What are the requirements and considerations for applying for a DTV workation in Thailand?

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If you’re lucky, the embassy might issue the DTV visa without requesting any additional documents.

If you’re unlucky, they may ask you to translate all of your company documents into English using a certified (notarized) translator. You may also be required to provide detailed information about your company—what it does, how much revenue it generates, and possibly submit tax returns from recent years. To make things more complicated, all of these documents must be translated and notarized, as the embassy often requires notarization.

You can try applying with your startup company, and if it fails, the most you would lose is the 10,000 THB application fee.

However, we recently encountered an issue at the Netherlands embassy. One of our customers applied for the DTV visa under the Workcation category and was rejected. When they reapplied under the Soft Power category, they were rejected again. We refunded 100% of the course fee. The customer later checked with the embassy and was informed that once you apply under one category (Workcation or Soft Power), you cannot switch to another category if the first attempt is unsuccessful.

As the saying goes: “Trying to avoid a small loss may end up costing you even more.”