Will Thailand still accept 800,000 baht in the bank for retirement visas or will they require a monthly deposit?

Thanks for this update

@Jay **********

. I will close the commenting.

And this is the post with the updates and answer to your question: 3/permalink/5/

Absolutely no change to the 800,000 baht in a bank for 2-3 months method of obtaining a retirement extension. None, zilch, zip, nada. The reference above to the thread at Thai Visa was horribly handled basically to inflate their views. They should have made very clear (crystal) that there was no change to the 800,000 method. Absolutely none! Every third reply in that horrible thread is someone saying does this apply to the 800,000 method, what about the 800,000 method? Disgusting, in my opinion.

The guidance that was posted from Immigration was to explain how the NEW, ADDITIONAL. BUT IN NO WAY REQUIRED, monthly deposit method for obtaining extensions of stay works. They said nothing about the 800,000 method because there were NO CHANGES in that method. The Thai Visa post could have made that clear but for whatever reason, they decided not to. My respect for the visa forum at Thai Visa dropped several notches because of how that announcement was mishandled.

I have to completely disagree with Jennifer's comment above. This is a case where you do not want to wade through hundreds upon hundreds of posts about the NEW, ADDITIONAL METHOD, if you are going to be using the old 800,000 method, because NOTHING HAS CHANGED for people using the 800,000 method.

Actually that post is dated January 6. The message was first posted in this group back then and sparked a huge discussion and exchange of information. Use the search function within this group and you'll find answers to every possible question about this crucial topic.

Again I say - no changes for 800k banked method

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They will still accept the 800k in the bank as long as it’s been seasoned for the required time.