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34 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Yes but you would have to use the combination option to meet the requirements.

At this time $2000 is less than 65k baht. Using todays T/T rate of 31.25 it is only 62,500 baht.

Currently (As of 0925 5 March) the rate on XE.com is 31.42 - TransferWise uses the rates equivalent to what's reported on XE.com - Set your Dollar target at $2,100+ so you can clear the 65K hurdle and also have some wiggle room for fluxuating exchange rates...I'm sure you know rates move minute by minute.

You can also use your home bank's debit card to fund TransferWise.  It's only a dollar or so more than an ACH... If necessary, call your bank and have them reset the upper limit on the amount of money you can use on your Debit Card transactions  (understanding that Wells Fargo has their heads stuck where the sun doesn't shine).

I think you confused going to a local immigrations office to apply for an extension and "taking all your documentation" with simple entering the country.  Big difference...

15 minutes ago, Martyp said:

If you apply for a new O-A visa you will have to buy insurance this time to qualify. This is different than your previous O-A application. Even though you only stay 8 month/year you should consider getting an non-O visa. Either start in the US or come to Thailand to do it. No insurance required. I'm guessing you have the required money in a Thai bank already which should help ion the non-O process. In about 3 months you can apply for a 1 year extension and then you are set for your future time in Thailand.

 

Good luck

If an individual acquires a Non Immigrant O-A visa in his home country he would have no need to have large sums of money in a Thai bank--he may, but it is not necessary.   Money in the bank in Thailand is only required when you are applying for a conversion of a Visa Exempt Entry or a Tourist Visa into Non O visa, or applying for an Extension of Stay at a local immigrations office.  Also he may not be here at a the same time each year to renew a yearly extension--which must be done sometime between 45 days and expiration of said extension...

1 hour ago, Okis said:

For me I have two choices, take a 1 hour drive to make 90 days report(they don't do online reporting here for some reason) or i take a 1 hour drive to the border which is close by the same town where the immigration office is located. 

 

1 option i have to deal with paperwork, waiting time and interacting with dodgy immigration officers. 

2 option i just stamp out and in again at the border which usually takes max minutes. 

 

Pretty easy choice imo. 

So, you're saying you just walk out of one gate after being stamped as exiting, then turn around and walk back in through another gate and get stamped in as entry...no purchase of a visa to enter Cambodia or Laos or whatever country--which by the way costs more money.  What are you not telling us?

Dealing with paperwork (really), waiting time (maybe), and interacting with dodgy immigrations officers--please explain why one needs to be dodgy about a simple 90 day check?  Personally, I think you're blowing this whole thing out of proportion.

11 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

A better option would be a 1 year 10k visa\extension without any income, balance or bank statement nonsense. Govt would make more money

I don't think they want the country overcrowded (overrun?) with destitute people who can scrape up 10,000 baht.  I mean seriously, who can't afford a measly 300 USD?!?

My bathroom floors are 1" lower than the rest of the house and the shower areas are a further 1/2 lower than the rest of the bathroom floors.

Never heard of lowering kitchen floors--and my entire house is tiled...

I use Microsoft OneNote...works seamlessly across Android and Windows 10 and is simple click and type...

1 minute ago, Thaifish said:

Sounds like an interesting option... ????

If I were you, I'd talk to my local immigrations office and try to see if this method is even acceptable to them now--understanding that things may change in the future.  Unless someone from your particular office can tell you first hand that they had success...

32 minutes ago, TheAppletons said:

  One does not need a "letter" if one applies for an e-visa directly from the Vietnamese government website:

 

https://evisa.xuatnhapcanh.gov.vn/en_US/web/guest/trang-chu-ttdt

 

  The letter is only required if one wants to get a VOA (visa on arrival) which is not an e-visa.

The letter they are talking about is for the personnel at the Thai Embassy/Consulate in Vietnam requesting the Non O visa for her spouse for entry into Thailand...

1 minute ago, scubascuba3 said:

Theoretically I'm sure you are right but on the ground different rules apply to these people. At Jomtien i couldn't get a non Imm O using monthly transfers. Insistent 800k was required. Was boss lady lying? Probably, but what can you do

The real question is, what did you do?

Look around in here:

https://forum.thaivisa.com/forum/121-insurance-in-thailand/

Just now, Russell17au said:

That is why the police order states average monthly income because when the income letters were stopped is was shown that the 3 countries involved all paid their pensions differently so the provisions were made to cover that problem. Also if I must open an Australian bank account and have my pension paid into that then transfer the money each month to my Thai bank account I am hit with fees in Australia plus fees for the transfer plus it pays at a lower exchange rate. At present the only fee that I have is my annual fee with the Bangkok bank and the money is transferred at the current exchange rate with no fees added to it

I totally understand your situation.  But it's up to the immigration officers if they want to deal with averaging out your deposits.  And I doubt they would trust anyone's math (spreadsheets included) except their own. 

I have yet to read about any one individual showing deposits less than 40K getting approved.  Now that's not to say that it hasn't happened, because people rarely report good news.  I'm just saying...police order or not, complication in this environment is not good.

2 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

Yes, and also a spreadsheet from the bank on bank letterhead showing each transfer plus the total amount plus the average monthly amount

Between me and you, I don't think the spreadsheet had any effect on your cause.  However, if the money had been deposited into your overseas account and "once a month" you did one transfer for each of the past 12 months from your overseas bank into your Thai bank account...then they would only have to look at 12 deposits--each with an amount above the required 40k.  

Are you following me?  I think you over complicated things for them...

17 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

13 x 4 weekly payments as the Australia pension is paid every 4 weeks. 38,000 to 41,000 but there were 13 payments for the year and when divided by 12 it came out around the 43,000 per month. All my payments come direct from the Reserve Bank in Australia to my Bangkok Bank account here, it does not go through any commercial bank as the Reserve Bank is the government bank

Did you present your Thai bank book along with the required letter from your Thai bank and a yearly statement also from said Thai bank?

2 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

These are just stupid.

 

You can run raspberry pi for half this. But what do you do with it? Plug it into the TV I don't have? All the wireless clutter. Mouse, keyboard...

Why are you always such an a**hole?  The man said he wanted a backup in the event his system bit the dust.  Go back and read the original post...said his budget was about 3000 Baht!  

And who in hell wants to deal with a Raspberry Pi and all the extra <deleted> that entails... A compute stick is plug and play!

Try a Intel Compute Stick...full windows 10 computer on a 1" x 4" x 1/2 form factor that plugs into an HDMI port on a Monitor or any size LED TV just have a USB Keyboard Mouse combo available and you're off and running (Bluetooth is better)

Available on Lazada they will deliver C.O.D.

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Just now, JetsetBkk said:

I usually take them apart just to see what's in them.

And stick the drive on the fridge door with a magnet from inside the drive.

Man, I thought I was the only one that did this!!!  P.S. Partition Master/Magic and probably Partition Wizard also can rebuild the corrupted boot sector on the drive--but then you probably already knew that...