Dear group, now after 8 month of soft-power DTV I might need to change my visa to a regular working visa. As I just applied to a bunch of white-collar expat jobs here in BKK and already have interviews scheduled.

I'd assume the process is pretty intense, but would be handled by (company) lawyers anyways.

Just to get a broader picture: has somebody in this group done this Visa transformation? How was it?

Anything one should know?

(PS: It would be also a bit strange and first time for me to be 'totally' in the hands of the visa sponsor company - at least this is how I'd likely feel in the first few months. What do you think?)

Hi all. Without going to one’s home country, can I get retirement visa outside Thailand? Currently in Italy but heading to Thailand next month.

Can meet requirements for bank but everything on here says it’s almost impossible to open account. Have a lease also. Would I go to US embassy here or Thai to apply for non-O?

Just to complicate, I will have 3 kids who will attend school and adult son for whom I have guardianship.

Thanks for advice.

I have come to Thailand on the exemption visa. I spoke to Thai immigration 6 months agoand was told that I could come into Thailand and then apply for my 90 day non immigrant O visa. I arrived last week and spoke to them about it. Thay have now said that I can't do it at immigration. Their advice was to apply for a 90 day non immigrant O e visa from inside Thailand, wait until they send the confirmation email and then leave the country. When I come back into Thailand that will activate the 90 day visa. I checked the E visa website and the first thing it says is that you can't apply for the visa inside Thailand. I would like to know if anyone has done it this way and if they were successful. Please help, Ive been told so many different things my heads in a spin. Thanks.

I applied for Thai tourist visa last week Monday after 3 days it changes to pending approval up till now I have not received any information or news 😢😢😢😢😢😢

Advice needed am married to a Thai woman and will be travelling too and through on a regular basis. Because of commits in uk Have bought land with wife understand legal stance on that What would best visa be for me Thank you

My passport is running out of empty pages and I've ordered a new one. What's the process for updating to the new passport on the dtv? I saw a post you can transfer the visa over but it's a digital not physical visa sticker.

Hi!

So I’m British and I came to Thailand on a 60 day visa free entry about 20 days ago.

I heard it’s okay but I want to double check if I can change it to a Non immigrant ED visa.

I also want to double check if I’m allowed to change my visa type whilst I’m in the country?

(From what I’ve seen, yes)

I start my internship on Monday and the only reason why I didn’t apply earlier is because one particular document was taking FOREVER to arrive.

I really wanted to come to Thailand a bit earlier than my internship to make sure that I can get things in order as it’s my first time coming here and I have little idea of how things work around here 💔

Looks like they're tweaking the LTR requirements a bit.

Remote worker: company needs to show 50 million in income over 3 years instead of 150 million.

Wealthy global citizen: no more monthly income requirement

Remove the cap on dependant LTR visas from 4 to unlimited.

They are also gutting the Smart visa program and completely getting rid of it except for the Startup category.

[members only]

#LTR #BOI

Is 3 mths of bank statement necessary? And how close does the statement date need to be before the actual application submission? Thanks. Mick

for online business owner

(US LLC, or other)

how have you applied and got your DTV Visa?

Only show proof you’re the business owner?