Originally Posted by
jabir
I have been on a retirement visa/ext for several years, each time taking along a bank letter with the other docs for the extension like a good little farang. Three visits ago, that is before the new requirements were installed, the IO returned my bank letter to me saying it is not needed; I countered that I've been bringing one along each year for over a decade, and she replied it's not needed because I have an embassy letter confirming income.
Didn't make sense to me though few things do nowadays, and it's pointless chasing as it would likely end up with me at the pointed end, so on both of my following visits I decided to take a bank letter as reserve but not submit it unless asked, which I was each time.
That's as it was, nothing to debate, could've been a blind spot or just another IO that doesn't know the rulez.