I have received my DTV today, two weeks after I had applied. Here is my experience :

I’m a business owner in Belgium, resident in Belgium and spending most of the “European wintertime” in Thailand where I have a condo since many years. I fly 2 or 3 times a year to Thailand and stay each time 1 to (maximum) 3 months.

Usually I apply for a Multiple Tourist Visa, and occasionally a Single Tourist Visa if I have an extra trip to Thailand outside the 6 months period from the MTV.

I have never had an overstay, never used the “visa exemption” multiple times within a year. And I have Thai driver’s licenses and Thai bank accounts.

My application :

- applied for DTV E-visa on 22nd September from Belgium; selected “workcation”.

- 2 days later the status -can be checked online- changed from “checking documents” to “pending approval”.

- this status continued for about two weeks until I received my E-visa by mail on 7th October. No other documents were asked.

Documents that I uploaded for the application :

- copy of my passport

- recent picture similar to pictures you would use for passport/ID card/…

- proof of current residency; official document from the local government. In Belgium we can get this online within a couple of minutes. Document was in Dutch en had digital signatures. No wet signature or stamp.

- address in Thailand; I have a condo in Phuket and entered that address.

- flight ticket; I have booked a flight arriving in Thailand end of October, returning end of November.

- bank statement of a Belgian savings account on my personal name. I uploaded the statements from the last 6 months though a specific period was not asked. The balance was never below 25.000,- euro (about 950.000,- THB), exceeding the requested 500.000,- THB all the time.

- I had made a portfolio to prove my status as “remote worker”. In that portfolio I started with a presentation of myself. Who I am, what I do/did for work, the average time I spent in Thailand since 2012, why I can run my business as a remote worker and why I think the DTV is the most suitable visa for me.

I added the most recent annual accounts of my company. This includes the balance sheet, showing a decent profit, and the shareholders with 100% of the shares on my name. All documents were in Dutch.

And finally I added a copy of the title deed of my condo to the portfolio.

I was getting nervous when the application stayed on “pending approval” for two weeks. Wondering if they would ask for some kind of labour contract or invoices, or reject my application as my next stay is only 1 month. But -luckily for me- I got approved without further requests.

Hi everyone!

I enter Thailand with a visa-free entry, but overstay in 2 days as I misjudged the time, can I still able to have a 30 days extension, but I can’t get the TM30 as my visa was expired and the online system don’t have my data, did anyone knew that what kind of material should I got to prepared? Thanks in advance🙏🙏🙏

Has anyone here ever been deported for overstaying or currently overstaying?

Hello, I would like to ask what is date range to make 1 year extension. The same like in 90 days report - I can do 2 weeks before date or 1 week max after. How about 1 year extension. Is it the same?

Question!: I am a US citizen flying with my 9 year old. We flew into Thailand May 19th and I received the visa on arrival. I extended once for 30 days (overstayed by 2 days by accident smh) and just extended Monday , they only gave me 7 days for some reason.

Wondering what are the best companies to use to do a border run? How much they charge? Would I need to bring my daughter? Will they charge for her also even though she doesn’t need a stamp (she’s exempt because of age)

Hi. Has anyone here not been able to make it for their COVID extension (or another visa's extension) because of getting COVID? In that case did you get a doctor's certificate saying that you had COVID during that period and take that to immigration on a later day after you had recovered? Would anyone know of a clinic where it is possible to get this certificate and that doesn't charge you too much?

Thanks for any input you could share.

Hi everyone! I hope you are all doing well today.

I would like to ask in regards with visa. I hope someone could help me out.

I am holding a Non B Visa and it will expire on April 30 2023, and I am planning to leave Thailand for good on May 2 2023.

Is it considered overstaying? Do I have to get a new visa?

Thank you so much. ❤️

Advice:

My passport is expiring 18 April 2021 and my embassy just got an issue with their system and will take 3 months to give me a new one, so that means for a covid visa extension they cannot stamp my passport longer than the expiration date in 3 weeks and I will be with no legal document here. My embassy offered me an emergency passport but I don't know if at immigration they take that as legal document (I came here and they said it dwpends on the answer of the government, so nothing clear)

For the moment I also see the option of going out and come back.

Anyone who sees a solution that I'm not seeing? Or the cheapest way to do any of these two?

Please would really appreciate your advice in this moment.

Hi. My current visa & WP ( from previous employer ) expires 16 may, while my new employer is preparing the documents for my new WP & Visa.

The proper way is to cancel my old work permit and apply for the new on THE SAME DAY. Hope fully It would be done the same way,

BUT I need to look all the possible scenarios so if in case my new employer couldnt complete the documents on 16 May, what should I do in this case?

Is it fine if I overstay a day or two? and once the documents are completed, say on 17 or 18 May and we go to apply fornew WP & visa,

OR

should I take the 7 days extension ? ( but I have heard after taking 7 days, no one gets any kind of extesnion even If having a job & all the required documents, don’t know its true info or not)

In case if I choose the first option, OVERSTAYING 1 or 2 days,

Would this overstay make any problems while we apply for the new WP & visa extension?

Sorry for such a long post.

TIA 😊

I came in by air...got whatever visa at the airport.....my 30 days are up on Feb 13....my son is a teacher here and I would like to stay until March sometime...can I go to I'm migration and get something to stay for like march 13? And extra 30 days...or do I have to leave the country and come back?