What has been the experience of applying for a DTV visa in Malaysia for a UK business owner?

This is from my husband:

I wanted to share my experience (so far) of applying for the DTV visa as a business owner from the UK applying in Kuala Lumpur. This will be lengthy but has some info which’ll stop you having to go back (which I have to do)

Documents I took to the embassy:

• ⁠6 months bank statements from my personal account

• ⁠6 months bank statements from my business account

• ⁠Business registration

• ⁠Passport

• ⁠2 photos

• ⁠Application Form

• ⁠Contract for our largest client detailing the type of work we carry out

• ⁠Letter from the British embassy in Malaysia confirming they don’t authenticate documents (IMPORTANT)

First thing to mention is that they didn’t take into account my bank statements from my business account, these were given back to me without them looking - they only cared about what was in my personal account. They didn’t look through my personal bank statements, merely looked at the closing balance and ticked it off.

If you own a business you will be asked to get your registration documents authenticated by the British embassy - the British embassy in Malaysia DO NOT provide this service. They have a templated letter which you can download and print on the embassy website to avoid any back and forth. When I provided this, they were happy for my documents to not be authenticated.

I was told to come back with some additional info, some I understand, one document I found a bit bizarre.

I need to provide pay slips of payments to myself, payments highlighted on my business bank statements weren’t going to cut it - fair enough.

I also have to create a letter explaining that I work remotely, which I can then sign myself as a director of my company.

I was also told I needed to provide a 6 month rental agreement for a property in Thailand before I could apply…

I explained that if I don’t receive the DTV visa I won’t be going to Thailand for that period of time so wouldn’t want to sign a rental agreement for a property I may never get to live in…but they insisted this was a MUST before I could apply for the visa.

The rental agreement has to be for a condo/apartment it can’t be a hotel.

So bit of an odd one, need to look at what to do here. Will be hopefully heading back to the embassy in the coming days so will update this post.

Hope this helps!