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1) Bangkok Bank is fine, there is no requirement that the money originate outside of Thailand for a marriage extension. 2) One or the other is sufficient. 3) Two months is the requirement. (You may wish to indicate which immigration office you will be using as there may be some that mistakenly believe it's three months.) 4) Yes, documentation from the amphoe is a requirement each year for a marriage extension.

Phuket Immigration specific information regarding address registration: http://piv-phuket.com/address-registration-information/

When someone enters Thailand with a Non-OA Visa during the visa's validity period they receive permission to stay for one year. Yet, they must file a 90-Day Report every 90 consecutive days they are in Thailand. They don't have an extension of stay, just the permission to stay granted upon entry to the country. That visa is an exception perhaps as it's true that aside from that someone filing 90-Day Reports is likely to be on a year long extension of stay.

Yes. Fundamentally, if you have been in Thailand for 90 consecutive days then a 90-Day Report is due. Only filing a new 90-Day Report or re-entering Thailand will reset the 90 day clock to one. My recommendation is to set an electronic calendar alarm for eighty (80) days after entering Thailand. When you receive your receipt/next appointment slip I would set an alarm for ten (10) days before your next appointment due date. This gives you up to 10 days to do an online 90-Day Report when you alarm goes off. You always have the 7 day grace period to do one in person if you do the 90-Day Report after its due date.

The 90-Day Report is really not that complicated, perhaps surprisingly so. It boils down to this very simple statement: It is due and only due on the 90th consecutive day you have been in Thailand. When you enter Thailand that is day one of the 90 day clock. The count increases by one for each day you are in Thailand. When that count reaches 90 days a 90-Day Report is due. You may leave Thailand before you have been here 90 consecutive days, and if so no 90-Day Report is due (because you haven't been here for 90 consecutive days). You may leave Thailand before 90 consecutive days have elapsed since your last 90-Day Report, and if so no new 90-Day Report is due (because you haven't been here for 90 consecutive days without filing a 90 Day Report). When you file a 90-Day Report your 90 day clock resets to one. You may file a 90-Day Report in person up to 15 days before your 90-Day report is due and up to 7 days after your 90-Day Report is due. Some refer to the period from your due date to 7 days after your due date as a grace period. If you file during this grace period the 90-Day Report is considered timely and there is no fine or negative consequence. You may file a 90-Day Report online up to 15 days before your 90-Day Report is due and up to the date your 90-Day report is due. The 90-Day Report has nothing to do with your permission to stay. If you don't file a timely 90-Day Report you are not on overstay. You are however, subject to a 2,000 baht fine for not filing a timely 90-Day Report. You may be so fined the next time you conduct business at your local immigration office. Your permission to stay until date is what determines whether you are on overstay or not. It has nothing to do with any 90-Day Report. Overstay is a serious matter with real adverse consequences. 90-Day Reports are an entirely separate matter. They should be done when you have been in Thailand for 90 consecutive days. If you don't bother doing them you will be subject to a 2,000 baht fine when you next conduct business at your local immigration office. There are no further adverse consequences for not doing 90-Day Reports.

My mistake on the date, should have been 25 not 23 January 2023 (corrected now in post). Yes, you should be OK to use the online 90-Day Report system. The circumstances when immigration puts a new 90-Day Report in your passport are when you file a 90-Day Report in person, or at some immigration offices (e.g., Phuket) they do so as a courtesy when doing your annual extension of stay.

First understand that the online 90-Day Report reminder is quite primitive in that it does not take into consideration any time you leave the country nor any time you file the report not using the online system (e.g., in person). So, if you get the reminder you must consider whether you left the country in the relevant period or filed a 90-Day Report via some other method than the online system. Yes, you should be able to file online on 25 November 2023 based on it being 90 days since you re-entered Thailand. [corrected the date] There is no connection between filing 90-Day Reports and doing your annual extension, although some immigration offices will do a new 90-Day Report when you do your annual extension. It is not required and they do this as a matter of courtesy and policy of that individual office. In other words, you can't really complain if they don't do it. The event that triggers needing to do a 90-Day Report in person is when you change passports. Merely re-entering Thailand does not trigger this.

Just trying to understand why anyone would think it's better to enter Thailand on a US passport than on a Thai passport. I can't think of a single reason why someone would do this, especially if as you say they have both passports with them. Again, not something I would recommend.

You should be OK to use the online 90-Day Report system. The only circumstance that I'm aware of where you would need to do an in-person report (very easy via the drive-through in Phuket Town) is when you acquire a new passport. Then you would need to do the first report in person, and thereafter you could use the online system.

Phuket immigration always does that for me. They don't ask, they don't tell, but they regularly staple in a new 90-Day Report into my passport when I get my retirement extension. ???? I like it, but it's not done at the majority of other immigration offices apparently. Maybe it's because they keep passports overnight as part of the retirement extension process. Apply one day, pick up at 1 PM the next day. I've no complaints.

Go by the date on your 90-Day Report receipt/Next appointment notice that is stapled into your passport. Ignore the date on the email from immigration as it has been overcome by events, the event being that one was done for you at your yearly extension. The email notification system is very crude and only takes account of reports done using the online system, not reports that are done in person, nor reports that weren't done because one left Thailand before being here for 90 consecutive days.

The 90-Day Report is due when you have been in Thailand for a period of 90 consecutive days. The day you enter Thailand is counted as day 1.

The retirement extension doesn't require that you be retired (i.e., not working), it merely requires that you be at least age 50 and meet the financial requirements. You cannot work in Thailand under a retirement extension, but you can certainly work outside of Thailand. In practice, some people work from home in Thailand and while perhaps technically not allowed if done without any fanfare is likely to go undetected.

I opened mine from Thailand using a Commercial Mail Receiving Agency (travelingmailbox.com) and a VOIP (magicJack) for the phone number, but this was done at least 9 years ago. Not sure it would still be possible. At the time there was no minimum balance to open the account and no maintenance fees. It was called a High-Yield Interest Checking account and came with a brokerage account that I don't really use. I really only use the account because Thailand's ATM withdrawal fees (220 baht) are reimbursed.

If it is the first extension of stay then has to be in the account for 2 months before applying (however, check your local immigration office, some mistakenly enforce 3 months). If it is second or more extension of stay then 800k has to be in the account: 2 months before application for new extension 3 months after receiving new extension over 400k minimum balance as long as you have the extension The earliest immigration will allow a retirement extension of stay to be applied for is 45 days (although 30 days is more common, depends on local office). If you are within those parameters you could apply before you leave. Your extension of stay date would remain fixed, if you extend early you get one-year plus however many days early you apply. Remember you will need a re-entry permit.

Bank tellers at Bangkok Bank can force a balance forward transaction to be printed in your passbook without requiring a change.

If the OP is American he can open a Charles Schwab Checking account (with brokerage account) without a minimum opening balance, or any minimum balance and no maintenance fee. Highly recommended. However, I don't believe the account for Americans will reimburse the international wire transfer fee, so that may be a benefit only of the Charles Schwab One account.

Short of obtaining permanent residency or Thai citizenship you can't get added to a blue house registration book (Tabian Bahn) which is not used for foreigners. You could, however, obtain a yellow house registration book for foreigners and be entered in there. You can find out the requirements for the yellow house registration book at your local amphoe office. Varies by office how difficult that process is. Not terribly important nor necessary but nice to have if not too troublesome to obtain.

I received a covid jab at the Vachira walk-in clinic yesterday. The walk-in clinic is located not at the main hospital but at the CONVIENCE CENTER (Mahogany Center Building) on the same side of the road but about 200 meters north (toward Bangkok Phuket Hospital). What I did: 1. get blood pressure and pulse reading from one of the two machines on the left as you enter. 2. get paperwork from the information desk right next to 1. They only seem to need to see your passport, but I gave my vaccination history as well by showing the Mor Prom app and the yellow vaccination booklet and an old Thailand National Vaccination certificate. (I think they just need to know your Thai vaccination number which resembles a Thai National ID number - 13 digits, starts with 60000.......). 3. go to the station you are directed to (mine was #6). 4. staff at the desk there will examine your paperwork and interview you to fill in some more paperwork. The questions are weight and height, number of vaccinations you have had previously, any allergies, adverse reaction to previous shot, do you drink, smoke, etc. 5. called in by number to get your jab 6. 15 minute recovery period for observation of any adverse reactions 7. you're done. You can return to hospital next week to get a certificate if necessary. I believe they will update the Mor Prom application with your new jab before then. All in all the process was done within an hour. I arrived at about 10:20.

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In 2019 when this video was made you could reach Laem Sing Beach by land starting from Surin Beach. I have not heard in the meantime that this is no longer possible.

Not the way I would recommend anyone use their dual passports, but if indeed nothing unexpected happens then what you outline would not cause any problems. However, it is the very essence of the "unexpected" that it tends to be not expected. ???? How someone can "know" that everything will go according to plan is beyond my imagination. Especially when the cost of doing this the proper way is simply carrying both passports when traveling. Also, while Thailand allows this to happen, it's important to realize that in some other countries it is not allowed. In the USA it is against the law for a US citizen to use any other country's passport to enter the US.

If an American citizen then yes. That's what all those IRS documents you sign when opening a Thai bank account are for.

Not of immediate help, I realize, but next time in Thailand open a Thai bank account. Don't need a ATM/debit card on the account, just online banking. The maintenance cost for having such an account is zero (the ATM/debit card is what has annual fees). Keep a minimal balance in the account. Have your Thai sourced money paid into your Thai bank account. Use Dee Money or similar to transfer your money from that Thai bank account to your home bank account outside Thailand.

Only Thai bank accounts are considered for meeting the 800k baht requirement for a retirement extension. However, the foreign bank accounts can be used to obtain a Non-OA Visa from your home country. That can be used to stay almost 2 years in Thailand (with properly timed border run), at which time you can leave and obtain another Non-OA Visa from your home country or you go the retirement extension route outlined in the first paragraph.