@Thomas ********

800 000 thb service charge? Are you joking?

@Steve *******

do your really not understand my message «This group needs to understand the difference between rules and what might work». You can’t possably state that you don’t understand that «boarder officer mood» goes under the «might work» category. The rules are that you can not run back and forward crossing a border just for stamps. Periot. Taking a week in a different country, flying back in, will qualify for now. Walking over a bridge and back is obviously not a qualified travel. Staying one day neither.

@Paul ******

not what the thai boarder police told me. He would not let me back in, not that day, not the next, and not any close day after that. I might have had a chance if I drove back in at a different boarder station, but no guarantees, and they have every right to deny me Any attempt to avvoid the rules by crossing boarders just for stamps are valid reason for them to deny your entry. Even at the airport, allthough that’s the most unlikely place to be denied. It’s time this group is informed of the actual rules, not just what might work.

I don’t understand why there are some many different versions of this reality. According to the boarder police when I was trying to do this on the Cambodian border, they would not let me back in. The advice was to go home to my country, or at least go somewhere that I would arrive back at an international airport. So I went to Malaysia. Get a cheap roundtrip ticket, and spend at least one night abroad. That’s my advice if you’re getting tired of running around like this.

@Steve *******

It’s clearified with logic and the leck of formal restrictions against it. Some of us want to stick to the rules and not have some kind of risk about braking laws, so instead of telling everyone that they are braking the law, just add any knowledge you might have confirming that it is against thai law to manage a business in a different country when staying in Thailand. Pls note that there is no such question being asked upon arrival or while getting an extension.There is no such law saying you can not own a foreign business if you stay more then 30 days and so on, and no one brakes any kind of immigration rules by owning or managing a business in a different country while staying here, no mather what legal admittance they have for staying here. It would really be a lot more helpful to just accept that untill you can present any evidence of the opposite.

Btw to have forreign visitors using money being made in a different country is pure vitamins for the economy, the money gets changed into thb, and is flushing into the market, adding directly to bnp without a single expense. The individuals doing this poses no treath to thai businesses or workers, on the contrary, they buy from them every day. No country would ever deny that to happen. This whole discussion only excist bcs someone feel it’s logic to need a workpermit bcs they work. It is just a result of a leck of knowledge and understanding.

@Steve *******

maybe bcs it represents a legal option to longterm visa for those under 50? That doesn’t mean that you need a nomad visa to manage your forreign business when you are here. It just opens a possability to get a longterm visa, should you want it. Even if you don’t have a pention and you aren’t above 50. And for the cost, obviously Thailand will always look for a way to get paid by their foreign visitors. So any visa will cost something. The way remote work is described in the info I have found is that it must not compete with anything happening in Thailand. An example may be that you can own and manage airbnb apartments in a different country when you are here, but you can not operate airbnbs here in Thailand without a work permit.

The cheapest and fastest is Wise, but you might have problems with really large amounts. You should also be aware that if the money you transfer is to purchase a condo, you will need a letter from the bank to prove that the money came from your own account. In this case you should only use Bangkok bank, and you should transfer the excact same amount as the contract says, it have to be from your own account, and in the comment when you transfer you should write «payment for» -and then the full adress. They will not let you registrate the deed in your name if not.

I use K-bank every day, and I use Wise to transfer normal amounts, but I also have an account in Bangkok bank just for this purpose. Bangkok bank don’t take any considerable amount, but your bank that you transfer from is likely to take around 4% higher exchange rate on top of the fee, probably around 20-30 euro. So the higher exchange rate is your real cost. Wise only takes around 1,5% and a smaller fee, too.