Hi everyone,

I saw someone post that they were rejected twice, and I wanted to share my experience and ask for advice, since I’ve also been rejected twice in 2025. Honestly, I’m now afraid to apply again.

Both times I applied at the Hanoi embassy(which I now realize may have been a mistake)

After first rejection, I went to embassy to get any information and the staff at the counter told me deposit could be issue. (May be I said because all my documents are legit and I couldn’t think any reason of what could wrong but my full deposit is over 2 months. So I think they just follow what I said).

So after I wait around 4 more months, I applied again same embassy since I thought they said deposit is issue. So now I fixed it and it’s better to go same embassy. But second time also rejected in 3 days after pending approval.

I applied under remote job. I work in IT.

My company is based on Singapore. My salary is fixed 50k THB(2000SGD) plus overtime bonus.

I worked in Thailand before with work permit for over 2 years. And after that stayed with Thai ed for around 2years while I’m working as freelance. So my salary goes to my Thai bank which comes from Singapore. I have also proof email payslips.

Deposit bank is also another Thai bank which has over 500k seasoning around 1 year now. I don’t have actual contract as when I’ve been working with this company for long as started with like freelance. But since now I want to apply DTV as actually I’m working as full name. My company provide me contract and recommendation letters. But I don’t have any proof since I got it in person(some agent said contract and recommendation letter from email ). This documents have my company stamps and employer signatures.

In my application, I submitted

1. company profile registered in sg

2. employer ID

3. payslips(6months)

4. 500k deposit bank ( first time over 2 months length, second time over 6months length)

5. Recommendation letter with employer signature and company stamp

6. Employer contract with employer, employee signatures and company stamp

I would really appreciate any insight into what might be wrong with my application. In particular:

1. Is my salary too low?

2. Is it a problem that my income is paid into a Thai bank account?

3. Does my employment contract need improvement or additional proof?

I’m feeling quite lost at this point and would truly appreciate any advice or experiences you can share.

Thank you so much—I really appreciate your help in advance.

Wel to me seems the kasikorn problem with app and debit limits has been solved.

You can now request to up limit through the app inwas approved after 2 days and can change my limit now to up to 200,000

Bht per day in both debit and in app

As I get more questions from fellow DTVers regarding the matter in private, I wanted to share my family’s 4 month experience of living without Thai bank accounts on DTV visa and walkarounds that proved to be working so far.

The story is pretty standard: we live in Thailand with kids and got affected by the first wave of Thai bank crackdown in May.

As my wife is a DTV holder and so is the elder son, they got their bank accounts frozen and shut down later. That happened in April-May this year.

What makes our case even “better” is that payment cards issued in our country don’t really work overseas.

So what worked for the family and working so far is the use of cambodian bank account, which has Thai QR and is crypto friendly with cash payments plus cash payments (cash is king in Thailand).

We use 2 banks that are owned by international groups, which makes me less worried about the funds there and that issue proper Mastercard/Visa that work globally.

All bigger payments (school fees and other significant transfer) can be done by instant transfer to a Thai account. But it costs $15 per transaction.

Smaller purchases are working through QR-payments to legal vendors.

The issue still persists with smaller transfers or payments to mamas and papas shops. Here they use cash or ask me to pay 😂.

Hope this helps and also hope it won’t deteriorate as quickly as Thai banking system accessibility in the past 3 years.

It’s already been over 2 weeks since my Bangkok Bank account has been blocked, and I still have no access to my money.

Even though I own a condo, I’ve been told that the *head office* has to approve it, and the process is taking so long. I also met someone with a retirement visa who is stuck in the same situation.

I tried opening an account at SCB.

One staff member told me I cannot open an account with a DTV visa, even if I own a condo. But another staff member in the same branch said I can, took my documents, scanned them, and sent them to the head office.

Now I’m waiting for their reply.

Is anyone else going through the same thing? Honestly, I’m exhausted. I’m down to my last cash and just using TrueMoney to buy basics from 7/11.

Really frustrating... I’m starting to consider what to do next.🤷

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I still love Thailand 🇹🇭🤩

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