Originally Posted by
reispr01
To all - thank you for the comments.
You can work on the internet. You can go to places like CoHubs and office rental companies that offer high-speed connections. You can write a book and become a best-selling author. You can compose a symphony and conduct for Berliner Philharmoniker. You can take photographs and sell them to the New York Times. But you CAN NOT get a work permit to hold an actual job in Thailand. Legally.
I have been in the middle of an immigration police RAID on a school where I taught when I DID have a work permit...they are not playing games. You work at your own risk. Get deported, and it's going to show up on your passport in every country you travel to.
But that is neither here nor there - I just want a bank account. And the people I talked to at the banks I went to didn't care if dropped names. Now, I WAS born in the morning, but it wasn't YESTERDAY morning. I suppose if I walked in with a couple million bucks, they'd give me an account, a car, a driver, and possibly a couple of "secretaries."
But there MUST be some bank that will take the O-A and a long-term rental contract. I've been here on various visas for many years, and travelled to 60 countries, and I have never heard of such a thing as a "Certificate of Residence." My embassy (U.S.) provides me with a NOTARIZED affidavit of income, which the Thai Immigration people accept.
SOME bank, SOMEWHERE in Thailand must surely figure that is enough for a bank account.
BTW...I live in Jomtien Beach, but I've asked this question at banks here, Pattaya and Bangkok.
So - hoping somebody else has a definitive answer.
Cheers!
contact Tok Tok services 0957957703, for a certain amount of shekels you will get your bank account. Used by many people in Pattaya to do their D/L, Bank Account etc.