Hello everyone,

Hope you are all well,

Had a tough time so far applying for a DTV workation. Been rejected twice now from Jakarta while staying in Bali.

1st application (sent 19th of Nov, rejected 1st of December) -

Self admittedly this was my fault, my documents sent were sloppy and probably hard to read through and lacked enough detail to show I was fully committed to the application. I rushed it and I can’t blame them for rejecting it.

I hold my hands up lesson learnt I moved on.

2nd application (sent 8th of January, rejected 28th of January) -

After consulting with a friend that was approved for a workation dtv by the embassy in Jakarta and research via this group, I tried to cover all bases:

Employment contracts, payslips, over 500,000 Baht in a Halifax account seasoned for 3 months, my separate bank account i use for day to day spending, cover letter showing my intent and reason for wanting to live and work in Thailand, a formal letter from my company ensuring I am not working for any Thai based customers/ business entities, all pages of my passport, a company letter confirming their agreement of my working location and it being a fully remote role.

I received a additional documents request ‘‘Please upload one bank statement showing an amount of no less that 500,000 THB’’, although I had already provided them 3 months worth of statements, I sent 3 statements again with the January statement now being updated to the current date, highlighted the end of month amount and the period dates, the next day it was sent for approval.

All of this was formatted and sent correctly from my knowledge (i scanned and read all the information over and over again), the cover letter explained the bank accounts (one bank account with the seasoned money never below their requirements and then a separate account with a smaller sum of money being used for day to day.).

It’s hard to look back now and find the mistake or reason for this second rejection as I simply don’t know what I’m missing or what they dislike about the application.

I could fly and try a different embassy but if my application is rejected here in theory it would be rejected everywhere. so many people have had a positive experience with Jakarta and I was so sure I’d get it this time.

Feeling rather stuck, don’t know where to go and I don’t know what to fix hahaha.

I have a Nepali client traveling with an original itinerary of Thailand (3 nights), Singapore (2 nights), and Malaysia (3 nights). Singapore is visa on arrival for Nepali passport holders, while Thailand and Malaysia require pre-applied visas. All tickets were issued for visa purposes; however, the Thailand visa was rejected on 23 December and marked under a “watch list,” meaning re-application is not possible for at least one month, while the Malaysia visa is already received. The issued tickets are Nepal–Thailand and Thailand–Singapore with AirAsia, Singapore–Malaysia by coach, and Malaysia–Nepal with Batik Air. Since Nepal–Singapore airfare is currently very expensive, we are considering using the existing Nepal–Thailand ticket only for transit and changing the Thailand–Singapore flight to the same day, keeping the passenger airside without clearing Thai immigration and traveling with hand carry only (no checked baggage). Another option is to purchase a new Thailand–Singapore ticket while retaining or rescheduling the remaining sectors to reduce cost. I would appreciate guidance from fellow agents and operators on whether a Nepali passport holder can transit through Thailand without a Thailand visa under these conditions (same-day transit, airside only, no baggage, no immigration clearance, different PNR ticket) and whether airlines allow boarding in such cases?