Much easier just to wait until visa is approved, and then get the best possible ticket, which in my world is a cheap ticket.

Use the search, answered countless times allready.

Search the group, answered countless times allready.

Leaving country of application, may lead to rejection, and loosing the 10.000 Baht visafee, so you can’t go to Thailand until approved.

Changeable tickets are more expensive, so much better to wait until visa is approved.

Forgot to take Thai holidays into account.

Why buy ticket before the visa is approved, you never know how long it will take.

Search the group with name of embassy.

Do it yourself.

Search the group for the specific Embassy you will apply at, but best to do it in your homecountry, better chances to get documentation approved, since they know how documents from homecountry look.

Don’t buy ticket to Thailand, until you got the visa. No way to know how long visa processing takes.

No need for return.

You are doing things the wrong way around.

First look at the Thai Embassy website, to see which visa are available, where you can live up to the requirements.

Second, then you know how long time you can stay in Thailand, and can decide based on that.

Its not always possible to get what you want.

Expect being hard to get a bankaccount straight after arriving in Thailand, even for retirement.

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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