@John ********

Its happening the world over in some form or another! Not just bank accounts.

Its too much hard work deciphering who is/isnt/may or may not be good or bad. Its much easier to portray everyone as a baddie as far as the powers that be are concerned . . . which is where law abiding people lose their rights because of the scum the earth harbours

I have a Rottweiler currently on a cooking course and a Dalmation learning muay Thai 😃

@Michael *******

A TEFL is acceptable for online tutoring and I think Im right in saying that if the teaching platform and students are outside Thailand, you can work for a platform. I think you can apply for a DTV this way too as I asked about it and I was told I would need up to date payment proof from the teaching company. I havent tutored for over a year so my acount isnt up to date

That said you will more likely need a 'real' visa moving forward and if you have ties to Thailand in the form investment and a relationship

@Alan ****

If you have a smartphone, open your Thai account on the app in your phone. Play Store if its Android, go to statements and open on the most recent statement page. Screenshot it and it will end up in your photos on your mobile. Apply via your mobile and attach that photo of your statement to the application.

If you have the smartphone but havent used it for banking purposes before, ask someone more tech minded to download and ask them how you take a screenshot

Most people seem to think because they find something easy, everyone else should 🙄

Ive spent all afternoon trying to update my Wise account (still not completed) and trying to move something from 1 place to another on the laptop! Nightmare 😆

What a simp

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

Yeah my concern about the baht was if they wanted documentation like UK state pension would show on the transfer from the UK to the Thai account.

I asked because I know someone here who benefits from £200 a year from about 4 or 5 different banks becaue he "pays in" £1000 a month to each bank but uses the same £1000 just transferred from 1 account to the next!

Would be handy to be able to do that then you're just tying the same up instead of the 800,000 if that makes sense.....

@Nongnuch *******

If your comprehension skills were working you would realise there was absolutely no need for you to waste your time commenting. But so you're not left clueless twice on one discussion, I will elaborate . . .

My dead friend told me what I already explained in my 1st comment. Thats all I knew becaue I wasnt interested . . . . until now. So now that I am interested, I am actually taking advice from Brandon which you advised me to do, even though I was already doing that!!

Maybe lay off the sam song and as for the "bar stool" 'gag', try stepping into the 21st century

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

OK so 3900 for the 1st 15 months? Would I be right in guessing that the extras I was explaining would be agents fees? Like 2000 compared to the 30k is a huge jump, is that what agents charge for the retirement visa? ?

Thanks for the explanation on the 800k/400k best to just leave it there, but 1 last question . . .

Can you use the same per month on a loop? As in transfer it to Thai bank, then transfer it back n forth just using the same in effect, or does it need to be shown coming from a source such as a govt or private pension?

Thanks again

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

I haven't really looked deep into the retirement visa, but, I was under the impression that it was 1900 baht every 90 days and annually it was around 30,000 baht?

A friend of mine (now deceased) told me he paid those kind of figures although he did use an agent and I may be mixed up with the 90 day reporting and 1900 every 90 days

I understand that one applies from outside Thailand for the initial Non-O then convert once inside Thailand for 12 months (so 15 months covered although Im happy to be corrected on this)

The thing that put me off the retirement option was the cost and having to have £20k in an account, and is that required to stay in the account constantly?

Cheers

@Steve **************

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