I am my own UK company owner and employer. How do i communicate approval for myself to work remotely from Thailand for purposes of the DTV?

DTV approved!! I wanna share my experience with the applying members. I got lots of help from the members of this group. Thank you everyone 🙏🙏🙏.

I got approved in Vientiane, Laos. My walk-in appointment on Dec 11 and collected my passport on Dec 13.

(Note: After Dec 20 Thai Embassy in Vientiane will be closed until January 1 to upgrade their system to e-visa application)

My previous visa was in Thai language school.

I am working remote for a Singapore-based company. I applied under "workcation as a remote worker" category.

This is the list of documents I submitted

- Letter of request for visa approval

- Filled out Visa application form

- Portfolio (Resume)

- Education background and career related certificates

- Employment Contract

- Payslips since contract started

- Verification Letters from my Employer Company (employment certificate, remote work verification, visa sponsorship letter)

- Company registration docs (Singapore ARCA docs since my employer is Singapore-based)

- Bank statement 6-month (some say 3-month okay but I submitted 6 to be safe. I used Bangkok Bank account)

My employment contract with the Singapore-based company started in October. I submitted my Oct, Nov payslips. But the officer gave them back to me over the counter.

I wrote a neat cover letter "Request for Visa Approval" mentioning my purpose to apply for DTV. The officer carefully read it and asked me a few questions about my remote job.

I saw that the most important documents the officer carefully checked were

- Employment contract

- Company verification letters

- Company registration docs (Singapore ARCA)

- Bank statement

I submitted a 6-month statement of my Thai Bank account I opened with my language school visa.

The officer carefully checked transactions at the end of each month. I think it should be an account you are using regularly.

Lucky for me my company supported all the necessary documents and everything went well at the embassy.

I got lots of help from the members of this group. Thank you everyone.🙏🙏 🙏

And I hope everyone will get approved and live in your dream country.

Denied in Taipei🥲

Type: remote worker (for 1 company, not freelance)

Situation: coming from non B visa

Heartbroken to say that I was denied in Taipei. It is a specific situation, as I have worked in Thailand, legally for 3 years. I accepted a remote job and came to Taipei to switch my visa type to DTV.

Even with a current contract and first payment made by current company (+600,000 tbh banked and consistent income for past 6 months from past job), they denied because they wanted me to have 6 months of income *from my current contract.*

Note: I also had everything else in order, including the employment letter (stating remote position), company registration documents etc.

The issue they had, specifically, was was that I hadn’t been in my current role for 6 months. Pretty much they told me to leave and try again in 6 months time when I am established at my new job. There was no remedying it with them.

— and genuinely this was so shocking because I’d never heard of this being the case for anyone else before. Am I wrong on this?

So, if you are coming from a non B and are switching to remote work, please be aware that this is the way Taipei approaches this scenario.

If you have a similar work history but successfully gotten a DTV visa, can you please comment? I’d really like to understand what else I can do and how I can better plan my application in the future.

Hi ! To anyone who wants to give me any advice , I’m currently in Thailand moving out soon to Vietnam to apply for DTV ( workcation ) visa there ! I work remotely for a company in US please let me know what documents should I present ? , I have all the funds they require, so I’m only want to made sure to have all the paperwork ready, also I have to wait in Vietnam till the visa is approved? Thanks so much for your help !

Anybody had any experience applying as a self employed VAT registered Sole Trader in the UK? (Amazon selling etc). Thanks

Hey y’all. I want to get a DTV Visa (remote worker route?) and just started building websites on the side recently in the past few months, the websites are live but not earning any money yet. Is that considered a portfolio and sufficient proof?

I have more than 500k baht in savings and my current day job is a web dev, but planning to leave it because they don’t allow remote work.

Also planning to open a company next month and transfer ownership of my websites to that company. And planned travel date to Thailand is first week of May.

Do you think it’s possible to get remote worker route? Or should I go for soft power?

Any advice is greatly appreciated 🙏🏼

Has anyone applied for and received a DTV as a creative (ie, artist, writer, artisan, musician, etc)? I'm actually attempting to spend extended time in Thailand to pursue a career change from healthcare but I don't have any particularly recent projects to show and my resume would just reflect my healthcare background and education for which I do not have a remote job lined up.

I have published a children's book in the past. I do have my own registered LLC as just my name in my home state.

I could *create* a position as I did work remotely before. I plan to apply at the hcmc consulate if that helps.

Does anyone have experience with or know of any embassy rejecting a DTV application due to low income as a remote worker? I have a bank balance exceeding 500,000 THB and a part-time contract. As far as I know, this visa's approval does not depend on income, but I’m concerned that the embassy might focus on the low salary and reject the application based on that.

Hi all,

What would happen if you are in Thailand with your DTV Visa as a remote worker and have stayed in the country for a couple months but you get laid off? Will this affect your DTV Visa?

# Anyone who applied in Vietnam? did they ask you for tax return documents? anyone got refused due to it? (my income is not taxable in my country)