Thread: non-immigrant O Finances query

I'm currently in NZ and wanting to get back home to Thailand.
NZ visa process has changed here and the dim-witted peasants in the Wellington Embassy are being very blinkered and inefficient.

One thing that IS good when applying for a non-O visa is that NZ Thai Consul staff have never required the applicant showing any set amount of funds.
But since I really want to get back home ASAP, I thought of applying online in Singapore, and if that is approved, flying over (I'd be going that way anyway) and handing in my passport and original documents and getting my new visa that way.
The one difference from the NZ process is that Singapore require a bank statement showing 400k baht.
1. Is that in a Thai bank account or can it be an equivalent amount in a NZ bank account? It's not stated in the Thai Singapore Embassy's online visa requiremts advice.
2. Can the 400k baht be in available funds, ie if your credit card account shows over 400k baht available?

Thanks for any speedy replies.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

1. Is that in a Thai bank account or can it be an equivalent amount in a NZ bank account? It's not stated in the Thai Singapore Embassy's online visa requiremts advice.
2. Can the 400k baht be in available funds, ie if your credit card account shows over 400k baht available?

Thanks for any speedy replies.

Immigration regulation says "in a Thai bank deposit account", don't think Singapore will bend that.

How long you planning on staying in Thailand.?

^^ Well, you'd have to have been in Thailand in the first place if it was in a Thai account. My understanding was if you are applying from within Thailand your money had to be in Thailand. I have never, in all my years of one year marriage visas had to show my money because I've always applied in NZ. So, my assumption is that for Embassies across the globe that do require the applicant to have money, the requirement is that you have the money in a home-country account.
Hence my question.

^ Years.

The nice thing about applying in SIN is that you can do it online and get pre-approval, then pop in physically with your original docs. Can't do that in NZ or Aus.

My main question is about "available funds", ie credit card account showing you have access to xx thousands of dollars.

I asked the question,because I used to get an non-o and then the consulate in Liverpool informed me they'd been stopped giving the visa,and now had to be sent to London and took upto a week

They advised me to get a 2 month tourist visa,which could be extended if i needed,or just pop over the border.

Originally Posted by Chico

They advised me to get a 2 month tourist visa,which could be extended if i needed,or just pop over the border.

So you are living here with a family on a tourist visa?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

So, my assumption is that for Embassies across the globe that do require the applicant to have money, the requirement is that you have the money in a home-country account.

Your assumption is wrong, the money is for you to be able to support yourself while in Thailand and that's also where you must have the bank account.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

My main question is about "available funds", ie credit card account showing you have access to xx thousands of dollars.

Not accepted, neither is your stock shares or the expected return from your durian plantation.
Money it is. In a Thai bank account. Money that can be withdrawn immediately when needed. No 1year/2year locked money account.

Originally Posted by aging one

So you are living here with a family on a tourist visa?

When did i say I live here on a permanent basis.?

How did a convicted drug trafficker get a retiremment visa.?

Originally Posted by lom

Your assumption is wrong, the money is for you to be able to support yourself while in Thailand

Originally Posted by lom

Money that can be withdrawn immediately when needed.

Credit card ticks both those boxes.

I'm not arguing with you here, just wanting to get the correct info. So, according to you a chap who marries a Thai in Sydney and then wants to go to Thailand with his wife to live, has to first go to Thailand on a tourist visa so that he can open an account in Thailand before applying for a marriage visa. It just doesn't sound right

Originally Posted by lom

Immigration regulation says "in a Thai bank deposit account", don't think Singapore will bend that.

Immigrations sells VISAS and extensions inside the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sells visas from thai consulates OUTSIDE the country.
Two totally different agencies.

You can certainly use your bank account in your country to meet the financial requirements at a thai consulate for a Non-O visa.
It'd be 400K baht or the equivalent in your currency in an account in your country.

The good thing about Singapore is that you submit everything by scan and then they tell you when you're approved.

Failing that, (because singapore isn't the most user friendly) why not just snap up a year-long, multi-entry Non-O based on marriage from the thai consulate in Savannakhet Lao without proof of funds ??

Originally Posted by toddaniels

why not just snap up a year-long, multi-entry Non-O based on marriage from the thai consulate in Savannakhet Lao without proof of funds ??

They do that?
So, go to Thailand on a 30 day visa-on-entry (Australian passport) and make my way to Lao. Sounds good. Are you sure?
Many thanks Toddaniels.

Googling around, I found this discussion on a forum, which states that financial status IS required.

Thai Consulate Savannakhet Laos- 1 year marriage visa 5,000 baht

I have lots of respect for your Thai Immigration knowledge, Tod, but when faced with a contradiction that could pose a problem for me I need to make sure.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

I found this discussion on a forum, which states that financial status IS required.

Quote the part where it states that................. or do you think others want to go trawling through all that shit to help you?

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Googling around, I found this discussion on a forum

All the info you need is here on Teakdoor you thick twonk, loads go there even your mate Luigi.
What have you been doing on here for 3 years?


Here's one of several threads on it for you.......

https://teakdoor.com/thai-visas-and-v...-marriage.html (Savannakhet Non O Marriage)

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Quote the part where it states that................. or do you think others want to go trawling through all that shit to help you?

Not a lot of shit.

"Actually there is not much paperwork. Bank letter or income affidavit, passport photos, copies of passport and a TM37. This is not a method that avoids the financial qualifications."

Okay, lets sort this out right now.

Despite what you've managed to dredge up from the inter-web, there are three consulates in S/E Asia that will sell year-long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type O visas based on marriage to a thai without any proof of financials.

Those thai consulates are the ones in Savannakhet Lao, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam & Seoul South Korea.

In Savannakhet as far as documentation you need;

• the original rose bordered marriage certificate (if married in thailand)
• You need copies of:
• ft&bk of the marriage certificate
• ft&bk of thai wife's i/d card
• thai wife's thai house book listing
• data page of your passport
• Lao visa
• entry stamp

You sign everything with your name or out of your passport and your wife signs everything wtih her name on it, <- meaning you BOTH sign the marriage certificate copies

Those things along with 2 -passport sized photos a filled out application and 5000baht will get you a year-long, multi-entry Non-Immigrant Type O visa. That's the kind where you leave the country every 90 days and border bounce <- go to a border, stamp in&out of another country, and right back into thailand to get another 90 day stamp. You do that for the validity of the visa (a year from the date of issue). You can get almost 15 months in country out of that visa.

I admin on a f/b group that has 23K members and ONLY deals with visas and extensions for thailand.. I can say my information about Savannakhet (and the other consulates too) is spot on & 100% accurate.

Originally Posted by Bogon

Just got a new UK passport. Have a multi non 'o' in my old passport.

Can I just rock up at any land border (Kanchanaburi/Nong Khai in particular) and cross using both passports, or do I have to visit immigration first to transfer my previous entry stamp?

Thanks

Here's how that works.
The thai immigration offices NEVER EVER move a VISA to a new passport. They move extension of stay stamps & re-entry permits.

This means IF you are on a multi-entry VISA <-(that you got from a thai consulate in another country) you show BOTH passports when entering and exiting the country until the visa in the old passport is expired (past it's "enter before" date).

They will stamp you in and out on the new passport. In your situation you just show up at the border with BOTH and you'll be fine no visit to the immigration office is necessary

Originally Posted by toddaniels

Lao visa
entry stamp

Come on Tod, we've been through all this bs before.

Originally Posted by toddaniels

you people are right, the copies of the lao visa were for a paranoid person in lao without his passport because it was at the consulate getting the thai visa.

^^ Top man, will do that.

Not due for a month or 2, but will report back how it went.

Originally Posted by Bogon

Just got a new UK passport. Have a multi non 'o' in my old passport.

Can I just rock up at any land border (Kanchanaburi/Nong Khai in particular) and cross using both passports, or do I have to visit immigration first to transfer my previous entry stamp?

I was in the same boat just recently.
Went to Chaengwattana but they wouldn't transfer any stamps over. I was told to do it when leaving Thailand.
When leaving at Mae Sot I had to go to the immigration office first before I could exit. Had to photocopy every PP page, show letter from embassy, showed them the form for transferring stamps obtained from Chaengwattana (which they accepted instead of filling out theirs.) All docs signed by me. Took about 20mins.

Then the next few border runs had to show my PPs both new and old (with non-imm O) when departing and arriving.

^ Cheers

Maybe different rules for different borders?

I have no idea, as never done it before.

Originally Posted by Bogon

Can confirm Tod's info is sound. Got my previous 2 multi non o based of marriage with no funds shown at Savvanakhet.


Is it ok to ask an unrelated question for Tod, or whoever knows the answer here?

Beats starting a new thread.

Just got a new UK passport. Have a multi non 'o' in my old passport.

Can I just rock up at any land border (Kanchanaburi/Nong Khai in particular) and cross using both passports, or do I have to visit immigration first to transfer my previous entry stamp?

Thanks

I've done it, Chong Mek, was in BKK, old passport was running out of pages, so got a new one {OZ], went over to Lao showed old passport, stamped out on the new passport.
Back into Thailand, filled in the arrival, with visa number, hand in both old and new passport to the immigration guy, he never looked at the old passport visa.
All on the computer, easy done. no problems.

As to not wanting to start a new thread, question has anyone got a child support extension of stay from the new immigration office in Ubon.

400,000 Baht in the bank for one day job, tried when the office was in Phi Bun, some years ago and told, retirement or spouse only.