@Yo***

no, I think it sounds like the agent did not give 800k at all and just paid some banker under the table to provide a letter.

I hope you put 800k in your account immediately and left it sit there to have a valid record for next years extension

@J *************

i don’t see that requirement anywhere, why?

@Yo***

strange because you also usually need to have your bank book available for the agent to review.

I can only imagine the agent paid straight off for the letter.

@Yo***

your account.

The agent will go to the bank solo with your passbook deposit the funds, get the letter. Then come out and instruct you to send the 800k back to his account using your phone app.

Note this is accomplished by the agent passing cash under the table to the bank employee.

And now you are forced to use the agent to validate your account again for the next extension assuming you deposited the required 800k immediately following the agent actions and leave it there the required time the balance of the first year.

@Kennon ****

yes, having a good Thai translator is very helpful.

You can use an agent to do the paperwork and use your 800K transfer to avoid getting stuck with that agent in the future.

My 1st year I had the 800k ready to transfer but the sneaky agent did the deposit using their funds and withdraw immediately following getting the letter from the bank.

I did the transfer of 800k immediately into the account and left it there all year. I then used their funds agent the 2nd year but no funny funds transfers to validate my bank history for the year.

@Jay ******

I did it but I left the entire 800k all year and also made the monthly deposits. This IMO is the safest way to approach switching in case the 65k method does not fly. Some people have reported that certain Immigration office have flat out refused to accept the 65k monthly method.

BTW I did the extension renewal at Bangkok Wattana immigration and they did not like it and tried to convince me not to switch.

@John ********

does not make sense to me to do that either

@Wannikea ********

I did go to kbank with the detailed receipt from Wise and requested the ‘credit advice letter’ the following is what I got.

BTW I have already requested and received the ‘credit advice letters’ from Bangkok Bank for months May thru August. And doing all transfers to Kasikorn bank for the balance of the 12 months

thanks again for you input

@Wannikea ********

that is exactly what I plan to do - thanks