ATTN MEMBERS: Seasoning on funds for banked money method for second year "retirement" extensions after using banked money the previous year

This question comes up a lot.

"𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝘆 𝗼𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗜 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 '𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁' 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱?

The reason for this IS

IF you're currently on a year extension based on retirement now where you used banked money method last year, you were required by immigration rules to keep the 800k baht balance IN your account for 3 months after the yearly extension was granted and then the balance couldn't go below 400K baht the rest of the year (until 2 months before you apply for this new extension you brought the balance back up to 800K).

Now seeing as most people don't update their thai bank books all that often or all that regularly, when you finally get around to doing it, all it will print is a summary of funds in and funds out with a date range <- which doesn't show to the immigration office that you met the financial requirements last year (for the extension you're currently on now).

So to show that to them you get that year detail transaction print out. (This is in addition to the 'standard' bank letter AND updating your bank book on the date you apply for the new extension)

Keep in mind, some banks can print that year transaction detail on request, but some banks can take 5 to 7 days to get it for you. So if you think you might need it, stop in to your bank well before you're going to ask for it and see what their lead time is

Once you do get that print out It shows every transaction thru that account broken down by month for the previous year, with a balance printed for every transaction.

That way it shows immigrations if you failed to hold up your end of the deal when using banked money method for your extension last year and the coming one you're going to apply for this year

This is not a new rule, it is something immigrations came up with to see IF you met the seasoning requirements for the banked money method for the extension you're and for the new one you will apply for

The only times I've seen them NOT require it is if someone uses a "fixed/term" account where the funds stay in the bank all the time. They can and often will waive that report for that type of accounts

Hope this cleared it up some sorry it was long