Surviving Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 Yesterday I went to my provincial immigration office, my retirement visa finishes on 25th September and I wanted change to a marriage visa. The IO printed off an information form in Thai, which he then highlighted a number of the sections with a marker pen and hand wrote an additional section to the form. My wife translated, telling me that the form gave information about what was needed for the marriage application and the hand written addition said we needed to bring another thai person with us when we apply and they must bring their ID card and blue property book with them. While I cannot read thai, I could see there was a section with 2 parts, in one was the figures 400,000 and the other part had 40,000, so this was the proof of funds/pension income, but he had only highlighted the 400,000 part. I told him I wanted to do the 40,000 baht per month paid into a thai Bank route as I did not have 400,00 baht to deposit. He flatly told me that the monthly income was no longer available!! Has anyone else been told something like this or have the rules changed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ubonjoe Posted September 13, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2019 No changes have been made. You can still use the income option to apply for the extension. Which office told you it was not allowed. Applied for mine last month using the income option. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanoshi Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 What's your nationality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlover Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 10 minutes ago, ubonjoe said: No changes have been made. You can still use the income option to apply for the extension. Which office told you it was not allowed. Applied for mine last month using the income option. So did I. No problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surviving Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Sorry I have not replied direct to your questions, I am not that good with computers and do not know how to join into your message boxes. answer to ubonjoe: Sakhon Nakon answer to Tanoshi: British. I was a bit annoyed by IO reply and said I was sure that monthly income was still ok, he asked if I could get a 'certificate' from my Embassy, which he must of know this was impossible now for British, USA etc I said I would get statements from my Bangkok Bank to confirm the monthly FTT amounts of over 40,000 baht from October last year to this September. He kept saying that he wanted a 'certificate' from my thai bank and he also wanted my UK bank statements showing that I sent the money then he would consider if was acceptable. He has not actually said that there had been a 'mistake' and monthly is acceptable. I am worried that I will get all the documentation together and he then goes back to refusing monthly deposits from the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoBoTheClown Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 I used the income method last month. What method did you use for your retirement extention of stay? Do you have deposits into a Thai Bank of at least 40,000 baht going back 12 months or at least Jan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonjoe Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 34 minutes ago, Surviving said: He kept saying that he wanted a 'certificate' from my thai bank and he also wanted my UK bank statements showing that I sent the money then he would consider if was acceptable. Just put together as much proof of your transfers from outside you can get. Some offices are wanting a special letter from the bank that lists the transfers. An example for one from Bangkok is here. Example-BankLetter-Monthly-Deposits.pdf The local bank branch here told me they could do one so I just used a standard bank they do for the money in bank option and the office accepted it. I had a total of 13 pages of proof between bank statements, copies of my bank book pages and proof of my pension income. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billd766 Posted September 13, 2019 Share Posted September 13, 2019 1 hour ago, ubonjoe said: No changes have been made. You can still use the income option to apply for the extension. Which office told you it was not allowed. Applied for mine last month using the income option. So did I. It took a lot of faffing about but it worked in the end. This was at Khampaeng Phet Immigration Office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surviving Posted September 13, 2019 Author Share Posted September 13, 2019 Thanks everyone, I am off to the Bangkok Bank now, to see what letter/statements they can give me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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