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The info that Blackcab provided above is accurate (as far as I know). I have been on Thai SS for nearly five years now. Worked for 11 years as university lecturer (with WP). I am now retired (retirement extensions) and not married. Paying 432 Bt per month (pay at any 7-11). With Thai SS you are assigned a specific hospital for claims. Not all hospitals accept SS (e.g., CM Ram and Bangkok Hospital do not). Your assigned hospital does not have to be a government hospital (but most are). My assigned hospital is Lanna Hospital (which is a private hospital). You can request to change your assigned hospital which I might do because the outpatient services at Lanna are a chaotic mess. For minor outpatient issues and check-ups I generally do not use SS, I go to CM Ram or Bangkok Hospital and just pay for services myself. It's cheap enough and much better. I will use SS if (or when) I need serious in-patient treatments or surgery. I know another American also on SS who has had several surgeries at Lanna at no cost to him

I got a Moderna booster at CM Ram on Wednesday. Walk in, no appointment, in and out in 40 minutes. Cost 1400 Bt.

I walked into Chiang Mai Ram yesterday at 3:00 PM without an appointment. By 3:45 I was done. Moderna booster shot (my first two were SV/AZ). Cost 1400Bt.

I got the first available Covid jabs back in June. Sinovac followed by Astra Zeneca. Now I am wanting to get a booster, either Moderna or Phizer. I am willing to pay. I have seen no info on booster shots in Chiang Mai. Are the hospitals doing them? All of them? Anywhere else?

As those of us who suffered through through the 35 page thread on this topic can attest, there are two key pieces of information that are needed: 1. did you select "funds for long-term stay" as the reason?, and 2. have you instructed Wise to "tag" your account to Bangkok Bank?

Betamax is the only way to go.

No... that would be Gen. Buck Turgidson.

There was a rumor that the Yamaha V-Star 250 was coming in 2022. Much more interested in that.

Thanks Pib for walking through how those fees were calculated. I would have never figured that out. So, yes, going through BBK NY (as a domestic ABA USD transfer) works and gets a FFT tag when it gets to Thailand. Also a SWIFT international transfer from Wise will work. Still, I will continue to use the Wise international transfer (from my tagged account using "funds for long term stay") as long as it gets the FFT designation. If down the line there is a month where the transfer that comes in as domestic (not FFT) I can still use one or both of these other two methods to get an equivalent transfer in as FFT before the end of the month. At least that is the plan.

That transfer through BBK NY finally posted FFT to my account today (sent Nov4). An e-mail from Wise this morning said "Apologies about the delay — we had some technical issues, but have fixed them now." I sent $120 which deposited as 3549 Bt which is only equivalent to a 29.6 Bt/$. which is terrible. I do not know what fees BBK applied.

UJ: Occasionally I hear people say that some immigration officers require that the monthly 40/65k must come from abroad AND must be SS or a defined pension. Is this true?

Let me add to that. Background: Wise has two partner banks in Thailand, Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn. If you use ANY other Thai bank a transfer from Wise will come in as a domestic Thai (not foreign) transfer because it has to go through one of those two banks first. I do not know what happens with Kasikorn. If you are transferring to Bangkok Bank, what I said in the earlier post applies.

Warning: this is a complicated and contentious issue. Over the last month there been a thread running (linked below) with 33 pages of comments. The short answer is, well, there really is no short answer. the consensus that is there are two things you have to do: 1. inform Wise they need to "tag" your account to utilize BBK bank for transfers to Thailand, and 2. to always select "funds for long term stay in Thailand" as the reason for the transfer. This is working for us now. Is it a 100% guarantee of an FTT code? No, probably not. https://aseannow.com/topic/1234763-wise-transfers-not-being-processed-as-international-specifically-bangkok-bank/page/33/#comments

I received a message just this morning from Wise that it has been transferred (to BBK NY using ABA 026008691) and should arrive today in my BBK account. This is essentially the same message they sent me on Nov 4. The long delay may mean there was a formatting issue (non IAT) but I do not know.

Should have used a photo of an A380, not a B777...

No. It has still not posted. Wise sent the money to BBK NY on Friday. I asked yesterday at my BBK branch. She said it might be as late as tomorrow. IF BBK NY refused the transfer because of formatting (not IAT) then I am pretty sure Wise would have notified me and put the money back into my balance but that has not happened.

I have a valid Thai Social Security card and am on O retirement extensions. Don't need WP or letter.

There are some on retirement extensions (obviously no WP) who have Thai Social Security. I would think (hope) that would be adequate on re-entry into Thailand.

OK got it. Yes it shows my Thai address. So Wise must have sent it to BBK NY in the IAT format.

Where is the "Sent To" area at? All of my transfers have two pages "Updates" and "Details". Neither has a "Sent To" line. Where is that you go to get a PDF Receipt?

I am pretty sure I used "add a recipient" but I did not give a Thai address. I used my BBK account, #, my name, and the BBK NY ABA #.

As I said somewhere up-thread a week or so ago, I successfully did a transfer through BKK NY (using their ABA 026008691) which was deposited in two days into my Thai BBK account and coded as FFT. This means that Wise sent the money to BBK NY in the IAT format (otherwise BBK NY would have returned it). To test this again just now I made another transfer of USD from Wise to BBK NY. I'll post the result when it comes in.

Again, there is no actual confirmation that this bike is coming to Thailand in 2022. Yamaha Thailand has said nothing (and their websites contain various announcements of what will be on offer in 2022).

These bikes are not currently "available" anywhere in Thailand. Other than that single website (from the US) there has been no mention anywhere else that these bikes will be "available" in 2022. The official Yamaha.thailand sites do not mention it.

Does anyone have any other information that this bike is ACTUALLY coming to Thailand in 2022? The link cited above is the only thing I could find online about this and that website listed no sources and admitted there was no official info from Yamaha. I would not get hopes up just yet.