What is the best time to apply for a DTV visa before leaving Thailand?

@George *****

If you apply online I think you would be ok if out of the country when application made, and came back even if the answer not given yet. As the actual application would be following the rules. But it’s so new and so many different abuses currently being used it will take them days, weeks possibly months to catch up with all the ways it can be abused. Some will be picked up faster, like the amount of time the money needs to be in your account. At the start it just needed to be in there, now it’s between 1 and 6 months depending on embassy.

That will become a standard 6 months I reckon.

@George *****

make sure you go to what ever consulate you're going to apply at website and READ the requirements for the DTV carefully because they're not the same.

reports are HCMC is not that hard core (they're no nonsense but not hard core) 🙂

@George *****

Now hang about

If you're going to go to one of the two thai consulates in Vietnam and apply for a DTV in person (because those consulates are NOT on the eVisa system)

You WILL need to book an online appt before because you can't get in the gate without it

@Tod ********

Hypothetically - if one was currently in Thailand but going to the Uk in 2 weeks…. And one was to start the online application before leaving Thailand….

How would they know

And would they care?