Can you be asked to show 500,000 baht in funds upon arriving in Thailand?

Thank You for your helpful reply.

Was this your FIRST TIME using the DTV visa to enter Thailand?

A first person report ✅ Phuket is known for occasionally asking to see the copies of the DTV Thai Visa application documents.

That's WHY it's recommended that you carry with you a printed out copy of the documents.

As for bank account balance... Did you have to use your phone and upload the current bank account balance to show Thai Immigration ?

Or showed them the bank account balance statement submitted with your DTV application?

@Dany *******

No reason to ask, they are checked when they enter the country, they are checked every year at extension, and also might not travel in and out very much, so why do the extra checks? Just to check if their collegues at the immigration do their work in a correct way?

But I was not talking about actualy checks, you suggest you don't need the 500k permanently

@Luit ****************

with a marriage or retirement visa you get checked on entry for your bank statements? lol 🤣 i doubt that.

the only time you get checked is when you do the extension. same with the DTV….

yes you do NOT need 500k permanently. its even pretty stupid to have that much money uninvested… no one in thailand is checking for your 500k either.

this seems to be another theory vs. practice argument…

@Ke ****

would you like useful help for visa entry. Or no? It’s up to you

@Todd ********

hard to argue with that one

@Todd ********

I know it is difficult for some people but in this very same post somebody tells he was asked to show his bank account, but I guess you don't believe that either because it does not fit with the fairytale in your brain.

@Todd ********

You suggest they both lied to me? It also makes sense what they say, 500K is needed as financial reserve when you are in Thailand, why should you only need that at moment of application.

Up to now nobody was able to show where it was announced for DTV visa requirements are only temporary

@Luit ****************

more likely you misunderstood. The 500k is a requirement for application only. There is NO further requirement. Stop being so ridiculous

@Todd ********

I am sure I do not misunderstood, maybe YOU just misunderstood.

The answer of MFA and Immigration makes perfectly sense, because normally visa requirements are valid the same period the visa is valid.

Please show where it is mentioned it is only a requirement at the moment of application and at some embassies 3 till 6 months before.

I bet you cannot show anything confirming this ridiculous statement of yours.

Why should requirements only be in place BEFORE you have the visa, and nor HILE you have the visa? How hard can it be to understand that?

@Luit ****************

don’t be ridiculous. ‘Please show where it is mentioned’ 😂😂😂 here is a hint for you, the visa requirements are explicit about WHAT YOU REQUIRE. They don’t give you a handy list of things you don’t require. What an absolute buffoon. Shut up and go enjoy the rain in 🇳🇱 you absolute w ⚓️

@Todd ********

I agree the visa requirements clearly show what you require, one of them is 500K in a bank account, so that is required during the whole visa period unless you find other info somewhere else, but I bet you fail again, over and over.

And yes there is no list that tells you don't require 500K, the list requires you need 500K, but somehow in your mind there is something that tells that you don't need 500 k, but since you cannot proof that with facts you declare others as absolute buffoon, to hide the fact that you cannot prove your imagination.

Rest of your info is also rubbish, it does not rain in Netherlands, it is snowing, but for you that might also be not understandable, just like you don't understand the word requirement.

And why should I listen to a brainless guy and go to Netherlands, I don't like the snow, but also it is none of your business where I should go.