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Australia joins the UK and USA with withdrawal of income verification


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30 minutes ago, Crossy said:

Thanks for that, no real surprise, I suspect the other embassies will follow suit ????

 

The links at the bottom of the notice don't really help as there are no specifics other than the full deposit option 

https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_22

https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_18

 

I've fixed the spelling error in the topic title ????

 

Thanks Crossy

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6 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

The thing is that anyone who is on a government pension can prove their income quite easy and it is also easy for the embassies to be able to verify government pensions. It would not take much for each of the embassies to have access to the amounts that are paid for the different government pensions. I can print mine out of official Australian government letterhead and it tells the type of pension that I am receiving so how hard would it be for the embassies to have a list of the different government pensions to check.

I don't think the OAP meets the financial requirements anyway.

 

I'd suggest most of the Aussies would have more than just the pension.

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1 minute ago, Will27 said:

Surely it will mean a lot of people (not just Aussies) will be going to places like Savannakhet and HCMC

for visas now.

You don't think those loopholes will also be closed eventually?

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5 minutes ago, Pib said:

Since the Thai immigration website can be hard to reach sometimes and sometimes the English page is not working, below is a snapshot from the two pages as of 9:30am.  Been no changes for years. 

 

Where the AU/US/UK embassy announcements talk "X-amount deposited into a Thai bank account" per Thai immigration website, the Thai immigration website just states evidence of monthly income and to quote from their website/the snapshot below: "Must have evidence of having income of no less than Baht 65,000 per month."   As you see there is no reference that this income needs to flow into a Thai bank. 

 

Remember, what foreign embassies say carries no weight until "Thai Immigration" say the same thing/publish specific guidance which they have not done as of this date/time.  Summary: status quo for need of embassy income letter if using the income method.

 

https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_22

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https://www.immigration.go.th/content/service_18

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it is possible to interpret the police order , using the retirement combination method as requiring the income portion to be in a Thai bank

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35 minutes ago, ezzra said:

The question is why now and whether the Thai government is behind it to force expats to bring more money into the country or is it a cahoot of the US, UK and the aussie governments for reasons that are know only to them...

I imagine that there are a lot of similarities in laws from UK, USA and AU (for obvious historical reasons). So maybe BE first found that there was some "incompatibility" between this letter and the UK law, and after that USA and AU found the same problem, and chose the same (easy) solution. Could be.

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