How to open a Bank account in 2025?

[DrJack54]

Ongoing posts regarding OP removed along with replies. 

@TroubleandGrumpy enough. 

[TroubleandGrumpy]

Just now, MarkT63 said:

Get a residence certificate from Immigration

Take your passport

Have the money in your hand

Take your wife, and any documentation she can bring - marriage certificate, house book etc.

Try and try again

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Yes - if you have a non-immigrant O Visa - any type, including Tourist - then you can do what you said for sure.

 

Have some document to prove where you are staying/living - rental agreement - wife's blue book etc etc.

Go to Immigration with Wife and Marriage Certificate and Passport and get a Residency Certificate.

Then take all that and go to the bank head Office in the nearest big Mall and apply to open an account.

Bangkok Bank or Krungsri will never refuse anyone meeting those conditions and with that paperwork and who has 400K in their hands. 

[transam]

About 18 months back a friend came over on a VE to meet his possible new love, who was also a long term friend of mine. As he didn't know how his future would go here, he felt possitive how things were going, so he wanted to open a bank account.

 

The lady and I knew a 'respected' member of the community who had a sideline of helping farangs out. 

He went with them to the bank, my friend came out with a bankbook and card............

 

Epilogue: Sadly things didn't go to plan, he is now back in the UK...............😌

[Stocky]

1 hour ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

 

If you are then please explain how you married a Thai previously but did not have a bank account?  Nil reply means a scammer troll. 

 

 

1 hour ago, transam said:

I never had a Thai bank account when I first came here and set up shop, I used my UK bank card in ATMs...........

Likewise, I only opened a bank account after I married.

[Schoggibueb]

3 hours ago, BS25 said:

Hi all 

I just arrived in Thailand with my 90 day visa.

now i need to open a bank account for my 400 000 B Deposit for the 1 year visa 

 

my problem every bank say not possible without tabian ban ( the yellow bock for Farangs )

that i can get after 6months on a place i get told in village who i want to live

 

my problem i have 14 day left to open and fill the account to keep my 2 month limit

 

i tried Bangkok bank, kasikorn, krunthai 

( im married with a Thai and my marriage is already registered since February 2025)

 

thanks for your help

Not sure if still the same. At BKK Bank it was like this... You need three accepted official documents.

- Certificate of Residence -> get at Immigration.

- Passport with the Visa stamps etc.

- Thai Drivers licence (CoR needed there too)

- being registered in the yellow housebook of your wife you don't need to go through the process to make a CoR. Might be too short now, but for the future I strongly recommend it. You don't have to run every time to immigration to get a CoR.

 

For the CoR you can find what is needed to get that. I have heard, that they don't make them quickly anymore. A few months ago you could pay a "express fee" of 500bht to get your CoR on the next day. In CNX somebody told me, that they don't do this anymore. You have to wait 4 weeks.

 

You can also try to get some help at a visa-office. That costs money of course. But sometimes they have "connections" to make your life easier.

 

Good luck.

 

[Jake44]

2 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Scam topic? Another nutter troll??  How does one marry a Thai in Thailand previously and not already have a bank account?  I do not think this is a genuine OP. 

 

If you are then please explain how you married a Thai previously but did not have a bank account?  Nil reply means a scammer troll. 

I've been in Thailand most of the last 2 years with no Thai bank account.  It's really not necessary to live here.  I just use my US ATM cards, credit cards, and bring cash.  

 

Considering the hassle I read about, I'm glad I never tried to open an account here.

 

[Dan O]

2 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Scam topic? Another nutter troll??  How does one marry a Thai in Thailand previously and not already have a bank account?  I do not think this is a genuine OP. 

 

If you are then please explain how you married a Thai previously but did not have a bank account?  Nil reply means a scammer troll. 

 

Are you the new AN police ? 

[Dan O]

1 hour ago, Moonlover said:

I agree regarding Krungsri. I would also suggest his wife accompanies him and have their marriage certificate as well. There's a lot paperwork nowadays and I get the feeling that the staff out front are reluctant to get involved, try asking to see the branch manager.

I agree they are one of the easiest to open an account with if your on a ltr permission stamp. I also would ask for a manager and have them call the main office in bkk if there are any questions that seem odd. 

[Moonlover]

3 hours ago, TroubleandGrumpy said:

Scam topic? Another nutter troll??  How does one marry a Thai in Thailand previously and not already have a bank account?  I do not think this is a genuine OP. 

 

If you are then please explain how you married a Thai previously but did not have a bank account?  Nil reply means a scammer troll. 

 

What a load of rubbish! There is no need to have a bank account here in order to marry a Thai lady. My wife and I were married for over a year before we came to live here full time together.

 

Only then did I open an account with Krungsri.