treetops

Can you tell us the names of some of these apps? They may be operating system ones rather than Xiaomi bloatware.

It doesn't because Santander doesn't have such a policy. As above, they may close any accounts for a variety of reasons, including those of non-UK residents, but being non-resident won't be the reason.

Agreed, but another option may be to find another pension provider which more suits the expat's needs, although that may be easier said than done.

I don't think "expats" is a group where it's not allowed to discriminate against like religions, races etc.

You're misinterpreting this somehow: They may close it while you're abroad (as they can do with any account) but not because you're abroad.

Was just about to say Santander. It's documented on their site: https://www.santander.co.uk/personal/support/customer-support/moving-abroad

Kasikorn should mark international transfers as "Trade Finance Deposit" according to Wise. Do you see that?

Yes, they're the correct websites. Watch out for DCC if you use a non Thai card for payment.

Is that still the case? I know it's not for the Jomtien office and the online system can be used.

£15 increase. The price of Business Class tickets now is such that you'll hardly notice a £15 increase in the taxes.

That's Thai thinking for you. They have a bus from DMK to BKK and one from BKK to Hua Hin, but not one from DMK to Hua Hin. The regular shuttle btween airports however is only supposed to be for those holding airline tickets IIRC, but there may be ways round that, if the service mentiond by thaitot is not running.

The flattened beer bars from Made in Thailand are to be replaced with beer bars! The Tesco that replaced some of the Buakhao facing beer bars in R-Con Plaza has been replaced by beer bars!

I've just posted in your other thread that there's a 100,000 THB cut off point from it being almost immediate to it taking the long route. My example there showed it being initiated in GBP but the same seems true for USD. I have no personal experience of Kasikorn.

The previous 50,000 baht limit you mention has been increased to 100,000 baht I believe. Screenshots attached support that:

Were you perhaps a bit earlier in initiating the transaction this time round? There's a cut off time (about 8:30am ish I think) that if you start it before then it's 2:00pm ish the same day, after that it's 2:00pm ish the next (working) day, if everything goes smoothly.

I think as a proportion of transactions completed without issue it's miniscule.

I would say definitely a Wise problem. For me, their (Wise') email time stamp ties in (within 10 minutes) of the time received in BBL going by my BBL statement. All the delay was prior to that. As you have funded from your Wise balance and me from a UK bank transfer we can probably rule out how Wise got their money, so the only thing left is internal issues at Wise.

I normally receive an email with Subject "Transfer Sent" from Wise. This was delayed in my example above, but if you've received the email I think you'll be OK.

That's what I would have expected which would mean billd766 was actually financing his transfer from a Wise balance, different from my experience. Next we would need to know whether the state pension got to Wise at the "usual" time or if it was delayed.

Does this mean the the UK pension is sent to your Wise account and once you see it's there you initiate a transfer in THB to your Thai account, or does it come stright through to your Thai account? Sorry, I'm not familiar with UK State pension via Wise payment procedures or options.

Can those experiencing delays also mention whether they are being funded from a Wise balance or from a bank transfer, and from which country as that may help discover the root of the problem. Also the amount involved if desired, or at least an indicator. I experienced a couple of hours delay a few days ago on what would normally be expected as an almost instantaneous transfer. Funded from a UK bank faster payment which Wise did not acknowledge receipt of for 2 hours when normally it's immediately acknowledged and the funds paid out to BBL within seconds. Low value transfer (< 50,000 baht).

Try Bolt.

No, as already explained. Stop making things up.

Don't rely on Google and don't suggest independent entities as that's not accurate either. They are certainly left to their own devices on a wide range of activities, as you've found out and as has been reported on here many times. Franchises (as we know them) might not be the right word either but there is a great deal of self containment which is a different business model to western banks.

As with banks, franchises may not be setup the same in Thailand as they are in your home country. ???? Whatever you want to call it, bank branches are set up/ran semi-independently from the bank itself. You have discovered this in being dealt with differently at different branches. Of course there are (lots of) areas where they must conform to the parents' rules but they have a lot of self autonomy too.