Has anyone tried to apply from Manila? Is there any additional docs ask beside employment and bank certificate?

Hi guys, those who have applied for dependant DTV (children) from Vietnam…roughly how long did it take to get approved?

TIA

Exploring the option of applying for DTV in Thailand but struggling to find if my circumstances make me eligible.

Am about to become a landlord for one property only, in the UK. Would this meet the requirements for a DTV? Not a registered company, just a landlord with accountant to deal with self-assessment to HMRC. Have sufficient funds in UK.

Would I be viewed as a business owner? I don’t have a cert. of incorporation, nor a tax return yet as landlord status will commence next financial year (April 2025/26) so no tax return until 2026.

Thanks in advance.

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Category: Workation

This group has been incredibly helpful to me, so like many others, I want to give back my experience of the application process.

Here is some background information to my situation:

* I have a German Passport.

* I own an LLC based in the US that is fairly new and I have never had a company before, but was permanently employed.

* My company has no income yet, because I focused exclusively on mastering the new situation during the first few months of my trip, and that's why I indicated ‘no income’ in the application form.

* I have never applied for a Visa in Thailand before, because Germany is in the Visa exemption category and never have done a border run before.

* I am currently travelling and was in Thailand for a month before travelling on to Vietnam, where I applied for the DTV.

I submitted my application with the following documents, each combined to a PDF document not exceeding 3 MB:

## Document Indicating Current Location

* Overview of contents of the PDF

* Passport page where the stamp of my arrival in Vietnam is shown

* Explanation of accommodation in Vietnam, as I'm booking my various hotels until I can come back to Thailand when the visa is approved, and I didn't want to leave the hotel booking confirmation without an explanation.

* Booking confirmation of the same hotel in Vietnam in which I have been staying at the time of the submission

* Booking confirmation of flight to Thailand

## Document of Financial Statements

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Overview of my bank accounts in german language

* Overview of my bank accounts translated with converted currency to THB

> Note: Looking back, I really shouldn’t have submitted the overview in german language. I thought, that it might serve as a proof, because it’s the original document, but they really just want everything in english or thai.

## Document of Professional Portfolio

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Introduction to My Professional Portfolio where I have stated why I want to have the DTV Visa, what my plans are, that I do not want to make business in Thailand and a brief overview of my skills (I’m a software developer)

* Document of the structure of my business and the services I offer

* The founding document of my company

* A document stating that I’m the sole owner and director of my company

* Screenshots of every page of my website and an explanation to them

After 2 days they requested further documents

* Passport full book including empty pages

* Bankstatements only in english and covering the last 6 months with the salary of the last 6 months highlighted

* Salary slips of the last 6 months

* Company profile that includes details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements

I uploaded everything they requested and took 2 days for that

* made a scan of every page of my passport from 2 to 32

* combined my bank statements to one PDF not exceeding 3MB in size (which was pain)

* combined the salary slips of my previous employer

* wrote a company profile with everything they wanted and stated again, that I do not wish to make business in Thailand, that my company is newly established and what my plans are to create revenue in the future

The next day my status was switched from “checking documents” to “pending approval”.

Another 4 days later (with a weekend in between), I got my approval.

All in all the application process took 11 days.

My boyfriend also applied to the DTV and his process took also 11 days in total.

If I would submit documents again, I would submit:

## Document Indicating Current Location

* Overview of contents of the PDF

* A scan of the full passport book.

* Explanation of accommodation in Vietnam, as I'm booking my various hotels until I can come back to Thailand when the visa is approved, and I didn't want to leave the hotel booking confirmation without an explanation.

* Booking confirmation of the same hotel in Vietnam in which I have been staying at the time of the submission

* Booking confirmation of flight to Thailand

## Document of Financial Statements

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* 6 months of bank statements of one (or more) bank accounts having 500k THB in total with the income from the salary slips highlighted

* Salary slips of the last 6 months

## Document of Professional Portfolio

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Introduction to My Professional Portfolio where I have stated why I want to have the DTV Visa, what my plans are, that I do not want to make business in Thailand and a brief overview of my skills

* A company profile that includes details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements

* The founding document of my company

* A document stating that I’m the sole owner and director of my company

* Screenshots of every page of my website and an explanation to them

Of course this depends on your personal situation and every application process is different.

Hope this helps anyone. If you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m happy to help. 🙂

Hello guys I wanna ask you pls

For a content creator on YT/IG not that famous, Can I apply for Dtv thai visa

What they required for example to approve it pls ?

I apologize for asking a question that has likely been posted many times before but can somebody briefly explain why a one-year non O retirement visa with multiple entry is better than a five-year DTV? Are you more scrutinized and/or more closely observed if you get a DTV? I’m still not certain of this. Thank you.

Hi! I am applying for DTV workcation from the US.

I do not always have the $15,000USD in my account. I can have a family member send me a few $1000 to make my account balance reach that amount ( is this frowned on). However my bank statement would show that amount just reached my account. Can you just send the balance or are they being strict on needing to see all your transactions?

Also, I have a large amount in my IRA account, this is also my money. Does anyone know if they take that into account as well ?

I appreciate any clarity, feedback, suggestions on what worked for you 🙂

What is the feedback of recent DTV E–Visa applications submitted at the Thai Embassy in Manila?

Are there any seasoning of funds (minimum time period) requirements for the 500k for DTV E–Visa applications at Manila?

Is only submitting a Sponsorship/Guarantee Letter by the Primary DTV Visa Holder sufficient or does the Thai Embassy request recent Bank Statements of the Primary DTV Visa holder?

This is the most recent E–Visa Guidelines released from the Thai Embassy in Manila, dated 5 March 2025

Sharing as some people said you can’t get it unless you’ve done your first 90 day report.

This is my second visit in Thailand with my DTV, this time I’ve been here for 1 month, obtained my temp resident certificate 3 weeks ago which was needed to apply for this.

Managed to get my Thai Car and Bike licence today converted over from my UK. Note I don’t have a full bike licence for my UK licence but I do have a current CBT certificate which allows me to ride a 125cc where as my UK licence only allows a 50cc, not sure if that made a difference.

Apart from all the required paper work, I had to watch a 1 hour video and answer 4 questions at the end which were also asked during the video randomly.

The physical test if you can call it that was interesting to say the least lol and involved pressing the red/yellow/green button several times when the corresponding traffic light changed, and some make sift accelerate and stop peddles when the light changed on the second test.

DTV Visa

Citizen: USA, Naturalized.

Work for multibillion dollar company for more then 17 years and as remote work for more than 9 years and traveled many countries..

Applied at: Thai Embassy in Washington DC

Category: Workcation (Digital nomad/remote worker)

Documents : Passport Biodata page, Photograph, DL License, Bank Account with sufficient fund, Letter from Employer stating (Remote work, work from Home).

Application Date: 02/28/2025 08:12 PM

Request for Further document: 03/10/2025 1:00 PM

* Other request documents: Upload recent pay slip from the company that must show your full name and company's name and period date.

Submitted last 6 Pay slips: 03/10/2025 1:30 PM (my biweekly paycheck is around 6000$ before Taxes)

Approval Date: 03/12/2025 9:45 AM

already printed out and kept with other countries visa...