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3 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Yes.

Referred to as "credit advice" 

Not sure why some transfers were not shown as FTT.

Perhaps was done as internal transfer from another bank. 

In any event go to BB and they will advise course of action. 

 

Very long thread here and about 5th post explains what Bangkok Bank did for customer to satisfy immigration. (WISE transfer)

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1234763-wise-transfers-not-being-processed-as-international-specifically-bangkok-bank/

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1221420-bank-transfers-bangkok-bank/

Thanks Dr Jack, much appreciated.

36 minutes ago, OJAS said:

 

This is the crucial point, I think. Not a particularly good idea to leave all such checkings until just before your next extension of stay application is due, as appears to have been the case here!

Point taken. Good advice.

1 hour ago, TheAppletons said:

  

  This is factually incorrect.  I send via Wise directly to my BBL account - every transfer lists as FTT.  You are correct in that, on the occasions where an intermediary bank is involved, the transfer gets designated as something other than FTT.

 

 

  This is what OP should do.  Wise is the entity to which he should be requesting assistance to prove overseas remittance.

 

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OP, you might consider asking Wise to "tag" your account so that all of your transfers go directly to BBL and not through intermediary banks.  That way, you are *almost* guaranteed that you'll get the FTT designator, if that's what you choose when sending the money.

 

Since "tagging" my account, 100% of my transfers have shown up as FTT (foreign transfer) because they've gone directly to BBL (not through an intermediary bank.)  Wise will tell you that "nothing is guaranteed" re: tagging the account but they are 100% so far (knock on wood.)

 

Edit to add:  Tagging your Wise account to avoid intermediary banks may slow your transfer by a business day or so.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the option for tagging. I will ask Wise about that.

I just got my annual statement from Bangkok Bank for renewal of my marriage visa extension. Some of my monthly transfers show the correct description "Foreign T/T" but other don't, even though I use the same method to send money from Wise each month. Wise have an option for "Funds for long term stay on Thailand" which I always use.

Is there any way to get Bangkok Bank to correct this as I suspect its going to cause an issue at immigration.

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

There are rational, fact-based reasons to suspect Thailand's COVID death counts are on the low side, as I explained above....  I have no basis to suggest how much of an undercount the official stats may be.

 

"So yes, I believe Thailand's official single digit COVID death counts are suspect, especially considering the relatively lower levels of medical capability in the outlying, more rural areas where people may die at home and quickly be cremated, without any official judgment of cause ever being reached."

 

But of course you have absolute confidence in western countries' Covid death numbers, despite the fact that they all had different definitions of what constituted a Covid death (from Covid, with Covid, run over by a bus within 28 days of a Covid infection) and most of the death certificates showed multiple co-morbidities, any one of which could have caused the death.

I admire your faith in these governments' openness and transparency.

51 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Those are the typical, most common symptoms of the latest variant.

 

But as the last weekly COVID report from the Thai government clearly shows, the  current version of COVID still has the ability to put SOME people seriously ill in hospital and also kill a small number of those.

 

As does the flu and other common respiratory infections. So your point is what exactly?

16 minutes ago, peter48 said:

The thing is even if many people have mild or moderate  covid or flu for several days there will be some with more serious issues that when they get hit with heavy respiratory infection of the lungs will end up seriously ill and need to go to hospital. And that's still happening with now more serious admissions recently reported across Europe. Take care especially the older  old. 

i.e. a normal winter flu season.

1 hour ago, Darksidedude said:

so they are lenient at other times are they

Oh yes, you're free to kill whoever you want the rest of the year.

Why don't those eager reporters hanging on to the police chief's every word ask him after the event (when another 700-odd people have died) " How did that crackdown go, then?". I know, that would be losing face.

36 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   This is a story about one person, there are other people that make a decent income in Thailand and have no need to go abroad 

There are also thousands of other people, mostly up here in Isaan, in the same situation as this young man. They have no alternative but to return to Israel to work and pay off the huge debts their families took on to get them there in the first place.

What?

9 minutes ago, ezzra said:

Iran is a puppet master who has it's fingers in every trouble spot around the world either directly or by proxy and they aren't hiding it, so the sooner Iran's mullahs will be gone the better and if it's mean war than so be it because this is how its works in this world... 

.....or doesn't work, as the US wars for the last 50 years have shown.

Be patient. Early on recovery seems to go quickly, then slows down a bit. Took me 6 months for complete recovery.

Good sound advice from Sheryl as always.

I just had a second colonoscopy with removal of polyps (10 year interval) done by Dr Pitulak at Samitivej Sukhumvit. She is excellent.

Just had it done at Samitivej Bangkok. 37k including biopsy for one polyp.

Moderate sedation, don't feel a thing. Excellent colorectal specialist who clearly explains all the potential issues.

10 hours ago, webfact said:

The prime minister who today visited Ubon Ratchathani where flash floods have reportedly occurred every year told the authorities to take contingency measures to have the local villagers adversely affected the least possible and to alleviate the flooding situation as soon as possible.

.....and produce some loaves and fishes while you're at it.

16 hours ago, BenStark said:

So anyone familiar with this process with Emirates specifically?

 

If I don't take up their offer, what are the chances that I can get the upgrade at a lower rate at the check in desk?

 

Please only personal experiences. Take note, this is first time I fly with Emirates, so I have no miles yet.

Be careful with Emirates. They bumped me off a pre-booked business class seat down to economy in DBX, due to 'overbooking'. Vowed never to fly with them again.

49 minutes ago, Rachel de France said:

Could you please develop on the "marginal freedoms" Singaporean gave up? I am interested in reading this.

 

And about western democracy, are we talking about electing people, who then after conduct policies we had never asked for?? Except for the form, what difference does it make with other non-democratic countries?? I just recall 2005, as the French voted against the EU constitution project; 3 years later, French President Sarkozy signed the Lisbon Treaty and allowed France to rejoin the NATO integrated command.

That's exactly what we're talking about and why western democracy is a sham. We're allowed a meaningless vote every 4 or 5 years to lull us into thinking we have some choice over how the country is run. The technocracy then completely ignores our wishes and carries on with its own agenda, regardless of the people's vote. Did anyone vote for Net Zero or half a million net immigration every year?

Re Singapore,  an example of marginal freedoms is freedom of the press. This used to exist in the UK, even though the mainstream media (including the BBC) was largely controlled by a small elite, all shades of opinion were tolerated and editorial freedom was sacrosanct. Now alternative views are suppressed by both MSM and social media platforms under the guise of 'disinformation'. Singapore has never made any secret of what can be published and what can't, there is a red line and everyone understands where it is and accepts it as a trade-off for the other benefits the government provides - prosperity, security and institutions that work,