@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.