@Steven **************

If I’m understanding you correctly, this might be good news for me. I sent off my passport yesterday. (Well actually I made an online application for a new one which takes 10-14 days to arrive as it‘s biometric and I've already had one so am in their system.) That is just over two months before the passport expires so if I take the new passport down to CW, can I also transfer the remaining period left on my Extension of Stay plus the lost 6 weeks taken away because of the earlier expiry date of the passport? Any idea?

Immigration will transfer your visa from old to new passport free of charge or your Extension of Stay stamp? I ask because I have to do the latter soon.

@Michael *******

Yeah same here. Lots of changes in the country, some good, some bad. I wrote about some of them here:

@Michael *******

Fully agree about the property idea. I have 10 million THB tied up in property here. It’s fairly obvious they want access to huge sums as it more or less affords them extremely cheap access to (your) cash.

@John *******

Sorry I’m not an American so that I don’t know. You are required to have had the requisite amount, 800K I believe, for 3 consecutive months prior to your application.

“Takes a few weeks to get a new passport here.” If you’re Irish, it takes 10-15 days.

You get a “guarantee letter” from a Thai bank. They have them as a pro forma and just add your name and details.

Seems like they only want KBank customers to know about it which is why it’s only on the app. Strange.

Yeah all that stuff is standard fare but before a person went to the trouble of opening an account and downloading an app, they would need some basic info about the promotion on offer which can usually be found on a website affiliated with the bank. It appears not in this case.

Sure but most banks charge for incoming overseas payments. Thai banks do, too.