65,000 Baht Monthly Minimum Income Limit For Annual Extensions Of Stay Based On Retirement

[PoorSucker]

You can always use the combined income/bank statement.

From Police order 777/2551:

2.22 In the case of a retiree: Permission will be granted for a period of not more

than 1 year at a time.

(1) The alien has obtained a temporary visa (NON-IM);

(2) The applicant is 50 years of age or over;

(3) Proof of income of not less than Baht 65,000 per month; or

(4) Account deposit with a bank in Thailand of not less than

800,000 Baht as shown in the bank account for the past 3 months at the filing date of the application. For the first year, the applicant should have that amount in his bank account for not less than 60 days or

(5) Annual income plus bank account deposit totaling not less

than Baht 800,000 as of the filing date of application

[tropo]

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Maybe they not trust the people of my country, and want to see facts.

What is your country?

This is all news to me. At Jomtien I provided an Embassy endorsed Statutory declaration of my monthly income along with a bank book showing 5000 baht (minimum opening balance) and obtained a one year extension based on retirement. I brought along bank statments just in case they required more evidence, but they didn't ask for any.

It really does seem you're offering them documents they don't really need to see.

[tropo]

And of course the British Embassy charge you 2,315 Baht for the privilege of entering your details on a template and printing it off, wonder what other embassies charge for this massive task?

The Thai baht equivalent of AUD $20 at the Australian Embassy. Currently this is about 540 baht. It was 590 for me back in April.

[jazzbo]

The US Embassy in Bangkok -- and all US embassies world-wide -- operates on the basis that ANY document can be forged given Adobe PhotoShop, Illustrator, etc. The authentication process must be initiated in the USA and would involve the Thai Embassy in the USA and the MFA in LOS to which Thai IMM officials have presumably said 'No Thanks'... and will accept the affidavit conditioned on right of corroboration.

Authentication of Vital Records, Academic, Commercial or Other Credentials Issued in the U.S.: http://bangkok.usemb...entication.html

[luckyluke]

^

Maybe they not trust the people of my country, and want to see facts.

What is your country?

This is all news to me. At Jomtien I provided an Embassy endorsed Statutory declaration of my monthly income along with a bank book showing 5000 baht (minimum opening balance) and obtained a one year extension based on retirement. I brought along bank statments just in case they required more evidence, but they didn't ask for any.

It really does seem you're offering them documents they don't really need to see.

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I am Belgian, I suppose one Belgian start this years ago and now they ask a copy of every page of your bankbook, starting from the last "Retirement Visa" you received,showing income from abroad. I do it this way for 4 years now, as other Belgian do, Immigration never told me/us they want to see it in another way.

[phutoie2]

I requested an income letter from British Embassy in May and presented my UK P60 as evidence.

In the letter I informed them what the annual gross pension was (its on the P60 of course plus details of income tax)

They sent back the letter with the gross figure on, good on them!.

As for charges it was a postal order for 2508 Baht, which 100 Baht was for EMS.

When the letter arrived it had a 32 Baht stamp.

Someones got to pay for tea & biccys at the consulate!

[Somrak]

As this is the FIRST time I have heard of such a requirement to show transfer of money (at least from Jomtien) when qualifying by income, I am respectfully skeptical that this requirement actually exists. There is certainly no written rule about it. I am almost 100 percent they do NOT require a monthly transfer.

Not monthly but may per year?

In the NE, Nong Kai Sakon Nakhon, if you show income, they like to see the "bankstatement" showing money comes from outside the country.

As i show allways a old income letter from the embassy , with more than 65k, they look if i had tranferd 800k and then it is O.K..

But i don't know if this transfers had to be 800k / year Bath? (As i did send every year more than 800k to my account.)

[Jingthing]

There have been previous reports of different enforcement policies at Nong Khai for years now. Just because one (or two) small provincial offices do a strange thing doesn't mean the vast majority of retirees need to comply with their deviant enforcements.

At Jomtien, my understanding is that asking for copies of bank books is standard; nothing to do with nationality. Assuming they are enforcing a certain transfer pattern just because they are asking for copy of bank books (using the income qualifying method) is a stretch.

Another clarification. No! It is not required to transfer in the entire 800K per year. (Except perhaps at some small provincial offices) and that most certainly is NOT a national rule.

Of course if you are qualifying by bank account, the 800K must be in the account for three months before application for subsequent extensions. But the amount you need to transfer is whatever you need to transfer in to top up your account.

[luckyluke]

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I do the way Immigration/Jomtien is asking me to do it, or if you prefer they don't tell me not to do the way I do it.

I give my copies of bank book,confirmation letter by my Thai bank of the balance of my account, Affidavit, to the first officer, he staple all the documents together. Than I go see the lady officer, she check the balance from my bank book with the bank letter and highlight with a marker all my transfers from abroad, The next day I can pick up my passport with visa.

Other people do it on another way,fair enough, the good thing is, whatever the way we do it, we get our annual visa, and that's the most important I guess.

[Tafia]

I had heard that the British Embassy was using Net figures, however I went last month with my P60 and Pension Statement showing Gross and Net and they used the Gross figure, I never asked or prompted them either way.