@Upadhyay ********

DTV or not is not relevant for tax residency.

@Upadhyay ********

I save money paying taxes in Thailand.

@Brandon ***********

As a woman married to a Thai man. I can confirm this.

Never showed any financial documents.

Kev Raymond no financial requirements for foreign women married to Thai men.

I have never once needed to show financial proof.

Why do you use a agency at all?

Its just a added cost on something you should be easily able to do yourself.

Alexey Shipulin This is Samut Prakan and not the Chaengwattana office.

Different office, different rules.

No. DTV does not make you eligible for a bank account at all, and they certainly don't demand you get one.

@Eric ******

the first one is supposed to be in office though.

Sean M Ulvihill not correct.

Depends if the Immigration Office you use counts transfers done when not on a visa or extension of stay.

I don't know why it is a thing, but it is.

Some ( most? all? ) Immigration offices do not count transfers that are done when you do not hold a valid visa or extension of stay already.

You will have to ask your local office if they count those transfers or not.

Easiest is probably banking the 800k and do that for the first year and start your transfers and change to the transfer-method on your second yearly extension.