Financial help

[Almer]

A slackening of the cash in bank rules could help many family members in this yet to be extended crisis with little or no financial government help.

[Matzzon]

And how would that help?

If you are on retirement extension and are showing 800k baht, You can later use 400k. That would surely be enough. After that, most of the people on retirement extensions are also old enough to receive a monthly pension. That is much more than many Thai families have and still manage to float.

If you are on extension based on marriage or having Thai children, you can use the 400k baht directly after you have received your extension.

Please explain how it would help? The situation is exactly same now as it would have been without a virus and an emergency decree.

It´s only the ones working and are losing out on that, who have a changed situation regarding their financials.

[ChaiyaTH]

Let's just charge everyone for a generic extension of stay 5K baht for 3 months or, 10k for 6 months or 20K for 12 months at once and be over with all the visa nonsense. That is what they used to offer at agents everywhere, before the crackdown race to the bottom started. Reasonable and Easy.

They will earn as much if not more as before, more easily. Embassies will not be overcrowded anymore and still available for all other visa types and people.
Too bad applying common sense is not really a thing. TiT.

Old fashioned immigration laws are just the pain in the <deleted> here. A young couple could pay down a house with 400K baht and not waste 5 years more on renting. That is easily like a 300-400K profit margin after visa run expenses. They only expect old people with retiree money to arrive here or marry / have kids.

The fact they never adjusted the Thai baht requirements for visa's while the foreign exchange rates went up to 30% the other way, is silly as well.
If they did compensate that it should have been about 300K and 600K. Many would then qualify on monthly income height as well.

Edited April 19, 2020 by ChaiyaTH

[Puccini]

2 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

The fact they never adjusted the Thai baht requirements for visa's while the foreign exchange rates went up to 30% the other way, is silly as well.

Generally, the fee for a Thai visa is quoted and paid in the currency of the country where the visa application is made at the Thai embassy or a consulate.

[CGW]

3 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

The fact they never adjusted the Thai baht requirements for visa's while the foreign exchange rates went up to 30% the other way, is silly as well.
If they did compensate that it should have been about 300K and 600K. Many would then qualify on monthly income height as well.

Your dreaming! so when the baht is weak you want them to increase the amount? Its been 800k for well over 20 years now, it was set at that amount when the Baht was 25 to the USD.

[ChaiyaTH]

14 hours ago, CGW said:

Your dreaming! so when the baht is weak you want them to increase the amount? Its been 800k for well over 20 years now, it was set at that amount when the Baht was 25 to the USD.

Yes, when the baht is more strong than average, it would be more than fine to also increase the requirements. 
In the days the EUR THB was 43 and even higher than that, you would only need to have 1500 euro pension, which most have.
Nowadays you need 1860 euro for the same thing. Pensions do not change like jobs or income can so it is sensible to adjust it with changing forex.
If not wanting that, the initial requirements should be much lower.
 

Edited April 20, 2020 by ChaiyaTH

[Lacessit]

I'd like to see the income requirements dropped to 30,000 baht per month, or a yearly transfer of the equivalent lump sum. The vast majority of Thais are not within a bull's roar of 30K, and the government could attract more retirees on Western pensions to help support the Thai economy. Most retirees can live comfortably on 30K per month if they are not boozing or chasing tail excessively.

However, I am being logical, always a mistake here.