Hi everyone, I’d really appreciate your advice🙏

1) I’m an online freelance teacher with no official employer. What should I include in my professional portfolio for the application? Are bank slips accepted as proof of income from clients? Do I need to show contracts with my students? I’d especially love to hear from other freelance teachers who’ve been through this process

2) I plan to apply as the main visa holder, with my husband as a dependant. However, the required 500K baht is in *his* account. Has anyone successfully applied with the funds in a spouse’s name? Is it accepted?

3) Lastly, for someone with a Russian passport, which country is currently the easiest and fastest to apply from — Malaysia, Cambodia, or Vietnam?

Approved in Hanoi for medical April 11, 2025

US citizen, previously denied for DTV soft power, 2 tourist entries, no overstays

- booked 3 appointments every 3 months at Bumrungrad for management of a chronic condition

- booked a few more appointments for vaccinations

- included a past appt for a surgery consult to indicate intent for surgery, booked appointment that's a prerequisite for surgery

- cover letter explaining the above

- copy of letter of support from the hospital

- copy of appt card showing all scheduled appts

(The above combined into one document)

- 6 months of bank statements with the 500k+ highlighted in yellow for past 3 months, included amounts convertrd to current exchange rate

- included photo of recent receipt (to show current date) over summary of current accounts

- photo of profile information from bank account showing current address, and note on bank statements indicating the address change

(The above combined into 2nd document)

- selected "unemployed" on applocation, selected the income i recieve from family support

Submitted APRIL 9 in the AM

Status changed to pending document review same day

Approved 5:30pm on Friday the 11th (note the consulate hours show they close at 3:30pm so i thought I'd have to wait until after the weekend)

Those of you who applied under workcation for remote worker and had to include paystubs from your employer, on which part of the visa application did you upload those? Do they go in #4 with the bank statements? Or in #5 with the employment contract and employment verification letter?

With employment contract are they looking at the salary to be the main source of said minimum? Asking because I have an official employment contract that is not full time and I also have private freelance contracts. I file taxes (USA) as a freelancer/my own business but also include this contract as an employee.

I’ve heard being employed by a company is a bit easier to file for DTV. However I have higher income from several sources being a private contractor.

What to do here?

Remote Worker DTV

Approved UK London Embassy!

Application online made Wednesday 12.30.

Pending approval Friday.

Visa emailed Monday 00.10am.

Total 4working days!

No additional documents required.

I submitted:

Passport - Travel Document

Driving License - proof of address

Recent photo - Used a selfie on my phone and editor to cut and put on whote background

Accomodation - name of apartment I had booked on booking.com (no proof provided or asked for)

Flight Info - BA flight number and date (no proof provided or asked for)

Financial -

Cover letter for appendix explanation, agreement that I shall not be receiving income from a Thai company and statement to say I am sole account holder and will have access to both accounts during my stay.

Bank Statement 1 - Current account showing £12,000 (more than 500,000k Bhat requirement) It was a statement showing that day only and the money had not been in my bank for 30days.

Bank Statement 2 - A different current account that I use daily and where my salary gets paid to. 3 months worth of statements submitted.

Payslips- Last 3 months payslips.

Work -

Doc 1 - signed headed letter from my director stating they are in support of my remote working in Thailand.

Doc 2 - Copy of my signed contract with remote working policy highlighted.

Doc 3 - screenshot of companies house page for the company.

I used ilovepdf to merge all pdfs into one to be uploaded.

Logged in and checked status 1billion times in anticipation! 🙈

Just got approved 🥳

Washington DC Embassy Applied February 14th

Request for additional documentation February 26th

(I initially submitted 3 statements from cash app and they wanted to see it in a real bank account so I transferred $15,000 USD to my chase bank and only submitted the statement for February)

Status Changed to Pending Approval February 28th

Approved March 3rd

I applied at night on Friday and that Monday was presidents day so technically it took about 10 business days.

This was the workcation option so I submitted:

Screenshot from my state website of my business being registered and in good standing

Cover letter explaining the nature of my business and that my clients are not thai

My website

A selfie I took of my myself against a wall and I used canva to make the background white

My ID as proof of location

My passport

Flight number for flight I havent purchased yet and address of hotel that I booked just in case but they didnt ask for proof of that

## Hope this helps someone [😊]([members only])

Hey everyone, I just wanted to share my experience since this group has been really helpful!

I submitted my DTV visa application in the Philippines on Monday and received it today (Thursday). I initially thought Monday would be counted as Day 1, but it turns out they started counting from Tuesday, so it only took 3 days to process!

Here are the documents I submitted:

* Contract (proof of work)

* Employment verification (confirming that I'm currently working)

* Detailed explanation of what I do + screenshots

* Bank statement (last 6 months) – I deposited a large amount in the last 4 days (around $10,000 in total) to show sufficient funds

* My previous ED visa stamp + cancellation proof

* Current rental contract (where I’m staying now)

* Philippines entry stamp + hotel booking (used my current address for this)

Since I have a Korean passport, the visa fee was $0!

thank you eveyronee

After 5 Business Days, exactly, I’ve been APPROVED in HCMC! Workcation! I’m on my way back to Bangkok on Saturday 🙌🏽🥳

Editing per request in comments:

I applied on Wednesday, Jan 15th at 3p. On Thurs, they requested 6 months of bank statements (I only submitted sponsorship letters and screenshots of deposits as income, initially). I was approved Thurs, Jan 23rd.

My complete submission was around 90 pages- 45 for Financial and 45 for Portfolio. I compressed right in Adobe to meet 3mb.

Financial Package:

Cover Letter

6 months statements showing just my savings balance at $17k USD.

2 sponsorship letters from clients (I am an independent consultant, I build and manage training platforms, among other operational & finance responsibilities)

6 invoices for my clients (3 for each, with screen shots of payments)

My lease for my condo in Bangkok, with proof of payment

My 2023 tax return doc to show previous work experience

Portfolio

My business registration

EIN files with IRS

My Business Operating Agreement

My contract with my business

My Independent Business Organization agreement with one client

My Service Agreement with another client

Screenshots of works- my website, the learning platform for one client, screen shots of a website I built for another client

My Bachelors Degree

My MBA transcripts

A couple screenshots of things I intend to learn in Bangkok- classes at a language school and short courses at Sasin Univ

That’s it, I think lol

DTV.

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Should i apply on a website or walk in to an embassy?

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I see this has been done both by different youtuber.

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I will be going to Cambodia to re-enter Thailand, so it going to be a Thai Embassy in Phnom Penh.

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Im also collecting my Documents.

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✅ Proof of cash, I have a bank statement showing 300k AUD under my personal name. [not business name]

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✅ Proof of employment - Im writing a letter to prove that I work for myself.

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✅ Proof of Current location- Im actually unsure of this. it could be my hotel in Cambodia once booked.

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✅ Passport and Photo. those are easy to get on that day.

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Question

1- does anyone has any experience with the phnom penh embassy?

2- is my letter good enough?

3- should I go to Cambodia and apply thru embassy or do online , or will there any difference?

Applied online from Australia well over a 12 days ago.

Keep getting questions about providing my portfolio. I finally got frustrated and called the Thai embassy for answers. They stated that my business " didnt look legitimate", even thought its been operating for 4 years. They want a detailed breakdown of work I do as well as invoices to clients.

My website is fine... I dont understand what is going on here.

Anyone else had this sort of issue?