@Karsten *******

Es betrifft nicht nur Konten, die mit einem Touristenvisum eröffnet wurden, sondern es betrifft ALLE Bangkok Bank Konten . . . . . not only freeze" accounts that have been opened by tourists. The new Bangkok Bank "freeze 4 months" rule affects EVERY account of a foreigner, regardless what visa they were on when they opened it!

you can do the application to the 1-year extension fully legal if you put your own funds into your bank account and use the agent to help you with the rest of the application process. Agents offer their service for both options: using your own funds, or fronting the funds for you. For the "legal" service they usually charge 10-12,000 THB , and for the tea-money route they charge around 32,000 THB

@Karsten *******

you are wrong again

@Pete ******

okay, so just 4 months, not 6 months. My sources were incorrect

@Terry **********

you were stamped in for 60 days visa-exempt. Get the 30-days extension for 1900 THB, before you apply for the 60-days extension based on family visit. . . . . . . . . . . only if you wanna hold out as long as you can and stay in Thailand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . But this doesn't cut any ice for your route to the one-year stay permit. . . . . . . . you need to be aware: you cannot get a Thai bank account opened, neither on the visa-exempt nor on the 30- or 60-days extension. You need to EXIT Thailand and return on a 90-days Non-Imm-O Family Visa (married to a Thai wife) which you can aquire outside of Thailand by showing funds in your home country bank account. Only on this visa, you can get a bank account opened in Thailand, in order to deposit the required 400,000 THB needed for the 1-Year Extension of the Stay Permit based on being married to a Thai wife

@Karsten *******

and Robert Martino . . . Bangkok Bank has started to require applicants to the 1-year extension of stay based on either marriage or retirement, to "freeze" or better, "keep" the required funds (400,000 or 800,000 whichever applies) in the account for a minimum of 4 MONTHS. If you don't, they won't issue the "bank letter of guarantee" with which they confirm that you had the required funds in your bank account for a minimum of 2 months (at some Immigrations they ask for 3 months). Actually this is NOT an Immigration requirement, it is a new Bangkok Bank requirement

@Brook *******

for the first two years out of a 365-days Non-Imm-O/A visa, the mandatory health insurance needn't be one of the tgia-listed Thai private insurances. He can chose any type of international health insurance. The mandatory Thai tgia-listed insurance companies are only needed when you change from the O/A visa to the 1-year Extension of Stay. That's why many O/A visa holders return to their home country before the second year staypermit expires, to restart the application process, so they don't have to use the partially worthless Thai insurances

you should have choosen "send US Dollar" and choose "side costs" paid by the sender. ... why do you ask AFTER you transferred . . why didn't you ask here in the group BEFORE you transferred ? 🤨

@Eric ******

oh, it definitely contains the correct reply - all you need is PICK one of the described method that fits your county. Ask the next police station, show them the AI printout

@Ellen ************

he wrote he is gonna put half a million Baht into "my Thai bank account by next week". I am out of wits trying to find the mistake in his sentence which indicates for YOU, that he doesn't already have a Thai bank account 😄