I thought I’d share this banking experience, just in case it could help someone. Background: I have a newer US Passport, the one with the weird patterned photos that make you look like a criminal. Anyway, I’m at the K-Bank at Central, on Beach Road in Pattaya. I have all my docs in order and we’re flying along in the process when it comes time to A) take my picture, and B)take a picture of my passport photo. The K-Bank system rejected multiple attempts by their rep, each time saying the photos do not look like the same person. By the way, at K-Bank they use their iPads to take the photos - I wonder if they should upgrade that process. The rep tried and tried with no success, finally telling to go home and make my beard shorter. That night, I followed this advice and the next day went to the K-Bank located in the Big C Super Center on Central Road. Same sh!t. Just when the rep and I were wondering what to do next, another rep who had been following along at a distance ran over, saw that I have a new US passport and started shouting, “no, no, no! US Passport! US Passport!”. He grabbed it and with a big smile told me he was going to make this work. He went to a remote corner of the small branch and took photos of the passport at a weird angle. He came back laughing and gave everything to my rep saying, “go ahead, it will work now”. And just like that, when the rep took my like 20th photo….voila! it matched with the passport photo, and we sailed through the rest of the process. So if anyone has this problem at a bank, I recommend you ask the rep to call their home office and check on the best practices for taking a photo of the new USPassport.

Hi guys I just asked chat GPT about sending money to a thai account using Wise and show up as an international transfer for a long term visa and it says you can't, I'm sure someone on here posted that it can say international transfer could someone please confirm

I’ve googled this and also looked at some posts in this site. If this has already been answered I apologize in advance. I turn 50 on October 30 2027 .I will have the money in wise account ($25,000) for the retirement visa and I have the monthly income requirement. I am willing to take Muy Thai classes and I was under the impression they are good for 9 months. Could I go in February and stay until October and I turn 50? Thanks 🙏

Sorry if it's been asked before. Does anyone have experience getting a guarantee letter and statements for visa ( extension ) from a different branch than the one you opened? Same bank obviously . Thanks

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Hi all, just got a bank account with Krungthai who were very helpful and will be making my deposit soon ,, Someone here once said when you apply for your 90 day O from your own country immigration don't usually ask for proof of o/s funds ? if anyone can confirm that it would be appreciated as i'll be going through wise and the 400 baht i just sent as a tester was coded DXSDT which i believe means cash transfer.

Confused.com

If I need a visa to open a Thai bank account then how do I show a 400,000 baht proof as a deposit in a Thai account to get,me visa🤣

Forgive my stupidity im sure there's an easy explanation

Arriving in Thailand mid July on a non o retirement visa

Should I transfer my private pension directly each month into my Thai bank or should I arrange for my private pension to be paid into my UK bank and then withdraw monthly into my Thai bank. ??

Are there transfer fee's to be paid each month

And if so which option best suits

In May my wife and I will be going to Thailand for 7 weeks on a Non-Immigrant O Visa – we are 77 and from the United States. Unfortunately, we can not stay long enough to season our money in the bank since we are going to Africa to do a gorilla trek and our dates are set. Our goal on this trip is to set up bank accounts to deposit 800K into each account using wise. We have rented an Airbnb condo and have received from the owner the 7-week lease, her ID card, and her ownership of the condo document. In December we will return on a new Non-Immigrant O Visa and after two months apply for an extended stay permit for a year.

Our Problem: I am reading in Facebook that Kasikornbank (K-Bank) and other banks will not allow us to open bank accounts with that short a lease (even though we will have a TM30, Certificate of Residence, photos, and Thai phone numbers linked to our passports).

I see 3 possible outcomes:

1. Kasikornbank will allow us to open accounts.

2. We have to rent a cheap condo while we are gone for a year ($300/mo) just to have a lease.

3. Use an agent.

From your experience, will Kasikornbank allow us to open an account. Are some branches or cities better to use? If not, and we have to use an agent, what would the cost be using our own money and not the agent’s.

When someone has moved across Thailand have you gone to your bank and changed to a closer branch as your main branch?

Whats steps did anyone take to move from the united states to Thailand?