i suggest krungthai very easy to open account

Insurance for a retirement visa ?

Not needed agent or not

Definitely renew your retirement visa before you go back to the UK I made the same mistake it cost me 35k to start all over again and get single or multiple reentry visa trust me its worth it especially now with the problems with getting a bank account

if you get your paper work right there shouldt be a problem dowenload all the forms takeyour time and it will be easy

just give them a weeks noticeand you shouldnt haveany problems i usally give wise statement also to back it up

i have had a Bangkok Bank account for 9 years i just don't understand why Bangkok Bank are interfering with immigration business most people know the rules you have 800 thousand in your account for 3 months before or can prove you have 65 thousand a month freezing peoples accounts is totally wrong i opened a account with krung thai it was very easy i will close my bangkok bank as i think its liberty telling me when i can spend my money and rezzing accounts is totally wrong

@David ******

typed wrong it's per week

as you say every

immagration office has there own rules i live in pattayai recieve a war disablement pension from the mod the requirement is 65 thousand a month my pension is £598 per week plus i recieve a uk state pension £738 per month so my monthley income is £3126 per month that equates to 135 thousand baht a month so i thought i easy have the requirement of 65 thousand a month i go to my bank get a yearly statement backed up with a statement from wise showing my money going in every week for 52 weeks i also show my english bank account showing money being paid in every month from the dwp {state pension{ plus my war disablement pension from the vetarens agency {mod{ i even got the vetarens agency to supply me with proof of income letter showing my war pension so i thought i have everything in place to get my retirement visa i filled all the forms in from thai immagration so i thought im realy well organised i gave everything to the immagration officer he looked checked everything and said i this is to much information and to much work for me i asked why he said i have to go through all your statements for 12 months to much work you use agent i looked at him and said thats your job isnt it to check my income is over 65 thousand a month his reply was you use agent come back bye i asked to speak to someone else he said go use agent and gave everything back to me by this time i was felling angry and confussed i went and spoke to a agent andc asked her what she would charge me she wasnt intrested in my docoments she said i can do for you cost 14 thousand i had no choice as i only had 7 days l;eft on my retirement visa i was pissed of and thought this is not right but what can you do its thailand so getting a retirement visa through monthly income is far from easy i paid a agent but i begrude it as i know 100% i had everything required thats my story so its definatly not easy to do in pattaya

@Stephen *******

I've spoken to my Bangkok bank and they are stopping agents from depositing money and they will be closing some accounts down As long as you have regular payments going into your bank from trusted bank account your be fine I think its a lot to do with money laundering by mainly Russian and Chinese

Now 4 months changed the rules last week