I think you're supposed to have evidence of minimum finances but, in a quarter of a decade of regularly visiting here from London, never once have I been asked to declare that.
Yes. Seems it was "suspended" in June 2022 for air arrivals but is still active in a few, select, land border crossings (for reasons unstated). Who knows what happens, next week? TiT.
Thailand is currently a WEF/BIS/UN testbed. Once the white-elephant of all white-elephants (Thailand’s digital currency 10,000bt giveaway) repercussions start coming home to roost and Thailand finds it didn't increase GDP or GNP from throwing lubricant on an already amply lubricated economic engine, but only naively (or knowingly) created a massive financial deficit which will require squeezing every drop of direct and indirect tax from both domestic and foreign investors, entrepreneurs and innovators, the KEE will really hit the electric LOM. Too late to take steps to recover. Then the money men (be they Chinese, Caucasian or Middle Eastern WEF puppets) will step in and dictate/dominate Thailand's governing even more than they've done thus far through bribery, blackmail and corruption. Swings and roundabouts. Thailand's doing what Ireland did for the EU filthy lucre and will crash and burn as surely as Ireland is doing. Mark my words.
Founding member and lead singer Eric Burdon who went onto form the band WAR consisting of North and South Americans which went onto release the truly brilliant Why Can't We Be Friends album and Low Rider single (amongst many others).
Thanks again for all the information. Currently I and my Thai lady live in the UK and have been together for over twenty years. We visit quite frequently and I opened a Thai bank account just under ten years ago but, due to work and other commitments I haven't had chance to visit Thailand for the past few years. We are now here for three months or so (I'm since retired, technically although still keep a toe in the workplace waters). A couple of months ago I transferred a million baht into her Thai account as I had lost track of my online protocols in respect of my own Thai account. We went to the bank last week (same bank) to transfer that million into my account. The cashier informed me my account had "lapsed" through lack of use (relatively low funds had disappeared into the aether) and that I could no longer access it. Also told us I cannot open a new account without a long-term visa and residence certificate. So now I have a million stuck in my lady's account although we could just take the cash out, I suppose. I could transfer another million from the UK into a new account (if I had a new account). Infuriating to know that an agent could do it for me, if I were next to penniless, yet I cannot seem to do it although I'm not. Bureaucracy drives me insane, as "let's take something simple and make it difficult" seems to be the maxim of bureaucrats and snivel-servants.
Thank you very much for taking the time to provide such a detailed response. Forgive me, if I appear obtuse, but are the above costs inclusive of average agency fees or are they predicated on a do-it-yourself basis? Also, have I read it correctly in that each following year currently stands at around an ongoing 15k payment per annum? Thanks again.
I just paraphrased the news article I read. If the journalist got it wrong, how am I to know? But I'm guessing there's more fact to his/her report than some Delboy wannabee (
