@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.

My visa agent opened my Bangkok Bank savings account as part of a Non-O Retirement Visa plus extension package. At that time, she told me only Bangkok Bank were doing this because the other banks were concerned about money laundering regulations.

Neighbours wife got her’s immediately for 2,000 baht each (albeit some time ago). DLT might have increased their prices by now.

@James *******

Probably true. However, if I was a genuine digital nomad with no ties to Thailand, having done that to me once, I wouldn’t give them a second opportunity. I would go elsewhere.

@Greg *******

Sister-in-law applied for an Australian visitors visa. She was refused but received four pages stating the reason and explaining the weighting applied to their reasons. They concluded by stating she could contact the writer with any questions about their decision, the process or the information that was taken into account. If a police state does this, why can’t a people friendly country such as Thailand?