Hi everyone, Hope you are having a good day.

Has anyone recently applied for the DTV visa in any of the neighboring countries around Thailand?

I would love to hear about your experiences and any tips that might help as I want to apply for it soon.

I've got 2 months left on my current visa so I'm not in a rush.

Thanks for reading.

Strange experience at DMK airport,

I’m on DTV remote work, went on a 5 day trip to Vietnam (so called border bounce, instead of the documentation nightmare in immigration extension).

I come to the counter, and the following:

Officer- “how many days you plan to stay?”

Me - “around 90/120 days, still not sure.”

Officer - looks at me with strange look.

Me - I thought he think I’m tourist visa so I mention “I’m on DTV visa.”

Officer - “visa in nothing, I’m decide if you come or go. Where you go after Thailand”

Me - I have a booked trip to Hong Kong and then Dubai.

Officer - you don’t go home country? You don’t miss your mom or dad?

Me - not sure, I’m digital nomad, I travel and work on laptop.

Idk why I got the “tourist on 7th attempt to visa run” treatment while I do have the proper visa and everything is legit. I guess officer had sudden urge to flex he’s the boss?

Should I start considering elite visa? I do live in Thailand, have Gf, 4 cats, car - kinda bummer

Hello, has anyone had a negative experience with DTV visa? Delays at the airport and so on

Hi everyone,

I want to share my experience about re-entering Thailand with a DTV visa.

I am Taiwanese and hold a Taiwanese passport. Recently, I’ve seen some posts expressing concerns about re-entering Thailand. I have entered Thailand 4 times with DTV through BKK without any issues.

My DTV route is Soft Power(Muay Thai).

I just want to say that if you applied by yourself or through an agency with correct and truthful information, you should have no problems re-entering Thailand every time.

Why have I re-entered so many times? Because I love traveling. But Thailand is my favorite country.🇹🇭

Has anyone worked with bamboo oriental visa service. I am suppose to go to Laos tomorrow suppose to fly out at 8am for my visa and they are changing the plans on me ? Checking to see if anyone else has had this experience with them! Thank you!

I’m wondering if some people obtained a Visa DTV by attending a seminar with Discover Thai Nature?

[members only].

Feel free to share your experience, it’s a shame to pay the seminar if it’s not enough for obtaining the visa 🙏🏼 I’m living in Denmark.

Hi. Is there anyone who tried with “ Soft Power “ from The Netherlands ? Thank you

UPDATE: Khon Kaen don't do the 60 days extension for visiting Thai wife anymore either. It's been discontinued.

Question: 4-5 months ago they stopped offering 60 days extension based on marriage in Udon Thani (new policy). So can only do 60+30 instead of 60+30+60. I was able to do 30+30+60 in Khon Kaen prior to that for years (when 30 days visa exempt was a thing). I still have an address I can use for Khon Kaen so I would like to try to do the 60 days extension there. But I'm 2 hours away so would like to confirm first that it's indeed possible.

Did anyone here did it recently after the initial 60 days visa exempt + 30 days extension? Please only answer if you actually know the answer from having done it. I'm not talking about 90 days + 60 days, but what use to be 30+30+60, now 60+30+60, which was possible in Udon Thani for a few months after the change to 60 days visa exempt, but not anymore. So I don't know if it made the round in Isan or if it's only in Udon Thani that the policy changed.

Thank! :)

Hey! Question:

Has anyone gone with Muay Thai Fever gym for their Soft Power activity for the DTV visa?

What’s been your experience?

[members only]

This group has been very helpful so I'm giving back my application details:

DTV approved today ( soft power - Discover Thai Nature ) via Los Angeles embassy. USA citizen, Applied on Feb 2, approved Feb 14 ( 10 days ).

I was not asked for any additional documents.

My physical and mailing address are in different states, so my bank statements show a different address than the address I confirmed with my utility bill. I thought it might be an issue, but it was not.

I'm retired and do not work ( mid 40s, so I thought this might raise flags). I selected 'retired' in the application. My bank checking statements do show a stable 'income' every month from investments.

I submitted 6 months of bank statements, the last statement showed more than the required 500,000THB and the 5 before showed close to it. I highlighted the totals at the end of the month in the PDF, and joined them into one PDF. I wanted to make this as simple as possible for the person reviewing it.

In addition, even though I know it's not required I also submitted my investment summary page ( I attached it to the joined PDF of my bank statements on the last page ). On the summary page I highlighted the amount invested that showed I could live a long time on the funds. Again, I didn't think I'd get denied by having this extra statement, and thought it could possibly help. Weather or not it did, i'll never know.

I wear glasses that do not obstruct my face and kept them on the photo that I submitted in the application.