I think you mean the Non-OA visa. The Non-O requires a deposit of THB 800,000 in a Thai bank account, I believe. I have the Non-OA and use the monthly transfer into my Thai bank account. It also requires insurance.

@Ernesto *******

- I use the $65k/month scheme and had a Non OA visa.

This happened to me with one single month of a transfer when it went through Kasikorn Bank instead of directly to my account at Bangkok Bank as a international transfer. I went to Kasikorn Bank and got a copy of the transmittal from WISE to them, clearly marked as International, but Immigration at Chang Wattana would not accept it, and denied my extension. As I did it on a Friday and on the last day of my current extension, they told me I would be in overstay if I waited until Monday to come back and argue the case. I gave up and flew to Phnom Penh for the weekend and came back with a 30-day visa exempt entry, and went back to the U.S. and started all over again with a new Non O-A application. Fortunately I had the funds to pay for it and re-qualify for the new application at the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington. Since then, I check every single transfer withing 24 hours to make sure it shows as an international transfer.

Very much depends on your relationship with your Congressional representative and what district you are a resident of. If you've given up your U.S. residence and don't have a street address (or pay taxes there), the representative's office will have no time for you. I make sure my voter registration is active and up to date and always state that in any correspondence I have with his office. That guarantees that I at least get a response and a thanks for contacting Congressman X. Most of them are very reluctant to get involved with matters involving immigration, especially these days.

@Charles *******

- right. I am on a retirement visa. I was asking for a friend who's been on an expensive Elite visa and is OK with the six month (180 day) stay limitation as she resides in Argentina half the year, and is thinking about the DTV which costs only THB 15,000, apparently.

Thanks.

Thanks. They do require you to submit your passport when renewing a passbook or to do other things at the bank, so they can check it at the time. Bangkok Bank has always made photocopies of my passport for such transactions, and may also photocopy the visa page (I'm not sure however).

Thank you. Good to know. I hope that won't be necessary as the affidavit will be presented to the local amphur where we live.

Bangkok Bank in Sa Kaeo requires one. The bank officer thumbed through a hefty manual of reference pages and found the list they have to use. It didn't help that I already had a Bangkok Bank account in Pattaya, and she also noticed that i don't have a TM30 for my last arrival April 1 (uh oh- fine to be paid)

Walk away from this as fast as you can.