@Gerry *****

yepp! I use to call it "my valet of parking for living in a place where everything costs less than half than in my home country"

opening a bar as a foreigner is the best way to get rich in Thailand, but it requires you arrived and started with 100 million Thai Baht. You will still be a millionaire 2 years later, calling 2 million Baht your own

@John *********

3 months before subsequent extensions is NOT part of the official police order, which means that your Immigration has pulled something out of their noses on their own. But this is Thailand- it happens

@Mark *******

yeah but that will not vanish. Immigration is not going to stop accepting tea money. Many head-of-Immigration posts have to be bought and paid for only because they are making a two million figure yearly amount in bribes

@Max *********

nothing new. This rule has been existing since 2019. However if you used an agent to front the funds, your Immigration will ignoere this rule. If you used own funds, they want you to show them your bank book 3 months later

@Ralphy ****

for the renewal maybe, but NEVER for the first application without own funds, and def not for opening a bank account or applying for the initial 90-days visa as well

@Michael *******

or Buriram, after people have asked them to clarify . .

@Michael *******

many Immigrations do not issue "visa extensions" any more. They have switched to the correct wording . . here, Hua Hin

@Ralphy ****

the price in the meantime starts at 32,000 THB without own funds. 20,000 THB, this might be the agent's price for the yearly renewal

@Bob *********

yes, and I strongly suspect it is. . . . . Because in order to go from the second year out of a former Non-Imm-O/A Visa into the next "1-year Extension of Stay Permit", you need to transfer your 800,000 THB from your home bank acocunt to your newly opened Thai bank account for the first time in two years (because in the first two years out of a Non-O/A Visa, you were allowed to keep the money in your home bank). Now that's what the complaint is about. She needs to move the money from her country to a Thai bank account in order to be able to apply for the 12-months extension of temporary stay permit. Her wording is absolutely confusing and wrong: she does NOT "extend" or "renew" any visa. She is applying for the extension of her STAY PERMIT