What is the process for changing cities while on a soft power DTV in Thailand?

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

No trolling just letting you know not to confuse visas. The DTV is a tourist visa FYI.

@Sean ******

Can you read? I highly doubt it because I now said more than once I am not talking about a specific type of visa, so I am not confusing any type as visa as you keep saying like a dumb machine.

The discussion about what type of visa DTV is has nothing at all to do with general rules about entrance in the country with a visa, they are just for ALL visa.

BTW, Google AI thinks DTV is not a tourist visa, so for all here who think Google AI is always right a good lesson.

@Sean ******

I am not confusing any visa, in fact I am not talking about any specific visa. One of the tasks of an IO is to check if foreigners entering the country have the correct visa matching with their purpose of stay. DTV is not an exception on this general rule and is checked just like any other visa. Nowhere is stated you are on holiday when having a DTV, in fact there are very detailed descriptions in the visa requirements, and just on holiday is not one of them. Where did you read that nonsense?

@Pete ******

there are reports of questions about the DTV visa from Thai Immigration Officers upon arrival... NOT often but it's happened. No denied entry.

@Pete ******

Did you read your own post after typing the rubbish? You say no checks, and then you say IO can reject without any reason, and then you say again zero reports of any immigration checks at entry. You suggest immigration is not checking foreigners entering the country, but just randomly refusing entry without any checks????

And your remark of zero posts is completely incorrect, there are reports of checks, but every time there is a report you tell it is f ake news, for some reason you want to ignore the truth on this.

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

let me dumb it down for you to understand. There are no entry requirements placed on a DTV holder. There are no lines of DTV holders showing proof of funds or proof of ongoing courses at Immigration. There is not a single report of a DTV holder being rejected entry due to failing to provide a current soft power course or any other DTV application requirement. There are no entry requirements for a DTV visa unlike a visa exempt entry that actually has entry requirements. Your suggestion that the OP should have ongoing soft power courses booked to facilitate entry is a requirement that only lives inside your head.

@Pete ******

Please show me the official link where I can read DTV holders are exempted from entry checks like all other foreigners entering the country.

I asked MFA if requirements are for the whole five years and they confirmed this.

But I guess Pete Power has the power to know better than Thai officials who created the visa.

You can keep believing your own truth, but nowhere there is anything that exempts DTV from regular checks.

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

there are no entry requirements for DTV holders. Feel free to link to those requirements and thus shoot me down in flames. But we both know you cannot as they don’t exist, you are again talking nonsense.

@Pete ******

"entry requirements" is a definition you made yourself.

A visa has requirements, and what is checked upon entry is up to IO.

Some visa have a specific purpose of stay and that can be checked by IO, that are just general rules for all foreigners.

I asked you to show a link where is mentioned DTV holders will not be checked at entry, but now you ask me for a link?

For visa requirements just look at the sites of embassies and you will find all requirements.

Even for you this should be possible.

The requirements are always for the whole visa period unless stated different.

Also mentioned is how you should proof your compliance with these requirements during application.

How you should proof you compliance to this same requirements at entry of the country and when extending your stay is up to Immigration.

For the conditions at entry just look at the general rules for foreigners enteriing the kingdom where one of the conditions is you should have the corrrect documents for your purpose of stay. It is up to IO how you can prove compliance.

For the extension of stay your immigration office might have a checklist how to prove your compliance.

Since I haven't been able to catch you making any intelligent or sensible comments yet, I'll just ignore your comment about talking nonsense.

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

entry requirements are defined in law. Visa exempt entries have entry requirements of holding an onward ticket. During covid all visa entries had an entry requirement of a covid free ATK test. There are no entry requirements for DTV holders.

@Pete ******

there might not be specified specific entry requirements for the DTV visa, but that does not mean the visa requirements are not in place anymore.

The covid requirement you mention was not an entry requirement for all visa, but just an entry requirement for all foreigners entering the country.

One of the general conditions for entry in the country is that you have the right visa or are allowed to enter on visa exempt.

When your purpose of visit not matches the visa requirement of DTV, you don't have the correct visa and this means IO can refuse entry.

You are suggesting this general conditions are not in place for DTV, so just show me evidence of that ridiculous claim.

When you should claim that Elite visa has less conditions I might have believed you because those holders buy some priviliges, but DTV is just a very ordinary visa and will not get any special treat to give holders a privilege, so there will be regular checks.

So just show me where it is officially described IO cannot check DTV holders, or stop telling these fairytales, and keep adding all kind of completely unrelated info like covid free tests and onward tickets.

And also show me where it is defined that as soon as you get approved all visa requirements disaapear unless you interact with immigration, because this sounds like offending all trafic rules is allowed as long as you don't interact with police 555.

MFA tells visa requirements are just valid for the whole duration and this just sounds very plausible. You and your big friend Sean might have another opinion, but never showed any proof of that very unlogical view.