@Richard ******************

They now ask you to actually get your visa renewed, like if you leave the country when your visa is over, they will block your account and you have to prove that you got a new one, which is not dictated by Thai law, or by their vague and abusive terms and conditions.

I am pretty sure they are doing this only because they know the foreigners whose accounts have been frozen won’t bother to make a legal complaint.

The fact that they are the only bank doing this shows what a bunch of tools they are. Kbank only asked me 4 months in advance to get a phone number registered in my name and visit the branch. I came back to Thailand on a visa exemption and went there with the AIS receipt. They took my passpoet and receipt, amd later told me I can keep using the mobile app.

Leaving thousands of people who commited no crime without access to their money is an abuse that only a cretinous person could justify. My hope is that expats realize this and teach them a lesson by moving their money to other banks

@Paul ******

8193 if you think about it, is a very small number of denied entries. On Chinese New Year, there were at least 2000 foreigners doing border runs at Poipet. I honestly think that the so called “cracking down” on “visa exempt border runs is just hearsay.

In June; I returned from Cambodia on my 10th visa exemption in the past few years, a few weeks after the government announced on the news that they will do “rigorous checks” at land borders for visa exemption abuses and out of a group of 200 people no one was held for more than half a minute at the immigration booth

Just pay an agency to do the border bounce in Laos, or Malaysia. You can still return without the help of an agency, but there is a small chance you will get denied entry.

@Neil *******

useless comment. What’s the “correct” visa for two trips?

I speculated that the bank was very poorly managed when they began freezing the accounts of many foreigners who opened accounts legally and did not violate T&C’s.

My opinion was reinforced when I noticed how Kbank has not given me any trouble.

This last round of abusive freezing of accounts is the cherry on top and it discredits the bank completely in the eyes of expats and I bet all their competition are laughing their asses off.

Nonetheless I noticed how some attempted to shill for the bank. They probably don’t understand how if feels to have your funds suddenly frozen for no reason, especially when you have to make monthly payments for rent, school, utilities with the money in that account

@Joe ****

you are just a shill for abusive and opaque bank policies. What Bangkok Bank did in the past months freezing and closing accounts for no reason is unnacceptable. Other banks, like the one I use are managing everything better.

No one knows, but I can tell you one thing for sure, It’s easier to try to enter by land and worse case scenario you get to walk back to Laos/Malaysia, instead of flying back home on your expense and having your passport taken from you until you enter the plane

@Sylvia *******

Vientiane, not Vietnam

@Maksym **********

i always wondered how to get thb, or usd in Laos. I find it impossible in Vientiane to find a bank, or exchange that trades foreign currency.

@Simon ******

totally unnecessary comment.