What should a freelancer know when applying for a DTV visa in Thailand?

Hi everyone 🙂

I’m a freelancer currently working with two main long-term clients, and I’m planning to apply for the DTV visa. I’d love some advice on a few questions:

1. I have over 500K in my bank account for more than 3 months. The account statement mostly shows incoming payments and almost no expenses, since I only use it to receive funds and occasionally transfer money to my investment account. In addition, I recently had a one-time payment from a third client for work I did outside Thailand. Does this kind of activity raise any issues, and do I need to provide documentation about that one-time job, or can it be ignored?

2. I’m tax-resident in Panama, where freelancers don’t need a registered company or specific documentation. I only have tax declarations from previous years. Is that usually acceptable for the DTV application?

3. Do I really need remote-work approval letters from all clients, or are there alternatives?

4. For translations: do all documents need to be translated into Thai? And are machine translations acceptable?

5. Since I’m applying as a freelancer (without a registered company), and I’m currently in Thailand, based on people’s experience which embassy tends to be the smoothest or least strict for DTV freelancer applications? Hanoi, Vientiane, or somewhere else?

Thanks so much in advance for your help 🙏