You can legally have a bank account, although hard to get. That's not the problem. The problem will be the cost to your employer to transfer your wages into your Thai bank account, as it is not free to do. It can be very expensive.

You'll be fine, just spend time in Vietnam that a normal tourist would. The visa exempt 60 day entry isn't changing anytime soon.

@Todd ********

lolol, just in the small city I was in before I moved here there were 14 overstays from Thailand that I knew personally, and that wasn't counting their family members also here.

@Todd ********

you'd be surprised what they have access to, and what access the application itself gave them in investigating her background.

@Steve **************

there are enough that have stayed over the years that it is not uncommon.

@Ter *****

I hope she has regularly filed her Thai income taxes, as if she hasn't that is usually automatic rejection.

You can bring as much cash as you want. You simply have to declare everything at, or over US$20k, or the equivalent.

For you there is only one as listed by Wayne. You don't have a choice.

@Rick ******

it's all the same as your last extension, but you are starting over, and have the bulk amount in the bank instead of monthly payments, so it is the same, with the same documents. This time though you have to do it all again when you apply for the one year extension, which requires all new updated documents again as soon as the immigration office you use will let you apply for the extension, as your bank money is already seasoned.

Bangkok Bank, Kasikorn Bank, and SCB bank, are the only Thai banks that do not have the bt50,000 limit on non-swift international money transfers. All Thai banks accept any amount when the transfer is done with a SWIFT international bank to bank transfer.