Bahtnet Monthly Coding and Immigration Acceptance

[racyrick]

Does Immigration accept the Bahtnet coding for monthly transfers from overseas?

 

Does your bank give you a letter listing the Bahtnet transfers as being and overseas transfer?

If not, what do you get from your bank that satisfies Immigration?

 

I know Americans getting their social security directly into their Thai bank account and NOT thru the Bangkok Bank New York Branch get this coding and want to know if there are any problems.

 

Thank you

[ubonjoe]

For immigration to accept the Bahtnet transfers you will need to get credit advisees from you bank to prove the funds came from abroad.

I have had my SSA payment sent via Bangkok Bank in New York for several years and decided to not change to international direct deposits (IDP) to avoid problems with proving they came from abroad.

[racyrick]

12 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

For immigration to accept the Bahtnet transfers you will need to get credit advisees from you bank to prove the funds came from abroad.

I have had my SSA payment sent via Bangkok Bank in New York for several years and decided to not change to international direct deposits (IDP) to avoid problems with proving they came from abroad.

Thanks ubonjoe. With all your knowledge and experience, do you know if Bangkok Bank does that and if so, do you have any examples of what the advices look like?

[ubonjoe]

28 minutes ago, racyrick said:

Thanks ubonjoe. With all your knowledge and experience, do you know if Bangkok Bank does that and if so, do you have any examples of what the advices look like?

Bangkok bank will do the credit advises (sorry no example of one).

Others have done it so maybe somebody will post about it.

[JTXR]

Assuming you have made one transfer per month (of at least 65,000 baht), you will need to ask your Bangkok Bank branch for 12 "credit advice" (one per month for the past 12 months).  There will be 12 pages, one per transfer.  If your branch is small, like in a mall, you may need to talk to the manager, but eventually, when you explain it's for international transfers you've made once a month, and it's for immigration, they will know what you need.  You'll likely be told it will take 3 days (that's what I was told the last 2 years, but each time it only took two days).

 

BTW, I found a few years ago that if I had transfers made into my Bangkok Bank account as baht, they got coded as bahtnet, but if I made the transfers as dollars, they were coded as foreign transfers (FTT).  You may look into that.  In any event, even with FTT codes in the bank book, immigration seems to like a credit advice for each transfer,

Edited July 7, 2021 by JTXR

[racyrick]

16 hours ago, JTXR said:

Assuming you have made one transfer per month (of at least 65,000 baht), you will need to ask your Bangkok Bank branch for 12 "credit advice" (one per month for the past 12 months).  There will be 12 pages, one per transfer.  If your branch is small, like in a mall, you may need to talk to the manager, but eventually, when you explain it's for international transfers you've made once a month, and it's for immigration, they will know what you need.  You'll likely be told it will take 3 days (that's what I was told the last 2 years, but each time it only took two days).

 

BTW, I found a few years ago that if I had transfers made into my Bangkok Bank account as baht, they got coded as bahtnet, but if I made the transfers as dollars, they were coded as foreign transfers (FTT).  You may look into that.  In any event, even with FTT codes in the bank book, immigration seems to like a credit advice for each transfer,

Thank you so much for your reply. Just a couple of questions.

Do you have a sample copy of the Bangkok Bank credit advice you were given? You can send me a personal message if you prefer.

Also, what type of letter was done by Bangkok Bank and given to Immigration to satisfy the letter they want from the bank listing your monthly overseas transfers?

This is very important to me because I may need to have my monthly social security sent directly to my Thailand Bangkok Bank account and don't want any problems with Immigration when I apply for my one year extension. Thanks again for your help and time!!