I have renewed extension based on Retiremet for years now. Still in January they accepted income letter from Finnish embassy in Bkk. No bank book nor evidedence from monthly money transactions was needed.

Is the same practise still in use and income letter is enough for extension?

 

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Your income-letter from your embassy is still the Primary Documentation needed to apply for your extension based on income. 

Unfortunately, IOs are not restricted from asking for additional documents - literally anything they want, not just related to your income.  Whether they will do this and what they will request depends primarily on the immigration-office in question (Chiang Mai and Phuket are known to ask for this) and the type of extension you are requesting (marriage-based encounter more hurdles than retirement). 

 

In cases reported of requests for Secondary Documentation for retirement-extensions,  a pension-letter seems to be accepted, and/or possibly a bank-statement (foreign is OK, if you have an embassy-letter) showing the regular pension deposits. 

It is only the "unfortunate 4 ones" that do not have income letters (UK/US/Australia & Denmark) the rest of us such as you finnish people, use the income letter and do not have to worry about any bank-statements if you only do the income method via the income-letter from your embassy.

 

All the checking mentioned in the previous post, is almost only targeting these 4 ones especially UK and US because they are known in the past, to issue income-letters a la wild west... But the rest of us are good of course...

 

glegolo