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@Josh ********
And on which level does your type of comment put you?

Can you write normally or do your limited language capabilities not allow you to write without using swearing and f-words?
Peter **********
Interesting indeed. Even more so because a “retirement visa” doesn’t exist.

You use some arbitrary wording for two completely different things, and then you can’t figure it out.

I’d say “Duh!”
Peter **********
@Max ************
The problem is in the wording and people insisting on using “retirement visa” when Thailand doesn’t have anything called “retirement visa”.

The correct wording is “non-immigrant O visa based on retirement “ and the other thing is a “one year extension of stay based on retirement”. The latter is not even a visa…
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@Kim *********
Who said it’s “just sitting in a bank”?

Who gave you the idea that you are in any way smarter than the average JD?
Peter **********
Pfff… I have 2 mln in a bank. It’s called self-insurance.
Peter **********
@Adam ********
It can be whatever as long as it’s 1) 400k baht or more, 2) in an account in your name, 3) immediately available.

(As per Immigration Office Sakon Nakhon. Ymmv)
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@Pete ******
That’s correct and when you convert to retirement one year after the marriage visa you still don’t need to prove international origin of the funds.
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@Patrick *******
SCB has those procedures and the “one week” waiting time easily becomes two weeks. Their procedures are tedious, but once you get through it an ok bank.

I opened my account exactly one year ago. Same experience, more documentation because my non-O did not state the reason for the non-O (I am married to a Thai lady).