NanLaew

So you get your statistics and they show that seriously ill inmates sometimes get special treatment and you will say, "I told you so." or You get your statistics and they show that seriously ill inmates hardly ever get special treatment and you will say, "I told you so." What difference does it make if the former PM is or isn't getting preferential treatment? This is STILL Thailand, and it doesn't matter. Seriously, there's a whole lot of other stuff that can impact my life and that of my family and none of it is remotely connected to this former PM or any of them.

Yes, I know. I've had international accounts with a UK bank's IoM branch for over thirty years. But AUD, SGD, JPY, CHF are significant currencies that are only handled via Standard's SA office rather than a mainstream foreign bank such as Lloyds, London (GBP), Citibank NYC (USD). I guess an international African bank has to start somewhere. Although they obtained a UK banking licence in 1992, they were in talks in 2013 to sell off their London markets to the Chinese. Then in 2014 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) fined them £7,640,400 for failings relating to its anti-money laundering (AML) policies and procedures over corporate customers connected to politically exposed persons (PEPs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Bank Anyway, if it fits your immediate or short-term banking requirements, it appears to be among the few banks still doing 'remote' new account opening.

Agent and extensions. There's nothing preventing them from dropping the equivalent of $11,000 in their Thai bank account so they can still get the visa.

I had a look at their list of correspondent banks and for anything other than GBP, USD, EUR and AED, they list Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd.. Further research led me to the following: Standard Bank Group Limited is a major South African bank and financial services group. It is Africa's biggest lender by assets. The company's corporate headquarters, Standard Bank Centre, is situated in Simmonds Street, Johannesburg.

No bigger than what? (rhetorical)

If you think this forum has a preponderance of Thai bashers, you should have a trawl with the trolls that spend their day posting "comments" on the newspaper that can't be mentioned here. That collective of sadness makes this forum look like a long weekend in Blackpool in October.

Anything to keep the knowitall-but-can't-do-nothing-about-it farangs beating their gums!

Obviously you are not aware of the Thai Visas issued by Savannakhet. The Non O multi-entry Visa as Married to Thai has been a special situation at Savannakhet with no proof of 400,000 Thai banked money in your Thai bank account. @transam is fully aware of that visa and, like myself, has acquired more than a few of them at Savanakhet. Maybe you missed the winking emoji? Better to do an exit/entry just before the visa validity expires, thus obtaining a 90-day stay, and THEN apply for the 60-day extension in-country.

Go home and get a 1-year MENO from an embassy there? They're offshore workers after all, so they're filthy rich and can afford the one-time extra airfare.

The THB400,000 required at Savanakhet works out a bit less than that (at the moment).

For me, it was the freedom of NOT having to attend immigration police offices in Thailand, with their tendency to play fast and loose with (or make up) the rules. Getting a visa means a one-time dealing with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (they run the embassies and consulates), and the only immigration jobsworths I have to face are the ones stamping me in/out of Thailand.

My family just learned that Grandpa has Viagra addiction. No one is taking it harder than Grandma.

The merchant pays back to the bank/card issuer, not the customer. And then...?

Thanks for the clarification. How did you receive the original cards? Personally? While in the US? Have they ever been used in the US? I had a debit card that had never seen the outside of my wallet get blocked by my bank when a string of charges popped up from Vietnam. Although I was a frequent visitor there, this card had never seen the light of day anywhere. The first three charges were small, and the bank explained these were 'test' transaction by the fraudsters to verify the validity. They stopped the nonsense on the fourth, much larger transaction. Took a few weeks for the affidavit of use to get to them, but they unlocked the card as soon as I contacted them and verbally verified it wasn't me and all the charges were removed.

If these charges are only happening in the US and your original cards are still in the US while the images of these cards are on someone's phone in the US...

Why? And what do you mean by 'sites like'?

Do you have a problem comprehending the thread title? What part of savannakhet now require bank statement (400k) for 1 year multi visa (non-O marriage or Thai family) is causing you confusion? What? You mean more recently than the OP's 1-hour ago? Their websites never contained a precise and factual list of requirements. If they were, this forum would be dead already.

Indeed Citi in Singapore does still do a remote/online application process for high net worth accounts.

Nuke and pave it from Tai to Klang. That'll sort out the Soi Buakhao traffic issue.

Sounds like someone has never been on the baht bus behind the one doing the "10, 15, 20. 30 seconds" request stop on Soi Buakhao.

So you did your homework, well done you. It's no excuse to call people you don't know with different circumstances an idiot. Only an idiot would do that. My point was that by using the word "simply", you suggest that's all that anyone will need to get a CoR. This based solely on your unique experience. There's no 'one size fits all' when it comes to dealing with bureaucracy here in Thailand, none whatsoever.

While some, especially on internet forums, are judgemental trolls.

This is Thailand. You cannot arbitrarily throw the word "simply" into any conversation based on your own, unique experiences. For example, what if the person seeking the CoR (in UT & NK) has neither a rental agreement nor a yellow book?

Many years ago, beach road and walking street were two-way. Then they made it all one-way, people gurned. Then they made walking street pedestrian-only after dark, people gurned. Good to see that the gurning processes are alive and well on Buakhao.

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