Unfortunately, the direction taken is more tightening than relaxing .

@John ********

stop being ignorant

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Martial law is coming soon in Thailand !!

@David *******

Wrong. I know personally several Americans and Europeans whom bank accounts has been closed just because they were on DTV. Make a search : you will see plenty of cases about non Russian and non Chinese.

@James ******

1) Try yourself: do as I did, ask their customer support. They are pretty responsive.

2) If you could deposit with foreign card, I guarantee that Truemoney would be way much more popular than it is right now.

I have True Money. Unfortunately you can only top up and deposit money in TrueMoney using cash at or True shops. Cannot use foreign cards.

@Colin ******

Don’t wait too long : tomorrow will be 100,000 THB …

@Dennis ***********

True. BUT Elite visa gets you stamped for 1 year everytime you enter Thailand AND allow you to extend for 1 year every year if you want . Unlike DTV which stamp is for 6 months only and allow you to extend only once in 5 years. With Elite visa you can stay inside Thailand for straight 5, 10, 15 years (given the duration of the visa) if you want. It’s impossible with DTV: at some point they want you to leave the Kingdom.

Banks freezing accounts

Exactly.

Yes. Other banks are going to follow . It’s a political move decided at the highest level. Bangkok bank won’t be the only one affected.