FredLee
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Just bought a wheelchair yesterday, not an electric but I saw a couple of them. Don't know if they were portable or not. The shop name is Pharma Choice. It is located on 3029 between 1001 and 118. I come from the north on 1001 and turn left onto 3029 at Laum Chok. It is located on the left just a little ways down the highway. It has parking in the front, so you don't have to park on the side of the road.
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22 hours ago, ubonjoe said:
I got my letters last year and this year while waited at a Bangkok Bank branch that is several hundred kilometers from the branch where my account was opened.
Were you getting the standard bank letter or a statement?
Last year the Bangkok Bank branch that held my account was in Bangkok. The local branch here in Chiang Mai had to send a request to Bangkok Bank main office to get a statement, which took 5 business days. After the statement arrived the local branch here did the letter. I have since moved my account to the Chiang Mai branch, so this year my local branch was able to do the statement and the letter while I waited. Sorry for the confusion.
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My experience at Bangkok Bank. Last year I used a different branch than where my account was held. It took five days. This year I went to the branch where my account is held and it took only 20 minutes.
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Don't know what price range you are looking for. I stayed 5 days at the end of August at the Shangri-la Chiang Mai. I booked a premier room. When I got to the hotel they offered me an upgrade to the next size room at half price. The room was an executive suite (86 sq mtr / 944 sq ft). They also had free breakfast and 20% discount on all meals except for room service.
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I don't know if it works both ways, but NFCU uses Wells Fargo as the "primary correspondent bank" when doing an international transfer to Bangkok Bank.
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Personal best for me obtaining a retirement extension. I am a US citizen and use the monthly deposit option and arrived at Immigration at 0940. From the time I turned in the paperwork to one of the gentlemen outside for review and walking out with my extension was approximately 40 minutes. Sequence of events as follows:
Went through the decontamination station and signed in.
Just before the door on the left a gentleman asked me to please come over and sit and let him review my paperwork.
I had the fillable TM7, with my picture with a blue background. He had me write my telephone number and my email address on the back of the TM7 under my signature.
Had all the required copies and originals; passport, TM30, departure slip, and also had a copy of my yellow book.
Original and copy of my bankbook, updated today. I did not have a transaction since the last update two days ago when I got my bank letters, but this was not a problem.
Copies and originals of proof of retirement payments, SSA and DOD.
He had me sign, date, fill in the blanks on three documents.
All of this took about three minutes. He was very efficient.
I went through the door and there was no wait. Went directly to the window where the lady flipped through the documents and provided me a queue number 018. They were currently serving number 017.
Waited a short time to be called up. The officer reviewed the paperwork paying particular attention to the financial documents, and asked me to have a seat.
A short time later had my photo taken by a very pleasant officer, and then she took my passport directly to someone in the back cubicle where it was immediately stamped, signed and returned to me.
A couple of notes of interest. The officer reviewing my documents barely glanced at the two bank letters. He kept flipping back and forth between the proof of income. I am a retired US military member, and he seemed to be having difficulty with the monthly statement from DFAS. Luckily I had also downloaded the verification of pay letter from the DFAS site. He circled the amount listed on that document and asked what currency. He then did the conversion, saw that it was enough to cover the 65,000 threshold and then passed it to the officer next to him. The other thing I wanted to note is how polite and friendly each person I dealt with was. In fact the officer that returned my passport did not call me to the window, she brought it out to me. Icing on the cake, my current extension was set to expire on 08 Sep. My new extension is until 26 Sep 2021. I was told by her that the extra days were because of the covid extensions.
Sorry to be so long winded here, but I have received so much helpful advice on this forum I just wanted to share my experience today.
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Ok, went to BBK at MeeChok this morning. As I started to explain what I wanted, she interrupted me to ask "Is this for Immigration?" When I said yes, and I was using the monthly deposit she knew exactly what I needed. She updated my bank book, then provided a letter certifying that the account was in my name only and showing the current balance. She also provided another letter showing each of the monthly deposit dates and amounts from August 14 last year to August 13 this year, listed in two columns with the total amount of all the deposits listed at the bottom of the second column. She put a check mark in the block at the top of the letter certifying that these deposits were foreign transfers. Only took about 35 minutes, but I have an account at this branch and it was Saturday morning with me being the first customer. Hope this is what immigration wants, I suppose I will find out Monday.
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Thanks to all for the helpful information. I appreciate it.
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I have seen various reports on what letters or documentation of income are required by Chiang Mai immigration. I am hoping someone with recent experience can help me out. I am using the monthly deposit from the US. What I have seen so far on TV is that I need a certificate of account ownership, and a bank letter showing 13 months of international transfers. I use Bangkok bank branch at Mee Chok plaza. I called them because last year they new exactly what I needed, but this time sounded they sounded unsure, and said it would take two weeks to get the 12 month deposit letter. I appreciate any information provided. Thanks.
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I am a bit confused on the bank letters. I do the monthly deposit method, and last year I only recall having to provide the bank letter showing the monthly deposits and also a copy of my bank book. Do I also have to provide a bank letter stating the account is in my name only?
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My wife finally got credited for the 5,000 baht she never received from the atm on 25 March. She went to the branch again yesterday to find out what the problem was. The staff there called someone they said was from their main bank, and my wife spoke to the gentleman on the phone for around 15 minutes. The gist of the conversation was that he said all accounts that had problems had been credited within 24 hours. She told them that that was a mistake, since she had not received her money, so he needed to check again. This was about 10 am, and her bank account was credited at 5:11 pm. In the meantime she had withdrawn most of her money from her BBK account and deposited in her Thaiphanit account.
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20 hours ago, Pib said:
I think the Bkk Bk problem with ATMs, mbanking which started occurring early 25 March were resolved late 25 March/Wed. I know my Bkk Bk mbanking started working again a few minutes at 3pm on 25 March. And for those folks who withdrew money from an ATM on the 25th but the ATM didn't spit out any money but still debiting their bank acct probably got they accts credited the following day/26 Mar/Thursday. Seems to have got quiet since the 25/26th in terms of complaints.
Also, where some folks mentioned big queues outside Govt Savings Bank and KrungThai Bank on 25 March that was because that was the first day the govt started accepting applications for Bt5,000 assistance funds for certain unemployed Thais. No problems with money; just people applying for the govt money at these govt banks.
Also, although not affecting the bank systems, but bogging down the internet was on the 25th is when the PEA and MEA electric authorities started offering refunds for electricity acct deposits....I was one of the people (along with millions of others) bogging down the Thai internet...I did get lucky in making a connection to MEA....was approved for a Bt4,000 refund.
The 25th was just a bad day...super busy day for some banks.
My wife has still not had her account credited. When she checked with the bank branch on March 26 they told her it would be corrected by 7:00 pm. It was not, so she called them on March 27 and they told her that there had been another "connection error", and that her account would be corrected by 7:00 pm. That didn't happen, and of course they closed down on 28th. Just checked, and it is still not corrected.
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41 minutes ago, Bigz said:
Have they updated your wife's account correctly? I was told the same but still nothing
Checked just now, and they have not updated it. She did get a telephone number to call if it had not been corrected. Will check again at 0930 when the branch opens, and if not corrected by then will call them.
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34 minutes ago, FredLee said:
Same here in Chiang Mai. My wife tried yesterday to withdraw 5,000 baht from a BBK atm using her BBK atm card. She got a similar message and no money. Checked this morning and BBK had charged her for the 5,000 baht. She is waiting now at the bank for them to open. They have taped off all of their atm's at the branch where she is waiting saying they are out of order.
Update: Wife just checked with the staff at BBK branch at MeeChok plaze in Chiang Mai. They had her fill out some form, and said that everyone's account should be updated by 7:00 pm to show the corrected balance.
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Same here in Chiang Mai. My wife tried yesterday to withdraw 5,000 baht from a BBK atm using her BBK atm card. She got a similar message and no money. Checked this morning and BBK had charged her for the 5,000 baht. She is waiting now at the bank for them to open. They have taped off all of their atm's at the branch where she is waiting saying they are out of order.
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My wife and I do not use our debit cards from our US credit union very often. Yesterday I tried to withdraw money from BBK and Krungthai atm's and it wasn't accepted. On both atm's it accepted my pin and amount I wanted to withdraw, but then said the transaction could not be completed and to contact my bank. My wife tried hers (different account) with the same results. We were able to successfully use a Siam bank's atm. Both of our debit cards have the chip and magnetic strip but only the 4 digit pin. We also have accounts at BBK and had our BBK debit cards updated to the 6 digit pin when they put out the notice. I don't recall receiving anything from them about their new policy affecting debit cards from a foreign bank.
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I had a similar problem with one site a few days ago. I could not access it on my laptop, phone, or desktop. I tried three different browsers. When I notified their tech assist by email, he answered back that my ip was showing up on a grey list that showed it could not be trusted. He recommended that if I had a dynamic ip then I should shut my router down and unplug it for at least 5 minutes, then reconnect to see if my service provider (3BB) had assigned a new ip. I did as he suggested, checked that my ip and it had indeed changed, and I was able to connect to his site with no problem after that.
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Since February 1st I could not access a site that I have been a member of for over a year. It would time out, saying the site could not be reached. I tried Chrome, Firefox and Safari browsers with the same results, and I also tried two different devices. I notified their tech support by email, and he asked me for my IP address so he could check it out. The next day he replied and asked me if I had a shared IP address. He said my IP address was on a global greylist, and that sometimes that indicated that someone, perhaps a scammer was sharing my IP address to access sites. He showed a screen capture that showed my IP had attempted to access their site 380 times in a very short time frame. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP, so I turned off and unplugged my router for about 15 minutes. When I reconnected I had a new IP address and was able to access the website with no problem. I had never heard of something like this, so I thought I would mention it here to see if anyone else has had this problem.
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I was trying for the first time yesterday to set mine up. Doesn't look like you can do too much with it in Thailand. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208083
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Thanks for all the replies. The staff member at BBK requested a bank statement to cover the dates from 1 July 2018 to 25 July 2019, and she said it will take 5 working days to process it. She will then provide me a bank letter showing the monthly foreign deposits during that time frame. I plan on taking the letter, statement, bank book and copies with me. I'm not sure how early I can apply for an extension. I usually go a couple of weeks before my extension expires but with the new rules I want to go at least a month early to give me time to take care of any problems that might arise.
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Are there any time constraints on the bank letter showing monthly deposits for a yearly retirement/marriage extension? I went to my bank yesterday and requested the one year bank statement showing monthly deposits. The bank staff submitted the request, and said it should be ready for me within 5 working days, and at that time they will do the bank letter. That will be approximately 31 July, and I plan visiting Immigration around 7 August. I know for the fixed deposit method immigration requires a same day or sometimes previous day, letter, but haven't seen anything on the monthly deposit method letter.
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16 hours ago, FredLee said:
Jimmyyy I also use NFCU, and plan on starting my SWIFT wire transfers next month. (currently using ACH with BBK) Do you know what fees, if any, that Wells Fargo deducts as the correspondent/intermediary bank?
Never mind. NFCU finally got back to me. They say there is no additional fee applied to the transaction by Wells Fargo.
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4 hours ago, jimmyyy said:
Navy Fed CU i just phone them and they transfer the money to Kasikorn, i don't need a US Cell phone number or anything like that. When i used to use ACH with bangkok bank i simply did it online. Now i just use kasikorn its very easy and takes usually 2 hours to complete. Navy Fed and Kasikorn both use Wells fargo as the intermediary bank so SWIFTS are done very quickly. I have never waited over 3 hours for one to arrive. 25 USD fee for one transfer a month of 3000 USD.
Jimmyyy I also use NFCU, and plan on starting my SWIFT wire transfers next month. (currently using ACH with BBK) Do you know what fees, if any, that Wells Fargo deducts as the correspondent/intermediary bank?
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22 hours ago, JohnOFphon said:If anyone attempts to do a transfer after June 30..let us know if it worked or not..please.
My next scheduled ach transfer is July 15, so if we don't hear anything before then I will post the results.
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How to buy in Thailand: laptop North American version without Thai keyboard
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When I go to Amazon and do a search on laptops the whole first page has various makes and models that ship to Thailand. I didn't check any further and did not check the keyboard layout. Perhaps if you are doing the search from the US it doesn't show it also ships to Thailand. There will be a message "This item ships to Thailand" underneath the item.