This group has been really helpful in the whole process and thus paying it forward.

Applied with remote work in Phnom Penh

Applied on 8th of December (Sunday) and approved yesterday 23rd.

Uploaded:

passport bio data page

Job contract,l + Confirmation letter from company + Payslips

3 months bank statements with each month having over 500k baht. Highlighted the salary T/Ts.

Arrival stamp + Hotel booking

House contract in Thailand

Crossed the boarder Poi Pet with no issues. Paid overstay fees of $30 for 3 days.

Thanks All!

This is unrelated to visa issues. Am looking for a Roman Catholic Church in Phayao/Dok Kham Tai, Northern Thailand, to do the baptism ceremony for our child to be born next month. I am an Indian, married to Thai wife. Will appreciate if anyone who has some info may please share location, or contact details. Thank you.

Hello everyone!

I hope you’re all doing well. My husband, my daughter, and I are planning to move to Thailand, and I’m currently applying for the DTV (Thai Soft Power) visa from France. I have a few questions about the process and would greatly appreciate your guidance:

1. For the Thai Boxing Club that I’m applying to as part of my DTV visa, should I pay the fees in advance, or is it enough to simply obtain an invitation letter from them at this stage?

2. Regarding the embassy fees, do I need to pay them once the visa is approved, or should I pay when submitting the application?

3. What is the minimum duration required for the activity? Is six months sufficient?

4. If I pay in advance and my visa application is denied, will the fees be refunded?

Also, if anyone has any general advice or recommendations for families moving to Thailand under the DTV visa, I’d love to hear them!

Thanks in advance for your help! ❤️

SUCCESS STORY!!!!!!! Oh my gosh I am so happy 🥹🥳

DTV: APPROVED ✅

Location: London, UK Embassy 🇬🇧

Submitted: 16th December 17:32pm

Request for additional documents: 18th December 15:39pm

Approved: 24th December 01:05am

My story:

I am a self-employed content creator 🎥

Documents submitted: A letter from me to the embassy stating that all my work is done outside of the Kingdom, why I love Thailand so much and how I will continue to abide my all laws in the Kingdom. Screenshots of my professional portfolio (this is something I had already made on Canva to send to potential clients). As I do video content creation I submitted the link and also screenshots of each page.

Contracts between me and previous clients all based outside of Thailand, email correspondence and a couple of invoices. (It was over 35 pages long by the end of it)

Financial evidence - okay so this was why I think I got the request for my tax return.. I deposited money THE SAME DAY (whoops) and I couldn’t print off a bank statement. Neither could the bank, so I got a temporary statement (which looked so bad and unofficial) so the bank manager wrote me a letter and signed it stating that I had over £13,000 in my bank account. I also submitted a screenshot as supporting evidence (I know they don’t accept just this though so don’t just submit a screenshot).

Proof of location - driving licence, stamp out of Thailand passport page and my flight outside of Bangkok to London.

I used ilovepdf.com to merge my pdfs so I could submit multiple documents for each section. I then used the same website to compress my files 🙏🏼🇹🇭

Request for additional documents: A new photograph (my mustn’t have been clear enough) and more proof of financial evidence such as a tax return. I submitted my last one which dates April 2022 - April 2023 (but obvs submitted in 2024). This showed my earnings slightly under than what they are now as they are dated back (so under what I had stated on my embassy application).

I then emailed them yesterday asking for an update (23rd) and then I just checked my email and it was APPROVED!!!! At 1am this morning!!! 😭❤️

I was so worried as I am flying back to Thailand 28th that they would think I was stupid trying to get it done over the Christmas period. However, my flights were booked for so long and I was in two minds about whether I would chance it. I came to the conclusion that if it were cancelled if I returned to Thailand I would apply again from a neighbouring country (as I will be going with my parter anyway for his). My flights were more than the visa so this made the most sense to me.

HUGE thank you to all in this group. You have been a fantastic help and I can’t thank you enough🙏🏼🇹🇭

Here’s to 2025 starting off in the best way🥹🇹🇭

And... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! 🥰❤️🎅🏼🎄☃️

Hi, does anyone have info on the Phnomdei border crossing point from Cambodia into Thailand ?

Have friends crossing by land to visit soon and was wondering if this was “easier “ than Poi Pet / Aranyapathet crossing.

Thanks for any help 🙏

Thank you for letting me join the group. I'm going to be visiting Thailand the end of January. Then Vietnam at the end of April after I hopefully extend my Thai tourist Visa. If I stay in Vietnam for a couple months, do you think I will have a problem getting back into Thailand on another tourist visa? I will be flying in and out. Or maybe I should go to another country first? And stay out of Thailand for a like 4 months? Any help would be great. Thank you all

Input my debit card info and 1st try the e visa site logged me out, then I logged in again and try payment 2nd time and got a payment failure as shown in snapshot. Anyone knows what is going on?

Hello, a big thanks to all the members of that group for the help provided !

So in my case, i am a freelance remote worker and as a freelancer, i don't have any contract from my employers to show (and i'm just working for one or two clients max for now) and i don't necessarily work for them every month (last year i worked for them 7 months in a roll then 5 months pause).

This year, well, i don't know, i will see how it goes, there is no certainty, it can stop from a day to another or i can also be working all year...

And i don't send an invoice each month, rather a note of copyrights (as a writer/adaptador) to the client who pays me 45 days after but each note is dated monthly, like a bill or a paycheck.

The salary is around 1500 euros, which i know it's not huge...

I have the amount (500K) they ask for on a bank account.

All that being said and thank you to those who read me until the end, do you think i can be eligible for the DTV, and if yes, how should i do it ?

Thank you !!!

After approval of the DTV, over the 5 year duration of the visa, am I required to provide proof of employment/financial statements to show proof of income? Or is that a one-time deal?

I'm a US citizen. Applied through Washington office under freelance category.

I'm in HCM right now and applying for Muay Thai visa.

The Visa center is asking me for (1) DBD and (2) information about the training course.

What is a DBD? can anyone assist me on this?