@Tod ********

you’re correct thanks for clarifying

@Vin ********

it’s a guardian visa. My 3 kids attend an international school in Bangkok and my visa was tied to my youngest and my husband’s is tied to our older 2 kids. It also requires us each to have ฿500,000 in a bank account for 90 days before applying. Thankfully we just leave it there, so that isn’t an issue.

@Ellie ******

I had the visa through the school, so I’m familiar with the process. I had done the 90 day extension and my next 90 day report. I know what documents to get and will go back to KL as I know the process as we did it last July.

I will check with Malaysia and ask if he needs to be there as we all went last July.

That’s good to know that my stuff will be matched to my child’s paperwork.

Let me make sure I’m understanding this correctly. If my child’s visa expires in October and I was to get mine next month even thought mine wouldn’t expire till next year it will line up with his?

Thank-you for your help.

@Hein ******

we have a business visa. On paper you work for a Thai company. Essentially they act as a payroll company. My husband owns a business in the US.

We pay ฿85,000/month to them. The amount is based on what country you are from. They deposit ฿70,000 in to our Thai bank account. The ฿15,000/month covers all our visa stuff and their fees and That taxes.

We don’t add any chance extra money to our Thai bank account due to taxes. We use our credit cards or make Wise transfers for bigger amounts.

@Paul ******

we are wanting to see what happens with it in the long term over the next year.

We have a business visa and live in Bangkok and have a smaller visa office that we go to that doesn’t require us to go to the large one. It’s a wonderful visa, but not cheap. Our kids are in an international school here as we do live here full time and we aren’t willing to jeopardize that.

We are strongly leaning to keeping it the more I read about issues people here are having.

All the issues people having saying they have tried to go to the same bank branch as someone else with all the paperwork and been denied, all I say after living here a few years is, “Welcome to Thailand!” 😂

The process of getting a driver’s license should have standard papers you need, but nope, whenever we renew it’s different 😆

90 consecutive days requires a report. There is a grace period of 7 days as in you have 7 xtra days to get the report filed.

Like the people above said you may never get caught, but if for some reason you ever do get pulled over and they run your name or have to go to immigration it’s best to do it.

@Luit ****************

this!!!

We have friends who didn’t make their 90 day report and didn’t leave before the next 90 day report and that’s where you can run into larger fines and potentially having your visa revoked.

@Steve ******

very true.

We have friends with regular visas and missed their 90 day report and thought they’d just hit it the next time around. They didn’t leave the country during the time to the next 90 day one and about lost their visa and got much larger fine.

Anonymous participant 971 very true.

We have a work permit with a visa now and are here on this page as we’re seriously considering switching to the DTV as it would be more cost effective in the long run.

Even with a valid work permit you get a savings account as a foreigner.

Like you I can QR, have a debit card and can pay with and withdraw cash and have payments drawn from it.

It’s totally functional to live here with just that. We’ve been here over 2 years and have 3 accounts with different banks as just savings and no issues.