Look at a tourist visa which will give you 60 days plus extention of 30 days

Yeah yeah yeah everyone is going to say just visa exempt but thats the correct way of doing multi entry and therefore you won't get pulled at immigration because you have the correct visa.

@Greg **********

is that 65K per person?

@Chris ******

😂 I've been doing this method for the past 6 years and just did our extension of stay last month. Or is it because we're British?

@Kim *********

incorrect. If you are married to each other then only 1 of you needs the 800K in a Thai bank. You need to get the marriage certificate verified by your embassy, translated into Thai and verified by the ministry of foreign affairs. Doing this means 1 of the married couple qualifies as a "dependent" to the other. So you don't have to keep 1.6 million in a Thai bank.

@Gareth *******

changing your address is easy enough. You just have to remember that wherever you open your account will be the "Master" bank and any changes must be done at that branch only.

@Anthony *******

yes you can change your address at another branch but I'm sure it involves closing your current account and depositing into your new account even though its the same bank. So then there's another problem for next year's visa extension, you have to show your money is in the bank for 2 months before and 3 months after (easy for the first extension) but when you can't produce a full year's statement (although you can show the 2 months prior) they will clearly see you didn't keep the required amount in for the 3 months after you last did your extension as your previous account has now gone and you'll find your previous branch probably won't help you (although it could be the same bank)

@Anthony *******

no, but you'll have to get your letter from Patteya. What I was trying to address is all bank correspondences IE statements will go to the address you've registered the account to so if its a hotel you might never see a statement.

Your only in a hotel for 2 weeks, wait until you've found your property as your bank account will be linked to the original address .

You have 30 day's from entering Thailand to open and deposit the required funds to extend your none O visa.

The funds need to be in your account for 2 months prior to your extention and if the address doesn't match your extention application you could face a problem.

@Steve ******

(yellow book) I own my property, why would you ever want to keep a property in the previous owners name ?

@Max ************

really???