@Chris ******

But OA also doesn’t let you open a bank account which is extremely helpful when living here long time.

@Bruce ***

Don’t scare people without details!!

If you have an account under your name with a valid Thai address and a phone number under your name, your account will never be frozen.

@Peter **************

You need to show only the statement of 12 months monthly incoming 65+k. The other bank is worthless because you withdrew the 800k.

@Jo *********

Me too. Never have been asked.

But I also never had an accident, but still have insurances for car and house and health. ;)

Your single case doesn’t represent the sum of all billions of entries over the decades.

@Kazu *****

That’s what you do online. Every visa is done online with the Thai embassy of your current location. Embassies are outside of Thailand.

And nobody can tell you how long YOUR application will take. It depends on how fast they work and how many applications they currently have. Can be a few days or 2 weeks. Maybe even more.

And: I don’t know what a family visa is. Maybe you should lookup the possibilities on the immigration.gov.th site

@Syed ************

Then you’re in the wrong place. Google and you get at least 10 agencies.

Takes about 5 seconds and no waiting for answers.

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

Yes. Mine is … don’t know … I got it about 2015. Then you get a yearly extension at your immigration. Costs 1900 and needs a few papers plus some time to wait in line (max 30 minutes in Buriram, but I’ve heard about many hours in Bangkok).

Why did you ask if somebody can help instead of asking your questions (and stating you background), so that we could help.

@Kazu *****

Then you may be out of luck. You would need to do that online with the embassy of the country you’re in. But it takes some time. You might be too late.

Good luck

Good question. I always had much more than that when I was a tourist.

But I’m living here now for 10+ years and never gave that a thought.

Do we expats need that too or is the visa extension good for it??