Looking to see if anyone has had their DTV approved by only having the funds in their account for less than 2-3 months.

I've heard people being approved after a week applying from Taipei.

I'll be applying from London and would love to hear other people's experiences. Thanks.

I am French at the beginning of October I will finally have the 15,000 euros in my bank account for 3 months, I see that Paris would take almost 1 month to process my request for Dtv visa…

according to you it is better to wait or I could take a trip to Indonesia to Jakarta to apply there. I meet all the conditions but I see that some are refused even though they respect all the conditions and it is a little scary.

DTV Workcation Visa Approved – Chennai Consulate (Indian Citizen)

Just got my Digital Workcation Visa (DTV) approved through the Royal Thai Consulate in Chennai as a freelancer. Sharing my experience here since posts in this group helped me a lot, thanks to everyone!

Application Approach:

I went all-out with my submission to avoid any back-and-forth. Here's what I included:

Documents Submitted:

- Table of Contents: Listed all documents in order for clarity.

- Cover Letter: Brief intro about me and my intention to work remotely from Thailand.

- Professional Portfolio: Showcased my freelance work (art, design, promo material) + screenshots from Fiverr and Etsy shop.

- Business Docs: Company registration and GST certificate.

- NOC Letter: From my company (signed by me and my partner) stating:

1) All work is remote.

2) I’m approved to work from Thailand or any other country of my choosing.

3) I won’t work with Thai clients or take physical employment in Thailand.

- Latest Tax Returns

Financial Proof:

- Explanation Note: Clarified that I use 2 bank accounts. Highlighted:

Payments from clients (in yellow)

Closing balances (in green)

Total converted from INR to THB

- Bank Statements: From Jan 1st (they only asked for 3 months, but I included more to show bigger transactions from Feb/March).

Proof of Current Location:

Some of my official documents had name order mismatches(surname appearing before first name) vs. passport, so I avoided using those.

Used an app to take timestamped, GPS-tagged photos of:

Every page in my passport.

My live location on Google Maps.

Included an explanation note about the app and methodology.

Additional Document Request:

Got request for “Proof of Accommodation” 1 hour after visa fee cleared (via demand draft on Sept 1).

Booked a free cancellation hotel for 1 month on Agoda.

Submitted:

1) Confirmed flight ticket (Chennai → Bangkok)

2) Hotel booking receipt

3) Explanation note: Hotel will be base while I search for a long-term rental in person.

Timeline:

August 28th: Application submitted and demand draft submitted in person to Thai Consulate.

Sept 1: Payment cleared → pending document check

Sept 1 (1 hr later): Request for extra doc

Sept 3: Visa approved!

Super smooth and fast experience overall. I probably over-prepared, but I didn’t wanna have to keep going back and forth with additional document requests. Thank you once again and let me know if you have any questions 🙂

I got approved yesterday afternoon in Vientiane 🇱🇦, filled out TDAC at Wattay international airport, entered Thailand through Suvannabhumi airport last night, no questions asked, officer just scanned the QR on my e-visa on my phone, he was even smiling (must be in a good mood 🤭)

I checked the stamp, confirmed it was for 6 months

I was on Non-Ed visa, cancelled it at the immigration before I left for Laos

Workation

Freelancer

Applied on June 22, paid on June 23, interview was yesterday morning, 12 business days in total, worth the wait!!!

Let me know if you have any questions. I will try my best to answer them.

Got my DTV approved from Kuala Lumpur Embassy. If any questions, do let me know.

Regards

GOT DTV in 1 day 🙏 . BIG thanks for the group and all , My Experience with the DTV Visa - Applying from New Delhi ,India

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share my experience applying for the DTV Visa under the muay thai. I was worried too since it was my first time and i was also thinking to apply from Indonesia if i get rejected here .

I applied for the DTV Visa on 8 april late evening time from India, selecting the New Delhi embassy. I paid the visa fee of 10,000 THB via bank deposit at a DBS Bank branch on 9 april , yesterday and emailed the embassy for payment proof and waited few hours. I received an email back from embassy requesting me to also send them payment summary acknowledgement since i forgottl to send before so i did that and tbh i was very worried about it since i read many posts here and some of them are disheartening. But with all luck and support, I received an email this morning that my visa was for approval in just 1 day .

Documents Submitted:

1. Muay thai acceptance document with 6 months course booked .

2. Bank certificate showing my balance of more than 500k baht . It was a certificate not a statement and also added 2 months of bank statement.

My recent income tax return, showing my annual income and also screenshots of my youtube analytics.

For proof of current location, I submitted my national ID and then a cover letter stating that i am a content creator and getting revenue consistency from fb and youtube .

That’s all I submitted.

I hope this helps. 😊 Thanking you all .

Approved in Ankara from the second attempt.

Attempt no. 1

Applied on February 11 and waited until March 22 just to get "Wrong place of passport issuance".

So, I lost $400 for indicating an authority and not my home country. They require your country name and not an authority.

Attempt no. 2

Applied on March 27, approved on April 5.

Work:

I'm a freelancer, so I created a long PDF with my portfolio, Terms of Service of one of the platforms, a letter from one of my customers allowing me to work remotely.

Residence:

I uploaded my Turkish residence permit, my rental agreement, and Turktelekom bill to confirm my address in Turkey.

Finances:

I uploaded a fresh bank statement (no stamps, just downloaded it from the app) for theast 3 months.

No additional requests.

Pending approval on April 4.

Approved on April 5.

I wanted to make their work easy, so I prepared 3 PDFs with tables of content and I decided not to add excessive documents.

APPROVED in Ho Chi Minh City 🥳

Category: Workation

This group has been incredibly helpful to me, so like many others, I want to give back my experience of the application process.

Here is some background information to my situation:

* I have a German Passport.

* I own an LLC based in the US that is fairly new and I have never had a company before, but was permanently employed.

* My company has no income yet, because I focused exclusively on mastering the new situation during the first few months of my trip, and that's why I indicated ‘no income’ in the application form.

* I have never applied for a Visa in Thailand before, because Germany is in the Visa exemption category and never have done a border run before.

* I am currently travelling and was in Thailand for a month before travelling on to Vietnam, where I applied for the DTV.

I submitted my application with the following documents, each combined to a PDF document not exceeding 3 MB:

## Document Indicating Current Location

* Overview of contents of the PDF

* Passport page where the stamp of my arrival in Vietnam is shown

* Explanation of accommodation in Vietnam, as I'm booking my various hotels until I can come back to Thailand when the visa is approved, and I didn't want to leave the hotel booking confirmation without an explanation.

* Booking confirmation of the same hotel in Vietnam in which I have been staying at the time of the submission

* Booking confirmation of flight to Thailand

## Document of Financial Statements

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Overview of my bank accounts in german language

* Overview of my bank accounts translated with converted currency to THB

> Note: Looking back, I really shouldn’t have submitted the overview in german language. I thought, that it might serve as a proof, because it’s the original document, but they really just want everything in english or thai.

## Document of Professional Portfolio

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Introduction to My Professional Portfolio where I have stated why I want to have the DTV Visa, what my plans are, that I do not want to make business in Thailand and a brief overview of my skills (I’m a software developer)

* Document of the structure of my business and the services I offer

* The founding document of my company

* A document stating that I’m the sole owner and director of my company

* Screenshots of every page of my website and an explanation to them

After 2 days they requested further documents

* Passport full book including empty pages

* Bankstatements only in english and covering the last 6 months with the salary of the last 6 months highlighted

* Salary slips of the last 6 months

* Company profile that includes details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements

I uploaded everything they requested and took 2 days for that

* made a scan of every page of my passport from 2 to 32

* combined my bank statements to one PDF not exceeding 3MB in size (which was pain)

* combined the salary slips of my previous employer

* wrote a company profile with everything they wanted and stated again, that I do not wish to make business in Thailand, that my company is newly established and what my plans are to create revenue in the future

The next day my status was switched from “checking documents” to “pending approval”.

Another 4 days later (with a weekend in between), I got my approval.

All in all the application process took 11 days.

My boyfriend also applied to the DTV and his process took also 11 days in total.

If I would submit documents again, I would submit:

## Document Indicating Current Location

* Overview of contents of the PDF

* A scan of the full passport book.

* Explanation of accommodation in Vietnam, as I'm booking my various hotels until I can come back to Thailand when the visa is approved, and I didn't want to leave the hotel booking confirmation without an explanation.

* Booking confirmation of the same hotel in Vietnam in which I have been staying at the time of the submission

* Booking confirmation of flight to Thailand

## Document of Financial Statements

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* 6 months of bank statements of one (or more) bank accounts having 500k THB in total with the income from the salary slips highlighted

* Salary slips of the last 6 months

## Document of Professional Portfolio

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Introduction to My Professional Portfolio where I have stated why I want to have the DTV Visa, what my plans are, that I do not want to make business in Thailand and a brief overview of my skills

* A company profile that includes details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements

* The founding document of my company

* A document stating that I’m the sole owner and director of my company

* Screenshots of every page of my website and an explanation to them

Of course this depends on your personal situation and every application process is different.

Hope this helps anyone. If you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m happy to help. 🙂

Has anyone applied for LTR visa in the group and got approved?

In my case I meet the criteria of Highly skilled professional.

Its just its my 3rd company in last 2 years.

So little concerned.

Just wanted to say thank you to everyone in the group for all the advice

Myself and my Boyfriend were both approved for the workcation visa less then 24 hours after applying in Canada.

It was much easier the expected and super fast! Can’t wait to land down on Jan 7th