Can I leave the country of visa application to visit a nearby country before entering Thailand?

NO 👎

You need to stay in the country you are applying during the whole application process

Lights on, but no ones home

If you’re going to do it make sure you’ve got enough proof you were in the application country. I applied in Da Nang and 8 days after submission I was asked for a photograph of myself (with proof of date) by a well known monument/or tourist attraction. I did also supply a receipt from a local restaurant that showed their address and the date and proof that I paid on my card just to be on the safe side.

My application was approved 4 days later.

You need to remain in the jurisdiction of the consulate you applied through until the application process completes

I had to leave the country i applied in, so came to thailand and my dtv was approved 1.5 weeks after arriving in thailand. I then left the country and came back in on my dtv with no issues at all.

If you leave the country of Application before your application is completed, you risk having your application cancelled if the Thai embassy find out you left that country. They do check. They might ask you to send pictures of every page in your passport, including all the blank pages, which will show that you left the country. Result, immediate visa application cancellation. They might also ask you to go into the Embassy for an interview. If you already left the country, that also would be a problem and cancellation of your application.

It’s just not worth taking the risk. Enjoy the country that you are in, until you get your visa approved.

I’d just wait it out fella, a bad run would be week wait time… not worth getting rejected over.

In the one week it took for my application to get approved I was asked twice for a photo of my visa stamp

Things on paper are one thing, practice is a diff story. I went to Cambodia applied for DTV returned to Thailand on a voa that expired so I left and went to Vietnam and second day there my DTV was approved

Results may vary.

What happens when they ask for copies of every page of your passport???

You can do what ever you want.

But the conditions state that you must remain in the country of application.

Chances are you may not get caught but if you do that’s on you.

There has been numerous post of people having “extra documents requested “

Please provide a copy of every page of passport