Thanks for your most positive report!

@Muay ************

100%. Requirements absolutely need to be published, not kept as a secret weapon to disqualify applications and pocket the visa fee.

@Mark ******

‘Pretty clearly defined’. Agreed. Income details are not required. Looking now at Thai Embassy Manila DTV soft power financial requirements there is no mention of anything other than 500,000 THB. Thai Embassies shouldn’t reject applications for not complying with their own contrived and unpublished requirements.

@Wylie ******

2017. Just checked today and no problem (yet). Incidentally, more recently, a staffer at my Bangkok Bank Branch offered ‘help’ with my visa. Immigration office have also done so. Comforting to know that should I run short of savings, I have two more available options.

@Chris *********

100% that’s the way it should be (and is). What we suffer daily are sad troll tales and the opinions of bored OAP’s.

@Paul ******

‘Low cost airlines suck’. We fly almost always Air Asia or Vietjet every other month. Aircraft are spotlessly clean and aircrew couldn’t be more pleasant. What more do you expect for 700 baht? Obviously you haven’t driven (much) in Laos.

Higher educational establishments (universities and language colleges) must be relatively easy to monitor once a procedure is in place. From our point of view, someone running a bar in Pattaya having obtained a DTV for a Muay Thai boxing course in, say, Nong Khai shouldn’t worry?

@Billy *********

When first arriving in Thailand some of us don’t have a Thai bank account or fixed address. Agent set me up for 15 months giving me ample time to sort myself out.

@Lynnette ******

No worries. The resident experts on FB (sad trolls) warned me that because my Bangkok Bank savings account was opened by a visa agent I would be one of the first to be subject to special scrutiny with a view to closing it out and invalidating my retirement visa and subsequent extensions. I would then be deported, banned for life and also prosecuted.

@Kevin **************

Bangkok Bank are great. An employee offered to assist me with any visa issue. Obviously, networking with the immigration office.