@Wannikea ********

compliance does not mean checking school attendance. Thats is left for immigration police who can later revoke your visa for not attending. The only thing the bank has to do is prevent financial crime.

When have banks in the US ever checked university attendance records for the foreign students who own bank accounts.

Stop finding excuses for BBL. They dropped the ball hard and now they are overreacting and making things even worse

banks are responsible for illegal activities such as financial crimes (followed by police prosecution and jail), not checking whether some foreigner is attending a muay thai class according to his visa, which is not a crime, but just an act that carries an administrative penalty (revocation of visa).

in the post they mention that in case the account gets frozen, you should bring your attendance records to the bank. The same bank that had no scruples in opening accounts for anyone who paid an agent.

The banks should mind their business. This is starting to get ridiculous, unless immigration cancels your visa (the one which you opened a bank account with) what business does the bank have to check attendance at a Muay Thai school?

There is no official information on this, some bank branches say it’s ok, others tell you to withdraw your money.

I had a long term visa years ago, but kept my account and transferred a lot of money to it over time as it was convenient (and the terms and conditions did not mention that I needed to update visa status with them)

I am in another country now, banking still works fine (got a new debit card and reinstalked the app with them recently), but i withdrew everything today just in case.

I find this freezing of accounts (without notice and option of

withdrawal abroad) arbitrary, even though the accounts were legally opened (not on a dtv, or tourist visa) and I hope someone with connections and money takes them to court for this bs.

Japan is currently doing something similar, but the banks are doing it based on a new government law depriving former residents of their bank accounts with a notice, thus allowing time to still get your affairs in order.

@Jack *******

I am German/American, most people in these countries don’t have 2.000 €/$ to lean on in case of an emergency. Unless you have income from rents, interest, stock sales, or are a moderately succesfull business owner or white collar employee you will never have anything close to even 5 million baht in savings.

Can I ask someone to deposit money in my True Money account, like my Thai brother?

@Roberto ********

still better than your reading comprehension, since there is no mistake, or ambigously expressed idea in the paragraph, and yet you were not able to understand what I said

@William **********

you look like a dork

@Colin *********

I had a long term visa years ago, recently changed debit card, phone number with the bank. As per their terms and conditions at Kbank my holding of an account is not tied to a long term visa. Unless they change TOS, or the government tells them to close non resident accounts (as they did in Japan this year) I have nothing to fear. What they do reserve is the right to close your account if it had been irregularly opened as it happened with many T and DTV visa holders