If you had the required amount of baht in your Thai bank account but you opened it on a tourist visa, & your account has been frozen. Could you still apply for a retirement visa 🤔. The proof of funds will be there for immigration to see. TIA

Dear friends, is it possible to Switch my Tourist Visa based on Visiting my Thai Spouse, to Non Immigrant O spouse Visa while staying in Thailand, or it is mandatory to travel outside Thailand and apply for the Non O visa? Someone told me I can switch without leaving Thailand but still not sure, Experts please give advice. THANKS

For those under DTV visa, how do you pay utility bills and day to day stuff? Like other than cash, are there possible ways to pay digitally for rent and stuff? Better to have a digital trace rather than rely on receipts.

And another big question, how do you buy a car if you can't have a thai bank account?

DTV holder. Bangkok Bank frozen. Is there anyway I can get my money back without travelling back to Phuket from Bangkok to visit the original branch?

DTV holder and ex-owner of a Bangkok Bank account.

Last year I opened an account myself through Bangkok Bank with a personal referral from a branch employee and in-person approval from the manager at the branch.

A few days ago, an error kept popping up every time I tried to pay.

Long story short, I went into the bank and the teller informed me it’s because I have the DTV and that they had closed my account. I told her I had applied for the account myself, had a referral, a year long house lease, and my daughter goes to school here. She profusely apologized but at the end of it all, no exceptions.

They closed my account and gave me my money back.

Definitely a bummer but we were expecting this to happen at some point.

Good luck to the rest of you DTV bank account holders!

So they tell you to put 500k THB in your bank to get a visa, then they close your bank account because you have a visa

Hello, does anyone have experience with using a Thai account to prove the 500,000 baht three months retroactively, and should I try or have to use my foreign account to provide the proof?

Well, BKK Bank finally got around to my account. Frozen and closed.

Anyone find an agent that can make an account happen on a DTV?

Hi, I just had a couple questions regarding the DTV application.

1. I have a employment contract/agreement with an employer in my home country, but the base salary is pretty low. I supplemet my income by working on outlier ai (data annotation platform), should I include both jobs for the employment section? and what documents will suffice to prove freelance work with outlier, dashboard screenshots?

2. My second question is, I receive my payroll directly in my savings bank in my home country and outlier through paypal. But for the financial requirement document, I’m planning to submit my Thai bank account, which has maintained >500k for 6 months. Will this be a problem?

For those who are here on the DTV and had their bank accounts closed, what are the options to get a new bank account if you are under 50? If they refuse to open new accounts to people on tourist visas (DTV included), is the only option to either get married or simply buy the Elite visa? I cant imagine living here without a bank account so trying to find a solution to this. Buying the elite visa just for a bank account is not a good option.