Not surprised they love making things difficult… wouldn’t let me have one because they changed the law 1 week before I went to the bank… so I now share my bank account with my Thai girlfriend and problem solved aha
I went into multiple banks about 2 months ago ago and all told me the same thing… I needed to have a visa that was 1+ years or they wouldn’t be able to do it
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