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They make no check, you simply need a UK address for the card to be sent to, with no proof required such as utility bills that you actually live there. Don't be so naïve to think that a bank would not do any checks on an applicant's provided address! Regardless of that, Monzo won't allow new accounts from Thailand. Try to log in after they send a login email and the following message is generated (before any personal information whatsoever is supplied to the app)... "Unfortunately we cannot offer you a Monza account, We're afraid we can't go into more detail why we can't odder you an account. We assess every application using the details you've given us". Apart from downloading their app and providing an email address Monzo had no other information from me, yet my application could not go any further.

So what? The OP is in 2023 wanting a new account, he is not you in 2010 when things were different.

I still have house in UK So what? How does that help expats in Thailand who are not currently UK resident?

And?

Every UK bank agrees on one rule, new account applicants must be UK-resident. There are no exceptions.

Revolut is not available for new accounts for people in Thailand!

But what happens if they are not happy for me as an existing account holder of over 40 years to keep my account whilst living in Thailand, they will close it and then i'm ........ That would be your problem entirely if you do not meet the requirements of the bank. The bank did not make you Non-resident, you did it yourself.

"No problems" with what? Opening a new account for a Non-UK resident sure is a problem.

It may be accurate but it is irrelevant for expats in Thailand who are not UK resident.

And a UK address to open the account.

Why? They don't do UK accounts for non-residents, either.

So what? Non-UK residents such as the OP is asking about cannot.

No problems with what? Non-UK residents can't open new accounts with that bank.

No you cannot, you need to be UK resident to open a new HSBC account in the UK.

How does that help anyone who wants to open a new account from Thailand when they require all applicants to be UK resident?

works fine for me.....a debit/credit card is a debit/credit card when using t'internet, n'est ce pas? Revolut does not currently offer facilities for new applications from Thailand.

Not available from Thailand.

Their second page does ask for a UK address, at which the applicant will be checked, obviously. Being a UK resident is not a "theoretical" requirement, it is an absolute requirement for a new account.

If push came to shove, being a UK citizen wouldn't mean that you are UK resident for banking purposes, unfortunately.

Definitely not.

Officially, no UK banks permit non-residents to have accounts. Many people who opened accounts in the past when they were resident or provide a false UK address still have those accounts and haven't been bothered but they could be asked to close them if their bank wants to enforce their regulations. No UK bank will open a new account for a non-resident such as an expat in Thailand.

You shouldn't be on the road, either, if you can't see the barriers, on both sides!

Prior to your posting that, no one had posted laughing emojis at the OP and to claim that it had happened multiple times is just as "callous and disrespectful", one did appear to be directed at a clinic's doctor, not the OP.

No, "we all" definitely are not. Such cobbler's.

Absolute condescending garbage and totally false.