Presnock

That ties up 800,000 if single or 400,000 if married. I use the 65+K and have since the embassy letters ceased. I spend less than an hour a year at immigration doing the yearly stay approval which goes smoothly. Bangkok Bank provides necessary documents to validate that the funds come each and every month into my account, verifies that it is my account only and a copy of the bank book for that account. it costs 1900 baht per year to stay plus 500 baht to the bank for copies of documents. Hard to argue that any other way is easier without tying up that money. Just saying.

I have been going to CM immigration since 2015 when I moved to CM fm BKK. After fighting the traffic in BKK, CM was fine but I did not like the having to get in line by at least 4AM to get a queue ticket for that day. Then there were changes. They moved around and then several embassies stopped issuing the pension letters.. Instead of penalizing ME, this saved me 50 US dollars in that I no longer had to visit the consulate for that letter. I get enough paperwork from the pension office that more than satisfies the Immigration officers. Some even laugh at the amount of paperwork I provide to them from my local bank to my pension office to my stateside bank. I have never been asked to provide any extra funds and for the past two years, have spent less than an hour at immigration each year. NOW they have even come up with the new 90-day report online - and it worked for me the very first time so instead of things getting worse it seems the opposite for me. I appreciate the smiles and talking with the IO's that I have interacted with. My experiences may be solely mine and others may be different.

Chiang Mai

looks like everyone that was complaining about the 90-day report of residence, can if one has enough money, for 10,000 baht you only have to do that report once a year plus your yearly extension fee! Did I miss something. Then you can only extend for an additional 5 years after the first 5 years. It doesn't look to me like this is anything positive for retirees but maybe I just can't read between the lines.

negative. First time I tried 3 years ago I got through successfully and never again so I have been using the EMS post of the TM47 for the past 3 years. When they reported this new system, I registered as they instructed and then when this month's report was due I logged in and it worked with no glitches at all and very quickly! Can't argue or complain so far.

read the note, it says logged into the 90-day online report, 90 days from now will be April when next is due.

This morning after 8 AM, I logged in to the Thai Immigration 90-day online report using the password that they gave me when I registered. It took 5 minutes to fill in the TM47. Submitted it immediately. Got the reply email that they accepted it and approved the stay until April. This reply with printable copy for passport was dated/timed at 8:47AM, Much easier and quicker than before. No complaints from me. This is really another positive move that many complain about.

I think what the govt's of the world want to stop is the overloading of hospitals that care for the covid patients. Amazing that non-vaxx'ers are filling up the hospitals again. Yeah I know vaccinated folks are being infected too with this variant but they aren't the majority of those seriously suffering and dying from the covid. Some people can't get necessary care because the hospitals are full of the covid patients. Doctors and nurses though vaccinated are now getting infected and have to leave work so those care givers are getting the worse of this - mostly due to those anti-vaxx'ers! I have friends who are some of these care givers and I see their stories regularly, not just from the biased news media.