@Martyn **********

read and learn! This was posted a few days ago!

you apply for the 90-days non-imm-o Thai family visa in your home country, enter Thailand, the visa will become invalid upon entry, you will get a 90-days stay permit stamped, and before the 90 days expire, apply for the "1-year Extension of the Stay Permit based on being married to a Tha wife"

I have met some really daft people during my life. But the experience here with this guy, it beats everything. Daftness and stubborness from someone who is obviously illiterate. He cannot see the difference between "your account" and "their account" . . . . .He can't even express himself in correct English. The laughing icons are a reminder that he ran out of valid arguments. . . . . . Well I shall leave it to others to decide who is in the right. I got my own visa-advice group and the many thanks I receive every other daymake me proud

you must definitely be wrong. A Thai bank only deducts tax from an account that earned interest. Other than that, a Thai bank will usually take 500 Baht for the yearly fee of their Debit card

@Mick *********

"You cannot send money without having an account" . . . . why are you still arguing? I don't need a WISE bank account to send money to my Thai bank account using WISE. I just have to be a "registered user". I transfer money from my home country bank account to the Belgian bank account that belongs to WISE (and NOT to "my wise account") and WISE will take care of the last step

@Peter ******

married to a Thai wife and over 60 years old, you get combined tax allowances that will reach almost 600,000 THB per calendar year. Just visit the Tax Revenue Department in your place of residence and show them the bankbook and the monthly transfers. If you are below the 600,000 THB mark, they will tell you not to worry but to go home, but you should insist on a tax declaration receipt just in case Immigration wants to see it (which is only a speculation and most probably not going to happen)

@Mick *********

I am using Wise since the times when it was called Transferwise and I needed to transfer money to their Irish bank account. I don't have an "account" with WISE. I am just a registered user. So I do not "Just deposit money in my wise account then send it to my thai account". Unfortunately your wording implies that one needs a Wise bank account. What I said was that you don't neccessarily need a bank account with WISE in order to send money through WISE. . . . . . . . Myself, for example, I transfer money from my home bank account to the Belgian bank account which belongs to WISE, and they transfer it on onto my Thai bank account . . that's a difference from what you commented. However you seem not to have the wits to see through the logic

@Mick *********

You sentence could be misinterpreted, that's why I insist to correct you. "Just deposit money in your wise account then send it to your thai account" . . . . . . one more time, the last time: You don't need an account with WISE in order to use WISE to transfer money to your Thai bank account. You just need to be a registered user

@Mick *********

you said "put money into your WISE account" - it clearly implies that you got a bank account with WISE. If you meant "using WISE", the correct wording must be "transfer money to the WISE account". The "your" is missing. I am not a wordsmith, I wish people who have absolutely no idea of what they are talking about should not hand out wrong advice in this group

@Mick *********

but you don't have a bank account with WISE, like people have who got a WISE debit card for the multi-currency WISE account . . . . . . . . You just have an registered "account" with them, not a "bank account" . . .you wrote "Just deposit money in your wise account" and that is WRONG !!! You don't have to deposit any money in your WISE account, You just have to transfer money into the WISE account as a registered user