Will my unemployment affect my application for the Soft Power visa in Thailand if I show sufficient savings?

My friend applied in Vietnam and she was asked to show her income docs (despite applying for Muay Thai and having bank statements). Luckily, she has been renting her house in another country so she was able to provide tax returns from that and got her DTV.

From my understanding, nowadays in Vietnam they have started to ask for income documents for Soft Power too.

Just think of something medical, you can do in Thailand.

It can be anything that a beauty or health clinic offers, or book multiple dental appointments for dental cleaning.

1. Contact Clinic (Clinic must have a Doctor at the premises)

2. Book appointments.

3. Ask if they can write you a letter or write the letter yourself to give to the clinic to sign, stamp & return to you.

4. Clinic provides the letter which must include their medical registration licence certificate. (You may likely receive 2 documents, so you then need to convert into a single pdf file)

What to say on the letter.

Option 1:

"Insert Name" is a patient of our clinic, they began their first consultation on "date"

they hold a package with our clinic for treatment which can take up to 2 years to complete.

Option 2:

"Insert Name" is a patient of our clinic, they began their first consultation on "date"

they will be coming in for the purpose of "treatment" & they have appointments scheduled for the following dates.

5th of June 2025

15 July 2025

10th of September 2025

Aim for 3-6 appointments over an 18-24 month period or have the letter state how you need to come in monthly for treatment.

- The consultation date, is the first date you reached out to the clinic to discuss.

- Treatment "package" people often bulk purchase IV drips, Botox, all kinds of various treatments.

Search:

To get a feel of what services may suit you.

- As the treatment is medical related, you have the right to be vague as it's for health - purposes, however you also need to provide enough detail to fill at least half a page.

- Kindly ask the clinic if they can write the letter, or sign & return your letter, informing the clinic, I need the letter for visa purposes as I will be coming & going from Thailand multiple times & your letter will support me when explaining to immigration why I may frequently be exiting & returning to Thailand.

- I deposited the funds into an account I don't use, for the purpose of the visa.

(Unfortunately I didn't remove the funds & got carried away spending it 😅😂)

*The source of my funds was clear enough & I didn't have to elaborate further as it was for soft power.

Not needed in bern Switzerland. Just bank balance. I could proof income from embassy in Bangkok but they didn’t ask. Not broke yet lol

I just applied in Laos this morning.

Unemployed, put 1 million baht in my Thai bank account 2 months ago, attached 6 months UK bank statements with more than enough to cover my expenses for life.

Hopefully I'll have an update soon.

I did attach a cover letter.

Freelancing in what?

This may answer all you questions:

There is no income requirement. But there is an employment requirement.

No problem

Of course they will ask you to meet the financial requirements. What are you thinking?

Should be fine, I had less than 1m baht in bank account when I applied for soft power and was not asked about income.

Each application is different though

Just put unemployed and savings but show the statements with funds available to support your stay

Yeah they probably will ask for income

They wanted an ending balance minimum 500,000 baht for md