Reporter: Rolly
Some time ago I asked you about your income (pension) which will be deposited into my Thai Bangkok bank account, to be used for immigration. I have enough direct income from Belgium and wanted to test the rules by applying for an extension with a bank statement of my annual income from the Bangkok Bank.
The Bangkok Bank sent a statement to my bank branch and they issued a statement on February 11 (for a fee of 100 baht). I had already made an appointment for February 20 at immigration. First I wanted to test if it would work and offered my explanation. He immediately took it to a fellow superior and returned after 5 minutes.
Your bank statement is only valid for 7 days and is therefore no longer valid. I had to hand over my Affidavit (according to the embassy it is valid for 6 months, but I keep it shorter because some offices don't believe the 6 months validity and then the embassy has to be contacted).
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Dear contributor Rolly,
Thanks for sharing your information. Unfortunately, it is irrelevant to the conduct of ALL immigration offices, only those where you went. So I advise the reader NOT to take this as GENERALLY APPLICABLE.
Please refer to your Immigration Office in future.
On the official Immigration website you will find very little or nothing regarding the validity of an affidavit or bank statement.
Not even regarding the 'usefulness' or 'acceptance period' of an evidence document.
We must distinguish between “Validity” and “Usability”. The Immigration Officer determines for himself what kind of immigration is “Useful or Acceptable”. For this officer, the time limit of a bank statement was 7 days. So he refused one which was 9 days old.
The immigration officer's task is to check the financial situation when applying for an annual extension. This state is the CURRENT state of the requestor.
Now the Rolly case itself:
Again, I don't see any mistake from the immigration officer.
He did exactly what he was instructed to do: check whether the applicant meets the financial requirements on the day of application.
As THEIR time limit was 7 days he refused to accept the bank statement, 9 days is not 7 days. That 7-day time limit is realistic, by the way. They know all too well that a bank statement, covering a period of 1 year, cannot be obtained on the day itself, but can be obtained from any bank within a week. So not an unrealistic condition.
That the affidavit was accepted is also completely normal.
An affidavit is a document that has been checked by the embassy, an official government agency. The embassy is best placed to carry out this check and knows the sources of income from their own country.
An affidavit of x number of months may also have been refused by the immigration officer. It is therefore advisable to provide a recent document.
It is also always useful to ask the relevant office in advance, especially when using it for the first time, about what exactly they want to see.
By the way, this can differ from office to office.
In a normal procedure, where someone has one month to apply for a year extension, why would they use documents that are some time old and not recent?
Dear readers,
What does all this reaction clutter have to do with this information letter? NOTHING. Rolly doesn't even mention the Austrian Consulate in his info report. Why do you keep adding something that has nothing to do with the subject?
This week I also needed a bank statement for the Thai tax authorities about all my transactions in 2022 from my current account at Krungsribank.
I could simply download the report with all transactions via internet banking at Krungsribank.
Comes to your screen after an hour with an extra security code.
Print everything out, that's it.
Perhaps this is also possible at the Bangkok bank.
But whining and looking for mouse nests are the best at the Immi, anywhere in Thailand.
Jan Beute.
hello Jan
Yes, that is also possible at the Bangkok Bank.
for those interested , my immigration office is chiang mai .
Same again next year but within a week, with affidavit as a backup.
Rolly