took it to immigration and no good. You have to ask for 12 months credit statements. Ie showing just deposits for each month. Charged me 500 baht but did it straight away. I have now opened a kasikorn just to receive money and transfer it to bangkok to spend. My kasikorn statement will be simple next time.
If you download all your monthly statements via the bank app.. then print them off and batch them into constitutent months.. and highlight the monthly deposits you want to reference to immigration.. you can take them into your branch and ask them to provide a letter listing the dates and sums deposited and confirming they were all international transfers.. in effect they are providing you with a 'statement' in the format you need.. and will charge you for the letter.. can't guarantee you that all branches will acede to such a request.. but mine did last year.. and for an extra fee they agreed to stamp the downloaded statements for authenticity.. they did of course check every deposit that appeared on the stats i had produced against their computer system.. in order to verify each one.. but it was all completed in a single branch visit while i waited.. and with no prior appointment or forewarning of my needs.. maybe i just got lucky but I'd say it's worth a try at your branch 😉
A little advise for you to do. Don't open another account with Bangkok bank. Open a new account now with Kasikorn bank and start paying in monthly now every month not a day earlier or later, you will have your statment for the following year the same day no waiting. Also if you try to get your letter from BB they will make you sign a letter to hold your money for a further 4 months before they will give you the letter. It's there new policy and is why I have moved to K bank. This is just a warning may help many people here had same problem.
Ian Brotchie but anyway it is the same? your put 800K Thb is not allowed to use for three or four months after extension by the immigration rule. so anyway, your 800K thb must be kept in the bank for months. there is any difference?
The minor problem I had last year was that I had to wait a week for BKK to get the 12 month statement from their head office in Bangkok, fortunately I started the process 10 days before I needed it, so I had the time to wait. This year, I intend to get two, 6 month statements, one halfway through the year and the other just prior to renewing because you can get a 6 month statement at the branch on the spot, with no waiting. Oh yes, the price of the 6 month statement is exactly half the price of a 12 month statement. Intend to try this in advance of my renewal date, just in case immigration fails to accept the logic that two 6 month statements are the same as one 12 month statement. Been here long enough to know that just because something makes sense to me doesn’t necessarily mean that Thai’s will see it the same way, but intend to try anyway.
Colin Biggar one other thing to be aware of when using the 65K per month method, is that immigration might ask you to prove that the money was “pension income” and didn’t come from elsewhere. Apparently, some unscrupulous individuals have been playing a bit of a shell game with their money, so immigration is clamping down on the practice and going by the letter of the law. After a little guessing about what would constitute “proof” I elected to give them 12 monthly statements from my bank account back home that showed exactly where all of my direct deposits originated and because I also use bank to bank transfers to send my money here, each global transfer from that account, coincided very nicely with transfers into my Thai bank account. Immigration was very happy when I provided those statements and I had my extension in short order.
I know of two guys that have had the online statement they downloaded rejected cuz it didn't have a stamp from the bank. So yes you can get it question is if immigration will accept it. The problem is some will and some won't you never really know
You can get a 12 month statement via the app but you need to ensure it goes back to the last date you got an extension of stay. You also need to ensure your immigration office will accept it, some will only accept the official statements issued by the bank and stamped by them. You'll also need the bank letter and updated bank book
For 65k monthly transfers the statement just has to show the 12 x 65k transfers. Bangkok Immigration accepts those issued by Bangkok Bank, as BB no longer stamps any statements. Also for 65k transfers no bank letter required
a bank letter is required but it's a different format to the standard letter. It outlines each month's transfer so I'll accept you can get away without statements EXCEPT in the transition from the 800k method to the monthly income method
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