@Stephen ********

What about it would be a joke?

@Mark *******

Exactly!!

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

You would think, but it's clearly not written up that way on the Thai E-Visa Official Website. Check it out yourself

@Joel ********

How so?

@Stephen ********

It right off the Thai embassy E-Visa website

Required Documents to get an E-Visa.

Financial evidence showing monthly income of no less than 65,000 THB or having the current balance of 800,000 THB, e.g. bank statements, proof of earnings

@Tony ********

Yea, usually can count on his advice

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

you are, you're learning impaired.

@Lim **********

One of the E-Visa requirements of a Long Stay Retirement Visa on the embassy website, in order to get the visa, is you need to show 65k baht a month for a period of time OR the 800 K baht. If you read further or google them you will see they have to be in a Thai bank account if you are in one of the countries, like the USA that can get verification by our embassy, SO, because of that, I called several visa companies and Bank of Bangkok and they all said I had to be in Thailand to open an account. I CANT GET A RETIREMENT E-VISA WITHOUT CONDITION #4 SATISFIED. So the whole "get your retirement E-Visa and then go over and get the bank accounts is beyond lame.