@Rok *******

banked money method via international transfers for yearly extension still are accepted at all immigration offices

𝗜𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗹 𝘁𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲????

Nope there is no way to cancel an METV online. You'd have to get ahold of the issuing consulate, and they can cancel it in the system (usually takes 5 - 7 days once you get a hold of them)

Now if you mean can you do it via the inter-web by contacting the thai consulate that issued it and having them cancel it in the system <- YES that can be done but it's a LOT of hoop jumping.

@Graeme ******

i cannot figure out why any office wouldn't accept proof of funds for an extension based on marriage using 40k a month via international transfers. People married to thaiz often work abroad and there's no reason they couldn't use that income to meet the proof of funds.

It is one of those things that have no rhyme or reason that I can work out other than some offices just won't do it.. .Which in and of itself is strange

@Mike *****

everyone gets their paperwork sent to bangkok, that's why you get a 30 day under consideration stamp. that isn't the reason you can use the 40K baht a month by transfer to get your extensions based on marriage.

Good you can still do it, and as I said dunno why other offices stopped doing it.

@Graham *****

there is no official rule change, it's just some offices don't allow it at all 🙁 dunno why, nothing in the rules says you can't, 🙁

@Sean *********

which would ONLY apply if the person used banked money method for the extension they're on.

They did not they used monthly income method and the requirements to get a yearly extension via that method are to bring in a minimum of 65k each month, every month for the previous 12 months BEFORE they applied for their extension.

Once they did that and got the extension IF they were going to switch methods of proof of funds they are under no obligation to transfer in another baht or bank 800k until 2 months before they would apply for the following extension

@Chuck ********

if you're going from banked money method to monthly income you would indeed meet BOTH seasoning requirements, for the extension you're on now with banked money, AND for the next extension you'd get with monthly income

If you were using monthly income method to meet proof of funds (either by using an embassy letter OR by transferring in 65K every month for the previous 12 months before you got the extension) and you wanted to switch to banked money method, the seasoning requirement would ONLY be that you have the funds in the account 2 months before you apply for the new extension.

Once your current extension was granted using monthly income (last year) if you were wanting to switch to bank money method for proof of funds, you are under no obligation to do ANYTHING until you get the 800K in the bank 2 months before the next extension.

You wouldn't need to have kept transferring money in each month once you got the extension granted last year (the one you're on now) and you wouldn't have needed the 800K in the bank since the last extension either because you didn't use bank money method for the proof of funds for the extension last year

I'd go back there and say you want to talk to someone who really knows, not just is pulling an answer out of their backside 😮 because there is NOTHING in the rules about it

The only time you need to meet the seasoning requirements for BOTH your current extension and the one you will apply for the following year is when you're switching from banked money method to monthly income. With that swap you have to have the 800k in the bank for 3 months after your extension was granted and then never let the balance go below 400K as well as transfer in 65K baht a month, each month, every month for the next 12 months before you apply for the following extension

@Robert ********

that can't be right. They cannot require the 800k be in the bank for 12 months, there is a Lost in translation going on. There is no requirement switching from monthly income method to bank money method to to have the 800k in the bank for a full year before you apply for the next extension

@John *********

the terms of their current extension would only be to have brought in 65k each month every month for the previous 12 months before they applied for that extension. There is no obligation to continue bringing in monthly income after the extension is granted especially if you're going to switch to a different method of proof of funds