orbital777

Hi, quick question.

How do you get a bank statement with your name on it from the Bangkok Bank mobile app? I have looked everywhere and I cannot find the option in the app.

Thanks.

I am in Vientiane right now applying for a tourist visa. I was at the embassy this morning. I can confirm that they are asking for proof of finances now if you have previous tourist visas from Vientiane.

No problem at all I tell them.

I have 500k+ sitting in my Bangkok Bank because I have been trying for months now to apply for an Elite visa (a single 2 day overstay in 7+ years is the hangup on that).

So I open up the Bangkok Bank app on my phone showing the proof of funds. Not good enough, must print it out. I go print it out, still not good enough. Bangkok Bank app doesn't show your name.

Next I go to the physical Bangkok Bank branch here in Vientiane and it is randomly closed on a Monday afternoon for "holiday."

I tried asking several times this morning at the embassy if they will accept a statement from a Foreign bank account and was unable to get a clear answer.

This is fun...

12 minutes ago, ThomasThBKK said:

No report of rejection at immigration afaik.
Also very unlikely as the terms of service clearly states you can have an overstay. But just one.

They just do that to make sure they aren't liable imo.

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Thanks for the reply.

Come to think of it I believe I actually had another 15 minute overstay 3 years ago. Flight to Seoul left at 12:15am. No fine but I believe it was logged.

So I technically may have 2 overstays on my record.

Gamble 16k USD that that isn't a problem for some random immigration officer at CW? ????

Just wanted to update this thread. I have since re-applied for the Thai Elite visa online and it was approved in around 2.5 weeks.

After reading countless replies on this forum though it seems like it is still ultimately at the discretion of the immigration officer who actually puts the Elite visa in my passport.

There is a clearly marked recent 2 day overstay in my passport. My only one in 7+ years living here, but it is there nonetheless.

I have to make the payment BEFORE I go to immigration though and as far as I can tell the Thai Elite visa program has no refund policy.

Has anybody actually been rejected by an immigration officer for a short overstay like this after being given online approval?

Thank you for all the helpful answers.

Can anyone please tell me which is the actual website to apply?

When you Google "Thailand elite visa application" several websites come up such as:

thailandelite.com

thai-elite.com

Both seem to offer an application process. Are these the same? Is one better than the other?

Thanks.

I can confirm that they are no longer issuing 30 day stamps at this border. I went today and was denied. This was my 3rd in a row, not my 4th. I was told in no uncertain terms that they are simply not doing 30 stamps here at all anymore (LOL Thailand, thanks for the warning!). I was not even able to get 7 days so I am pushed into overstay. Avoid this border unless you have an actual visa.

Bangkok tomorrow and a flight home. It's been fun Thailand.

I went to this border today and there was not a single issue. It was my first time going to this border and my 3rd 30 day in a row overall (Mae Sai and PoiPet previously).

I don't have a Thai bank account so that isn't really an option for me. My plan as of right now is to head to Phnom Penh and see if they will give me a single entry tourist visa. If they are still giving 30 days to people from G7 countries who enter Thailand by land (nobody seems to know) then I guess that is an option too.

I can't even remember what they said to be honest. I kind of brushed it off not expecting to ever apply for a tourist visa again.

Hi, just wanted some advice on the current climate with this. I have had 4 back to back tourist visas now. All were double entries. Got the first one in my home country and the final three in Vientiane. They gave me the red stamp last time and said I will need to show proof of income or something like that next time.

In any case, I plan to go back home in about 3 months time so I would like to get just a single entry. What are my chances of being able to get one? Does it matter where I go?

Thanks

I hope this is the right forum. If not, my apologies and please move it.

I have a situation that has caused me untold amounts of stress in the past month or so and would appreciate any advice that you all may have. This is going to be quite long as I want to give the full back story. Thanks in advance for all who read and/or offer advice.

I met a Thai girl on a online dating site about 3 months ago. I am 34 and have lived in Chiang Mai for a little over a year. She is 27 and from Chiang Mai. She has worked in the hotel/guesthouse industry for years. She said that she has never worked in a bar. We started dating and seeing each other a lot. She stayed with me every night. We both said right away that we did not want children. We used protection (condoms) for the first couple weeks. Then she complained that they hurt her and were no fun as well. I said we should use one, what if she gets pregnant? etc. She said it won't happen, don't worry. Leaving aside my better judgement I had sex with her for the next two weeks without a condom using only the pull out method. After this two week period we agreed that she should get on birth control. She got the pills and I reminded her every day to take them.

There were some problems in the relationship at about the 2 month point which first arose from me noticing that some of my money was going missing on a couple of occasions. You figure that you can trust someone after basically living together for a few months so I just kept my money in my bag in my room. Always 20k or less. I never counted it but always had a rough idea of how much was there. I had some suspicions that a few thousand had gone missing so I triple checked the amount that I had one night before I went out. Sure enough the next morning there was 1k missing. I tried to approach the topic as delicately as possible with her. I wanted her to know that I wasn't mad at all. And I would be happy to work out some sort of agreement in regards to money if she needed some. But that I couldn't tolerate what basically amounts to theft in my mind. I totally expected this to wash over and we just move on. It was nothing to me.

Instead she denied taking the money completely. This was a problem for me. I don't care about a couple thousand baht which I told her repeatedly. She worked a 10k a month guesthouse reception job at the time and I make far more than that. She also insisted on paying for more than her fair share of meals and things of that sort when we went out. I just wanted the truth and didn't care about the money at all. I don't think you can have a relationship without trust. And for her to just completely lie to my face was really hard for me to understand. Lie #1

Anyways, she got mad, stormed out. We didn't talk for a few days and I assumed that the relationship was over. She texted me a few days later to which I replied but I also made it obvious that I was very unsure if there was any future for us and did not want to see her for the time being. A few days after this she sent me the "I am pregnant" sms. I have never had children before. I certainly did not plan on having children with this woman right now as mentioned. However, I was irresponsible for a two week period as mentioned before also. Still, this all came as a huge shock to me and I was literally out of my mind for several days. I want to be clear that I never raised my voice with her or got angry with her at any point during what is to come. I am a very calm person by nature.

I should mention that two weeks previous to the I am pregnant sms she had gone and seen a doctor for some pain she was having and had told me that she had a pregnancy test which came back negative. The doctor in fact told her that she was pregnant. Lie #2.

After much thought and consultation with friends and family back home I decided that getting an abortion was the only thing that made sense. I know this is a touchy subject here so I will try to be brief regarding what happened.

I told her that this was the decision that I thought was best but would absolutely respect her decision as well. Long story short, she agreed to my decision and got it done. I paid for it and offered as much support as I could including being there when it happened. She said that she did not want me there. This was one of the most difficult decisions of my life and I was relieved but also extremely depressed about it. About a week later she told me that she backed out at the last second and did not go through with it. I would have rather she just stabbed me right in the back. After having psychologically moved on I was now informed a week later that my fetus/child was in fact still there and I was a mess once again. Lie #3.

After some discussion we both agreed a few days later that she would do it again for real this time. Again I paid and offered any and all support that I could possibly give. I demanded to be there this time but was again rebuked. Same thing happened. A week later she told me that she did not in fact get it done. More untold stress. Lie #4

She told me that she was keeping it this time as she was not raised to do such a thing (have an abortion). I said I accept your decision and will be there for you and the child as I have said since the very beginning. The untold stress and money (the least of my worries but I will never see that back) were really hard for me to take though. I needed out of town to think and spent a week in Phuket with friends. She started saying some pretty crazy things at this point that I should not come back. She will raise the child with her family. They thank me (for being a sperm donor?) and I should just move on. After all the nonsense I was determined to try and make this work somehow though. I was raised in a broken home and I always told myself that I would never do that to my child. I flew back to CM and have been trying to work it out ever since.

Since I have been back (not even a week) money of mine is already going missing. I feel like this is a person that is totally untrustworthy on every level. I don't know whether I can believe anything she says since all she does is lie. I have never seen an ultrasound so that I can get an exact number of weeks that she has been pregnant. In fact she would not allow me to go take her to get this done. I do not know whether she got pregnant on purpose or not (failing to take birth control pills). She seems overjoyed to have a baby like it will give her life a real meaning or something. Or maybe to try and trap me. She, like all other Thai girls I have known has accused me of cheating on her from the start and predicting that I will run off with someone else.I have in fact never cheated on her or any other girl for that matter.

The only thing that I do know for a fact is that she is pregnant. It is physically obvious now and she tested positive on a home test before I left for Phuket. I administered it myself. I cannot be 100% certain that the child is mine of course.

I really don't know what to do. I will say this, if there was no baby involved I would be gone in a heartbeat. I cannot trust her on any level. I feel like such a fool for ever getting myself mixed up in a situation like this. I feel that I have gone above and beyond what most people would put up with tenfold. I am distraught and without direction. Thank you for any advice even if you want to tell me that I am an idiot.

Hi everyone,

I left Chiang Mai about a month ago to escape the dreaded "smoky season" up there although from what I have read and heard it actually hasn't been that bad so far this year. Anyways, to my surprise the haze has been just as bad if not worse nearly the entire time that I have been in Cha Am so far. Is this normal? Are they burning something around this area too? Is it pollution from Bangkok? Thanks.