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January 24, 2019
6 years ago
Brian *******
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Good morning, I want to create a paper trail showing my money is coming from outside of Thailand. This is visa related because in the future I may be asked to "prove" I am not working upon entering the country. In addition I would like to fulfill one of the requirements for a marriage visa and have that available to me.

Up until this point I have be withdrawing cash at the ATM and depositing cash in my BKK Bank account. I would like to start doing a monthly transfer from my American bank. As far as I can tell BKK Bank stopped allowing this recently. What are my options to transfer money that fulfill the proof of income requirements? Thank you very much.
June 29, 2018
6 years ago
Brad *******
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Per my previous post, I will soon be applying for the 90-day nonimmigrant o Visa. Today I got approval to open a new account at Bangkok Bank. The next step is to transfer funds from my bank in the states to my account number at the Silom Bangkok Bank branch.

I really appreciate the group getting me past the last hurdle, but now I no problem cropped up with money transfer. When I go to my main CIT bank and several other of my banks like Ally none of them offer International wire transfers. Bangkok Bank says to transfer the money to their New York branch, but talking to Bangkok Bank New York personnel and my u.s. bank personnel, they say that I would have to fill in the final beneficiary name and account number in Bangkok Thailand and that makes it an international transfer. Plan B would be to use Transferwise Company online but from what I understand they do not provide a form which certifies the international currency transfer. I think the form is called FET.( apparently transferwise does not move currency across borders but just matches incoming and outgoing transfers that cancel each other out).

Under documents required for 90-day non-immigrant o Visa image sent previously under item 5.3 it says evidence of foreign currency fund transferred to Thailand. I'm not sure but it's possible if I use transferwise I would not be able to document item 5.3.

There must be several people in the group that have gotten past this obstruction ... Has anyone found a solution to the problem. ....are there any banks that still do International wire transfers? if say Citibank for example still does the international wire transfers... And I moved 800000 b to Citibank us, would they allow Me 2 days later to move the money right back out of the Citibank account with a wire of that same money to Bangkok Bank Thailand?

If anyone can suggest a different forum to pose this question to please let me know. I would prefer to transfer the money in the next 7 to 10 days because the clock is ticking on my 30 day extension of Visa exempt stamp.

Thanks again for all the help on previous questions
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