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@Dave *********

different place seem to accept different things. UK was definitely 3 months.

I applied for a Non O in July. It took about 5 days to get it back but my application went in late on. Friday so it was only 3 working days.

@Max ************

its worked for me with my job and age but the existence of the DTV made me question the cost too much. Ultimately the perks weren't enough to justify it, i was pretty close to completing but when I told them it didn't offer enough for the cost, that's when they told me about changes, they just couldn't tell me what the changes would be.

@Max ************

its true. The DTV, although technically a tourist visa is just too good to not consider. I imagine now its only people who really wouldn't miss the 650k baht that would even have considered the elite. I looked at it because I wanted the perks that come with a full visa as I have a child in Thailand but even though I didn't get the DTV it still put me off the elite. I ended up going for the Non O.

While I was talking to the people at Thai Privilege around April time, they told me that the Bronze was looking at being removed around June for it to be reworked. I had read that was delayed until the end of the year.

@Ran ***

that's one of the main issues I can see with the whole banking system in Thailand. City to city and branch to branch seem to have no consistency, they don't have a base set of rules to follow and for so long they've just kinda made it up as they go. I think a lot of problems nowadays are because of that. Now they are trying to implement a base set of standards and they are realising so many of their accounts never met any.

@Ran ***

when I tried in July Bangkok Bank refused me an account saying they would only give me a bank account when i had extended my visa. I went to K Bank and had no issues. A lot of the problems seem to be coming with Bangkok bank.

@Richard ******************

I've also seen some of newly opened accounts also getting frozen. Unfortunately most people don't update their posts with what the final outcome was so we can't learn from, and help people, based on others experiences. A very common cause for accounts being frozen is the wrong name on the SIM, a friend of mine had this and it took him a branch visit, a visit to ais, another bank visit and then a 1 week waiting period to get his account bank.

@Richard ******************

I was asking because I know a lot of the people who are now having issues, not all of them, are people who opened bank accounts when they weren't entitled to one, they got them because the banks were poorly controlled or used loopholes to get them.