What is the process for entering Thailand on a DTV visa, and what should I expect at immigration?

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Recent experience entering on my DTV visa 3rd entry. I was returning from Vientiane Laos by land before flying from Udon Thani Airport. During my land crossing I was asked to go to the back and see the supervisor. No questions about purpose of my trip just looked through passport and sent back. I walked to the back room sat down handed the supervisor my passport. He looked quickly and said do you have a visa? I said yes it's in my passport. Apparently both him and the first immigration missed the physical copy of my DTV inside my passport. I asked him to hand me my passport opened and showed him the DTV. He took my passport back stamped me and told me have a good trip. Zero questions about current activities or purpose of visit. I had my TDAC done as well and they didn't ask for my QR code. So all in all if they had seen my visa most likely would have just waved me in. Next time I'll just make sure my passport is open to the DTV page not my bio data page when I hand it to them.

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The user shares their experience entering Thailand on a DTV visa for the third time after traveling from Vientiane, Laos. During the land crossing, they encountered a less thorough immigration check, where officials failed to notice their DTV visa initially. After showing the visa, they were stamped in with no further questions regarding the visit's purpose. The user suggests keeping the passport open to the visa page to avoid similar issues in the future. Comments from others include advice on having a copy of the visa page ready and observations about the uniform protocol of immigration officers.

Paul ******** · Answer

Why was the visa number not entered on the TDAC?

Anonymous ****************** · Answer

You will find they switch back to bio page automatically anyway even if you hand over opened on visa page, its reflex for them. Better to print and laminate visa page copy to size of passport and just tuck it in

James ******** · Answer

And if you had printed out a copy of the DTV Visa and placed it in your Passport, the Thai Immigration Officer would have seen it.

Thank You for your helpful report.

Christopher *********** · Answer

Thanks for your report Jason. Sounds like the first immigration officer didn’t look at your entry record upon the two previous occasions either.

Ian ********** · Answer

So you have the visa stamped in your passport? Where was it issued?

What is the process for entering Thailand on a DTV visa, and what should I expect at immigration?

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