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    Retirement Visa: Scary Stuff?

    in Thai Visas, Residency, and Work Permits

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    On 9/22/2020 at 8:08 AM, ehgnyc said:

    No I don't. Any advice? I had one in Cambodia, but it was opened for me by my job. I asked at a few banks here and they said no. I hear it can be difficult for US citizens.

    I opened an account when I was here on a tourist visa.  Try Bangkok Bank.  I asked at several different banks and they all told me to go to Bangkok Bank.  Even then, I had to try several different branches (in ChiangMai) before I found one that would/could do it.  But that was more than a year ago, before all this COVID stuff.  Good luck.

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    Paying Thai girlfriend a "salary"

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    This thread was quite a surprise to me.  I've been coming to Thailand since 2001 - 41 times and counting, including living in Bangkok for 2 years, and (now) in ChiangMai (3.5 years so far).  I've met lots of Thai girls over the years - never had any ask me to pay them a salary.  I have a Thai GF now (for several years) and she pays her half of everything.  And by that I mean our living expenses.  She pays the note on the land she acquired back in 2017, and the house we built on it.  The car and truck we drive are hers (paid for by her).  I buy a lot of other things for the house to offset what she shells out for the bank note - but even then, a lot of what I spend goes for tools that are just for me, so I can do more work on the house.

     

    Bottom line... it's a relationship based on trust and cooperation and compatibility - not on me paying her an outrageous salary.

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    Is this the Thai version of "The chicken and the egg"?

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    I moved to ChiangMai in Jan 2016.  I arrived on a tourist visa, converted it to Non-O, and then to a retirement visa.  As an American, to satisfy the money requirement, I could go to the US Consulate in CM, raise my right hand and swear to whatever income I wanted, and get an affidavit confirming that as fact.  I've used that method for every renewal since.

     

    In 2019, the US Consulate stopped providing that service.  I had never bothered to get a Thai bank account, so I don't have *any* deposit history to show.  I had to leave Thailand on June 17, 2019, as I was unable to renew my retirement visa, and am writing this from Kuala Lumpur.  Before I left, I visited a branch of BKK Bank and asked if I would be able to open an account when I returned on a Non-O visa (which I hope to get here in KL).  So far, the answer has been "no".

     

    So before I can get a retirement visa, I need to show Immigration a ledger from a Thai bank showing 6 months (soon to be 12 months) of deposits for at least 65,000 THB.  But according to BKK Bank, I can only open an account if I already have a retirement visa.

     

    Can anyone shed any light on this situation?  How have others gotten around this conundrum?... legally, that is.

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