If true then this is going to cause difficulties for many ex-pats who rely upon pension income and perhaps a small 'top-up' in the bank, especially as quite a few currencies have depreciated significantly against the Baht.

B800,000 = approx. US$ 25,000.

If someone doesn't have a pension income that meets the requirements and they don't have 25k to put in a local bank, then they shouldn't be living overseas in the first place.

I might suggest the Philippines for them, the pension or bank deposit minimums are only around 2/3rds of Thailand's.

And how, in your infinite wealth and wisdom, to you expect those who are long time retired here, on small fixed pension's to return to their own countries and live, where costs are twice as high?

Edited September 23, 200916 yr by gmac

Sorry, this topic is going of course and we just had a discussion on the Thai immigration rules in the crackdown on back to back tourist visas thread. http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Crackdown-To...at-t297046.html

Please continue the discussion there.

For now it looks that there just was some kind of communication error regarding the combination of income and money in the bank no longer being allowed. We don't want to add to confusion by discussing rumours. If we get information that the rumour is true, which is very unlikely if you ask me, we will make an anouncement and open a new thread.

This one is closed.