Dtv jakarta soft power Ok 🇲🇨

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Very happy ..thank for the infos that other people give here

Hi all.

I have a marriage visa that I need to do my first extension of in December. The original visa was processed in Phuket, so the CM immigration office has told me I need to go there to do my first yearly extension. As for documents etc. are they the same as when I applied on the first place e.g. photos of us in the house? And if so, does immigration need to visit the house again (because we live in CM now, that might be an issue).

Thank you for any advice you can give.

How do I know which agency to use to start my retirement visa process?

DTV Approved - Hanoi 🇻🇳

Leveraged all my info from this group while I started my DTV process - thanks to everyone for sharing your insights and your kindness. Details about my experience and application:

Type: Soft Power - TigerEye Muay Thai - Ari, Bangkok

(Contact them for the gym packages offered - they will provide all supporting docs required for the application)

Nationality: Canadian

Applied on Sep 4/25

Pending approval Sep Sep 5/25

Approved Sep 10/25 - total 5 working days

Proof of Location

* Selfie with receipt from coffee shop - paid with CC, highlighted the date and address)

* Air Bnb Booking Receipt

* Boarding Pass

* Vietnam Visa

* Vietnam entry stamp on passport > followed by all pages of passport

Financial Proof

* Previous 3 months of bank statement (June/July/August) with minimum 500K THB each month

Not sure if the following details impact the application, but will share anyway for your consideration:

* This was a savings account

* I had USD and HKD currencies to accumulate the equivalent to 500K THB

* I included snap shot of FX rates on day of application

All docs provided are in English. I used [ilovepdf.com]([members only]) to merge the docs into one PDF > compressed the file to ensure it was within 3 MB.

Other considerations on the application:

* Home Address: I reflected my Hong Kong address > which is the same address reflected on my bank statements

* Is your perm address same as your current address > answer NO

* Current Address: I reflected the address of my Air Bnb in Hanoi

* Intended departure date: pick a date within 180 days of your intended arrival date

* Duration of Stay: within 180 days (I made this concise with the intended departure date)

* Occupation: Unemployed

* Annual Income: No Income

* Intended date of arrival: date I was planning to land in Thailand (within 2 weeks of my application date to allow sufficient time for processing, I randomly chose Sep 16/25)

* Last port of embarkment: Vietnam

* Flight number: chose a random flight # on google flights that was scheduled to leave Hanoi to BKK on Sep 16/25

* Accommodation Type in Thailand: I selected Private Property followed by the address of my condo I’m renting in Bangkok

Recommend you create an account on the eVisa site to familiarize yourself with the requirements/info being requested. With a bit of planning, organization, and patience, you should be able to arrange what’s required for the application. It’s very straightforward. Given the context of my application and in my personal experience an agent is not necessary. Good Luck 😀

DEPENDENT VISAS

I’m applying for a DTV visa at the Thai Embassy in Jakarta. Once that’s approved, my husband and child will apply as my dependents.

I already have our Brazilian marriage certificate and my child’s Brazilian birth certificate. Since Thailand is not part of the Hague Apostille Convention, I was told these documents would normally need extra legalization. This would cost me around 800 USD.

Before I spend that, I’d really like to know: for dependents, have embassies actually required fully legalized documents, or have standard certificates + translations been accepted in practice?

Any experiences in Jakarta (or elsewhere) would be super helpful. Thanks a lot! 🙏

Hello 👋

I have a couple of questions if you could answer please.

My husband and I will be looking to retire to Thailand early next year and have a few questions regarding a retirement visa, we currently reside in New Zealand.

1: With the requirement of THB 800,000 in a Thai bank account, is this amount for each person or is this amount for both of us?

Question 2: Do we have to purchase medical insurance for our Retirement Visa? Is this compulsory?

Question 3: With the changes in Thai banking, will it be difficult to open a Thai bank account for our Retirement visa, and when will this need to be done? (and how will it be done) because we will need to transfer the THB 800,000 into a Thai bank account as required for the visa.

Question 4: When we arrive we will be on a tourist visa (currently 30 day stay?) which we would need to extend for a further 60 days (total of 90 days) which will allow time needed to organise the bank account, visa etc.... is this the best option for us to do, or is there an easier or better way?

Thanks in advance

Michelle 🙏

Bkk immigration yesterday.

Tdac

Dtv

Passport

Polite

20 seconds.

80% if people in the q had to go back down the ramp to the ipads to register for tdac. Fast q if you have all your documents.

Hey! I am about to submit my DTV application. I am flexible on where I do it as I’m already in Asia. I’m torn between Indonesia or Malaysia. Does anyone recommendations or recent experience on which may be better for an application next week ?

Thank you

Hi

I wanna know if have any muy Thai / cooking class in KohPhangan which I can get dtv from ?

Or any agent in the island that can help with that

Hello,

I am working on a non-o visa (retirement). I am currently in Vietnam. Should I request the non-o visa in Vietnam or enter Thailand with a tourist visa and convert it to non-o. I am under the impression of I do inside of Thailand, I end up with more time on the visa (convert tourist visa to non-o gives me 90 days then ask for 1 year extension as opposed to getting 1 year from Vietnam). Any help would be appreciated