@Max ************

why do you assume anyone else on the elite visas is old enough to be a retiree within the 20 years?

@Jacquie **********

by Our visa, do you actually mean O-A visa? Otherwise saying "our visa" similar to saying "your visa" doesn't show you have something different from a tourist visa.

@Martin *************

if you're going to try to prove your point with government info, maybe you should learn to read it more carefully first. I circled it for you. A tourist visa allows a 60 day length of stay. The 90 days is how long you have to use it to enter the country. Nothing more. Think of it like an admission ticket for Disneyland that expires in 90 days. It means you must present the ticket for entry within 90 days and has nothing to do with how long you can stay there.

@Jacquie **********

not on a tourist visa. A tourist visa gets you admitted for a 60 day period. It has never been 90 days. You have 90 days from the issue date to enter on the visa, but are always stamped in for 60 days from the entry date.

Your passport entry stamp shows you the last day you are allowed to be in Thailand. That's the only thing that matters.

@Martin *************

wow, you gave totally wrong information, as you must not understand that single entry tourist visas are valid to be used within 90 days of issuance to enter Thailand, and grant a 60 day stay once used. This can be extended at immigration offices within Thailand once to add 30 days, granting 90 days total. Not 4 months. And your 9th November date doesn't have anything to do with it. The OP has to get his extension before his 60 day allowed stay period ends, which is counted from his entry date, not the expiration date of the visa, which is just the date he must enter Thailand by, to use that visa.

This is an optional field on the real government website

@Toni ******

so you're going to extrapolate your experience at one branch with what people have been told at any of the hundreds of other branches? I am sure you know fully well that all rules are applied inconsistently in Thailand even at government offices or police, much less at a bank. Every branch will tell you something different.

@Toni ******

I think you aren't part of enough groups that discuss the DTV. In the last couple of days, someone with a DTV visa posted in a group specifically that the bank wanted to close their account unless they could show they owned a property which they fortunately did so the bank allowed them to keep their account.

This is not consistently the issue. There have already been plenty of posts from people who were told that the issue is neither the mobile number match requirement nor the facial recognition requirement but specifically that Bangkok Bank doesn't allow DTV visa holders or tourist visa and visa exempt holders to keep their bank account unless the person shows they own property in Thailand. This is already well explained and discussed in dozens of posts, as well as the fact that not all branches are following the same rules. The mobile number issue is a separate new requirement, and an issue that affects anyone at every bank, Thai or foreigner, regardless of what visa they have.