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I have a bank safety deposit box with Bangkok bank. Charged 2000 baht per year or 1000 baht after discount because of my bank account. Its was very hard to get one. Not many available. In order to get it i had to get a life assurance policy. The terms for the policy were IMHO very good. Better interest than having money in the bank, but tied into a policy for contributions each year several years. Now nearing maturity - next year. I used it as a savings policy for about 1 million baht on maturity to then buy a new car. Very timely as my wife is recently complaining we need a new car.

As well as what liquorice stated you need the STM forms 2, 9, 10, 11. Note that STM 10 requires a witness. You need to ask what they require for this. Some offices require the witness there at immigration. With a quick search just found this page that has those forms. Ignore the others for wp. https://chiangmai.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/ข้อกำหนดคณะกรรมการติดตาม-1-2.68.pdf

I understand that the STM 10 and 11 were added recently. So they are new for those who have been doing extensions before. You need to be aware that the STM 10 form requires a witness. At the bottom right. In hua hin, i had to get a thai witness who knows me and my wife. Fortunately, somebody we knew was available and could come to immigration fairly quickly. I have seen some other posts concerning this, indicating that other people in immigration could be used as a witness. However, if so they may need to be Thai, have a thai ID and house book with them. It all depends what CW require and you need to check with them. If other people reading this have done the marriage extension recently in CW with an STM10, then can you please advise what happened for your STM 10 witness.

If the OP has outlook classic, can you not still open it offline? If so can you then read the data, and export the old data as Outlook Data File (.pst) if necessary. Be aware that if you have upgraded to the new outlook, it is not possible to save data onto your own PC. Data is stored in the cloud. I had to revert to classic outlook from the new version in order to be able to save backups.

The problem may be part of the new microsoft policy. However i thought it was due to start 01 August. Microsoft is phasing out passwords for a more secure, passwordless future, starting with the removal of password management features from the Microsoft Authenticator app. Specifically, saved passwords in the Authenticator app will be deleted starting August 1, 2025. This is part of a broader push towards using passkeys and other authentication methods. The ability to add or import new passwords into the Authenticator app has already been removed, and autofill functionality will also be discontinued, according to Microsoft. There may be a lot of people who are not aware of this yet. Its seems to be easiest to create a passkey. FYI, I have used yahoo mail for 28 years with few problems, and gmail as backup.

I have always had my registererrd address with bangkok bank in english, and that is what is printed on a statement. Should be no problem to get it in english.

From what is stated on the list of requirements at hua hin. The renewal of the khor ror 22 will be necessary at each renewal. Your immigration office should confirm. I had to renew it twice, once to get the initial 90 day non-o, then for the one year extension. Once i got the khor ror 22, i have not been asked for documents again to get the update. Getting an updated 22 at the amphur was easy and did not take much time. Once the MFA certification is done. It should not be necessary again. Hua hin immigration did not require the certified marriage certificate. I did not have it certified before. They wanted an original khor ror 22 and took the original marriage cert no issue, plus two photocopies. ( signed). I have seen posts where an immigration office wants to see the certified marriage cert. Perhaps i was lucky. I do now have a marriage certificate (formal copy from the original registrar) fully certified. I did not use my initial original marriage cert. In case it could get lost anywhere in posting.

For information. There is also an MFA centre in bluport Hua Hin. Walk in. My amphur in kui buri , prachuap, asked for certified documents, but i was lucky they accepted the original uk marriage certificate with a translation and gave me the khor ror 22. They did tell me to get the apsostillle done in uk because i may be asked for it. I did get it done when back in the uk recently. So i have the uk and london legalization done. However, getting the translation certified to go with the marriage cert has not been straightforward. Have had to get corrections made to the thai translation twice. If you had to do appointments each time that would be a lot of time. Fortunately in hua hin, the MFA staff have been very good, walk in each time and they quickly process. Soihok should also be aware that a khor ror 22 is only valid for two months at immigration. But you can easily go to any amphur office to get it renewed. You do not have to go to the original amphur where you first registered.

Noted. Been in the sticks and offline a couple of days. I had posted earlier referring to experience in Hua hin. Trust the OP saw it.

Understood, and yes its possible, but when i applied i discussed with IO that i would be going abroad when i asked for the reentry permit. He said it would not be a problem. So i think its important for people in this situation to advise the IO when applying for the extension and see what they say.

I made my first application for non-o married 90 day. In hua hin a few months ago. And was going abroad during the under consideration period. When i made my application i told the IO, that i would be going out and he did the single reentry permit forv me without any issue. So you should not expect it to be a problem if you return in appropriate time to get the approved extension. Added. However i do not think that you should take the risk of going out beyond your current permit to stay date. The under consideration period date to go back to get the approved extension can be after your current permit to stay. As you know from previous. I would take no chances with what an IO at airport incoming may consider ok or not.

Surge of tourism for Pattaya from domestic flights? Hard not to laugh. Have you been through Utapao? Why would you bother when flights are so limited and there is good road transport from BKK. The media should dream something realistic, please. No chance of casinos now, and even if there could be the high speed railway, that seems to have lost its way.

The RD will eventually want the information on the account automatically, when the system gets implemented, but to be clear, I agree they should not require any information on who made the transfers. Just the same as you pointed out for the overseas accounts. If the RD have the information on Income to the account thats all they need so that they can see if the income exceeds the taxable threshold. Its unlikely they will have the resources to check a lot of the information provided. So, will it be hit and miss? FYI, there are standard electronic formats for the reporting. I have seen them on one of the websites and tried looking at one, but it looked too difficult to figure out and i didnt have the time to go through all the stacks of guidance notes. If the reporting is in a standard electronic format, then it could be very easy for the RD to run simple automated checks on the information provided for the amount of income to identify any that are above the taxable threshold for further investigation. With this in mind, there is good reason for people to watch out for reports of how this issue develops in the next year or two.

"it would be impossible for the revenue department in Thailand to know who transfers money from abroad into Thailand". Yes they will not know who transferred the money in, but you state that "the Thai RD will not know anything". But its not so simple. If they do implement the information exchange with RD, we can expect that the banks will (eventually?) be required to provide the information on the account and the information on the account should show the income to the account if there has been transfers. If RD gets that information, they can consider any income as taxable income if it exceeds the taxable threshold. And the onus will be on the individual to then show why it is not taxable income.

I dont think we know yet whether the RD will know. With the implementation of the CRS in Thailand, the banks should be requesting your TIN. And if you are tax resident they will request the Thai TIN. Some have already been doing it, but its likely to be another year or two until they insist. In the UK when the CRS got implemented it took a couple of years. Under the CRS , banks and finacial institutions are required to report things to the RD. But would need to do it with a TIN. Although they have been very slow to implement the CRS here, IMHO its only a matter of time until the RD realises that they can get the information from the banks. How long is anybody's guess. TIT. People may consider it an unlikely concern at the current time. And even more so if you have not yet had to give the bank a TIN. I trust that we will get to know if and when it starts to happen through posts here.