We've been here over a year now on a retirement extension. We were only able to open non-resident accounts at Krungsri before we got our first visa. Having a visa now will allow us to open resident accounts. As we will be out of Thailand for an extended time, and the ATM card they issued can not be used for anything but ATM withdrawal out of country, and there is no online anything for this account, is there any reason to not upgrade?

OK, the only thing could be this: if we open the resident accounts and transfer the baht from the non-resident accounts to the resident accounts, and we need to start over with a non-o visa, the money may not show as coming from overseas anymore.

Sorry it may be hard to read.

Thanks for your thoughts.