A joint account will not help with your future visa application. It will mean that you would have to show twice the required amount as it is understood that only 50% of the monies contained are yours and the other 50% belong to your partner, regardless of who banked the money when proof of funds are required at visa time.

@Lien *****

50 is required for ltr wealthy pensioner (not citizen).

@Kool ******

and a replacement wedding certificate (not the pretty one) from the Amphur.

And make sure you have a couple of thousand over and above the 800k, just to cover any charges the bank may levy, wouldnt be good to drop to 0 in the five qualifying months.

As Greg says except you dont have to visit immigration to get a weblink. Just find the official gov web site, she registers account, registers property, uploads copy of blue book and ID, and then registers your stay. Save and print the tm30 pdf.

Go the DLT centre, turn around and drive back out, you are bound to find a clinic that has been set up by some entrepeneur doctor just for this service close by.

@Peter ********

this webinar and others in the same series appear to be quite unbiased

@Peter ********

yes, but i also bring in taxed income from the UK which to be honest i never declared as it was from previous year and already taxed and under my Thai allowance. The DTA on UK pensions doesnt look great if your living off state pension alone, as there is no/minimul uk tax paid. Private pensions usually are taxed at source (you need a certificate from uk.gov site to claim dta credit in Thailand), and Government employee pensions can only be taxed in UK is my understanding. But if your purely living day to day of UK state pension alone the tax situation hasnt changed in years, this change has just got people thinking about it.

@Peter ********

absolutly not, i've just taken time to understand what the change is by going to the source documents.

@Peter ********

because you tell them in your tax return (if you do one). But if they want to check the detail, or are doing an audit, they have access of all your worldwide bank transactions (from countries signed up to the international treaty). They also have access to all credit card transactions worlwide from countries under a seperate agreement.