Are retirees moving to the new DTV visa - anybody done it?

[farang51]

17 minutes ago, clokwise said:

Further speculation: Five-year driver licenses may not be issued against a DTV, whereas with a Non-O you can do it.

We have had a couple of reports of people getting a 5 year license with a DTV, I haven't seen any report of people only getting 2 years.

 

 

[Ben Zioner]

I movedm "Thai wife" to LTR when it came out. 

 

But if I had to chose between "Thai wife" and DTV id wouldn't consider the latter. I am too old to consider "forced travel".

[farang51]

2 minutes ago, cranki said:

no 90 day reports required

The DTV does not make any changes regarding the 90 days report. If  you stay more than 90 days you have do to the 90 days report.

[cranki]

28 minutes ago, farang51 said:

The DTV does not make any changes regarding the 90 days report. If  you stay more than 90 days you have do to the 90 days report.

Correct....but it did make my post look better when I added that......FiFo and all......

[Scouse123]

33 minutes ago, cranki said:

I was on a marriage extension, then changed to retirement (when old enough) and have now changed to this DTV.

This new DTV works absolutely perfect for ME in my situation, still working FiFo in the Oil & Gas game.

5 years, no yearly extensions, no 90 day reports required, no re-entry required, absolutely perfect 🙂

nothing to worry about for 5 years....game changer for me  🙂

 

 

 

Hi,

 

To my knowledge you ARE required to file a 90 day report.

[cranki]

Just now, Scouse123 said:

 

 

Hi,

 

To my knowledge you ARE required to file a 90 day report.

Like I already said....FiFo (not long enough in country)

[Scouse123]

37 minutes ago, cranki said:

I was on a marriage extension, then changed to retirement (when old enough) and have now changed to this DTV.

This new DTV works absolutely perfect for ME in my situation, still working FiFo in the Oil & Gas game.

5 years, no yearly extensions, no 90 day reports required, no re-entry required, absolutely perfect 🙂

nothing to worry about for 5 years....game changer for me  🙂

 

 

 

It certainly has all that appeal in your post to me as well.

[IC2000]

On 10/29/2024 at 12:01 PM, Scouse123 said:

 

I thought you could extend which took you up to one year, and then do the same the next year and so on making it a yearly visa?

 

So, you don't want to get a reentry to simplify things,  but a tourist visa extension ok?? Imo if you want or need to be in Thailand it's a bad idea. My experience from pre marriage was visa running had become an expensive bore so hope you have a second or third home. Finally, I think keeping the visa for over two years will be a problem for all but Muay Thai trainees and people with families/ wives. Expect hassles over baking cookies for five years. Also expect to show finances at some point entering the country imo. Imo you'll always enter as a tourist unless you've got a job outside. Can't imagine wife would be happy with that situation. Pretty random.

[Carsten07]

On 10/30/2024 at 11:58 AM, AlaskaDave said:

The big attraction of the DTV for me is that the guarantee money, the 500K baht, can be in my U.S. bank. Right now, if  pass away, the 400K I have in Bangkok Bank cannot be easily transferred to my Thai wife. It should be easy but it's not. 

 

I'm here on a marriage visa and that's been working fine for me except for the fact that most of my funds are stuck in a Thai bank account that can't be shared with my wife. 

Officially not.

Why don't you make that account online so your wife can transfer that money within 30 seconds of your demise?!

[AlaskaDave]

8 hours ago, Carsten07 said:

Officially not.

Why don't you make that account online so your wife can transfer that money within 30 seconds of your demise?!

@Carsten07 When you say "make that account online", what do you mean exactly? The account is a standard Bangkok Bank account and I access it via their phone app all the time. She can get that money out of there if she operates fast enough. Is that what you mean?

[Carsten07]

8 hours ago, AlaskaDave said:

@Carsten07 When you say "make that account online", what do you mean exactly? The account is a standard Bangkok Bank account and I access it via their phone app all the time. She can get that money out of there if she operates fast enough. Is that what you mean?

Exactly.

 

BKK Bank is one of the few who still offers Online banking from your PC or Laptop and not only via an App.

 

It should be doable via the app as well, of course.

Don't forget to up the transfer limit per day which is 50 K in Standard settings.

But - with any amount over 50K they want to compare the picture which you left at the bank, so its several transactions then.

[Carsten07]

The Photo thing is a strain on the brain.

Before you could transfer any amount (up to 2 Mio i think) as long as the recipient was the same bank.

Because the money is still in their hands...

 

But now, even from one BKK Bank account to another BKK account they want to compare the pics.

If over 50K, of course

[AlaskaDave]

On 11/4/2024 at 3:02 PM, Carsten07 said:

Exactly.

 

BKK Bank is one of the few who still offers Online banking from your PC or Laptop and not only via an App.

 

It should be doable via the app as well, of course.

Don't forget to up the transfer limit per day which is 50 K in Standard settings.

But - with any amount over 50K they want to compare the picture which you left at the bank, so its several transactions then.

@Carsten07 Thanks again.

The photo thing is indeed a pain. If I become incapacitated but can still use my phone, the scenario you describe could work but even so, 50K per day would take 8 days to Tx 400K baht. Do you have direct knowledge of how the photo verification works?

Another possibility is if I were killed in a motorcycle accident, in which case that scenario won't work.

Because of the uncertainty and gotchas inherent in dealing with a Thai bank, or indeed with any Thai organization, my goal now is to use monthly money transfers to guarantee my financials. My only question is whether immigration in Chiang Mai will accept transfers done through Wise as opposed to wire transfers which are both tedious and expensive. Others on this forum have said they will accept them but the proof is in the pudding.