What was your experience with the DTV visa application process in Thailand?

If you live a long way from your agent, Do you have to go back to the agents location to renew each year? Also what happens about 90 day reports and TM30s ? Can you skip them at your local office or what? And if not don't they get suspicious about where you obtained your original visa and extension?

What area

Pretty much every other post on this group is some form of "How do I retire ?"

Search the GROUP for "retirement", and you'll get plenty of posts telling you how to go about it - by yourself.

Or, just pay the 50K Baht IF you'd don't have the $$$.

I hear 18.000 including the 800k fee....

฿0 x 4% interest in a bank compound over 10 years comes to Total Interest Earned: ฿384,195.43 and that's before tax on the interest and any fees charged buy wise or whoever you use to then bring the money in. And the Thai tax man might be interested in getting some too. Also what will that be worth in 10 years and agent fees will go up during that time (not worth it I reckon)

Most I have heard around that is a rip off

Two friends of mine have recently paid 70K to an agent in BKK and it was all done in one day. Bank account opened , initial 90 day Non O , and a 12 month extension all facilitated in a single day.

Great service.

normal fee charged around is in the range of 18,000 to 35,000, but lets be clear this extra "fee" is because the applicant do not have the 800,000 in their bank account. Apply directly in the immigration the real price is only 1,900 + copies + bank letter.

50,000 IS A RIP OFF 🤣

The agent fee is hugely depending on your own situation or requests, location, your local immigration office, time, etc.. The more foreigners come, the higher the agent fee. demand and supply principle on free market. it will vary from 10,000-30,000 THB difference depending on them all. but you have Thai bank account, that makes cheaper the agent fee. I just suppose, that your price is not so much high. If you want to know or compare the fees, you can check with other agents in your place. go to google map and open your place map, and search Visa agent like that, and you can find your local agents in your place. And just contact them and ask for the price and conditions.. You can have some quotations from various agents. so you will know what price would be in your place.

I have a couple of friends that use agents and one pays 28k the other pays 30k or 32k.

Thai Visa Centre is around 36k. More if you want multiple entry.

Bollocking it is max THB

a lot of options. The times that a new 15month for 25k or so are long over. If you go agent it depends on the service they offer (around 35-40k), if you need open Bank Account add another 10-15k. Recently a couple of friends did the Non O three month at a Consulate with Statemnet from home country, once they back in thailand they opened local Bank Accounts and some used agencies for extensions (around 16k) or did the extensions by themselves.

If your Thai bank is not Bangkok bank it will cost about 30 to 35 k the high prices people are saying on here includes a bank account

U r getting ripped off... shop around...

Do you have a Thai driving license

I'm American and applied and got an OA visa on my own. It cost me nothing other than my time and the visa fee. I'm sure it's easier with an agency but it is doable on your own if you choose. For anyone who does want to do it on their own I recommend getting your health insurance all set up first or very early in the process because that can hold you up. Sometimes the underwriting on the international plans are a pain in the ass.

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Your "friend" want maybe 25k commission that's the matter u end up this.

RIP OFF DONT DO IT THERE ARE MUCH CHEAPER

Still cheap if you don't have 800 000 on your account!

15,000 is my cost.

that seems high.

Always good to specify what area. Different areas, different rules, different prices. However the price seems about what it is now. Every year, immigration finds new requirements.

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The “do it yourself” keyboard warriors are out in force. Ffs if someone wants to use an agent either recommend one or scroll on.

Quotes are between 45 to 60k. Depending on what you need and time to get it. But, if you have a bank account then you just shaved off a chunk of cost. It be interesting to see what the difference is. This is where I think you can call the shots as to whom to go with as you take quotes minus the bank acct.

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the regular agent price for first 15 months is around 25k, 3k more usually for multiple entry

There are few reasons for an agent unless you don't have the 800K funding money. If you do have the money that price is not good. Compare with Tik Tok services, M Thai visa, Maneerat visa service, or Mots visa service. All in Pattaya.

If you have a Thai bank account already just do the steps yourself and save the 50,000 baht, it’s easy to do and you won’t be at the mercy of a agent forever

did it myself a number of times and renewals. Not difficult.

The elitist smart ass people on this site who look down on others makes me sick. Everyone has a choice how they live and what they do and if it was so illegal using an agent to get your Visa it would not be so common. Just because you are so stingy to pay an Agent and support Thai people you think having 800,000 baht in a bank account makes you better than others .

Seems ok for first one to get it all done easy without any stress, my yearly renewal is

Disclaimer: This is a humorous, hypothetical person." You" does not mean anyone in particular, ok? Keep your torches and pitchfoks in the shed, please. 50K is a small price to pay and here is why: Here you are in a foreing, almost alien culture where the only similarities between you and the locals are measured in things like "they have two arms, two legs and a head and they drive cars and motorbikes". You know nothing about their laws, traditions, customs or cultural nuances and to make things even worse you never paid attention to the growing number of main stream and social media exposures of downnright abhorent foreign nationals' behaviour across SE Asia, especially Thailand, both in bars, temples and corporate board roooms and how that might just influence the general mood of every officer inside an immigration bureau. You have no idea how to open a bank account in your name, and get confused by the layout of the badly translated lines of text in the forms you attempt to fill on your own, either on-line or printed versions you somehow managed to obtain. You spend a month gathering intelligence, re-printing forms and making sure you got this. Google translate is two sentences away from requesting a kill-bot drone be sent out to your physical location as it is up to its digital neck with your non-sensical questions and inquiries tainted by your Western upbringing, hubris and a bushel of entitlement because you think everyone is supposed to bow to your superior malanine deficient skin,. Even an AI is not spared your dumb assumptions about that superiority. The queue to the window you are supposed to go first is about an afternon away and you look at the people in tha waiting room as if they wer your mortal enemies jus t for the fact they arived earlier than you. But, somehow you go Zen and apply every yoga relaxing lesson you remember from those Youtube videos you ran across in your younger days, keep your anger in check, bide you time and make it to window number one. The officer behind the glass gets an immediate demerit for not saluting you as if you were a diety from a higher realm, but you are too pissed off to prosecute him or her for the faux-pas. As he starts to read the fifth page of your stack , someone walks into the cubicle, the offcer lifts his eyes from your papers and you know right there and then this is going sideways. She - happens to be a she, of course - is the embodynent of your Asian fever fantasies. The officer listens to what sounds suspicious whispers, flavored with conspiracy tones reserved for a spy novel. Your mind wanders while your blood piles up on your old legs to the point where your varicose veins are filing formal complanints with whoever is in charge of your ailing heart. The officer gets up and without even glancing at your papers leaves his post and goes over to the cubicle where the little brown morsel tempting your lower regions performs her daily rituals. Minutes go by. Furtive glances from both of the officers are eroding your confidence like the ice cubes in your beer Chang.More minutes go by. The air conditioning is not keeping up with your rising temperature and your system is experiencing stresses reserved for people 50 years younger than you. Sweat, the natural response to any stressful situation, begins to form spots in places obvious enough to elicit gasps from the people sitting directly behind you. Excruciatingly long minutes go by. You have lost count of how many times you looked at you Apple watch, and your vitals are fast approaching the orange zone. Your ankles and knees are competing with your varicose veins in the race to the complaint department lodged somewhere inside the turmoil you brain is becoming. The officer returns to his post without so much as a glance in your direction. He takes more minutes re-calibrating his thoughts to where he was before cutie showed up. He must have riffled through those papers 9 times forwards and seven times bacwards and you wonder if there is something you missed. More sweat piles on top of the half dried spots under you arms, back and chest. The chemcal reactions resulting from this fresh onslaught of salty brew is the discharge of odors the likes of wich very few have been subjected to. People behind you squirm in their chairs and weigh the options between losing their seats and suffocating by the stench assailing their innocent nostrils. The officer snaps a paper clip onto your stack of forms, adds another piece of paper with what looks like hyeroglyphs stamped on it and says something incomprehensibe to you foggy brain. Noticing the "deer-in-the-headlights" look on your face, he points to the waiting area and you sheepishly turn around and, like a man in a trance, sit back down again. A place has magically appeared and there are two vacant chairs on either side. You look at the person nearest to you and desperatly hope he speaks your language so at least you can vent your frustration. It seems like hours have passed. The person next to you returned the same look you gave the officer a minute eons ago. He or she know better than to dare enter the killzone you have become. You fiddle in your chair while your throat fells like a desert road used by loaded camels and laughing bearded bedouins somewhere in the depths of the Sahara. Your phone decided not to receive any signals and yoou feel cut-off from humanity.. Besides, the sign on the wall says "no cell phone use allowed". But you missed that, of course. And it just does not matter any more, You just want OUT. You feel so out of place, an alien planet filled with methane breathing creatures would be nice, just about now. A nice lady comes by and motions for you to follow her. At this point you would write a bad chek to your own mother just to change the dynamics and glance at some form of positive resuts, some indication the process is moving forward. So you follow her without question, your pride gone, your ego flattened, your sense of entitlement shattered by the brick wall of Thai bureaocracy and complete mis-lignment with western values. In heavily accented English she explains the errors of your ways: You missed a few things while filling out your forms. a ccouple of dots missing on top of the letter "i" and a 5 ythat with a fertile imagination aided by powerful illicit drugs could be mistaken for a 6. Your bank account statements do not match the new rules published in the Royal Gazette, conveniently before you had a chance to read the translated article. And you were just shy of the 30 days needed before you could apply for the change in status of your current permit to stay in the Kingdom. Back to the drawing board. This time you will get a translator. Someone who speaks flawless English, has never been out of Thailand and has no idea what a psssport is. She will surely help you. Go ahead and try. Then after two or three go-arounds and a possible visit to a local government hospital...call Grace at Thai Visa Center. Pay the 50K. SIt back and wait for the papers to arrive. In the mean time start de-constructing yourself because when you come to Thailand you will find out your whole entire existence has been a lie. Cheers.

That's ridiculous. I paid 15,000

Der Agent verlangt die gleichen Unterlagen wie die Immigration. Fahren Sie erst hin, erkundigen Sie sich genau. Dann brauchen Sie auch keinen Agenten. Das erste Mal ist vielleicht etwas schwierig. Ab dem 2 mal ist es easy. Es werden immer die gleichen Unterlagen verlangt. Fragen Sie einen Freund, der das ohne Agent gemacht hat der Ihnen hilft. Laden Sie ihn zum Essen ein. Das ist billiger als bath

50.000 is crazy money, I paid less than 15.000 arranging the 0 at the embassy

Do it by yourself, if you're able to write your name 😂

15 month so that means you are paying extra to convert from visa exempt to get the 90 day O visa and then the one year extension

How did you manage to get a Thai bank account without holding a prior visa? 🤔

Ask Mac Tv

That"s the first time payment.After that yearly renewals are a lot cheaper.Ask the agent how much it will cost for the second yesr.

It's a scam

???

Apply for non-O at home. Enter. Get list from immigration on what bits of paperwork to take in and get 12 months extension for 1900 tbt. Why would you want to give someone 55,000 tbt for it?!

I believe, he have no visa only 60 days. Now this cost about .

Drop your friend.

What kind of visa is for 15 months? All visas are for 1 year, annual renewals

For the first visa if you want peace of mind go for it when you’re settled in you can do by yourself to save some money if you want

That’s about right.

Normal price to do it. I know everbody says it yourself, but I did not find it easy so i have been using an agent for many years

Soi 13 pattaya

Opposite the post office

Small office

It's super expensive. Anything from 12,000-25,000.

Better to do it yourself, IF you have the money in a Thai Bank.

My friend paid 45,000 baht for retirement visa (15 month) to the local agency, was generally satisfied with the service.

Thai visa centre as for Grave, excelent service, fast and not expensive , highly recommended

I can't understand why use an agent if you have funds seeded in the bank.

Seems very expensive

If the agent is providing the financial requirements about 30k

If you have the 800,000 Baht in the Thai bank then why not do it yourself it only costs 1900 Baht fee at Immigration plus a couple of hundred for the bank letters. If you don't have the funds in the bank then that's the reason for the cost.

You can do it yourself without an Agent.

Ask at your local Immigration Office what to do.

Cost is 1900 Bt. Multi Entry is an extra 3200 Bt.

The only people I knew that used Agents didn't have enough Money.

Be sure... Immigration would be aware of this too. Agents have many who rely on them trapped year on year...

Seems a tad excessive. 15 months only? Bank? Drivers license? Do a cost comparison with

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also. Just message them. They will give you precise cost

If you're talking about applying for the 90 day Non-O visa and later the 12 month extension of stay you really do not need an agent. It is easy to do it yourself. If you don't mind spending the extra money for an agent I highly recommend you shop around but be extremely careful of phoneys. Make sure you hire a real licensed agent with references. I have heard of people paying 50K but you should be able to find someone legitimate for 35K to 45K

I paid b38,000 in February