How does the DTV Soft Power programme provide a five-year visa for short courses like cooking or Muay Thai?

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Manuel Buitrago Robles: Excellent question. But, keep in mind that the allowed period of stay is limited to 180 days. The intent of the visa is that the holder can visit for a limited period of time but can make multiple visits over a period of 5 years. Hence it is a visitor visa, not a long-stay visa as many people [successfully] try to use it for. (The rate of success may be changing?)

The DTV is somewhat analogous to the US visitor visa, which is a 10-year visa with each stay limited to the amount of time required for the purpose of the visit.

That's a question most of us have been asking. The visa started out as a digital nomad visa, but was then expanded to include cultural experiences, music festivals, and visiting family. The visiting family was dropped, as there is already a visa for this purpose. They then discovered that undesirable visitors were using this visa to stay full-time in Thailand, so they changed the rules in an effort to combat this. I think the soft power side of this visa should be changed to a 12-month visa, renewable annually with checks on compliance.

Dtv is a program of a previous government to boost economy after covid. Current government has a different vision of tourist business in Thailand. So this is just a visa and any immigration officer can stop you at the border. So don't treat your dtv visa as stay allowance this is more or less some kind of invitation that can be rejected anytime while crossing the border.

Because they didn't foresee 1000s would blag the visa and live here rather than return home after their course

If you book a cooking course for a few months you might get a METV instead of DTV

Just pay for the course and don't ask questions....