I just entered through Suvarnabhumi airport, longer queues for sure. I use visa exempt every month but never had any extensions and max stayed 4 to 12 days each time, and return back to my country. I had zero questions asked and was let through. This was my 12th Visa exempt this year. Never even asked for my return ticket, hotel or how much cash i had. Just biometric, photo and stamp the passport. Since there are many questions around this subject.

Hello,

I hold an Italian passport. I work remotely (self employed).

I want to become a TAX resident in Thailand. What's the easiest / fastest way to go about this.

We applied for our visa in Jakarta, and the application started on December 1st.

On December 12th, we were requested to submit all passport pages, which we have already uploaded.

As of December 17th, there has been no further update, and the status is still showing “Pending Document Check”.

So far, it has been 14 working days in this status.

I would like to ask others who applied in Jakarta:

• How long did your DTV (Workcation) visa processing take?

• Is this delay normal?

My current visa in Jakarta expires on December 26th.

Once my visa is approved, I plan to apply for my wife as a dependent.

Do you think it is realistic for both of us to receive the visas before December 26th?

If not, would it be necessary for us to do a same-day exit and re-entry via Kuala Lumpur?

Also, once my visa is approved, would you recommend sending an email to request urgent processing for my wife’s dependent visa?

If anyone has applied recently, please share:

• Did your application also take this long?

• How many days did it stay under “Pending Document Check”?

Thank you in advance for your advice and shared experiences.

My wife has the savings requirement to sponsor both of us, but no income for the past 6 months (she only just started a short remote contract job). I have income but no savings as we have been living off of my means. I can’t be added to her bank account because she’s American and I’m not and I don’t have residence there. Would the Thai embassy in Laos still consider us qualified for the DTV?

Hi does anyone know if these fast track sites you see online for Don Mueang actually help you get through immigration quicker and smoothly? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Can i transfer my elite visa to new passport (new passport from different country)?

Hi all,

I would like to ask a question.

I'm planning to apply DTV visa from Singapore.

I got one issue that the resident address in the bank statement differ with current address, is it any issue and need to change the address before apply it?

Actually, I forgot to change my current address in my bank.

Please advise.

Thank you in advance.

Has anyone here on a DTV visa done a border run recently on your own without using a agency?Is this possible without problems?Please advise ☺️

APPROVED - HANOI 🎉🎉🎉

📍Applied - 8th December

📍Approved - 16th December

💵 The full 500,000 baht was only in my bank for around 10 days before I applied, I transferred the remainder of my savings to meet the requirement so you don’t need 500,000 for 3 months in a row in Hanoi.

✖️No additional documents required so I thought I would lay out on here what I submitted to help anyone needing it, some posts on here really helped me so..

📑Financial PDF

1. A cover letter stating why I was training, be a little enthusiastic about Thailand and the Thai people. State anything they might question, for me i transferred 70,000 baht roughly 10 days before applying to meet the 500,000. I told them this is from my savings. I also stated I’m currently doing an English course and wish to teach online to help support myself during my course, I then thought they would reject me for this as many people told me you cannot work on a soft power DTV, but it clearly isn’t a problem. Make sure you state you will not work for thai people or a thai company while in thailand as this is illegal.

2. I showed them 4 bank statement as Decembers didn’t show any activity, with Septembers showing less than half of the requirement. My account was also not being used after early November as I was transferring my savings from another account to my Monzo to avoid ATM fees, I told them this. I highlighted the end balance for each month and submitted all pages not just the first page.

3. I used ex.com to convert my end balance into baht, I screenshot this on my Macbook and highlighted the conversion and the date and time in the top corner.

📑 Proof of Location PDF

1. A cover letter stating where you are, address it to the embassy with their address and the address of your hotel too. State everything about your intentions of travel. My hostel was booked until the 14th and I wasn’t accepted until the 16th so I stated my stay can and will be extended until I received a response. I also stated my intended date of departure was on the 21st to ensure I had plenty of time for a response.

2. Photo of my passport entry stamp

3. Photo of my plane ticket to Hanoi

4. Photo outside of my hostel (if you swipe up on Iphone you can screenshot the date and time with it)

5. Photo of my room key with my passport

6. Atm receipt with the last few digits of my bank card matching the receipt with my name

7. Screenshot of my hostel booking on my email

📑 Soft Power PDF

1. I just uploaded the already combined PDF my gym sent me, it had certificates, a receipt of my payment, photo copies of IDs etc etc

📌 Helpful Application Points

1. Address Information: I was very confused about this, after reading what people did on here I put my Vietnam hostel as the first address, I then chose “no” to the “is your permanent address the same as your current address” and I added my home address in the UK.

2. Passport Place of Issue: I wasn’t sure if this meant the authority, for me it was “HMPO”, or the country it was issued in. ChatGPT told me to write HMPO but many people on here wrote the country so I wrote United Kingdom.

3. Intended Date of Arrival / Departure: My intended date I just made up, make sure you leave enough time to actually receive a response (2 weeks I would say) this is just intended, you don’t need to book anything but you do need a flight number, if you just search a flight on this date, I used VietJet and they have the flight numbers up before booking.

3. Employment: I stated I am unemployed, because I am. But in my financial letter I wrote that I am doing a course and intend to work online in the future and this was no problem.

📌 PDF Help

1. I airdropped my photos / scans from my iphone to my macbook and saved them as PDFs. I then used the thumbnail tool on my mac and dragged and dropped the documents I needed to create each PDF.

2. The 3 PDFs all have to be 3MB or less each. My PDF from the gym was below this and so was my financial PDF, but my proof of location wasn’t. I signed up to Adobe for the 7 day free trail, uploaded it and it just shrunk it for me, so easy to do. I then cancelled the subscription.

I hope this is helpful for those applying after me!!

Good luck, you got this 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭

My wife is going to purchase a house shortly in Phrae province.

As we have to return to UK in 6 weeks time (whilst I am here on a 90 day visa so won’t be extending it this trip) how long does it take to get a blue book which I guess would only be in my wifes name?

Would this entitle me as married to a thai, the yellow book which, when I return to Thailand Oct ‘26, makes things a bit easier for opening a bank account in place of a certificate of residence?