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Understood

That's understandable they need your passport because your driver's license while it has your passport number doesn't have your status of your visa when you have to leave the country or when you arrive. You may have the driver's license with your passport number on it but you could still be in the country illegally on overstay.

I travel regularly all over Thailand three days in udon 4 days in Bangkok 3 days in Phuket as an example I don't file any TM 30s wouldn't even consider it I've been doing this travel like this for the last 10 years that I've lived in Thailand zero issues

No my friend from the US bought a condo here went down to City Hall had to jump through a few hoops but he now holds a yellow book as well as a pink card all in his name. There's a lot of arguments about having these and not having these all I can say is I haven't had a yellow book or a pink card I've lived here 22 years I bought condos I bought vehicles motorbikes I did a lot of work had a work permit. The yellow book and pink card were never needed for anything that I did in all the years I've been here others swear by them so flip a coin.

Yes indeed lesson learned

I was told by a friend that there is a place on the app you can download this PDF of the statement that they send to you right away. In his case he did and he used it at the jomtien immigration office for his extension without a problem. But there were reports that others downloaded it to use it for their extension and was told it wasn't acceptable because it didn't have the bank stamp on it. So as with everything here your mileage may vary

I was out buying a few things using my mobile app as I have without an issue for quite a while now. I made a purchase and I guess I forgot to log out of the app once the purchase was approved. Put the phone back in my pocket headed home got home pulled the phone out and on the screen it said my mobile web pin number had been locked. I am guessing it bounced around in my pocket when I still have the app open which caused it to send bad information so they locked the app. They offer a way to unlock it without going to the bank but it didn't work for me. So on a motorbike taxi I went and I'm guessing that all the Frozen accounts and all the issues that have been had recently must be either finished or almost finished because when I walked into the bank at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon there were no customers zero at any of the desks or waiting to be waited on. They ushered me over to a desk I sat down and then I realized oh no I forgot my bank book I had my ATM card my phone with the app and my passport but no Bank book and most of the time you can't get anything done without having the bank book. I told the girl I was dealing with what I needed done the first thing she asked me for was my bank book. I explained to her I just didn't have it but I had my passport by ATM card and I was hoping that would be enough she said she was sorry but they really did need the bank book. Not her fault I got up took a few steps and ran into the lady that I've been dealing with her at least 15 years in that same branch we traded pleasantries she asked if everything was okay I explained to her what I needed and she said follow me we went over to her desk gave her my passport ATM card and my phone we went over to the ATM machine she put a bunch of things in it don't know what she did didn't really pay attention I had to acknowledge it then back to her desk. Then she had me log on again and put in my PIN number thankfully I could use the same pin number didn't want to change it. Lo and behold mobile app back to working pin number unlocked. She explained to me the technically they do need the bank book but she said if you opened your account in this branch which I did then they can get around that and the girl that waited on me was fairly new and she just followed procedure. I know Bangkok Bank has gotten a lot of flack recently but it looks like things have started to slow down regarding the Frozen accounts and such. I like Bangkok Bank it's easy for me to say because the account freezing had nothing to do with me didn't bother my accounts I could see where it would be frustrating but I've had my account for about 26 years and I just haven't had an issue that I didn't cause myself

That's what they told me at the social security office in Sriracha. others had told me that was not the case so I went to the rayong social security office it took me 15 minutes tops to enroll. All they needed was a copy of my passport as well as the bank book that I wished the social security refund was to be put into and the medical payment monthly was to be taken out of. Within 2 days they had refund my social security and the 15th of the month they had begun the 432 baht medical deduction. I guess social security is like immigration different officers and offices can change the rules as they like. That seems to be what happened in this case anyway

Make sure you get the letter from the embassy asking the Thai embassy to transfer your stamps from your old passport to your new passport. A very good friend of mine failed to do this when he got his US passport renewed in the states. He went down to immigration with both the new and the old passport and they refused to transfer the stamps without the letter from the US embassy asking them to do so. He had to make an appointment and go to Bangkok US embassy to get them to issue him that letter. As with everything immigration related here in Thailand some may have gotten away without having to do this but it's better to be safe than sorry and request that letter from the States along with your new passport.

I'm not flying on any airline that paints their planes like cartoons 🤣

Yes sorry also I had my Passbook.

Also interestingly enough I just read on the stickman weekly column that he has not gotten any reports from any of his friends or anybody else of their account being frozen in Bangkok. Saying it seems like it's all on accounts that basically have been opened up in Pattaya. Has anybody here had their account Frozen that was opened in Bangkok?

I opened that account on a 30-day Visa exempt. Walked into the branch with a business card from the hotel I was staying at my passport and 5000 baht and walked out with a passbook and a account. Then after I moved here a couple of years then after I moved here a couple of years later I switched over to the retirement extension. A year later I was on a business Visa with a work permit for many years and the last few years I've been back on the retirement Visa.

I got a new phone not long ago transferred the app but couldn't get it to work on my new phone. I went down to my branch of Bangkok Bank here in Pattaya with only my passport and ask if they could help me. I was concerned with all of the account freezing and everything else that's been going on but I needed this app because I use it for everything so I needed it on my new phone. She helped me install it and then told me I needed to go through facial recognition which took them about 20 times before it finally worked but they were patient and I needed it so I waited it out. I then asked her about the accounts being frozen and what have you she checked to make sure that my passport number matched my documents that they have on file. She then told me that my account was not flagged for review. Although I can't be sure I'm guessing that men that they needed nothing else for me to continue using my account. I'm not silly enough to think that I'm out of the woods every morning when I have coffee I scan to pay and wonder if this is going to be the day that I've got to go through what everybody else has went through. There must be certain criteria they look for I'm clueless. I have had my account since 2002 and I opened it at the branch that I dealt with recently not sure the length of the account has anything to do with it or not but for now I'm safe I guess what a mess for those having accounts Frozen and no access to their funds for a number of days.

Yeah that'll work are these people brain dead?