BarryMunn

2 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

As supporting documents to his Embassy letter, not without the Embassy letter.

He said he never used an embassy letter, or maybe I just misunderstood the conversation...

20 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

Where...… when?

 

 

A German legal friend here states he has only ever had to show bank statements as proof of monthly income at immigration.

17 minutes ago, john smith said:

I went to Hua Hin main immigration office yesterday. The Immigration officer spoke excellent English. He said that my Embassy letter would be accepted for renewal of my non marriage  retirement visa which is due in three months time. For renewal the following year I must show 800,000 in the bank for three months before renewal. He went on to say that both the combination method and regular transfers of 65,000 are not accepted.

He then mentioned that this applied to the UK America and Australia. I did not ask what the position was for other nationalities 

There is clearly a huge difference between what the Immigration in Bangkok state & the provincial offices. Even the immigration website states about the monthly income being acceptable, obviously, it is the proof of this that should be the question. Bank statements showing this for other countries are acceptable so why not UK, US & Austrlia? My parents have lived in Hua Hin for over 6 years now and have over the required monthly income, they just don't have the savings! This whole thing is a complete nightmare and there is no reason they should be denied the visa having paid in their pensions to Thai bank accounts every month!!