@Malcolm ****

I've read email head office and ask for the reason, then accounts are unfrozen. Lawyer in Isan has put in complaints and accounts are sorted. They must supply a reason?

Follow this group for a couple of months and you'll learn so much. Everyone ideal vacation is different depending also on age group and energy.

Can you tell me what you want to achieve with this holiday ? Mountains hiking and zip lines, visiting elephant Sanctuary and hillsides?

Shopping, massage and drinking?

Snorkeling, island hopping, beaches and boats

River trip, museum, temples and culture

Then we can give ideas of provinces that may interest you, the country is big and like the US has different weather patterns and crops within the areas.

@Pete ******

not currently BUT under discussion with the government now as so many are not attending classes, so they going to amend the rules

Anonymous participant you tell your bank what country you are visiting for security and sure you can use ATM everywhere

@Paul ******

I now have an offshore account as cannot produce an utility bill in my name

Anonymous participant 839 yes then I asked me for proof of living there, like a utility bill

@Greg *******

they allowed me to open HSBC offshore account, they had my Thai address for 23 yrs, tried to close my account 5 yrs earlier but this time although I own land there still rejected my appeal

@Kaler ******

can you tell me which countries allow non residents to open bank accounts? My account of over 30years has been closed in the UK as they found out I no longer living there although my pension was being credited monthly

@Martin ********

some 2 weeks, some 6 weeks as the queue got longer. But living here we all know everything is slowly, my friend's court case concerning her late husband Will is running into 3rd year. In the meantime she's borrowing funds to survive.

I have Alianz as an expat