jonnyboy

I read lots about retirement visas on this forum before reading about residence permits on www.thaivisa.com. Apparently up to 100 people of each nationality can apply for such a permit every year as long as they recieved permission for yearly stays on a non-immigrant visa for three years. For a fee of between 100-200K foreigners can hold a permit, stay in Thailand forever and do lots of things that Expats otherwise cannot do. Does anyone have experience of this permit? I assume that many, many, more expats are applying for this permit than the quota allows. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could shed light on this permit. I expect there will be lots of stories of related corruption, bribes and greed etc. Cheers,

Ronnie, You can open an online saving account with Bradford and Bingley by going to www.bbi.co.im. They offer a pretty sweet 6% tax-free rate of interest. You can transfer money easily using SWIFT. Kasikorn bank charge under 2000 baht per transfer while B&B charge around 30 pounds.