Remember seeing remarks about banks wanting to see 'home country ID"?

Exactly that happened to me yesterday at Kasikorn in Central mall Pattaya.

I have a savings account with them for ages.

I was talked into opening a funds / investment im November.

Outcome is not spectacular so I wanted to move some money to a fixed deposit account.

"You have ID card from your country?"

?? no!

(had left a long expired one at home)

"We need. New policy since one week. Passport not enough."

Anybody had similar experience about this new chicane?

Discussed in some detail in this thread......

Oh damn.

It's about the ridiculous home address topic again.

My ID card would not show an address. Left with my parents in the late 60s (Switzerland).

They can not understand / accept that a foreigner can leave his country and have no more current address.

Will have to check my old German driving license. Does it show an address? Can't even remember.

Years ago I was asked about address. Just wrote down my last address. No proof requested.

Time to start complaining to Bank of Thailand:

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9 hours ago, KhunBENQ said:

Will have to check my old German driving license. Does it show an address? Can't even remember.

I don't think so. Probably not a full address, just the town.

On 2/18/2026 at 7:50 AM, Upnotover said:

Discussed in some detail in this thread......

This is useful. Basically there is a new regulatory requirement now, forcing every foreigner to provide a proof of address from "home country".

Thai banks are hitting new lows. So predictable.

16 hours ago, Unknown1 said:

This is useful. Basically there is a new regulatory requirement now, forcing every foreigner to provide a proof of address from "home country".

Thai banks are hitting new lows. So predictable.

More ridiculousness from Thai banks! What happens if you don't have a street address in your home country because you've relocated to Thailand? And what about if you come from a country like mine, New Zealand, where there is no such thing as a national ID card?

6 hours ago, mstevens said:

More ridiculousness from Thai banks! What happens if you don't have a street address in your home country because you've relocated to Thailand? And what about if you come from a country like mine, New Zealand, where there is no such thing as a national ID card?

The one who set this rule should suppose every foreign national, like each single Thai people, gets obligatorily registered in a Tabien Baan equivalent. It couldn't be otherwise.

16 hours ago, mstevens said:

What happens if you don't have a street address in your home country because you've relocated to Thailand? And what about if you come from a country like mine, New Zealand, where there is no such thing as a national ID card?

In that case Somchai tells you how terribly sorry he is, but mai dai krab.

1 hour ago, Unknown1 said:

In that case Somchai tells you how terribly sorry he is, but mai dai krab.

Then in a fair reciprocity all worldwide bank accounts of the Thai diaspora who can't provide a documented and genuine home country address should be closed. That would be fun.

On 2/19/2026 at 8:49 AM, Unknown1 said:

This is useful. Basically there is a new regulatory requirement now, forcing every foreigner to provide a proof of address from "home country".

Thai banks are hitting new lows. So predictable.

Exactly, as I live in Thailand for more than 3 decades I obviously don't have an address in my home country, and the active ID card i have shows, place of issue Bangkok.

Though I recall I've been asked this question in the recent past, and just told them I don't have one, and that was the end of it.

Facts:

I was at Kasikorn in Pattaya Central last month (May 2026).
The staff there is very much used to serving foreigners and considered competent.
I asked about this "ID card" stuff and yes, another official photo ID from your home country is required.
I explicitly asked about "proof of home country address" and got it confirmed more than once:

not required!

On May 13 I was at my consulate in Bangkok and applied for a new ID card.

Got it end of May and opened an additional fixed deposit account at my local Kasikorn branch.

I spare you from describing the straining and lenghty procedure. It's getting mad (I have an account with them since 2009 and some mutual fund. Still more than an hour, x signatures, piles of copies which are then photographed, ... it's a madhouse.

So either the requirement has been dropped since February (when the ID thing was introduced) or some branches have no clue?

29 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

I asked about this "ID card" stuff and yes, another official photo ID from your home country is required.
I explicitly asked about "proof of home country address" and got it confirmed more than once:

not required!

Still doesn't appear to solve the basic problem as fas as we Brits are concerned, though, since His Majesty's Government doesn't issue ID cards for its citizens. The only other form of official photo ID's in our case exists in the form of driving licences, which automatically expire on our 70th birthday and are illegal to renew and use on the basis of a UK address.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by OJAS

On 2/19/2026 at 8:49 AM, Unknown1 said:

Thai banks are hitting new lows. So predictable.

"Know Your Customer" means treat all foreigners the same way -- badly.

I haven't had a US address in a decade.

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

So either the requirement has been dropped since February (when the ID thing was introduced) or some branches have no clue?

Home country ID still required in many places by K-Bank.

4 minutes ago, Ricohoc said:

Home country ID still required in many places by K-Bank.

Secondary ID, yes. I think that's reasonable. Somewhat unreasonable was the request for a document proving one's "home country address" in the case of expats who have stayed in Thailand for many years. If that has been dropped, good.