Frozen Or Untouched Bank Accounts

The following answer to my question about the "rumor" about not touching accounts used to qualify for extentions was supplied by immigration in thier forum within twenty-four hours and during Songran to boot:

Hello ProThaiExpat and welcome to our board

Thanks a lot for your kind words. Regarding the rudeness (it’s only one posting so far) we don’t feel offended. Sometimes people listen to and believe in rumours, get frustrated, and forget to think before they talk. That’s human. It's to clear up such misunderstandings we are here .

To your question we can inform that it’s absolutely not true. In fact fixed deposits can’t be used as financial evidence. The financial evidence is to prove that you got money to live from, and you cannot live from a fixed (frozen) deposit. If you approach Immigration for extension and they can see that you haven’t touched the money in the bank for one year, they will start interrogate you how you cover your expenses of living.

Many foreigners work illegal here, covering their costs of living from their illegal working income. It’s those people Immigration is trying to catch through the new rules for financial evidence.

If you want to read some more detailed about the Financial Evidence you can find it here:

http://www.thaiimmigration.com/tse/In%20ca...Thai%20wife.pdf

We do hope this answer your question.