My visa got approved today!

Soft Power Activities - TSL School Chiang Mai

Royal Thai Embassy in Rome.

Here's how it went down.

We did two different applications and it worked the exact same, both me and my boyfriend.

Saturday, Dec 13th: we got the documents from TSL School Chiang Mai after a week from paying them and submitting all the documentation they required.

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Sunday - nothing ofc.

Monday, Dec 15th: no movement.

Tuesday, Dec 16th: they requested a paid flight ticket leaving Italy.

I did not buy the ticket before they asked me just in case I got rejected, after they requested it, I went ahead and bought the ticket, sent it to them.

Wednesday, Dec 17th: status changed to "Pending Approval", a few hours later I received the approval email!

here's answers to some questions i had before submitting the applications:

I did not have 500.000 thai baht every single month in my bank account, but I did have consistent income and movements in my bank account, I only had the final balance of around 13,500 euros in my bank account a few days before submitting the application.

They ask for an account statement for the past 3 months.

My bank account is revolut, my statement was in euros.

I was in thailand up until 2 weeks ago and had 3 entries without a paid visa (the last one was almost rejected on Oct 29th), I was scared it was gonna raise eyebrows and maybe get the visa rejected, but it did not.

You do need to have a paid flight ticket leaving Italy. (they will always request it as additional documentation, I personally did not see an upload field anywhere for it).

They did not ask me for a scan of every single page of my passport (I read on here that some embassies do, Rome does not as of Dec 2025)

As proof of location, I uploaded my flight ticket arriving in Rome from Chiang Mai, but you can upload a lot of different documents.

If you guys have any other question feel free to ask!

Hi guys, it’s been 7 working days since I submitted my extra requested documents , I applied on the 1st December originally from London, I should imagine they are super busy but how long should it take to find out if I’ve been approved or not?

Edit =>Thank you all.After scan, can reduce 3mb

How can I provide all the passport pages with the required date, but keep the file size within the 3 MB limit?

When I take photos, the total size becomes around 60 MB, and even after compression it is still about 20 MB.

Do you have any advice on how to reduce the file size further?

Hi all,

Please help. I just got this request from the E visa Team, but they didn’t specify which documents. What other documents to submit?

Thanks

In indo, Request Documents were submitted on Monday ( 25 Nov ) and are showing pending documents until today ( 1 Dec Monday )

Is that normal or Is something wrong?

I replayed for dtv visa yesterday from Norway. And in evry spot where I could set in files it was max 3 mb. So hard to send all the information. And they did not ask for passport stamp and the pages, felt that was pretty weard, how can they know im im Norway when I applay

I’m working on my application but stuck on the document part as it asks for multiple documents but only allows one file each. If anyone could help me I really appreciate it

Hi, can anyone help me with information for Thailand destination visa. I feeled up the form on official site with all relevant documents, bank statements, income etc, pressed submit, had notification submitted but system didn’t ask for any payment nor get any reference number. Is that ok? I will really appreciate any information or someone experience

I got my DTV 🥳🥳🥳

I wanted to share my experience in detail to help others.

I got a Workation DTV visa from Ho Chi Minh. If you go to Vietnam to apply be aware you need to apply to the embassy based on where you stay in Vietnam. I’ve attached the list as this is only available when you first apply.

My situation is a bit complicated as I have a few companies so I only told them about the two relevant ones. One I used as a sponsor that has high reserves and the other I pay myself a salary from. One mistake I made was thinking the 500,000 baht should be in the sponsors bank account. It must be in your personal account but when I got asked to evidence this in the additional documents they requested they accepted that I had transferred the money on the day. I wrote an explanation with my bank statement and it was fine.

One thing that makes the application hard is that the evidence for each request must be one single PDF. I used I love PDF to merge and compress my documents which worked brilliantly.

I wrote a very comprehensive document on my businesses with pictures, links and screenshots to really show that they are legitimate. I also merged the company registration document and accounts to show the business is bina fide. I still got asked to provide a Company overview showing details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements. I did this for both companies along with evidence of registration, directors etc.

I also got asked for:

Pictures of every page of my passport

My personal bank account 6 month statements

So put in as much as possible.

Also book somewhere online where so you can provide it as evidence of being in Vietnam and also your flight.

Good luck everyone it's still possible just put everything together maticulously.

Hi everyone, I have a question about the DTV visa processing time.

I submitted my DTV visa application through the Thai Consulate in Frankfurt, Germany. They requested additional documents and I uploaded everything the next day on October 15th.

Since then, I have been waiting for over 19 working days without any update or email.

Is anyone here experiencing similar processing times from Frankfurt?

How long did it take for your DTV approval?

Thank you in advance. 🙏