I was told by IO the first one needed to be in person. This was five years ago, it may of changed now.

If only you for personal use, then 300 Mbps will do.

@Sib ******

all the major international schools are Early Years/Nusery to Year 13, so they would be in the same school.

I'm assuming you're referring to the yearly extension. 1) No 2) 60 days in a Thai bank account before your application date 3) 30 days before your visa or extension to date expires. Some immigrations offices allow to apply 45 days before last day. I'm not sure about Phuket's policy.

@Todd ********

And I think >150K is something like only 5%. Anyway OP, I think you have your answer from us "experts" 🙂

Really good point

@Todd ********

. The income taxes here tend to be lower than most western countries. Plus, if keeping your funds in Baht will hedge against exchange rates.

I've looked around for the same, but I feel there is not much that I would consider safe. The big banks offer very low interest rates despite high rates globally. You could open a brokerage account and put money into index funds, but better doing that with somewhere like IB or a brokerage in your home country. I do see some corporate bonds here that look promising, but I personally don't know enough about the Thai bond market. That's it from this armchair expert 🙂

Why can't he stay on the family visa? He is the listed father on the BC and ampur yes?

I kept my 400K in an e-savings account which doesn't have a passbook, so I submitted stamped bank statements instead, along with a deposit slip to show the updated balance for that day. It was accepted by Chonburi immigration, but the Bangkok office wanted it to show on the bank statement, so I had to do it over again.

I would keep 400K until you get your approval stamp. That means 3 months. This year my application required additional documents from the bank during the approval process, which required me to show (again) that I had 400K in the bank.