Martyn Rollinson I think they're doing it to weed out the "agent" accounts. For retirement extension it makes no difference as the balance cannot drop below 400k during the year anyway

Steve James How will they lose money?

My Lady (not married) but almost ten years defacto, was just granted tourism visa valid for ten years. She had the English language interview and she said afterwards most of the questions were about me! Interview lasted about ten minutes. She's fluent in English, has a good job (20 year tenure) and like many Thai women owns land and houses out east. She said the focus of the interview was on her relationship with me (Australian)