NanLaew

Not for their offshore / expat / international accounts that wouldnt make sense An example from NatWest International account information page (my emphasis). "To apply for one of our bank accounts you must meet the minimum age, residency, balance and/or deposit requirements. View the relevant product page to find out more." and "To apply you must be; aged 18+, resident in one of our listed countries and meet our minimum balance, salary or deposit requirements. Please note: all accounts opened through our online, digital application will be based in Jersey and therefore bound by Jersey Law." "Residential requirements Our International Banking service can help customers who are resident in the following countries: Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, China (Expats only), Denmark, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom (Non-domiciled only) or the United States of America. Please note that not all of our products and services are available in all jurisdictions and some are available on a limited basis only due to local regulatory and legal requirements." Furthermore: "You can apply for an International Select account if you are: aged 18+, and resident in one of our listed countries, and open the account with a minimum deposit of £25,000 or pay in a mandated salary of £40,000." Since Thailand isn't on their pre-approved list, it will be up to the applicant to ascertain what proof of being non-domiciled in the UK will be accepted by this bank. Also, most pensions will fall well short of the monetary minimums required to open and maintain the account. Good luck!

It's a mistake to assume that your experience is the norm. Opening a bank account in Thailand isn't always easy.

You're nearer to Savannakhet than you are to Vientiane.

If the Non-O isn't issued in time in the UK, you can enter Thailand on a visa-exempt and then pop over to Savannakhet before it expires and get the MENO.

If you build it, they will come, if you charge it, they will pay.

So was the (original) Jazz Pit. I can't.

Four times in one night was my best effort.

This will be a watershed election where Thailand's age-old excuse that democracy here is 'different' is finally laid to rest. A non-military adminstration will restart and continue the deep, fundamantal, political and societal changes inspired by the successive, popular, non-military adminstrations of 2001-14. There will be no more military coups and long after he has passed, Prayuth will be rightly recognized as the last 'army man' to usurp power but the first one who read the people right. On the other hand...

Nice tapering, great sphincter work there, thanks.

On a side note, for tax purposes, how would the Thai Revenue Department be able to determine when the money being transferred in from overseas was actually 'earned/paid'?

Those earthenware ongs are my backup solution for when city water and all my fancy pipe, tank and pump wizardry goes tits up.

It would be of greater relevance and importance to know about the British public's stance on the ongoing industrial action and strikes; they should be abolished, are not very important or not at all important.

Just like the Tories back in fair Albion, eh?

To qualify for a new Isle of Man or Channel Island bank account, you need to be resident there. I recall their residency criteria is the standard 180 days in a calendar year.

It wasn't fake. It came in, sat there for as long as was needed and then I had to send it back. I was a baht millionaire for about an hour and a half.

Yes it is hotter and more appliances are consuming more but do you understand the ins and outs of the mercurial "Ft" calculation and it's interaction with other banded discounts? ...and why EGAT is broke?

Christ on a bloody bike! Yet another invented 'surge' of Chinese tourists that won't bloody happen. The world. THE WORLD!!! Mayday!...Mayday!...Mayday!...

But it really IS his fault as PM and more importantly, Chairman of NERC, the regulatory authority that dictates what can be gouged from people's wallets. This to support an unsustainmable reach-around that EGAT has with his government. The heatwave only served to expose the fleecing by his government's accounts payable.

I was reading in The Guardian how only 9% of English people knew that it was St. George's day last Sunday.

Which branch? Sheesh...

And the branch was where? And his non-immigrant entitlement was what?

No Dudley, they don't want you.

We do.

Are we supposed to play at "Guess what bank" now? Sheesh...

The wife of a friend of mine got her degree at Monash in Melbourne but can't find Australia on a map. Regardless of this, the sun still rises.