Do I need an onward ticket when entering Thailand with a DTV visa?

LongTimeLivingInThailand When you don't show your visa airline might ask.

When you show visa or have return flight at same airline they will not ask.

@Chris ********

When it is not written as a requirement, why is immigration already checking for decades every now and then?

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

show me the law where DTV is defined as a tourist visa? It is NOT in the Tourist visa section of the Thailand e-visa website. It has its own category.

@Christopher **********

It is not the first time I read this, but when it makes you happy to think it was a mistake, that is all up to you.

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

No there weren't or else someone would have posted. Everyone likes to complain. What we are talking about now may never have happened. If it did, it was clearly a 'one off' mistake by an Immigration Officer. I doubt we will read any verifiable reports of repetition in the future.

@Christopher **********

Why should I try to find reports of enforcements of requirements.

There were some in the past, there is one now, and there will be in the future, all perfectly normal and not worth discussing.

The only thing about it worth discussing might be if they use some kind of algorithm who to check or if it is completely aselect.

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

You won't be able to find any other verifiable reports of DTV holders being asked to provide sight of return/onward tickets. Moving forward, can we now expect to see more verifiable reports in the future? I think not.

@Christopher **********

This is the first one YOU READ.

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

How do you know that a ‘lot more people’ are being asked? This is the first report which would indicate that it isn’t happening. Since this report nobody else has stated they were required to show return/onward ticket otherwise entry would be denied.

@Christopher **********

I am not concerned at all, I always book return flights.

Since DTV is a tourist visa you should at each entry also have the standard requirements, return/onward flight before end of stamped in period, 20k cash and proof of accomodation.

These might be checked or not, I never worry about it, I do not enter without any of these.

I am quite sure ther are already a lot more people asked to show these, but most people would not report it, because it are just normal questions.

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

I said it is a fact that, until today, there haven't been any reports of a DTV holder being asked to provide sight of return/onward tickets. Nobody needs to be concerned about something that doesn't happen. It is yourself who is apparently obsessed about this requirement. I don't understand why because you personally haven't been asked and neither has anyone else until today. As I've already stated, there are two possible explanations; 1) Immigration Officer got it wrong or 2) Fabricated report.

@Christopher **********

What do you consider as verifiable?

You just don't trust

@Renske ***********

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I don't see she is like you posting all kind of rubbish.

When you say it is a fact, it is up to YOU to tell why it is a fact, just point us to some legislation showing the DTV exemption.

You can find on a lot of places what are the requirements for tourists to enter Thailand, and also that DTV is a tourist visa.

Nowhere is an exemption for DTV stated, but you seem to know better.

Last time I asked at the local immigration it was not about this subject, because that is well known, but he said his collegues at the border are free to decide which requirements they check and which they don't check, so they might decide not to check onward travel for all tourists.

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

Not my statement but a fact. There have been no verifiable reports of a DTV holder entering/reentering Thailand being asked to provide sight of return/onward tickets. If it is your belief that Immigration Officers should be doing so, then your local immigration office would be best placed to explain to you why this is apparently not happening.

@Christopher **********

It is your statement, not mine.

Why should I ask what I already know.

General rules for tourists coming into Thailand are already long time existing and did not change

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

You have told us you previously asked questions at your local immigration office. Why not ask them? Horse's mouth and all that!

@Christopher **********

Show the law where DTV is exempted from normal tourist requirements.

LongTimeLivingInThailand Good luck with that.

@蓝**

all tourists need to have onward travel within the period they are stamped in, but often not enforced.

@蓝**

I could believe it but I've also learned to not listen to people including IO when it comes to explain their non changing unconfirmed rules. Thailand, you know... 😅

@Peter ********

mine says Employment Prohibited. I applied just one month after the DTV was made.

@Manuel *******

Ask

@El***

what it says on his workation applied for DTV 👍

And how do you know that? Are you working for immigration? I saw other remote worker DTVs where the remark was "Remote Worker" instead. Of course you can not work for Thai companies. To me this little remark section seems to make a distinction.

@Manuel *******

Wrong Employment Prohibited is on nearly all DTVs regardless how they were applied for. And it refers to not being allowed to work inside Thailand for Thai companies.

@Chris ********

Sure on paper. Unfortunately, the vast majority have given up on the idea and many have failed trying to do so.

PositiveLynx7934 which can be extended at immigration

PositiveLynx7934 correct ✅