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4 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

You are really sounding foolish.

To refer to WISE and other companies eg OFX as "sketchy"  just shows you to be very naive. 

 

Many of these threads concern obtaining non O with extensions and that requires minimum 800k baht transfer.

 

Purchase of condo 2 mill plus. 

Hospital operation 400k perhaps.

etc etc. 

 

It's not a "few baht".

Seriously ridiculous. 

I recently sent £10 k with wise arrived in seconds wife received about 420000bt .Lloyds bank would have received about £390000 if lucky massive saving on a relatively small amount 

29 minutes ago, JimTripper said:

Why would someone need a wise transfer?

 

Almost any bank can transfer bank to bank, or if not a direct wire is universally accepted as a last resort.

Maybe 4to 5 baht more on the exchange rate might be a factor 

17 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

If you are obtaining a non O in your own country you won't have an issue in opening a bank account.

Kasikorn (one example) will open an account if you have a non O.

 

 

Ok I always assumed that I had to get a COR to open an account 

3 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

An agent will open a bank account without certificate of residence.

 

Do you want to open a bank account or obtain certificate of residence for example TDL. 

It would be to open a bank account and I will probably be in Pathum Thani but recently someone commented about how awkward they were with him and referred to uk embassy who don’t do COR .My stepdaughter is a teacher so I could use her as a reference and maybe make it easier at the bank hopefully.I just don’t want to sell my house ,leave uk, on a non o and find that I can’t get COR and open an account.I was hoping that anyone who uses Pathum Thani IO could confirm whether there are agents hanging around looking for business.As one person said if I go into Bangkok I will have the issue of getting the information from them on the same day I do an extension of stay 

thanks 

Are there agents that hang around basically every IO in Thailand offering services ?My specific one is Pathum Thani because I have recently seen a comment on here they aren’t very helpful when asking for a certificate of residency 

12 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

So for clarity...

What happened? 

Did you open a bank account? 

What is your status in Thailand.

What were the requirements to open account in Chiang Rai region? 

Sorry if I was vague but I didn’t open one or ask what was required I was just pointing out the difference in attitude compared to others experiences 

I was in Bangkok bank in Yasothon last week and the usher saw me and said “ you want open bank account my manager speak English “ and took me to the counter .A lot different to most other branches down south 

16 hours ago, Melpomene said:

I had exactly the same issue with Pathum Thani immigration recently. Went to get certificate of residence and they wouldn't do it, saying I have to get it from my embassy. 

 

According to the British Embassy website they don't issue these documents either! 

 

So I'm currently at a bit of a loss as to how to get this document. Any suggestions would be welcome...

Thanks for the info because that was going to be my IO and I would need one to get a bank account 

DR jack 
Is it possible to transfer the money back into your ,if still have,bank in Canada then transfer back into Thai bank

I bought an hatari one for 2500 and put ice gel into the bottom .Certainly blows out a nice cool breeze if directly in front it you but probably doesn’t alter the overall temperature 

I did it on my iphone and it was fairly easy to crop the photos to the right size 

29 minutes ago, sandyf said:

I have been going back and fore from the UK for touching 25 years, must be over 40 trips now with a multitude of airlines, EVA a few times, and can't ever remember not being checked quite thoroughly. Different localities may well be less thorough.

I was denied boarding one time for being 2 weeks short of 6 months on my passport. I asked for a supervisor and she said only option was to phone Thai immigration in Bangkok. I was only going for 3 weeks and they agreed to boarding if the airline could confirm it was a return ticket, not sure how a throwaway would have worked in that situation.

There was a guy on here obviously American who said that they never check in uk doh 

I think there’s a link to download a form to fill in had similar issue for my Thai wife when she went self employed 

2 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

No.  The O-A is a pre approved one year stay for retirement entry.  The O visa only allows 90 day entry and can be issued for many reasons in either single 90 day stay or multi entry (valid for one year from date of issue) any number of stays up to 90 days each.

Is it available in the uk

Is this not a non o-a visa ?

3 hours ago, geisha said:

No it does not. For example I have a British passport and my residency is France. . You can have a UK passport and live elsewhere . 

I corrected myself to council tax bill 

6 hours ago, supersomchai said:

I finally got the passport to upload after blowing it up and taking a jpeg of that.

Now iam not sure about the residence questions as iam a uk passport holder living in uk now surely i can just upload a copy of my passport for all the residence questions ??

They havent changed the questions on the e visa since it started have they ?As i applied before and got it just forgotten what documents i uploaded into the residence question .☹️

I did upload my council tax bill for one question,not sure if it was this one 

6 hours ago, supersomchai said:

I finally got the passport to upload after blowing it up and taking a jpeg of that.

Now iam not sure about the residence questions as iam a uk passport holder living in uk now surely i can just upload a copy of my passport for all the residence questions ??

They havent changed the questions on the e visa since it started have they ?As i applied before and got it just forgotten what documents i uploaded into the residence question .☹️

Copy of uk passport proves you are a uk resident 

7 minutes ago, Salerno said:

Airlines don't care about a visa per se, they know you will get 30 day visa exempt on arrival (assuming you're flying on a UK passport). They do care if you have an outward flight within that timeframe (the fact you can get a 30 day extension to the visa exempt is irrelevant). So ...

 

i.e. if your flight isn't flexible, you can buy a throwaway ticket for approx US$10-15 or, just have it set up on your phone ready to buy if asked for at check-in (not 100% guaranteed you will be, depends on airline and airport but a very good chance you will be).

 

For example:

 

https://onward.flights/

https://bestonwardticket.com/

https://onwardticket.com/

https://onewayfly.com/

etc.

 

 

The OPs return flight will be after 58 days in Thailand.I think he believes he can just turn up at Heathrow and say that he will get an extension and they will let him board but they won’t 

11 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

So i wont be refused boarding the flight to thailand (Eva air) if i tell them i have no visa but that iam going to get a visa exempt when i arrive ??

I’m here for 58 days flew in with EVA and the first thing they checked at booking in was my e visa 

7 minutes ago, supersomchai said:

So i wont be refused boarding the flight to thailand (Eva air) if i tell them i have no visa but that iam going to get a visa exempt when i arrive ??

As long as your return flight is within 30 days .If not you have to get Evisa or explore the throughaway ticket option