Travel insurance is best bought in your homecountry, since it then also covers repatriation and / or relatives to come to you if serious illness / accident etc.

You could check with the website of the Thai Embassy in your country, the most reliable source for that kind of information.

For some purposes a boarding pass can be used.

Search is the way to find information about specific Embassy Requirements.

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Banks in Thailand are like everywhere in the world, interested in having good stable customers, that have a permanent address, a steady easy traceable income, and use the account all year round.

That is why the banks are reluctant to give accounts to people on short time ( read: tourist ) visas, and who only spend part of the year in Thailand.

Don’t expect to get a residence certificat, until you have stayed at a permanent adress in at least 3 month, since that is what the residence certificat should confirm.

Furthermore the added attention on whitewashing of money, is an added burden on the banks, so reluctant depositing large amounts isn’t a guaranteed way to open an account.

The value of a resident certificat, had gone down, since Immigration Officers are giving them to people that are not on a longterm visa, or have stayed severel months at 1 adress in Thailand, so even if it is a formal requirement, the bank make up their own assesment of the stability of the want-to-be customer.

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Be aware there is a error in the start of the article ( and several other copy - paste media with the same article )

A Thai Bankaccount has never been a requirement to get DTV, on the contrary it has been one of the big advantage over other visa, that you could get DTV as long as you could show 500.000 Baht equivalent in any bank anywhere in the world.

It has never been the intention that DTV visaholders should be in need of a Thai bankaccount.

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You can not use those statements for anything, they can shift both ways, and there is no fixed time going from one to the next. (ex. first step 2 days, second step 3 weeks)

Put the 500.000 Baht in 1 account, much easier for the Embassy to deal with.

Make the application simple, but cover all the requirements of that specific Embassy you apply at. ( Different Embassies, different requirements, so you can’t get exact answers without telling what Embassy )

The deposit is meant as a guarantee that you can pay for yourself if for example you need to go to hospital, and pay before you get treatment, or other big sudden expenses, so no good idea to dig in to deep of the deposit, you may suddenly need it.

Use search for specific requirements from specific Embassy.

Traveling as tourist ( visa exempt or visa ) you need to have a onward ticket within the days allowed by that visascheme ( 60 days ).

So if going for visa exempt 60 + 30 days you need 3 tickets.

1. Ticket to Thailand.

2. Ticket out of Thailand within 60 days from arrival, can be any ticket bus or flight.

3. Ticket out of Thailand ( going home ).

Before day 60 extend with 30 days at a Immigration office, cost 1900 Baht, (look at that Immigration office website for needed documents).

DTV has to be applied for outside of Thailand, preferably in you homecountry.

Use some time to read the earlier posts in the group, eventually focusing it by searching for the Thai Embassy you will use, then you can easily do the application yourself.