Does someone knows what its bank certificate?

Hello, I saw that the revenues on the bank statements should be circled in red. Did you print it and circle it or did you do it on your PC?

Is it a mistake to use my Thai bank account to show proof of funds, instead of one from my home country? I’m aware it could highlight that I’ve essentially been living in Thailand for the past six months (on visa exemptions), and that I’ve had a Thai account for four years now (I’ve been on various visas). My passport stamps tell the same story, however.

APPROVED in Ho Chi Minh City 🥳

Category: Workation

This group has been incredibly helpful to me, so like many others, I want to give back my experience of the application process.

Here is some background information to my situation:

* I have a German Passport.

* I own an LLC based in the US that is fairly new and I have never had a company before, but was permanently employed.

* My company has no income yet, because I focused exclusively on mastering the new situation during the first few months of my trip, and that's why I indicated ‘no income’ in the application form.

* I have never applied for a Visa in Thailand before, because Germany is in the Visa exemption category and never have done a border run before.

* I am currently travelling and was in Thailand for a month before travelling on to Vietnam, where I applied for the DTV.

I submitted my application with the following documents, each combined to a PDF document not exceeding 3 MB:

## Document Indicating Current Location

* Overview of contents of the PDF

* Passport page where the stamp of my arrival in Vietnam is shown

* Explanation of accommodation in Vietnam, as I'm booking my various hotels until I can come back to Thailand when the visa is approved, and I didn't want to leave the hotel booking confirmation without an explanation.

* Booking confirmation of the same hotel in Vietnam in which I have been staying at the time of the submission

* Booking confirmation of flight to Thailand

## Document of Financial Statements

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Overview of my bank accounts in german language

* Overview of my bank accounts translated with converted currency to THB

> Note: Looking back, I really shouldn’t have submitted the overview in german language. I thought, that it might serve as a proof, because it’s the original document, but they really just want everything in english or thai.

## Document of Professional Portfolio

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Introduction to My Professional Portfolio where I have stated why I want to have the DTV Visa, what my plans are, that I do not want to make business in Thailand and a brief overview of my skills (I’m a software developer)

* Document of the structure of my business and the services I offer

* The founding document of my company

* A document stating that I’m the sole owner and director of my company

* Screenshots of every page of my website and an explanation to them

After 2 days they requested further documents

* Passport full book including empty pages

* Bankstatements only in english and covering the last 6 months with the salary of the last 6 months highlighted

* Salary slips of the last 6 months

* Company profile that includes details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements

I uploaded everything they requested and took 2 days for that

* made a scan of every page of my passport from 2 to 32

* combined my bank statements to one PDF not exceeding 3MB in size (which was pain)

* combined the salary slips of my previous employer

* wrote a company profile with everything they wanted and stated again, that I do not wish to make business in Thailand, that my company is newly established and what my plans are to create revenue in the future

The next day my status was switched from “checking documents” to “pending approval”.

Another 4 days later (with a weekend in between), I got my approval.

All in all the application process took 11 days.

My boyfriend also applied to the DTV and his process took also 11 days in total.

If I would submit documents again, I would submit:

## Document Indicating Current Location

* Overview of contents of the PDF

* A scan of the full passport book.

* Explanation of accommodation in Vietnam, as I'm booking my various hotels until I can come back to Thailand when the visa is approved, and I didn't want to leave the hotel booking confirmation without an explanation.

* Booking confirmation of the same hotel in Vietnam in which I have been staying at the time of the submission

* Booking confirmation of flight to Thailand

## Document of Financial Statements

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* 6 months of bank statements of one (or more) bank accounts having 500k THB in total with the income from the salary slips highlighted

* Salary slips of the last 6 months

## Document of Professional Portfolio

* Overview of the contents of the PDF

* Introduction to My Professional Portfolio where I have stated why I want to have the DTV Visa, what my plans are, that I do not want to make business in Thailand and a brief overview of my skills

* A company profile that includes details about its history, vision, mission, products, and achievements

* The founding document of my company

* A document stating that I’m the sole owner and director of my company

* Screenshots of every page of my website and an explanation to them

Of course this depends on your personal situation and every application process is different.

Hope this helps anyone. If you have further questions, please don’t hesitate to ask. I’m happy to help. 🙂

UPDATE: I successfully got the Visa in Hanoi.

Will it have any problems if my salary is only 350€ net? I work part time.

Should I state in my cover letter that I have more savings and investments that I live of or does that unneccesarily complicate it?

I have more than the 500k THB in the bank account I will show them, its closer to 1.500k THB for some years already. Plus an stock broker account with 3.500k TBH in cash, but I wouldn't show that because it's not a bank account.

Should I provide them with documents like payslips, business registration of my employer, rental contract for thailand without them asking for it in the application? I read that many people are getting asked for those documents and I want to speed up the process as much as possible.

I will be applying in Hanoi, Vietnam.

I've send my application to Jakarta this evening. Just noticed I forgot to send a transaction record of Stripe transactions. Will I be asked for that? Or will my 6 month bank statement which shows the Stripe direct deposits be enough? Thanks all :)

# ✅ DTV Approved in Manila, Philippines in 4 days (Workation category)

My profile: I am a business owner so I only work for myself.

Since english is not my native language so I had to translate some documents.

## My experience:

Before going to Manila, I created my account on thaievisa.go.th and started filling out the online forms so I don't have to do everything last minute. It is not a problem to start the process while still being in Thailand. Only the final submission matters (I submitted the application and paid the next day of my arrival in the Philippines).

To make sure I would not be asked further details and avoid wasting time, I made sure to make my application as complete and as easy to understand as possible, even provided extra details when it felt relevent.

There are 3 separate documents to provide on the last page of the application, and each document can only be one file under 3MB so you need to merge all of your documents for each section into one single PDF (I used adobe acrobat for that). You should have 3 PDFs at the end.

At the beginning of each PDF, I created a table of contents with page numbers and a brief explanation for each page in order to make reading easy to understand and to keep the reader in a good mood.

## 🟢 Proof of current location (pdf 1):

* Photo of the Philippines passport entry stamp (with a background view of the city from my airbnb)

* AirBnb Reservation details (1 week booking)

* AirBnb Reservation receipt (You can request a "Receipt for Visa" within your Airbnb booking)

## 🟢 Financial evidence (pdf 2):

* Bank balance certificate from my bank (luckily my bank had an option to generate it in English).

* Bank statement screenshot for the current month (showing the latest transfers because I moved large amounts only a few days before the application and it would not show on the previous statements otherwise).

* Bank statements for the past 6 months (only 3 were required). I did not translate those but highlighted the income in yellow using the adobe acrobat highlighting tool.

## 🟢 Work details (pdf 3):

* Cover letter explaining how my business works and how I make money, the purpose of my stay in Thailand, including a compliance statement with thai laws (3 pages total!).

* Company ownership and remote work agreement (A signed document mentioning I am the sole owner of the company and that I am allowed to work remotely. It sounds overkill but I read it was recommended to do that for business owners)

* Company registration certificate (English translated)

* Company registration certificate (French original - “Avis de situation”)

* Certificate of tax regularity (English translated)

* Certificate of tax regularity (French original – “Attestation de vigilance”)

* Landing page screenshot of my business website

* Screenshot of the “earnings dashboard” from my business showing consistent revenus for the past year

* Business-related invoices for the past 6 months.

## Some details that got me wondering during my application:

* You need a flight number but don't need an actual booking so just look up for any relevant flight and put the flight number there.

* Your entry/exit dates don't need to be accurate, just write realistic dates.

* Current location address was my airbnb address but I had to check something like permanant address and added my home address from my home country as well.

* I translated myself some documents with google translate when it was necessary (provided a copy of the original along), no need for notarized translation

The actual making of all the documents took quite some time, I maybe spent 2/3 days on this but I wanted to make sure that it was very clear for the person that was going to read it for the first time.

So I would say Manila is a very good place for DTV, I submitted my application on a Sunday evening (actually it was past midnight so technically on Monday), and I received the approval email the next Thrusday at 6pm o'clock (4 days processing time). The timing felt as if the emails were sent in batch at this exact time at the end of a working day. It was a pleasant surprise and I could finally move on from this process!

One last detail: the start date of validity of the visa is the day your visa is granted, not the day of the "intended date of arrival" that you had to fill out on the application.

So thank you everyone from this group as I had a lot of valuable details across posts, this is now my contribution to this group!

Good luck you all!

Hi! I am applying for DTV workcation from the US.

I do not always have the $15,000USD in my account. I can have a family member send me a few $1000 to make my account balance reach that amount ( is this frowned on). However my bank statement would show that amount just reached my account. Can you just send the balance or are they being strict on needing to see all your transactions?

Also, I have a large amount in my IRA account, this is also my money. Does anyone know if they take that into account as well ?

I appreciate any clarity, feedback, suggestions on what worked for you 🙂

Just wanted to thank this group for the wealth of information and help available here. After an anxious wait I had my workcation DTV approved in the UK this evening. Since I delayed the application waiting for documentation from an employer, the real processing time was no more than 3-4 working days. The extra documentation requested was reasonable in all cases and I felt that I was dealing with intelligent people. They didn't, by the way, accept cash in a brokerage account as evidence for the 500,000 THB equivalent.

In case it's of any use to future UK applicants, I didn't fit what I take to be the 'ideal' profile for the workcation - either permanent full time employment done remotely or a thriving business with proper registration and client testimonials.

I demonstrated a mix of seasonal contract employment and online activities (not onlyfans!) plus management of personal investments. It seems therefore that they are prepared to consider people with a 'portfolio' career rather than one simple occupation.

I suspect the seasonal employment was the decider as my employer, somewhat grudgingly, wrote a letter confirming it and saying how many years I'd been doing it. I did demonstrate savings and investments well in excess of £11,000, but it's impossible to know for sure whether this is taken into account.

My advice for future applicants is to rent Adobe Acrobat to make sure your document bundles are presented professionally (I personally paid Adobe through gritted teeth and passionately hate the SaaS model!). Also to take the time to get your ducks in a row with any evidence they request and write a professional cover letter introducing yourself and making clear that you will respect the law of Thailand, particularly as it relates to employment. Lastly, with the anecdotal reports of soft-power applicants who applied at SE Asian embassies facing scrutiny at the border, I'm glad I went for the workcation route in my home country even if it meant a little more stress.

Good luck to everyone!

Approved in Taipei:

Business owner

Supplied documents on Monday 5pm

Approved at once, without additional documents or interview, on Thursday 9am

Supplied documents:

Bank statement of personal account with +500k baht and with all transfers of the last 6 months (highlighted all the monthly wages transferred from my business account)

Not needed, but I added 6 months of transfers from business account as well. I highlighted all the incoming money from clients so they could link it to the added contracts and invoices. Also highlighted the wages I paid myself so it could be matched with the personal account transfers.

Contract with client

5 invoices from 2 different clients

Permission from myself (the business owner) to myself to work remotely

CV

Copy passport stamp and Airbnb reservation

Entry and exit statement: you have to get this at Taipei immigration, without it you won’t get your visa. Entry stamp and Airbnb reservation alone is not sufficient

Flight number

Business registration page

Passport biodata page

Picture

Small explanation of what my business does