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Immigration rules are 2 months, not 3. 800K for 3 months after, then 400K for the remaining 12 month period. 12 month bank statement required.

Many things are not 'right' in Thailand, but many circumvent the rules to their advantage. It's now over two years ago since a friend and I carried out an experiment to test the online system. I was actually out of Country when my 90-day report was due and didn't even consider trying it, so submitted in person after 90 days. My friend however was out of Country between his report dates and filed online on his return on the date previously given, and it was approved. Since then, others have confirmed the same. Same as a TM30, Immigration don't appear concerned as long as you file.

Online 90 day system isn't linked to other databases. It's an automated system that just advises a new 90-day report date after approval of the previous report. The due date can only be reset manually by an Immigration officer. That's why you have to report in person 90 days after re-entry because you're now out of sync with the date advised by the computer, so the IO has to reset the due date again .................... unless you disregard it and continue to file on the due date whether returned from overseas or even whilst overseas.

That's using the 90-day count after re-entry, and you have to submit the first report in person. If you use the 90 day as if you never left, it still works fine. One member reported filing whilst overseas (@treetops) ?

Although it's often report as 15 days before, it's actually within 15 days of and including the report date, which is 14 day before. By my calculation, Saturday is the first day, you're within the window. Yes, but others have had success after TDAC was introduced. 90 day is a stand-alone system. You need to put the prior entry date, not the new one. No repercussions as Immigration don't check or appear to be bothered.

OMG! Stop bickering and read from the beginning. OP originally asked about new passport, then additional questions about DLT and bank. 1, Transfer stamps to new passport > answered. 2. Inform bank of new passport details > answered 3. Update address and new passport details to the DLT > answered.

Please start with the first post of the thread, then it's self-explanatory.

And address.

When you apply for a visa from a Thai Embassy, the required funds can be in any bank account. When you apply to extend your permission of stay at Immigration in Thailand, the funds must be in a Thai bank account in your sole name. Which Immigration office did you visit?

You have to wonder how all these fake ID's were produced by scammers to open bank accounts for money laundering purposes. Wait! Champers, is that you!

In most cases, 30 days.

Gotta now, thanks. Then simply follow the advice I gave for transferring stamps to new passport. Once you have transferred the stamps, request a COR for the DLT. Take your new passport and COR to the DLT to update/correct the information. Take your new passport to the bank to update your details.

Then why ask about updating address at DLT and bank if you haven't moved?

Where have you moved from, to where? Different province, different Immigration office? If you haven't filed a new TM30 notifying your new address, they'll refuse any services until you first comply with filing a TM30.

There are no technicalities. It's a simple request having obtained a new passport to ask Immigration to transfer the relevant stamps from your old passport to your new passport, a procedure that is offered as a standard service. Download and complete the Immigration form 'Transfer stamps to new passport'. Download from here: https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/ Item number 29 on the list. Take both old and new passport with the form to your Immigration office, they will do the rest free of charge. Have you recently moved and filed a new TM30 with Immigration? Subject to having filed a new TM30, when you visit to transfer stamps to your new passport, request two 'certificates of residence' one for the DLT, one for the bank. Present new passport and COR to the DLT to update your DL. Present new passport and COR to Kasikorn to update your details.

Forget Immigrations order document checklist, it's as useless as a chocolate fireguard. 1. Application form 2. Copy of applicant’s passport 3. Evidence of income such as a retirement pension, interest or dividends; and/or 4. Funds deposit certificate issued by a bank in Thailand and a copy of a bankbook Supply the same documents as you did at Chonburi. The first visit to a new Immigration office is always a learning curve. Recommend supplying; 1. Form TM 7. Application for extension of temporary stay in the Kingdom. 2. Form STM 2. Acknowledgement of Criteria and Conditions for a temporary stay in the Kingdom. 3. Form STM 9. Acknowledgement of penalties for visa overstay. 4. Form STM 11. Consent form for fact checking and information verification approval for visa or change of visa type or extension of temporary stay in the Kingdom. Documents can be downloaded from here; https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/downloads_en/ 5. Your passport 6. Copies of all pages of your passport with Thai stamps, including the data page 7. 1 x Passport photo's 4×6 cm. 8. Copy of TM30 receipt 9. Map pinpointing and detailing address 10, Proof of Address. 11. Proof of Finances; > Update Passbook + copies of all relevant pages and obtain statements to cover the relevant 12-month period + bank letter.

From reports on AN.

Agents are now using Krunksri bank to open accounts, deposit 800K, obtain statement and letter, then withdraw the 800K. How long before they catch on and further restrictions imposed. Meanwhile, on Thai news, the situation is still bad, with new scam call centres operated by Chinese opening in Cambodia, with video clips of the call centre staff throwing multiple piles of hundred baht bills in the air and taunting the Thai authorities and banks to 'catch us if you can'.

At Roi Et, if using the income method and still able to obtain an Embassy Income letter, they refuse to accept the 12 monthly transfers method and instruct you to get the Embassy Income letter. Nuts, as orders state, both methods of proof of income are acceptable, but we sometimes have to conform to the whims of senior IO's who like to flex their authority.

Exactly. There is nothing in Immigration orders stipulating you had to transfer that income, just that you were in receipt of such. However, if you're not transferring what Immigration judge to be a minimum living requirement, then surely that will raise suspicion as to how you are living in Thailand. Working illegally, income from illegal sources?

For a long time, I've always suspected that Immigration also wrongly assumed that those using the Embassy Income letters were actually transferring those funds to a Thai bank account. Many did/do not, just transferring as and when funds were required. This is something CW now appear to have picked up on. I can foresee the option of Embassy letter being removed from orders in the future.

Data protection laws prevented the Embassies from verifying incomes, which Immigration wrongly assumed they had. Hence, Embassies ceased the Income letters rather than mislead Immigration the incomes were verified. Immigration issued new orders allowing the overseas transfer of 65K into a Thai bank account, yet the orders still to this date only stipulate the Embassy Income letters are 'certified' by the Embassies.

It's well documented that for certain banks, you need to make a small deposit or withdrawal to update the passbook to the current date. Bangkok Bank is the exception where they can update on the day without any transactions. It states current date and balance brought forward in the passbook.

I tend to think that smaller IO's in rural areas may insist on same day dated documentation, as the processing and waiting times are minimal. In larger IO's in urban areas, IO's grant documents to be pre-dated because of the processing and waiting times.

Roi Et Immigration.