jikkee

This has been an interesting post as i recently started trying to use TW, with not much success. My O-visa has always been by marriage since 2013 and i have used the income method as i have usa social security along with two other pensions. I had set up my social security since the beginning as Direct Deposit into Bangkok Bank New York and haven't had any problems with it and my social security alone is enough to meet income requirements. The only drawback to the BBL account is having to withdraw only in person and not being able to have online access, debit card or to mix any other money into that account. Up until this year's extension, the income affidavit from my embassy and copies of my social security benefit letter+ BBL statement and pension letters and statements from my multi-national retirement pensions were accepted. For my May 2019 extension, immigration wanted letter from BBL stating the source of the income and rejected the other retirement statements because they have no way of verifying the info. They would only accept statements from thai banks. They asked me to get letter from BBL detailing source of the deposits even though i showed them the original application for the BBL account is directly tied to the social security administration, along with 12 months of statements. I went to the silom office, as local branches only provide last 3 months statements, and they flatly informed me the only thing they can provide is a letter showing my account balance and account info and copies of my bank statements. I paid for statements of all my transfers since i opened the account in 2013 to give to immigration, just to show the Nakhon Pathom immigration officers(the same ones i report to every 90 days for the past six years). Fortunately, that was enough to get my extension this year. Next year i am not so sure. They always suggest the 400k retirement option as better, but I won't do it, as my total pension income is multiple times the 40k. I was looking at TW to structure one of my other pensions to my kbank account every month as insurance for next year's income requirement. After reading this thread, I will stick to monthly scheduled SWIFT transfers from my usa credit unions for the kbank account.