How are either of these two statements of fact negative? "My bank account was closed," or "I entered my full passport name yet my DTV visa was rejected or canceled."

There is no two year magic number. My wife got hers a few months after our marriage while I've seen others say their wife was denied after 5-10+ years or marriage.

@Giovanni *********

understood. Just pointing out that one does not need to own a condo either. There are multiple ways to obtain one. Condo or spouse are two I'm aware of. Sounds like there are others as well.

@Larry **************

they can if they are married to a Thai without owning a condo. The yellow book will be linked to the same property as their spouses blue book. I'm not sure how many people bother getting one that way though and also do not see this as any industry standard.

Are you sure you have that correct? They’ve been rejecting transactions when the name on the recipient’s account in Wise does not exactly match the name the bank has on file for the recipient. That’s the issue everyone else responding has also mentioned.

I haven’t seen anyone say a transfer was rejected because the sending account name didn’t match the recipient’s name—that makes no sense, since it would mean you could only send money to yourself.

Anonymous participant 159 nice. I didn't realize I could pay my electric bill through Lazada. I'll have to try that next bill.

@Christopher **********

how long ago was this? Bangkok bank is actually the bank that is cracking down the hardest and freezing everyone's account in the last month. I heard due to opening too many scam accounts.

I believe I also saw a post showing a sign on some branches stating they will not open any more accounts for foreigners. Many people, including me, have or are switching banks as a result.

@Ken ********

not true are all. I regularly transfer greater than 50,000 baht into my BB account from wise and just a few days ago transferred 400k baht out.

BOT actually just issued an announcement the other day debunking the rumor that they were limiting transfers to 50,000 baht per day also.

Anonymous participant 790 I think the OP is worried due to recent posts about people having their accounts frozen due to their visa status. Someone recently posted that they switched to the DTV and Bangkok bank froze their account as a result of switching to a visa they do not allow to have an account.

@Brandon ***********

well that sucks and makes no sense, but this is thailand.