Happy Thanksgiving for those who celebrate it! I just returned from my little recon mission to CHIANG RAI where I now plan to live once I get a one year O-A visa. One of my tasks there was to visit the immigration office just to see it and talk to one of the officials to confirm that my understandings of the O-A were correct.

I understand that proof of 800,000 baht in the bank for this visa can initially be that of a US bank account with the dollar equivalent, and I would appreciate anybody's help on two issues with that:

1. I understand the account must be in my name, but the account I will be using is under my living trust which has my full name as part of it. Can this present a problem during the application process?

2. How far back in months of bank statements will they want to see and what form of notarization/validation of same do they want from the bank?

Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide.