Hello everyone,

I’m planning to apply for the new Destination Thailand Visa (DTV). I qualify on the financial side since I have over $50,000 in liquid funds, and I can also provide my current employment proof at the time of application.

My question is:

👉 If I resign from my job after getting the DTV, will this cause any issue when I try to re-enter Thailand on the same visa? Does immigration actually check employment status at re-entry, or is showing funds enough?

Has anyone here faced or heard about this situation? Would really appreciate your guidance 🙏

When applying using soft power Muay Thai route in Jakarta and when planning to live off investments without having a job/income/company, is the experience that one should put Unemployed or Freelancer under Employment Details?

Question about DTV visa – switching from employment to freelance

Hi everyone,

I currently hold a DTV visa under employment with a company. If I leave my job, will my DTV still be valid?

Do I need to update my status to freelancer and show proof? Or once the visa is granted, is maintaining the 500k THB in the bank the only requirement?

Has anyone been through this process and can share what steps are needed?

Thanks in advance!

DTV extension. Some say we have to resubmit all docs again for the extension after the initial 180 days of DTV visa. (hope this is a joke)

OR, we can do border run to extend it without going through the docs check.

Cause my concern is, what if one does not have the employment anymore after the initial approval of the DTV visa. I think they can still keep the visa status somehow, I heard.

thanks for you help!!

Hi DTV fam! EMPLOYMENT QUESTIONS: I’m in Indonesia, applying for the soft power DTV. I have the 500k in the bank for over 3 months. I get some income from investments/dividends, but am not employed. But some $1000-3000 deposits have been made into my account in the last few months. Should I put unemployed and no income?

Also, what do they mean “last port of embarkation”? Where I’m coming from when I return to Thailand with my DTV? Or where I left from when I came to Indonesia to apply for my DTV? I think the first option, but want to be sure 😆🙏 Thanks for your help!!!

Hello! I got the Visa just this noon. I plan to apply it for my spouse, dependent DTV in Vientiane. Could his job type (unemployed or others) affect the application and approval process?

Hi everyone, now that I have my DTV visa my husband will apply for it as a spouce through my visa.

Do you know what he should put under occupation? He has a fulltime job in Denmark and his boss has allowed him to take a 6 month vacation.

Do we write employed full time for his occupation or should we write other and explain that he will not be working in the period we are there?

Thank you for your help!

— vietnam / Thai soft power DTV? —

Has anyone done this in Hanoi / Ho Chi Minh and was successful in the application?

Accommodation:

Did you put where you stayed in Vietnam for the first address and your home country address after? (Was told you can’t use a Thai address?)

- can you stay in a HOSTEL? Or does it need to be an air b&b or hotel room via booking or Agoda?

- for Vietnam address: - what info do you need to provide besides:

- the booking confirmation for the 2 weeks you stay in Vietnam, receipt of payment (can that be what you paid online shown on your confirmation page?), pic of entry stamp, pic of you in front of your accommodation?

Employment details:

- everyone seems to say issues if you don’t say unemployed.

- if some money has come into your bank statement only for one month (Nov-Dec statement) via PayPal; can I still say unemployed /no salary since the rest of the 6m including the most recent statement shows basically nothing?

(And yes, I have enough in my account for the 500,000 and ok on that front.)

Thanks for all your help!

Hello! Please help.

For the people who applied successfully via soft power - what did you select in the employment detail section? If we select that we are employed, do you think they will reject the application and ask us to apply with the "remote worker" option instead?

Hey guys, I’m a remote worker in Hong Kong and want to apply for DTV (workcation). My contract states that my work location is “any designated location” and I’m employed by a Hong Kong entity. However, my company also has a thailand business registration (they can relocate me but my salary needs to be reduced which I don’t want to).

Am I still eligible to apply for DTV?