As a newly APPROVED Canadian DTV holder, I just wanted to share my experience & some possible takeaways for those considering applying or mid-application:

1. I applied for my Visa online at the Government of Thailand's Visa webpage. I did not physically apply "at" an embassy. The Thai government uses "at the ____ embassy" phrasing to mean that your country's embassy reviews the documents that you send through the Thai government online portal. You do not have to physically show up there.

2. In my experience the Thai embassy in Ottawa was pretty chill about the requirements. They did not seem to care that my employment documents were unusual (I'm a freelancer), nor that I did not have the required funds for the entire three month statement period.

3. However, there WAS quite a bit of back and forth between me and the embassy about missing details in my documents. I had two requests for additional documentation, and one of them requested a full FOUR documents!

4. The embassy was very quick in responding to each of my submissions.

Based on the experience described above, I have for takeaways for those considering applying in Canada:

1. Apply online on the Government of Thailand's Visa webpage.

2. Don't worry about being slightly off-the-mark on one of the requirements, they're looking to see that you are roughly the type of applicant they want.

3. DO make sure your documents contain all the required information.

4. Don't sweat their official statement that the application process "will take up to 25 days." They will get back to you in under 24 hours.

I am currently applying for a DTV visa in Taiwan. However, my application was cancelled for the following reason:

"Your visa application has been cancelled. Wrong Personal Info: Country/Territory of Passport / TD does not match with passport."

I suspect this is because I entered “Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit” as the place of issue. My passport is Japanese, but it was issued in Detroit. I believe this might have caused the error. I am thinking of reapplying, but do you think it would be approved if I set the place of issue to “Japan” instead? Has anyone experienced a similar situation?

DTV approved in Laos. in 5 working days. Even after they said 700-800 applicants in one day (see my post bellow in group)

27th July flew in and applied.

29th July paid because of Thai holiday.

31st Asked for picture of Laos stamp in passport.

1st of August got interview date for 13th august, sent email asking for faster date, replied in 1h and book for 5th august

5th of august today went for interview at 10am, got approved at 2pm.

If any questions, happy to help :))

Recently came back on my DTV at BKK airport. No issues, I gave my DTV paper to the immigration officer, no questions nothing asked. Stamped back in for 6 months!

I just had a phone call from Immigration saying they want to visit my residence today.

I have a 12 month Non O retirement visa .

Is this normal for them to rock up out of the blue?

I want to personally thank everyone in this group for your immensely useful and compassionate support and guidance throughout this tedious last few weeks of visa adventure lol. Just flew back into Thailand,

Immigration: "how long will you be staying on Thailand "

Me: hands over dtv visa email

Immigration: puts stamp on passport

Loving this! So nice to hear "Ka" and "kup" again lol

Got approved for DTV in Japan

Hi everyone, I haven't posted in this group before, but I wanted to share that my DTV application was approved today and I’d like to give back by sharing some details of my process, in case it helps others.

* Nationality: Japanese

* Current residence: Tokyo

* Visa type: Workation (Freelance designer) My husband started working in Bangkok in April. His company does not allow partners to earn professional income—even from Japan—under the dependent visa.

1st submission – Tokyo – Canceled ❌

* Submitted: June 11th / Canceled: June 17th

* Reason for rejection: The "Title" field was left blank. I think this was due to writing "Ms." instead of selecting “Mrs."—though I’m not entirely sure. Apparently, the system doesn’t accept a blank field.

After reading that the Tokyo embassy tends to be strict, I contacted the Fukuoka consulate to ask if I could apply there while living in Tokyo. They told me it depends on the person in charge, but that I was free to try—so I did.

2nd submission – Fukuoka – Approved ✅

* Submitted: July 23rd / Approved: July 26th

* No additional documents or interviews were requested.

Documents submitted:

* A motivation letter explaining why I want to obtain the DTV and how important it is for me to continue my career while staying with my husband

* Bank transaction statements showing over 500,000 THB for more than 3 months (from both personal and business accounts)

* Last year’s tax return and tax payment certificate

* CV with a list of clients

* Business registration document

* Two client contracts

* Professional portfolio (12 projects)

Hope this helps others navigating the process. And thank you again to everyone who has shared their experience here—it helped me a lot.

Just did my visa extension at Korat Immigration. It was a (seriously) pleasant experience. Doing my TM30/90 day report took around 10 minutes in total and the officers at the desk where you get the forms at were extremely helpful - they explained exactly what documents I needed and helped annotate documents where needed. There's a quaint little print shop just across the road that does photos and document printing.

In the end I submitted (for workcation):

- Bank statements going back to January

- Pay slips (the company I work for uses JustWorks so it was basically just a spreadsheet showing when I was paid)

- A printout of the website for the company I work for (literally just hit print on the main page lol)

- An example of my work - I printed one of the newsletters I wrote for the company

- All the other forms they give you on the day (basically address/passport information over and over again)

I was asked to clarify which balances were my savings (Revolut's statements are a bit confusing) and then the officer asked me when I'm going to marry my girlfriend 555. They asked my girlfriend in Thai about some details about my work so I showed them some more examples of completed work on my phone. I think this might mean they care that I'm actually working, not only about the numbers in my bank account. Everything is legit so I wasn't worried.

I came in about 1:30 and finished at 5.

DTV soft power route accepted via London today🥳🥳🥳

Applied Monday evening 10pm. Tuesday 10am request for more documents. 1am this morning received an email of approved visa.

Highly reccomend Dowden Muay Thai in Koh Samui. I messaged them on instagram and they was very helpful throughout the whole process. They said they have only just started doing the DTV visa and have had less than 5 apply so far. They was very thorough and helpful. Would highly recommend. Wasn’t requested anymore Muay Thai docs so what they gave me first time round was plenty.

For anyone applying in Canada right now, just wanted to share because I was super nervous before applying and just timing everything accordingly to my move - but DTV was approved from start to finish in 1 day

Submitted everything yesterday, one more document requested at 10am today, fully approved and emailed to me this afternoon

Submitted employment portfolio, 3 months of bank statements then they just requested a copy of my business license and I was good to go!