why would anyone want to get a retirement visa, and not have a banking account locally?? doesn't even make sense, but yes, everything through an agent is going to cost you $$...

@Ken **********

at least for Social Security, that's a no brainer for a govt department to verify, private company pensions quite another. they should at least verify Social Security. For US all that needed is sign a consent form, granting them to check, nothing more.

Shouldn't be an issue. Thai immigration has copies of any visas issued, and when you renew your passport, you do get your original back, only with a few hole punches in it. just take that along with you. We currently have 10 year Chinese multi-entry visas, one of the 1st in US to get them. Right after we got them, we were stopped by US customs, on the way out, on the boarding ramp; they said no issue, just they'd never seen them before and passed the passports around their group.

Also depends on what country you are from. From what I've read online there are certain countries US, England, AUS, maybe others that the embassy refuses to give the required documents for its citizens to be able to use the income method. Why they refuse, no idea, although I've asked... gotta be some justification, other than they just stopped doing it!

What category did you use to apply for DTV and which embassy in US did you use?

You can also just open your 2nd account at a different bank

Might be a bit easier

what insurance company is this quote from?

@Nongnuch *******

you can say what you wish. I heard a very high level government official say that. You could look it up or think anything you want.

one utuber actually had an assistant? PM for external affairs or something similar. He said he had participated in many of the ongoing meetings around new immigration policies. He also said it is "unlimited" but of course completely at the discretion of the immigration agent at the boarder, when you come through; that is for boarder runs. he said there's nothing specific written in the law, so it's up to each agent... but of course that's always subject to change with no notice.

@Peter *******

people who get the ltv for very rich people have to submit a lot more similar documents showing their millions. Not like that info is going to be on social media. Also many countries have a dual tax agreement with thailand and within that is agreement between your country and thailand they agree to share financial and other information if required. You can google us thailand dual tax agreement and it's right there... other countries going to be the same. That's just worried about nothing.