Yesterday was my annual day of self-flagellation at the immigration office for my O-A extension. Health Insurance ✅ , 800K banked for two months ✅, official bank statement (200B) ✅, Passport,photo,house book,a ream of signed photocopies ✅, completed forms and a big positive smile ✅.
So that should take 30mins right? Wrong! Because I did the 65k/month LAST year and the 800k THIS year they seemed to want me to still have the banked 800k from last year 🤷♂️ me neither. Anyway four and a half hours later after checking LAST years application they realised their mistake. I got there in the end but obviously without an apology or acknowledgement.
After LAST year and THIS years kerfuffle the back of my mind was telling me ‘it’s OK 😃 just enough Thailand for you now. Just go back to the U.K. and be happy’
Enough moaning now onto my question about THIS years extension. While there I also did a new TM.47 NOT online.
The IO returned me my passport and pointed out a new notice attached (see photo). They want to see my bank again to make sure I still have the 800k after three months as per the rules. Fair enough. My questions to this group are : Does everyone have to do this? Do you have to go and get the full 200B official bank statement or is a passbook update OK? Do you also have to do it again and again to prove you still have the 400K as per the rules.
I have no issue with the money side just this new process of potentially having to keep going to get bank statements and show immigration every 90 days 😔
