@David *********

I highly recommend using a visa agent. It saved me a lot of headaches. They had all the paperwork ready. It was amazing. I was able to go open my bank account in a short amount of time other people that were open in bank accounts without all the paperwork that was prepared for me by the Visa agent spent a long time getting the account open.

He needs it in a bank from his country to get the type of visa but once he gets here to get the retirement visa, he needs to have it in a Thai bank. For my marriage visa I have to have it in for two months. I just started that two monthsMonday that’s per my visa agent.

@Peter *******

you’re right they almost didn’t let me back in when I did it the third time

@Susan *******

I’m using a Visa agent. There’s no way I ever would’ve figured it out on my own. Last week I had to go to Laos  for a week. The visa agent had an office there they were able to get my Non O visa.  in four days so I only had to be  there for five days.

 I had to show three months of bank statements with my balance over $1000.

 now I’m back in Thailand and tomorrow I go to the visa agent to fill out a residency document. It’ll take a week to get my residency document back from the government after that I can open a Thai bank account.

@Doug ******

I just went through this last week.  to get the Non 0 visa  I had to leave Thailand and go to Laos.  I had to show three months of bank statements with my account balance over $1000. There was a couple days where it dropped below 1000, but they were still able to make it work.

 I also had to show that I had the ฿400,000 for my marriage visa in my US bank account

@Lynnette ******

yes since I was already in Thailand, I had to go to Laos  to get my typo visa. Actually I’m at the airport. Getting ready to fly back to Thailand right now. It took four days once I was in Laos  to get my non 0 visa.

On a sidenote, it was crazy how much food and things in Luang Prabang cost.  in the tourist area was five times higher cost than the  tourist area of Chiang Mai

@Stephen ********

check to make sure that if you don’t get the one year extension, they’ll let you keep your bank account. They may lock it.

@Nongnuch *******

wow thank you so much.  they make it so confusing. But yes, I know that  my agent pays the government. It was worth it at the Department to get married because we went past a lot of people that were in line.

@Matthew ********

I will challenge them on that. It would be nice if I didn’t have to leave Thailand

@Jon *******

after I get the typo visa in Laos, I can open a Thai bank account and transfer the money. Yes that surprise me that they wanna see the balance for the last three months and my other bank account.