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Has anyone recently had a Non O 90 day Marriage visa online from the UK (Royal Thai Embassy London)? If so how long did it take? I only have 9 working days when I'm in the UK
I have been out of Thailand for the last 10 days. When I am trying to pay rent to my Thai Landlord by using my Bangkok bank account, it says " you do not have any account registered for payments (AB09) Does it mean that my account is deactivated or closed?
Im about to apply for a non o marriage E visa at the Sydney consulate as I return to bkk on the 30th Oct.
I want to use my savings account bank statement which shows ample funds but the latest bank statement available to me is dated to 3 July ie over three months ago.
They want the last three months statements.
I could get a Statement of account showing the current balance from my local branch showing ample funds but it won't detail the three months only today's balance .
Do I supply the statement up to 3 July and this current bank statement ?
A question on changing banks in the middle of an extension.
I currently have Bangkok Bank and have heard of several troubles with them so I was thinking of opening an account with SCB which has a local branch where I have to go 50km for Bangkok Bank since they closed the local branch, same with K bank.
I have several months so the funds would be seasoned for 90 days at the new bank but then I wouldn't have a year's history with that bank for when I go to do the renewal. Will that be a problem or can I get a report from Bangkok Bank showing 9 months then 3 months at the new bank? I do plan to keep both active with more than ฿800,000 each for now until extension renewal time in case of an issue with one or the other.
I am trying to apply for the DTV visa and I was wondering if anybody can give me some guidance with this.
I am in Chiang Mai at the moment. I tried to apply for the Non O visa for retirement but while waiting for my funds to be in the Thai account for the required two months, I ran out of visa time and was short ten days of the required time of visa. I had already extended my tourist visa which expires in 19 October.
I was advised to return to the US and apply but I am having a problem with the background check due to the US government’s shut down and not being able to get the FBI background check I need.
I have a one year lease for an apartment with the TM30 from my landlord, health insurance and medical certificate as well.
My question is for the DTV visa which seems to be my only option to come back to Thailand: Can any of this visa’s holders answer how their process worked? I know I can apply in person at the Thai embassy in Washington and want to make sure I have all that’s required as far as documentation.
One option to qualify is enrolling in a Thai language course and but I can’t find any information about the length of course I need to enroll in. I found that TSL language school meets the requirements and can go this week and get enrolled in the program.
I have a ticket to return to the US for 15 October and I’m in a bit of a pickle trying to find a visa that will keep me here or give up my dream of living in Thailand and permanently return to the US.
Got my account locked by Bangkok bs kin Roi-et , Staff seem clueless. Any other bank which is easier to get account ( have 15 months left on non immigrant visa , letter from immigration , two Thai driving licences ( bike and car ). They say they not take a TM 30. Must have a yellow book !
I'll be arriving in Thailand on 17th Oct, Friday at 22:00 PM. I need to do TM.30, but Immigration will be closed on Saturday and Sunday. If I visit immigration on Monday to do the TM.30, will I be asked to pay fine of 1600 Baht since I didn't do it within 24 hours of my arrival?
I'm renting a condo, but I don't have any communication with the owner. My only communication is with the agent and the condo juristic persons. When I first rented the condo, the owner basically refused to take any responsibility for the TM.30 and asked me to contact the condo juristic for it to be taken care off.
Since then, my TM.30 has always been done by the condo juristic person, for a fee of 500 Baht (since I didn't wanted to visit the immigration myself to do it). But this time, the condo juristic person said that he can't do it on Saturday because the immigration will be closed. Can only be done on Monday and he's not sure if I'll need to pay any fines.
Any suggestions on what I should do? Will I be fined on Monday?
For non-O online, I didn't wind up having funds for 3 months (just sold my home in Sep) I am arriving Oct26. Is the recommendation to leave Thailand and apply again from outside once I have the three months of funds, in Dec? Will that be the easiest path, and could I accomplish this from Vietnam? I'll still have a US address I can use for the application.
Hi guys, I’m in a bit of a quandary on what to do regarding visa. I arrived in Thailand on a non o 90:dy visa from uk with intention of getting a retirement visa. Since arriving I have been chatting with various people who have retirement visa and some who are not retirement age. Those that have went down the retirement visa route a few years ago using an agent are quite happy continuing as they have paid the bulk of the expenses and now just pay agent a fee to extend yearly, however two people I know that used different agent both had their bank accounts blocked, one of them went to bank and got her 500k in baht given to her in cash as they closed her account. The other person only had working money few thousand baht in his account so wasn’t concerned. Their respective agents have offered to open new accounts with other banks, the lady was sceptical but if wants to stay on visa she has to open account and there will be a charge .
One Russian guy that was in our company told us he has just done border runs to keep him in the country he is younger guy and last night a lady I met said she comes over regularly and gets 60 day entry and extends 30 day goes out country a week or so then returns and does the same. Have the rules relaxed a bit since January, I came back with my friends for second visit after a break of a month and one of my friends nearly got sent home and this was only their second visit in total to country . I really only want to stay from September to April with trips to Vietnam and Philippines in between, so my question is what’s the best way to do it without tying myself into costly visa requirements ? I have received a quote for the retirement visa from an agency, that will cost 30 k baht in total covering open bank, doing application and multiple entry . Am I being mean thinking this is expensive for the sakes of 3 months?
I’m hearing so much negative feedback from people on visa saying the government is making it difficult for retirees. I don’t have enough income for the wealthy visa however someone suggested dtv visa that would give me 180 days a year .
I’ve been here 2 weeks my 90 days up on late December so I need to decide , I have Thai phone number with receipts, passport up to date and a 90 non o visa .
Any suggestions and apologies in advance to anyone annoyed by my post, there are 4 of us travelling that are in similar situation
all ready to get the year visa but none of us stay more than 6 months in Thailand