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Yes, definitely more a case IMHO of yet another shining example of bungling incompetence and ineptitude on HM Government's part - as frequently manifested in our dealings these days with HMRC, DWP and HMPO in particular. To assist you in checking your tax affairs from now on, you might wish to consider setting up a personal tax account, as explained in the following link: https://www.gov.uk/personal-tax-account

Original non-OA visa holders who are unable to obtain mandatory health insurance cover are already required to deposit 3m THB into Thai bank accounts for retirement extension purposes - at least 2m of which is unprotected/uninsured - as a result of sub-para 6.3 of Police Order 654/2564:

Deposits are insured to 1 million THB currently: https://www.dpa.or.th/en/articles/view/protection-limit But in the context of possible requirements for 1.2 or 1.6 million THB deposits your point is still well made IMHO.

In which case why did you singularly fail to make the point (which @BritTim subsequently did) that it was essential for the OP to make his immigration office aware of his travelling plans?

IMHO it is singularly unfortunate (to put it mildly) that you have only now chosen to make that fundamental point clear. EDIT: And yes, I did re-read all your previous posts on this thread before making this comment!

Daily cap for TfL bus travel is now £5.25: https://tfl.gov.uk/campaign/new-fares?intcmp=34454

Plus TSB:

Thaksin to return home on August 10, Paetongtarn says And which cell in the Bangkok Hilton might this be, I wonder?

As is already the case with Australia, I believe. But at least we would then be spared the Life Certificate bureaucratic nonsense which DWP insist on inflicting on us every couple of years or so! ????

But pure guesswork on your part as you say, though. As has already been suggested a number of times, the OP really needs to post on here a photo/scan of his denial of entry stamp stating IMM's specific reason for denying him entry.

@Pappap - in order for your questions to be answered meaningfully, it would be helpful if you could indicate the Thai bank to which your monthly 65k transfers will be destined. EDIT: I now see from the title of this thread that you refer to Bangkok Bank, so presumably it is they?

If so then it strikes me that the only course of action open to @bamboozled would be to ask Wise to "tag" his account with the aim of ensuring that Bangkok Bank always act as their partner bank in his case, just as I did some time ago.

Well, at least the OP wasn't threatened with the dreaded "Bangkok Runaround" by his amphur, unlike @mancub! Yep I came to the same conclusion as you that it wasn't worth the effort when, after actually accomplishing the dreaded "Bangkok Runaround" myself at the insistence of my amphur, I returned to their office clutching all their required docs, only to fall at the final fence when some eagle-eyed oik there spotted that the Thai transliteration of my surname stated in them didn't exactly match my wife's as stated on her ID card and in her blue house book! In any event I have to question the fundamental value of an ID card and house book for foreigners which does not include what I consider to be the most important piece of personal information in our case - namely the date when our current permission to stay in Thailand expires.

Are you seriously saying that immigration offices (and in particular Rayong in this instance) don't require any supporting financial proof in the form of certified passbook copies and/or bank statements in the case of marriage extension applications? Even allowing for the fact that this is Thailand I find this incredibly hard to believe! But there again maybe we are at cross-purposes here??

I had in mind the requirement for 12-month bank statements - which I have since my OP been informed by a personal source outside Asean Now with contacts with the hierarchy at Rayong Immigration is, indeed, also to apply to marriage extensions processed through that particular office.

Strikes me that the optimum solution for those stashing the 800k in a Bangkok Bank account would be to transfer this to an account with another bank (Bangkok Bank are, I gather, alone among Thai banks in not being able to provide 12-month statements on the spot). Maybe 400k after the post-extension 800k 3-month seasoning period has expired, and the remaining 400k just before the 800k 2-month seasoning period for the next extension application commences?

But the 12-month statement is definitely a new requirement as far as Rayong Immigration are concerned. I was not asked for one this time last year.

I mean copies of pages from your passbook which you sign and date yourself, just as you do copies of passport pages.

Retirement - did you extend on the basis of 800k in the bank or 65k monthly income? Your reference to a deposit account would appear to point to the former, but grateful if you could clarify for the avoidance of any doubt.

Yep, as crystal clear as mud, actually. Unfortunately crystal balls which might enable us to make sense of what you're banging on about don't appear to be on offer at Lazada!

They now require 12-month bank statements as well as certified passbook copies, as I found out yesterday when seeking my latest retirement extension there. Presumably this new requirement also applies to those seeking marriage extensions on the basis of 400k in the bank. This will prove a particular PITA for those who stash the requisite funds in a Bangkok Bank account since their branches are unable to produce 12-month statements on the spot but instead require up to a week's notice to obtain these from Head Office in Bangkok. Thankfully my 800k account is with Krungsri whose Maptaput branch were able to provide me with a suitable statement over the counter.

I would have thought it highly unlikely that there are many - if any - Brits who are living in Thailand solely on the basis of their (frozen) State Pension income! For example my current monthly State Pension income (as calculated on the basis of the payments I receive every 4 weeks multiplied by 13 and then divided by 12) comes nowhere near the monthly income minima of 65,000 THB and 40,000 THB required for annual retirement and marriage extensions respectively. That said, though, I quite agree with you that there must be better ways of proving that we are still in the land of the living for State Pension purposes than the cumbersome bureaucracy which the DWP insist on inflicting on us every couple of years or so. Unfortunately I fear that we are probably stuck with their current procedures until such time as it dawns on them that we are now nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st - rather than the 19th - Century.

And while they were about it change the name from SCB Easy to SCB Difficult.

So were you aware that MS will be pulling the plug on Win 10 support from Oct 2025 then, eh, Mr Clever Clogs?

Not to mention that, as I have already said, Microsoft will be pulling the plug on supporting Windows 10 from 14 October 2025. That said, though, the OP appears to have been more than happy to continue with Windows 7 for 3.5 years after Microsoft finally pulled the plug on supporting it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7#:~:text=Mainstream support for Windows 7,ended on January 14%2C 2020.