I thought I’d share this banking experience, just in case it could help someone. Background: I have a newer US Passport, the one with the weird patterned photos that make you look like a criminal. Anyway, I’m at the K-Bank at Central, on Beach Road in Pattaya. I have all my docs in order and we’re flying along in the process when it comes time to A) take my picture, and B)take a picture of my passport photo. The K-Bank system rejected multiple attempts by their rep, each time saying the photos do not look like the same person. By the way, at K-Bank they use their iPads to take the photos - I wonder if they should upgrade that process. The rep tried and tried with no success, finally telling to go home and make my beard shorter. That night, I followed this advice and the next day went to the K-Bank located in the Big C Super Center on Central Road. Same sh!t. Just when the rep and I were wondering what to do next, another rep who had been following along at a distance ran over, saw that I have a new US passport and started shouting, “no, no, no! US Passport! US Passport!”. He grabbed it and with a big smile told me he was going to make this work. He went to a remote corner of the small branch and took photos of the passport at a weird angle. He came back laughing and gave everything to my rep saying, “go ahead, it will work now”. And just like that, when the rep took my like 20th photo….voila! it matched with the passport photo, and we sailed through the rest of the process. So if anyone has this problem at a bank, I recommend you ask the rep to call their home office and check on the best practices for taking a photo of the new USPassport.

Hi all, going for my 1 year retirement visa ,just wondering how long it takes to get my bank letter of 2 months of funds in K- bank .

Two months falls on Jan.25 my visa stamp is until Jan. 28 , the dates are tight!

Any advice or feedback will be appreciated.

This isn't a visa question but what are the different ways to fund a K-bank account? I know cash deposits work, but what other options are available?

which bank do you recommend to open an account so i can arrange my retirement visa? Apparently the banks don't want to open an account for foreigners at the moment?

Hi all. I recently made an international transfer to my K-bank account. It was shown as a "bahtnet deposit" with THB100 deducted from the transferred amount.

This seems odd as I made a similar transfer just last month and it was received as a "transfer deposit" with the remarks on the transfer channel being "internet/mobile across bank". No fees were deducted.

According to aseannow web forum, it seems that K-bank have only recently started charging and switched to bahtnet. Anyone have similar experience?

Deposit account

Hi guys, does anyone know of a bank offering deposit accounts where the money flows back to your regular account after they complete? Back in 2018 I was told by K-bank that this wasn't possible and that my physical presence in their branch was required to first receive and then redeposit the money to the right account to make that work. Quite unbelievable but that's what they said.

Re-registration and photo to send more than 50,000 baht for an internal transfer.

Just so people are aware, K-bank has no requirement for foreign account holders to do this. You can still send whatever you apply in the app.

Only Thais need to register now.

I've just had a long drawn out conversation at their head office in Bangkok about it.

This only applies to K-bank account holders.

I've no idea what other Thai banks require.

Hi Tod Daniels, my non-O renewal based on being over 50 is due for renewal in October but I want to renew in late September.

I have a couple of questions if I can. British passport, living in Bangkok, self file online for TM30, used embassy affidavit of income during recent years which now is unavailable to me so my application will be based upon banked 800ktb which is already seasoned.

* Can I still apply to renew my extension up to 45 days in advance of expiry of old extension at Cheang Wattana?

* For a successful application do they still issue extension renewal on the same day of application?

* I understand that I need a letter from my bank, K-Bank, confirming that the account is mine and a verified statement from the bank, can I get these in advance of the day of going to CW or do they need to be issued on the day?

I also understand that I need to show a transaction in my bank book on the day of application, small withdrawal or deposit.

I intend to get to CW at about 6.30am, queue, get ticket, enter immigration, get ticket and queue again and wait to be called.

* Should I wait to be called and then have the I/O tell me to get the on day transaction done or what?

I don't understand the best plan to obtain the bank documentation, any advice would be great.

TM7 and 3 secret forms I understand.