Hi everyone, I’m helping my 79-year-old mother apply for a Thai retirement visa. She receives about $1,200/month in U.S. Social Security.

Is the combination method (monthly income + partial bank deposit totaling 800,000 THB per year) still accepted?

If so, how does immigration verify the monthly income now? Do the funds need to be transferred into a Thai bank each month?

Thank you for any guidance.

I understand social security from USA is not taxed? Moving over on a 1 year non o I would need to deposits 800k or show 65k monthly income? Would they tax the 800k$. I can show 65k monthly from Social Security easily. Would that have to be deposited in a Thai bank account?

Thanks

Does anyone know or have experience with the 65K thb per month into a Thai bank method and whether immigration must see a monthly single deposit of 65K thb or they would accept more than one transfer deposit totalling 65K thb in a month?

Plan A. I would like to use the 65K per month income meathod, Direct Deposit, for my Visa in October. I just transferred in October 2018 to February 2019 monies, in a non joint account, in a lump sum and from March on there will be 65K plus deposited each month. My question is will they accept as the first five months was lump sum coupled with the 65K plus for the next seven months? I also can show a print out of this money being paid monthly to me in the USA. Plan B is having 800K in a different non joint account to show if required but not thrilled about the 2 months before, 3 months after and then leaving 400k.