Hi,

I just got my DTV approved in HCMC and just wanted to thank the people in this group. I also wanted to share the timeline of my application, I applied with remote work:

2/10/2025: Applied

3/10/2025: Additional documents requested (Pay-slips and Motivation letter)

8/10/2025: Additional documents requested (Proof of funds and entering job marking letter)

9/10/2025: Pending Approval

10/10/2025: Approved

Total: 6 Business Days

Hi everyone,

I just received an email that my DTV application was marked as cancelled rather than rejected, after sitting in “pending approval” for six days. Great...

I have a slight suspicion that something might have gone wrong in my initial application, maybe some information wasn’t filled out correctly from my side.

Has anyone here experienced a cancellation (as opposed to a rejection)?

If so, what happened next and what steps did you take? Did you reapply right away, or take another route?

I’m currently considering just reapplying through the same embassy, but I’d really appreciate hearing from others who went through something similar.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Update – LONDON Work-cation DTV Approved 🎉

Just wanted to thank everyone who gave advice – my situation was stressful, but my visa has been approved a day before my flight which feels amazing!

Timeline

• Applied: Fri 5 Sept

• Request for extra docs: Mon 8 Sept

• Interview request email: 15 Sept (11pm)

• Interview attended: 16 Sept

• Told to expect 10-day wait: 18 Sept

• Visa approved: 22 Sept (11pm)

Documents requested:

• A letter confirming I can work online, but not for clients or employers in Thailand- I had already done this but for some reason they asked again

• A clearer photo

Interview experience:

Because I don’t live directly in London, I had to book a last minute flight the night before – stressful but worth it. The interview itself was very straightforward. I arrived 30 mins early, got a ticket for the queue, and was seen before my time at one of the regular booths in the waiting area. They asked me the same questions I’d already covered in my letter, plus why I changed my application from Soft Power to Work-cation.

The staff were kind and professional and the atmosphere felt very relaxed.

Context:

I work for myself online.

Patrick Yorxton asked on an unrelated thread

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗮𝗸𝗵𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲?

Nope you cannot. Once the consulates went to online eVisa applications they standardized the process. You also cannot get year-long, multi-entry Non-O visas anymore, just single entry 90 day.

You have to show 400K baht in a thai bank account in your name only or the equivalent in a bank in your country,

It works like this;

You go to Lao. You log into the eVisa online system. You upload the required documents (proof you're in Lao, proof of funds, marriage certificates, letter from your wife asking they issue the visa, your passport). you submit your application & you get an email confirmation. Print it out and take it to the consulate to pay in cash for the visa (between 9-11 M-F).

Then you wait in Lao until the visa is approved, usually 3-5 business days.

Once they email you the approval you print out the PDF file (as it is your visa) then present it with your passport when you stamp back in to thailand.

Hey guys, I’m currently in Koh Phangan and looking to apply for the DTV visa. Can I apply for it online from Singapore, or would it be better to do it from Vietnam or Cambodia?

Not a good choice tho to go there right now but really fast. (IT / Remote / Workcation)

It’s only took 3 days in total at

Royal Thai Embassy, Yangon (MYANMAR)

Day-1 submitted documents via web

Day-2 Payment at Embassy

Day-3 Interviewed(30minutes) and Approved via email (within 3minutes)

Hi, Im planning to get the DTV visa from Spain (freelance). Does anyone know if it needs to be in person with an appointment (and where to get the appointment), or if the papers can be sent through the post. If anyone have done it can you let me know how you did it? i will only be in Madrid for 1 or 2 days (Im from Valencia). Thank you for any tip 🙏

Hey all,

We plan to head over again this fall but would like to try and obtain a DTV visa.

We have a steady monthly income of around 150k Thai bhat but we don’t have “digital nomad employment”

However, We would like to do a trial run before of a couple of months to make sure this is our right move.

What’s the timeline on obtaining DTV. We are open to hanging out in a neighbouring country for a short time once our 60 days are complete, but I have read you have to apply for DTV from your home country.

Any insights?

Also. Anyone who’s moved their Dog with them, what was the appropriate channels? What documents will be required?

I (m) and my two teenage kids want to stay long-term in Thailand. I’m employed by a european company and work remotely. We had been in Thailand for over two years on education and guardian visas, but since my kids stopped going to school this term, we needed another solution.

In July/August 2025, I applied for the DTV visa in Vientiane, Laos - and got approved. I’m sharing our process here in the hope it might help someone going through the same.

* Day 1: Created an account on the DTV online platform and prepared my own visa application.

* Day 3: Flew to Vientiane on a Friday, added missing information (proof of location), submitted the form.

* Day 6: Monday, paid the 10'000 THB fee in person at the embassy (cannot be paid online in Laos). Bring the printout with the QR code - it will be stamped.

* Day 9: Received email for an in-person interview in two weeks. They said to bring all original documents and that they would review online banking. (Note: everyone applying for a DTV visa is interviewed according to an information at the embassy.)

* Day 23: Attended the interview. Basic questions about my job, then I had to log in to my online bank to show recent salary payments and my WISE account. My Bangkok Bank account was not of interest.

* Day 23: Got email with approval notice and visa (PDF).

* Day 24: Flew to Bangkok to activate my visa. Prepared dependent visas for my kids.

* Day 25: Returned to Vientiane with my kids and submitted their applications (dependend DTV visa).

* Day 26: Paid 10,000 THB each. One visa approved by noon; the other was canceled because I had selected the wrong country in one of the form field.

* Day 26: Resubmitted the canceled application.

* Day 27: Paid the fee again. Embassy requested an English version of the birth certificate (it was already multilingual). I re-uploaded the same document but highlighted the English labels.

* Day 28: Visa approved.

* Day 29: Flew to Bangkok, showed the visa at immigration, and got the passport stamp.

Hi everyone,

Has anyone encountered this message when applying for the DTV after uploading their passport scan?

“Biodata page of travel document – We are unable to retrieve data from the MRZ. Please enter your travel document’s biographic information manually.”

Does this mean my passport scan isn’t clear enough? I used a scanner, and it looks clear to me and has high definition even after zooming in so I wonder why it couldn’t read the information from it 🙏🏻