It’s been two members lately who have managed on tourist visa. One in Bangkok Bank Cherngthalay Phuket with a lease contract and one in Bangkok Bank Sukhumvit Soi 43 Bangkok. An agent will still easily manage to open for you around the tourist spots, but on your own it’s really not easy anymore.

@Stuart ********

It’s not easy to switch to the income method for your second year extension of stay either, unless your embassy offers to give you a affidavit letter to confirm your income or you earn the required 40K baht a month in Thailand. Therefore you might need to leave the 400K baht in your bank, or at least fill up again two months prior to your next extension of stay.

@Andrew ******

The first question is anyway if you’re embassy will issue a tourist visa without an onward flight ticket when you apply. Jfr my previous answer.

@Tony ********

It’s anyway clear based on feedbacks that not all immigrations accept the combination method regarding income/funds.

It’s a bit embassy dependent if you need an onward ticket for to apply for a tourist visa. Some embassy issues tourist visa just with an inbound ticket, some with an onward ticket within 90 days and some demand an onward ticket within 60 days.

This is anyway rarely checked at the immigration in Thailand, but formally an onward ticket is required for a tourist visa entry as well.

You can risk your airline will ask for it during check in, the highest risk is normally a one way ticket on visa exemption, but based on feedbacks it’s clear that people also have been denied check in on a tourist visa with a one way ticket. I personally would have called the airline and asked, -if your embassy accepts to give you a tourist visa with just an inbound ticket in the first place.

Nope, you’ll need to do a border run.

@Danewitz ******

Yes she’s fair priced. This is her fee, just need to buy a 🏧 card at 700 baht with the bank and deposit 500 baht into your own account. I managed ten years ago both in Bangkok and Krungthai Bank just on visa exemption by myself. Now they won’t even let me open a second savings account within the same bank unless I have a long stay visa.

@George ********

Great, you can verify that they will let you open an account on visa exemption or tourist visa. Is there any demand of a mandatory insurance?

@Danewitz ******

I know an agent in Pattaya. Her fee for opening a bank account in Bangkok Bank for you is 3500 baht. No mandatory insurance, unless you’re from China, Russia or India.