Hi 🙂 can anyone give me some advice?

I’ve been asked for 3 months bank statements (I initially supplied a closing balance only) and my payslips.

I had a large one off payment which contributed to me having the 500,000 baht within the last month. Am I likely to be declined because I haven’t had the required funds in my bank for 3 months? Can I explain this with a letter saying it’s a gift?

Thanks 🙂

Sharing my DTV application experience in Taipei for reference.

Location: Taipei (home country)

Category: Soft Power – Muay Thai

Course length: 3 months

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⏱ Timeline

Dec 6 – Submitted DTV application

Dec 9 – Requested additional documents (Taiwan entry/exit record + financial clarification)

Dec 16 – Interview in Taipei

Dec 17 – DTV approved

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💰 Financial Background

Savings: ~5.5M TWD

Monthly passive income: ~26–28K TWD ( funds dividend)

No work right now

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📝 Interview

Interview in English. Questions focused on:

Why Muay Thai

Why DTV instead of tourist visa

Past work & travel history

Confirmation of no work in Thailand

No request to upgrade course length, and no extra documents after interview.

Hi everyone,

-I’m planning to apply for the Digital Nomad Visa (DTV) in Thailand.

I have a bank account, but I don’t have a large deposit in it because I usually use e-wallets / digital wallets for my payments.

However, I do have:

* Pay slips for the last 6 months

* A formal work contract showing my monthly income

* I work remotely as a digital nomad

My question is: Will this be sufficient to prove financial stability for the DTV, or is a large bank deposit mandatory?

Any advice or experiences from people who applied for DTV without a big bank balance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

My wife has the savings requirement to sponsor both of us, but no income for the past 6 months (she only just started a short remote contract job). I have income but no savings as we have been living off of my means. I can’t be added to her bank account because she’s American and I’m not and I don’t have residence there. Would the Thai embassy in Laos still consider us qualified for the DTV?

APPROVED - HANOI 🎉🎉🎉

📍Applied - 8th December

📍Approved - 16th December

💵 The full 500,000 baht was only in my bank for around 10 days before I applied, I transferred the remainder of my savings to meet the requirement so you don’t need 500,000 for 3 months in a row in Hanoi.

✖️No additional documents required so I thought I would lay out on here what I submitted to help anyone needing it, some posts on here really helped me so..

📑Financial PDF

1. A cover letter stating why I was training, be a little enthusiastic about Thailand and the Thai people. State anything they might question, for me i transferred 70,000 baht roughly 10 days before applying to meet the 500,000. I told them this is from my savings. I also stated I’m currently doing an English course and wish to teach online to help support myself during my course, I then thought they would reject me for this as many people told me you cannot work on a soft power DTV, but it clearly isn’t a problem. Make sure you state you will not work for thai people or a thai company while in thailand as this is illegal.

2. I showed them 4 bank statement as Decembers didn’t show any activity, with Septembers showing less than half of the requirement. My account was also not being used after early November as I was transferring my savings from another account to my Monzo to avoid ATM fees, I told them this. I highlighted the end balance for each month and submitted all pages not just the first page.

3. I used ex.com to convert my end balance into baht, I screenshot this on my Macbook and highlighted the conversion and the date and time in the top corner.

📑 Proof of Location PDF

1. A cover letter stating where you are, address it to the embassy with their address and the address of your hotel too. State everything about your intentions of travel. My hostel was booked until the 14th and I wasn’t accepted until the 16th so I stated my stay can and will be extended until I received a response. I also stated my intended date of departure was on the 21st to ensure I had plenty of time for a response.

2. Photo of my passport entry stamp

3. Photo of my plane ticket to Hanoi

4. Photo outside of my hostel (if you swipe up on Iphone you can screenshot the date and time with it)

5. Photo of my room key with my passport

6. Atm receipt with the last few digits of my bank card matching the receipt with my name

7. Screenshot of my hostel booking on my email

📑 Soft Power PDF

1. I just uploaded the already combined PDF my gym sent me, it had certificates, a receipt of my payment, photo copies of IDs etc etc

📌 Helpful Application Points

1. Address Information: I was very confused about this, after reading what people did on here I put my Vietnam hostel as the first address, I then chose “no” to the “is your permanent address the same as your current address” and I added my home address in the UK.

2. Passport Place of Issue: I wasn’t sure if this meant the authority, for me it was “HMPO”, or the country it was issued in. ChatGPT told me to write HMPO but many people on here wrote the country so I wrote United Kingdom.

3. Intended Date of Arrival / Departure: My intended date I just made up, make sure you leave enough time to actually receive a response (2 weeks I would say) this is just intended, you don’t need to book anything but you do need a flight number, if you just search a flight on this date, I used VietJet and they have the flight numbers up before booking.

3. Employment: I stated I am unemployed, because I am. But in my financial letter I wrote that I am doing a course and intend to work online in the future and this was no problem.

📌 PDF Help

1. I airdropped my photos / scans from my iphone to my macbook and saved them as PDFs. I then used the thumbnail tool on my mac and dragged and dropped the documents I needed to create each PDF.

2. The 3 PDFs all have to be 3MB or less each. My PDF from the gym was below this and so was my financial PDF, but my proof of location wasn’t. I signed up to Adobe for the 7 day free trail, uploaded it and it just shrunk it for me, so easy to do. I then cancelled the subscription.

I hope this is helpful for those applying after me!!

Good luck, you got this 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭

Hi guys, I just got my non-o 3 month visa application approved this morning in Laos. It took less than 4 business days. And they accepted a letter certifying my retirement income from my pension fund, as the canadian embassy does no longer produces income certificates. I also had documents showing I had more than 800 000 thb in a bank account in Canada but I didn't need to show it. So it was easier than expected. Thanks to all of you who gave me sound advices.

Hi all,

UK, 30s, looking at the DTV 5-year Muay Thai visa and had a few quick questions:

1) I meet the 500k THB requirement but it’s split across a couple of investment accounts.

Do they accept multiple statements or is it safer to move it all into one bank account first?

2) Best place to apply if I’m currently in Thailand?

Happy to fly anywhere but want to keep costs down.

3) Roughly how long is processing taking at the moment?

Also — I’ve got another account with 500k but the money comes from betting exchange trading.

I’m guessing it’s best not to mention that on the application given Thailand’s stance on gambling?

Thanks in advance !

Asking because I can’t find an absolute answer, is it mandatory to have a constant income in order to get a DTV? Am I obliged to be in Thailand continuously like with the student visa?

Hei so , I am applying for DTV visa on soft power

As a French citizen, anybody knows if the 500,000 has to be in my credits and debits account or can it be in savings or investments as well?

Hi everyone!

I’m applying for a visa and I don’t have enough funds in my personal bank account to meet the financial requirement. My father is willing to support me and sponsor me, but I’m not sure what kind of documents I need to provide to show this.

Does anyone know what I should prepare?

For example:

A sponsorship letter from my father?

Proof of his income or bank statements?

A declaration that he will cover my expenses?

If anyone has experience with this or has gone through something similar, I would really appreciate your advice. Thank you so much!