Will the DTV visa documents be checked again upon re-entry or extension in Thailand?

@Alessandro ********

yes some guy asked another guy from some immigration and posted it on facebook 😳 great that you guys now repeating rumors big help 😂

@Alessandro ********

or just comply

Just seen this on another site. Good info

I’m living in Chiang Mai with my wife and our four children, all on DTVs. 90 days for us is next Thursday. Online isn’t available for the first report, and I opted to try in-person to see if it was as easy as I had been told. It was. I asked another expat for advice and was told to take passports, TM30s, and completed TM47s. I also took a print-out of our house lease agreement but wasn’t asked to show it. I didn’t take passport photocopies. I got to the drive-up window not long before 1:00; it was closed for lunch between 12 and 1. Several minutes later the window opened, and I gave the officer the stack of six passports (with TM47s loose and TM30s attached inside each one). It took him about three minutes to process all six of them and issue printed receipts. Please note that this is my experience in Chiang Mai today; no guarantee that this will work exactly the same in other places or at a later date. Also: our passports are stamped through Feb. 19, but, because I went in a week early for 90-day reporting (you can do it between 15 days before and 7 after the 90-day mark), the receipts show that we need to report again 90 days from today (Feb. 11), not 90 days from the 90th day (Feb. 19). So, if one wants to schedule a 180-day border bounce very close to a visa stamp date, don't report ahead of the 90-day date like I did unless you want to report twice before leaving the country.

@Sefton *******

I've corresponded with some LTR holders. They're not necessarily the most eager to spend. It's a facade and that visa is a poor deal compared to what you can get by migrating to the USA with around the same investment.

@Sefton *******

A 5-year visa "too good to be true"? Not really. It allows a 6 month per entry stay. Yes, that's longer than existing visas, but it's probably the way of the future. The LTR visa is an even better deal, but is that "too good to be true" as well? Hardly.

These DTV visas (and even the LTR ones for that matter) don't offer a pathway to residency. it's difficult to open a bank account on one.

There's a whole lot you can't do if you're on one...so it's hardly something to be envious of.

@Sefton *******

The ONLY likely check they might make at some borders upon re-entry is when someone is coming back after a quick 1 hour border run, having spent all their 180 days in Thailand with no time spent outside, at such borders as Ranong.

Baht in cash may be requested in such cases, but certainly not your bank account details for instance. No one is going to be carrying around such documents to show in a long line of tourists, holding them up at a land border.

Otherwise, as you state, when you do an extension, then yes, they may ask for similar documents to the ones used to get the visa.

I'm wondering whether immigration will make up their own rules, such as needing to have 500,000 parked in a Thai bank account or for a minimum of 3 months in a foreign bank account and then using their own poor exchange rate try to deny your extension because according to them, your balance is only 498,560 Baht, whereas according to your exchange rate it's 501,450 Baht or something like that.

@Sefton *******

people have already been told by immigration offices that for the extension all documents have to be provided again and a new financial proof as well.

no checks when just re-entering the country. people already re-entered without any questions and even immigration personal recommenda this easy route

@Sefton *******

stay tuned once the original 180 days is up we will see the responses. Hopefully as you say smooth sailing