the time comes when you have to get a new long term visa stamp and some require 12 monthly payments into your Thai bank account that show as international transfers on your bank statement and in your bank book. For me it is 12 x
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baht. Miss one or have it marked as inter bank transfer and you don't get your stamp.
A lot of people on here do not realise the significance of getting transfers marked as international. To get that use long term stay and Bangkok bank and it takes 24 hours.
it is true. I played around with it myself last week. If it comes through straight away and less than 5000 baht it does nit get flagged as international trsnsfer but just a bank to bank transfer instead.