You don't mention your location so it's difficult for folk to make suggestions of local retailers my friend 🤔

Surely the answer is to provide immigration with bank statements covering the 2 month seasoning period.. right up to the day prior to making your non-o application.. and tell them the bank is no longer issuing balance certificates.. you have proved your balance was consistently maintained at the requisite level and therefore have met the financial criteria.. if they reject your application and everyone's application because of this.. they will either have to change the rules to remove the need for a balance certificate.. or they will have to have words with Bangkok bank to resolve the issue.. at the end of the day you can't give them something that is impossible to provide.. and if you follow immigration's guidelines to the letter and the bank won't give you said letter then it's outside of your control.. the bank cannot change immigration law but it can refuse to supply said letter if you don't agree to their 'rules'.. so something has to give here.. switching to the income method alleviates the problem of course.. but you can't use this for an initial non-o.. and most people applying in country for their first non-o use the preliminary 90-days to get their funds in place.. meaning they are not even starting the process a full 4-months before applying.. but ultimately, if this is just a BB 'thing' to boost their deposits.. they are going to find a lot of customers switch banks fairly rapidly.. so they'll shoot themselves in the foot!

Rae Wang Do you live in CM or did you live in CM in 2023? I'm guessing not.. but we did.. we lived it.. every minute of it.. therefore my 'actual' experience trumps any statistic you can throw at me.. you know there are 3 types of lies right.. there's lies, there's damn lies, and there's statistics! You believe whatever mush you can trudge up from a google search.. I'll believe what i see with my own eyes and what my bodily reactions confirm relative to my environment.. but thanks for confirming that govts and corporations can be wrong.. or worse, that they will purposely lie to further an agenda.. as people who are jabbed and boosted are now starting to find out!

Ps. And if anyone wants to debate that i suggest you go and take care look at a telegram channel called 'covidbc'!!

@Rae *****

You'll be telling me next that 'climate change' is actually a thing.. and not a trumped up notion to extort money from a stupid populous.. who can't see they are being ruled by a ds mafioso.. one that uses fear porn to create wealth and maintain their power base!

@Rae *****

Were you living in CM in March 2023.. or were you living elsewhere.. because we were resident in CM for not only the month of March but for the whole year.. and freely travelled around the city and the wider province on occasion.. and i can tell you that these statistics are a complete nonsense.. they are not representative of the climate in CM as a whole during said period.. but it is conceivable that a very small area was severely affected and the backdraft of localised fires momentarily affected air quality further away.. but that would have been the extent of it.. furthermore, it's not just improbable, but verging on the completely impossible, for readings to have been taken across the whole province at the intervals necessary to make this data reliable.. and having lived right in the middle of the suggested smog zone throughout.. i can tell you it's complete and utter bs!

You statement says 'in some districts' so please confirm which districts and how many districts in total.. and what percentage of all districts actually hit the 'high' of 500 that you present as a blanket statistic.. because again, without this information your statistic is meaningless!

@Rae *****

Okay, so how briefly.. was it 1-month, 1-week, 1-day, 1-hour, or 1-minute.. please be specific.. because without this information such a statistic is meaningless!

@Rae *****

Your comment about a road junction in Lahore was without reference.. hence my retort!

You clearly don't live and have never lived in CM.. your information does not reflect the reality of living in CM one iota.. in fact your 'insight' couldn't be further from the truth.. I'm interested to learn who did the measuring you refer to, when was it taken, and what was their professional accreditation.. you say it was worse than Lahore without saying worse for what exactly.. maybe its for the number of fresh markets per square mile I'm not sure.. I'm guessing it was a 10 minute spot check on a Wednesday in February with a reading taken from the edge of a farmers field that he'd just started burning.. because there's no other way this data can be factual.. do you think millions of people would live in CM province if it was really as bad as the picture you paint!

You also need to be aware of any employment laws that may be relevant to your transition to a 'Thai' worker.. because you could find your employer terminates you employment as a 'foreigner' and then re-employs you as a 'Thai' and you lose continuity of service.. this could be very important in relation to employee rights and any benefits (company or state) that you may presently qualify for.. but could lose if you are suddenly considered a 'day-1' employee again.. you may want to investigate this aspect further.. and if your employer assures you that there will be no break in your service record you should get that in writing just to be safe!