Report: Lung Addie
Subject: Chumphon Immigration
Today (May 2, 2019) I went to Immigration in Chumphon, together with a Dutchman who also had to go. We were the only visitors.
We had already filled in the TM47. Further:
- Copy of our passport
- Copy of original Non O visa
- Copy of the last annual renewal
We also both brought our bank books but did NOT present them, we just had them with us in case they were asked.
My friend uses the combination method:
– visa support letter + bank credit
I use the 800.000THB method.
We were NOT asked about bank balances, so we showed NO bank books.
In a few minutes we both had the note for the next 90d report.
Sit down with the Immigration Officer with the following questions:
– How far can my friend drop with his bank balance? (combination method)
Answer: after 3 months to half ... so concretely: he uses 200.000THB as bank credit and may, after 3 months, use 100.000THB. 2 months before the new renewal application, this must be supplemented back to 200.000THB. So completely in accordance with the regulations.
– Will you continue to accept a Fixed Deposit Account of at least 800.000THB and a term of 2 years as bank credit?
Answer: Yes, provided that a bank letter that the amount remained in the account 1 year prior to the renewal application and that the conditions: 3m after grant and 2m before application, without having been below 400.000THB, was present. Even though this is a Fixed Deposit Account with a longer term.
So also according to the regulations.
– Check regulations… when, how and consequences?
Answer: We check the annual overview with the next application for an annual extension. If NOT met, without a motivated and very thorough reason, the next year extension will be refused.
So no problem.
Reaction RonnyLatYa
Thank you for submitting.
– As I also expected when the new rules appeared, in Chumphon the used bank amount with a combination method can also drop to half of that used amount after three months. Similar to the 800 000 Baht. However, it was not very clearly written down when the rules came out and then it remains to be seen how people read those rules at immigration. Chumphon applies that rule as it should, I think.
– Check bank amount. It also seems to me the easiest way to fully check it at the next annual renewal. If you want more control, then limiting it in the year by perhaps only holding random checks.
– Fixed Deposit Account or Saving Account is actually both as per regulations. It only says in the rules “Fund deposited in a bank in Thailand”. A “Foreign Currency Deposit Account” is also compliant and there are immigration offices that accept it.
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RonnyLatYa
Maybe very stupid of me but what does Lung Addie mean by, I quote:
“– Will you continue to accept a Fixed Deposit Account of at least 800.000THB and a term of 2 years as bank credit?
Answer: Yes, provided that a bank letter that the amount remained in the account 1 year prior to the renewal application and that the conditions: 3m after grant and 2m before application, without having been below 400.000THB, was present. Even though this is a Fixed Deposit Account with a longer term.” end quote.
Does the amount with the first application for annual extension now have to be in the account at least one year prior to the extension application or 2 months?
I'm curious, because I've been reading July messages for weeks now on the subject of "year extension conditions" and now read for the first time that the amount (I assume THB 800.000) may have been on the account for a year for the first application. Until now, I thought that for the first application, this is 2 months.
Dear Haki,
I think that, if you read the text carefully, you will understand that this question, which I asked the IDE, was not about a FIRST year extension, but about a subsequent extension. I also do not write anywhere that with a first application for an annual extension, the amount must already be on the account for a year. The actual question to the IO was about the fact that a FIXED Deposit Account with a term of 2 years would still be accepted, as in the past.
Read the immigration conditions again, which Ronny has already described more than once and more than clearly, and you will realize that with a first application it is not a year but 2 months.
Dear Lung Addie!
I will not enter into a substantive discussion here about the clarity of the text of your original response, because that is not the purpose of this blog here. I do want to say in general that one should try to avoid as many unclear abbreviations as possible, which I often come across here, and also to make the text clearer / more understandable. Always keep in mind that the person who asks the original message/question knows best what he wants to say; however, that does not mean that it is presented clearly enough by him/her for the "sober" reader. I myself made that mistake once when I responded too quickly to a message, which later turned out to be completely out of place. Purely because I didn't take a little more time.
A good example of how it should be done is our widely appreciated Ronny…it can hardly be more clear