What should I do about my DTV visa situation in Thailand after a conviction related to a nominee business?

Since the market is flooded now with land, houses, condos, the market has tanked massively. considering you only have 6 months to sell… i can offer you 500k baht for it.

you wont get a DTV extension if you cant proof all documents again and actually have a business in thailand… i wonder why they have not canceled your visa yet in that situation.

Get a lawyer. In any case even if you can't come back on a dtv, you can come as a tourist and extend so you'll have 60 days. Try to sell the land within that time. You can at least get an agent to advertise for you, etc.

Your done mate, you broke the law, they dont like second chances

Enter Phuket. I can give you an advice about my friend who had the same problem coming back.

We Thais do not want foreigners like this. Stop exploiting Thailand for personal gain. Breaking the law is breaking the law. Do not try to stay in Thailand.

Bangkok hilton

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

First, how do you still have a valid DTV? You violated the terms of the visa by setting up a business Thailand and working inside the country when the thing plainly says, "Work not allowed."

Second, where are you finding these lawyers and agents saying you should have no problem getting back in? Get yourself to a high-level firm in Bangkok. He can be a bit insufferable in some of his YouTube videos, but I suggest that Benjamin Hart dude. I believe his firm is called Integrity Legal. Don't go messing around with some guy in a moldy office stuffed between a massage shop on one side and a manicure/pedicure on the other. You need serious legal help if, at the very least, you don't lose out on the land because you got booted.

IMO, you have a serious problem on your hands, and I wish you luck.

The fine for working without a work permit gets you deported. You weren’t because your visa was not tied to work. You will just pay a fine. Also you can contest the fine as you were on the verge on applying for a permit. Go talk to labour. Take a lawyer.

Oh just fk off, loser.

Go for the extension. You don't want to risk anything at the airport. Just my advice but I'm sure people have other opinions.

Try to extend your DTV first. If it fails, then buy fast track or VIP or whatever they call it for entry at the airport. You could also use a land border with a company that organises those trips. But whatever you do, don't do that on your own.

Pay £40 at immigration and extend for another 180 days

Get out of Thailand before you lose your freedom aswell

I extended my DTV (workcation) by myself and found the process to be very straightforward. Some of my friends who also remote workers extended their visas without any kind of hassles. I don't know the situation for people on Soft Power.

As you have an ongoing case in Thailand, I'm not sure leaving the country is a good idea. It may be perceived as if you are trying to escape the Thai law.

After all, how do they know you will really come back? It will be your words against a scenario that they have already seen too many times. And at this precise moment... As a convict, your words are considered the words of a liar.

Avoid making your situation worse. Extend in the country.

Pls DM our team is Legal team.

I would process different type of visa and reapply for it.

I wasn’t in your situation but I always have a lawyer everywhere I move. I can recommend juslaw & consult as lawyers in general. I would also like to know a bit more what happened you said in some comments you were with some other investors and bought land? Was it a business you planned? Like a hotel or something? And they let you stay and let you sell? That’s quite fair and far from the headlines that at a minimum deported the convicted and made them pay a fine.

Your local Thai Immigration Office was already determined earlier by where you filed your TM.47 Report of 90 Days Continuous Stay inside Thailand, so where is your local Thai Immigration Office??

Anyone who had made Entry into Thailand on a DTV Entry stamp with their DTV E–Visa PDF File Hard Copy Printout can Apply for a DTV Extension of Stay at their local Thai Immigration Office inside Thailand

Also, could also go to your local Thai Immigration Office to see if you could be able to Apply for an in–country Change of Visa Type from DTV to something else ( Non–B ) at your local Thai Immigration Office or not

otherwise, directly contact the Thai Embassy/Thai Consulate that issued your current DTV E–Visa about cancelling your active DTV E–Visa if you are planning on Applying for a different Thai E–Visa within the next 4 years (or until the expiration of your current DTV E–Visa)

At which Thai Embassy/Thai Consulate (where) did you Apply for your current DTV E–Visa?

What category of DTV E–Visa do you have?

Pay a Thai lawyer for an advice letter. Don't trust visa agency they will likely scam you and you could end up in worse trouble.

This is the first time I’ve heard of this type of situation, I think you have to sort out selling land and getting clean and then you shouldn’t have any more worries . You said you have a few months until you need to leave the country for your six months , so try and get everything done before then. What is your exact situation? Have you been convicted already? Or you’ve just been arrested and the court case hasn’t happened?

What are your fellow business partners doing? If you are currently not under arrest in Thailand then you should be fine to leave and on coming back unless something has changed. They will either refuse entry or let you in, both of which sees you as a free man . 

If you got arrested, how do you still have your passport? They normally confiscate it until the trial is over.

U will be fine assuming the court didn’t cancel ur visa. Bring some paperwork about land selling if you’re concerned and need to show for explanation

So They allow you to sell

The land and recoup your

Money? That seems very nice of them. I thought they are confiscating land like this and deporting people ?

Anyways without selling it you could hire a lawyer to help you get a land office registered thai usufruct for life or 30 years. This is registered and printed on the Chanote at local land office and really the safest most legal way to have a long term ( but temporary) right to land in Thailand . It still Requires a thai owner for when you die and it cannot be inherited or passed On. This is designed so that all land ends up back to a thai citizen in the end . It’s very smart and I wish my own country did this. I don’t know how this works in this particular situation as you need a thai owner 100% I assume . Not sure a company under scrutiny can sign the usufruct rights .

Usufruct is better than a lease and gives you legal

Rights .

Even if the land is sold

The usufruct cannot be removed without your signature. This would have been the best option for you as a foreigner all along .

You can own a condo or have a lease or a usufruct and that’s it really .

A lot of people have done these nominee setups and had hired thai law firm to make it legal and safe . They agents and firms should be held accountable.

It’s better to just invest in your home country and create a passive income

That allows you to rent here . Or maybe buy a condo.

Find another country?

Bye bye

Do a border bounce, thats your safest bet. And try to resolve the issue with the property.

Read somewhere that its best to sell the land to a thai person and rent it from them for 30-50 years.

Just get an agent to get you an express pass at the airport.

Very risky leaving and coming back given your circumstance, but not sure you have any other option 🤷‍♂️

Hope you can at least recoup your money, or most of it.

better sell the land fast, or extend your dtv where you are or via agent for extension, if not better sign poa to your lawyer and whoever you fully trust to sell your land for your if you were to reject upon entry to thailand. this nominee case is no small deal as they are full hardcore to crack all down

I am confused what you mean that you never made it to a work permit. You can’t get a work permit while on a DTV

You've been convicted? So you have a criminal record in Thailand now?

If you were working in a Thai business with a DTV your lucky they didn't just revoke it on the spot. No idea if you will have an issue returning again on the DTV, and I doubt anyone could say one way or the other with any certainty. You won't be blacklisted otherwise you would know about that and would probably have been deported.

Just the asking for advice on Facebook about such a critical issue shows exactly why you were arrested, stupidity. Get a real lawyer, get a real life, get a real legal business. People like you are exactly the reason why the DTV will be under severe scrutiny soon, disrupting people who are here legally.

My agent said u don’t have to leave the country you can go to Bangkok and get stamped for 1900 baht instead and she said they changed that a few months back….so you have the option of leaving or going to get stamped in Bangkok

You need to mandate a lawyer to sell the land in case u can’t make it back in the country. Costly yes but unfortunately you may have no other choice

The more DTV holders get involved in sketchy or illegal stuff, the more scrutiny the rest of us will get. I'll be surprised if the DTV isn't yanked or restricted in some form because of stuff like this. Arguably, it's already happening.

I doubt any of us can offer you real good advice on it

You need a real lawyer, not a Facebook group. I doubt anyone here has the knowledge, experience or the qualifications to advise you in this situation. Agree about not doing anything sketchy as that could only compiund any issues. Good luck. Was that Israeli guy not arrested recently upon return for this type of situation?

Border bounce and try and arrange a safe passage/fast track entry with a large reputable agency.

Short sell take the loss

Learn from this and move on in life