DTV approved in Jakarta (workcation). Big thank you to this group. All the information you’ve posted helped me get a quick approval with no additional document requests.

Timeline

Application submitted, Friday, Jan 17 at 1 pm

Moved from “Pending Document Check” to “Pending Approval”, Tuesday, Jan 21 around 1 pm

Approval Email and Visa received, Tuesday, Jan 21 at 5:30 pm

I’ve been a remote worker for the same company for 2+ years. I provided tons of documentation with a cover letter for each “packet” as described below. I also highlighted important transactions and dates on my bank statements. I used ilovepdf.com to combine each set of documents and compress the files to meet the 3MB limit.

Work Experience and Qualifications

1) Employment Contract, signed

2) Letter from my employer confirming that my work is fully remote, signed

3) Relevant certificates and licenses

4) Bachelor’s degree

5) Updated CV

6) Company Registration

7) Summary of Qualifications and Experience

Proof of Finance

1) Bank statements for the last 6 months showing a balance > ฿500k THB in saving account

2) Bank statements for the last 6 months showing proof of income in checking account

3) Payslips for the last 6 months

Location Documentation

1) Passport Pages

a. Biodata Page

b. Indonesia Entry Stamp and Visa

c. Indonesia Stay Permit

2) Hotel Confirmation

Applied for DTV for remote workers at Royal Thai Embassy in Berlin.

Applied on 23. of December and provided following documents:

- Covering letter explaining that im business owner and employed as Managing Director at my own company (GmbH)

- Handelsregister Auszug (German)

- Gewerbeanmeldung (German)

- Proof of residence (Personalausweis)

- Kontoauszug (Trade Republic Verrechnungskonto)

- Proof of income (3m bank statement filtered by “Salary”)

- Proof that company makes money (3m bank statement filtered by incoming payments)

3rd of January “request for further documents” (it was actually only 4 working days due to Christmas holidays and new year eve):

- Biodata page of Passport or Travel Document: full scan of biodata page. Scanned in a scanner / no smartphone picture.

- Other request documents: Explanation how I work remotely from Thailand

Since I was on vacation I submitted the requested documents at the evening of January 24 (weekend)

Monday, January 27 -> status changed from review documents to Pending Approval. 3 hours later: Approved + received visa by email.

Actually it was very fast and easy :)

After 5 Business Days, exactly, I’ve been APPROVED in HCMC! Workcation! I’m on my way back to Bangkok on Saturday 🙌🏽🥳

Editing per request in comments:

I applied on Wednesday, Jan 15th at 3p. On Thurs, they requested 6 months of bank statements (I only submitted sponsorship letters and screenshots of deposits as income, initially). I was approved Thurs, Jan 23rd.

My complete submission was around 90 pages- 45 for Financial and 45 for Portfolio. I compressed right in Adobe to meet 3mb.

Financial Package:

Cover Letter

6 months statements showing just my savings balance at $17k USD.

2 sponsorship letters from clients (I am an independent consultant, I build and manage training platforms, among other operational & finance responsibilities)

6 invoices for my clients (3 for each, with screen shots of payments)

My lease for my condo in Bangkok, with proof of payment

My 2023 tax return doc to show previous work experience

Portfolio

My business registration

EIN files with IRS

My Business Operating Agreement

My contract with my business

My Independent Business Organization agreement with one client

My Service Agreement with another client

Screenshots of works- my website, the learning platform for one client, screen shots of a website I built for another client

My Bachelors Degree

My MBA transcripts

A couple screenshots of things I intend to learn in Bangkok- classes at a language school and short courses at Sasin Univ

That’s it, I think lol

If I applied for visa in uk , to arrive bkk , but I actually changed my route and wanted to enter by land boarder from canbodia into Thailand, would that be still OK

Will it still get approved when arrive at the gate

I applied January 8th

Under the DTV medical portion got approved

January 16th!

I’m from The USA

I applied out of the Chicago embassy.

Thank you Jai Sandiego for the help.

My workation DTV Visa application has been approved by the Ho Chi Minh embassy in Vietnam.

I submitted my application via the evisa system, and it took 5 days to receive the application approval email. No extra documents requested.

I read a lot of useful information in this group, so I am sharing my experience to help others. Here are the documents I included:

## Proof of current location:

1. Vietnam passport stamp

2. Hotel booking confirmation

3. Selfie outside hotel in Vietnam

4. Flight to Thailand

## Proof of employment:

1. Cover letter describing my business and how it functions entirely remotely.

2. Business registration document

3. Certificate of Incorporation

4. Signed document appointing myself as director

5. Screenshots of stripe payouts and gross volume.

6. Screenshots of the business website, and stripe analytics page.

## Personal documents:

1. Passport bio data page

2. Two bank account statements, each with 500k+. Showing 6 months of data.

Other Points:

* The maximum file size for the PDF documents is 3MB. You can also only upload one document for each section. I used adobe acrobat to compile the files, you can select "reduce file size" at export to keep it well below 3MB.

* Double check all of your details are entered correctly. I have seen other applications get rejected for not adding their middle name for example. Rejection = pay the application fee again.

* Recently, I noticed many posts of embassies requesting more documents. One is 6 months of bank statements, and the other is a booked flight to Thailand. Make sure to include these to avoid the extra trouble.

Feel free to comment any questions and I'll do my best to help.

Yahoo!!! Just got approved for my DTV visa!!

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Applied Embassy Washington DC. After one week asked for additional paperwork. This included tax returns and a letter stating self-employed as digital nomad.

Two weeks to the date, today received the approval.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out. The process is very straightforward. Just in time for my flight leaving in 10 days🙌 

DTV Visa approved. Application on January 4 and January 16 approved Helsinki 🇫🇮

I would like to thank this group for helping me get approved for the DTV. visa for remote worker without need for additional documents. I didn’t get the Visa by email. I had to download it from the website. If you did not get your email, there is a function on the website where you can download it.

I submitted the visa application to the Royal Thai embassy of Los Angeles on January 6, 2025. It was issued today.

The expected wait time was three weeks.

Here is what I included

-A letter authorizing remote work in Thailand, which I actually forgot to sign

-A letter with the links to all of my advertisements related to my remote work, including my website

-My professional résumé and link LinkedIn

-Screenshots of my website and advertisements that I have created

-Photographe

-Drivers license with current address

-Voter Registration with current address

IRS letter with current address

-Six months of bank statements with ฿500,000 baht, front page only

-The original IRS letter with the tax ID number for my company that was issued to me

-The companies’s articles of organization

-Registration from the Secretary of State that I downloaded from the website from the year of 2023

So yesterday, I was reading that someone stated that specifically they needed to put that they were not to work in Thailand and I had forgotten that, and upon looking at my letter, I forgot to sign it. Since I own the company as a single member, I had to write the letter to myself from myself.

So I added the letter I signed it. I sent it to the visa department and I woke up this morning and I got no email and I got a message from their line information that they would ask for it if they needed it.

I went over to the website where my applications were, I clicked on the tab, and I noticed that it had been approved

I did not get the email however I nobody responded when I emailed, but I noticed it on the left toolbar. There is a function where you can download the visa and now I have it.

I did not have to submit any salary or statements of transfer or show any of the detail of the statements, they approved it based on my tax return, and my letter with the stated annual salary

Thank you to anybody that has answered my questions in this group. You’ve been very helpful, I was able to get this and not any less than the time prescribed, I didn’t have to submit anything additional.

For reference purposes:

Just got approved for the DTV.

Type: workcation (full-time employee for a company in The Netherlands)

Location: Ho Chi Minh City

Application date: 6 Jan

Documents supplied:

6 months bank statements, Revolut, with closing balance of 15,500 euro (over 500,000 baht)

1 year worth of payslips

Employment contract, translated to english by myself (not legalised/authenticated)

Letter from my senior manager approving remote work specifically for the DTV (not legalised/authenticated)

Legalised Chamber of Commerce extract of the company i work for

On the 9th I got requested for extra documents, requesting more details of my role in the company, CV, portfolio, work examples and supporting materials demonstrating experience and qualifications.

Wrote a letter explaining my role, going into detail what work i do and what my daily workday looks like. Reminded them that i am a full-time employee, not a freelancer so I can't provide a portfolio, work examples, etc. Also mentioned due to the nature of my job, i am bound by a confidentiality clause.

Went to "pending approval" on the 10th.

Approved today.

So happy as I was a little afraid i would get rejected due to the documents not being authenticated by the dutch embassy as it was advised. Glad that stress is now over.