Popular Post Mike Teavee Posted July 18, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2018 Hi guys, after all of the awesome advice I've got from here, just wanted to give a little bit back to share my experience of getting a non-imm O (retirement/over 50) visa from Penang. By way of background, I'm from the UK, am 52, & have been living/working in Singapore for the last 10 years; Fell in love with Thailand the 1st time I visited (10 years ago) so it's been my dream since that time to be able to live there. Basics; what did I need... Bank Account - I'm very time poor (if only I was equally as rich) & needed to sort out a Bank Account on a Friday afternoon (Weekend visit) so I paid Siam Legal 3,000 THB to "Help Me" through the process, some might scoff, money well spent in my book 800,000 THB - Once the account was set up, I transferred over enough to meet the requirement Letter from British Embassy - After reading on here, I decided my best option was to get the Non-Imm O from Penang so reading some guys experiences in doing the same, I figured it best to get an Income statement from BE - No problem, all done online, sent them my last 3 months pay slips & got a letter back from them in a couple of days (Best to have a Thai Address to send it to) - £52 all-in Getting It done... 1st was a weekend in Bangkok (not exactly a hardship, I love the place) to get my Bank Book updated (So easy, stick your passbook in the machine & job done) & confirmation of funds (not so easy, nobody in the branch spoke English, fortunately there was a customer there who helped me to translate, lovely lady) - 100 THB, But you don't need this in Penang they just want your Bank Book 2nd was the trip to Penang, Stayed at Chulia Mansions (It's OK, maybe a little better than OK) & off to Banana Visa (as recommended on here) to "Do the deed"... Flawless service, young lady took my details, filled in the forms for me, sign on the dotted line & come back tomorrow ? - (One thing I would say here is she did ask me how I got my Thai Bank Account as many people had been in saying they hadn't been able to open one so maybe money well spent ? ) Came back the next (yester) day to a Non-Imm O Multi Highly Recommend Siam Legal (Rex) & Banana Visa (Julia) if you're on the same path, PM me if you need phone numbers / email addresses. Again, massive thanks for all the advice & tips you guys have shared, I hope this little report can in someway help another brother to do the same ? MTV 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sikishrory Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I have in the past used banana for tourist visa and found the vans to be death traps. Racing the other companies to the border. After that experience I figured safer to fly there and use jims service a few doors from chulia. As for Chulia mansion I thought it was fantastic in comparison to bananas hotel or their overflow hotel mingood. Only thing I didn't like about Chulia was the mosque 10 metres from my window pumping their religious humming and whining from 6am over a loud speaker and then again in evenings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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