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4 minutes ago, sanuk711 said:

No to own property--- The Blue book is issued to a land owner , this should be a Thai national. Non Thai-Condo owners do not usually get a blue book (but so many variations in different area's & governments dept here) because they don't own the block of land it sits on they own a fraction (Number of condo's divided by fraction of land) That is why all non Thai's together cannot own more then 49% of a condo block, because they would then own the land it sits on.

Thailand is all about land--not buildings.

The owner of the Blue Book can then place any number of people who are living with him, or renting that property from him into his blue book. You then can be issued a yellow book as a resident.

 

In reality to get my first Yellow book in Pattaya the landlord just signed a statement that I was the primary renter of that property. When I moved to Issan met my wife who owned properties so she did include my in one of her blue books.

It made everything very simple when I was single pattaya.....could sign up for internet/D/L/ mobile phone account -not pay as you go/ License/Bank accounts/credit cards/ buying a car, etc etc- even opened a safety deposit box for a friend at same bank-who they wouldn't do it for. I know a lot of these things still can be done without a yellow book, but it just seems that it is tightening up---the Driving license--when I came here in the late 90s, no one question you about it, they just renewed it on the date.....last week for renewal, photo copies of Passport/Visa --and yellow book...or don't have, go and get a letter of residence. The yearly Visa usually wanted a map of where I live---told me not to bother if I was showing a yellow book for the property.

 

For the amount of time it took---and its just a once off thing, no renewal---i think it is well worth it.

 

Sounds good! But I was looking up what needs to be done and doubt my condo owner would want to do it.

2 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

Whoever told you that you had to own a property for a yellow book ???

 

 

Don't you?

3 hours ago, sanuk711 said:

If your staying---why not look at the other option....Yellow Book---& your never need a Residency Certificate again, and that took me 45 minutes 14 years ago.

I would cept I don't want to own anything here, lol. Renting is the way to go for me.

19 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Up to you to not get it anytime soon then ???? Guess you are new in Thailand hehe.

Hehe, no I am not, and it only takes a week to get one from the consulate. I did not mind too much when they charged 500 out at promenade but I am not his father, not getting 1000 for something that should be free.

If that is true, I would rather spend 2000 at the consulate.

Nope. used to be but not anymore.

It now takes 7 weeks to get one, was just there. She said it is because of all the holidays - give me a break.

Yeah, I do not need a full 65,000 to live on, would love to free up the extra cash from my 800,000. As to who is correct, I am betting ubonjoe, I will find out in the next months.

Thank you ubonjoe!

Any specific reason you think this?

Hi all! Forgive me if this has bee gone over and over, but could not find anything when I searched.

For years I have used the 800,000 baht in the bank, now I have pensions coming in and want to use them to off set how much I need to keep in the bank.

I have the 800,00 in one bank account and have been using a Bangkok bank account to receive TW deposits which are labeled as foreign transactions - I will

need use the combo method as the pensions are not enough alone.

My fist question is: What kind of letter do I need Bangkok bank to give me to show the foreign transfers?

My second question: Will immigration give me anything to say how much will now be needed to be kept in the account where I have always kept the

800,000 to reflect my pension payments? I don't want to show up the next year an find the new IO did not agree with my combo method - I want to be able to spend

the money I don't need to keep locked up. 

By the way, I am in Chiang Mai, so if you have any knowledge on their accepting combo method that would be welcome as well.

Thanks for any help!

The driver could see him in his lane for quite a while but only did the I will just try and miss him without slowing down thing.

Thanks Joe!

HI all!

Have a question. My visa is in my U.S. passport that is about to expire and I have dual citizenship with Canada, I am wondering if I can switch the visa over to my Canadian passport which has years left? I am not asking if I can renew my U.S. passport, I have all that information, I just want to know if it is possible to switch the visa from my U.S. passport to my Canadian?

Thanks for your time.

The only problem you are going to have with the expired visa is that the land transportation office will not transfer the car to the other party with your visa expired.

If they like copies then so should you!

I think the problem might have been that despite your having the money in for the past 11 months you had that one month that was not at least 400,000 baht, so they need proof that you used the letter for the year and were to lazy or did not how to check the records. Personally, I make copies of everything, which I take with me the next year just in case I need them.

1 hour ago, MamaSan said:

Last year (July), I attempted the combo method with one year of clearly documented monthly SSA payments coming through Bangkok Bank properly and submitted with a notorized bank statement - plus - another bank statement showing the difference in a lump sum having been "stewing" in a local account for more than 3 months, as required.  Was rejected because the monthly statements couldn't be affirmed by the previously issued/accepted embassy letter - because the embassy no longer issues one!   Circular reasoning, yes - but couldn't get around it.

Will be curious to see what happens this year...  Good luck!

That is my reason for asking around.  Just over a year ago I moved back to Chiang Mai from Phuket and went in for a letter of residency so I could change my Dr Lic and motorcycle regs and they would not give me one stating my Retirement Extension had been done in Phuket so they won't give me one.  I told them that I have done this before as I shift between Phuket and Chiang Mai every couple of years and that the extension states right on it it is good through out Thailand, but their response to that was to use a yellow marker to highlight the word Phuket in my extension as though that meant something. I even tried going to a visa business to try and they said they could not do it as I guess they had tried before, I ended up having to go to my embassy and get one form them at a cost of 2000 baht.

1 minute ago, PFV said:

The post you refer to was not put out by Chiang Mai Immigration, but by a local visa agency, who (IMHO) would like you to continue using their services even when it isn't strictly necessary given the amnesty.

Haha, I did not notice that, sneaky butts. But, they do have a point where all of a sudden everyone will be having to climb over each other to get all caught up.  The nice part of my post though is that the online 90 day is working great.

6 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

You will need a one year bank statement for the transfers showing they came from outside the country and a letter from the bank and your updated bank book.

For the 500k baht in the bank you will need a letter from the bank and a 2 or 3 month bank statement proving the it has been in the bank for 2 months. If you used the 800k baht option last year you may need a one year bank stament.

On another subject you may be interested in, Chiang Mai Imm  has put out a news story telling people that they should keep doing their 90 and visa extensions anyway - see the story at this link.  On a happy note I put in my 90 day this morning on the web site and I already received confirmation that it is approved - usually takes two days for that.

https://www.chiangmaicitylife.com/citynews/general/chiang-mai-immigration-still-processing-visas-and-90-day-reports/

2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

You will need a one year bank statement for the transfers showing they came from outside the country and a letter from the bank and your updated bank book.

For the 500k baht in the bank you will need a letter from the bank and a 2 or 3 month bank statement proving the it has been in the bank for 2 months. If you used the 800k baht option last year you may need a one year bank stament.

Thanks a lot, very much appreciated!

9 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

They do accept them but they have been very pickey on the proof of the transfers into the country part. One small glitch and they refuse to accept the application.

I got a message from a person that his was refused due to some the transfers not coming in due them only having his first and last name instead of his entire given name.

One more question on that:

I am using one bank to hold the 500,000 baht for the year and another to receive the payments, how would I show the payments to Imm?  The bank book would not be enough I am guessing, so a yearly print out from the bank or does it have to be certified somehow?

Thanks again!

Just now, ubonjoe said:

They do accept them but they have been very pickey on the proof of the transfers into the country part. One little small glitch and they refuse to accept the application.

I got a message from a person that his was refused due to some the transfers not coming in due them only having his first and last name instead of his entire given name.

Thanks for the response.  I am now using TransferWise and so far they are coming through as out of country transfers. Maybe I will get to use more of my money this coming year!

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Hi all!

Have a question for you in Chiang Mia. Are they accepting the combo method for the retirement visa?

What I mean is if I have $900 coming into my bank account every month, which comes out to around

30,000 baht X 12 equals about 300,000 baht per year, so will I be to only have 500,000 baht in the bank?

I know in other Immigration's it would pass, but Chiang Mai can be a different world so I was wondering if

anyone knows for sure?

Thanks in advance, Tim.