@Jacques ****
Who is holding your hand in depositing money in a bank account? You just need a Thai bank account with any amount. You have to provide a lot of documents and physically go to the office at LEAST once and usually more than once. Plus you need to go to your bank and pay fees for statements. I rather just mail in the 3 things I mentioned and wait for it to come back with my extension. To me, not having to do any of that other stuff is worth paying someone to do it for me.