Just got approved from Colombo Sri Lanka

Applied: december 1st in the evening

Requested additional documents (all passport pages only) december 2nd in the morning

Submitted all passort pages 16:00

December 3: got asked for an interview december 4th

Went to the interview was a little chat less then 5 minutes gave copies of all the documenets

Got approved in the evening at december 4th

Took less then 4 days.

Dtv -> freelancer

Seems like a super smooth process and didn’t got asked anything besides the things on the Thai Embassy website

They do require 6 months statements but it’s fine if the money was there for 3 months although I’m not sure if they only want final balance above 500k+ or 3 months 500k+

As I didn’t find to much information in the group about applying there wanted to share my experience.

It seems like it’s a very good embassy and goes super quick they told me 2 working days (additional documents will reset this)

Got mine in 3

I want to take a 2 week holiday + apply for a DTV workation at same time.l while there.

Has anyone any experience in dealing with the Colombo, Sri Lanka or the Yangon, Myanmar Thai Embassies ?

SETV from Colombo, Sri Lanka - doable not recommend.

The website list several recommendations most of which are no applicable to SETV (letter from local sponsor, letter from Thai sponsor, marriage certificate, etc, etc)

I gave them

Certified bank statement from Thailand

Bank statement from US bank

Bus ticket leaving Thailand

Plane ticket into Thailand

Copy of my lease agreement in Thailand

Copy of my US tax papers (verification of employment)

Wait 1 week and got the SETV. The people at the embassy working with the public are locals to Sir Lanka and not terrible helpful. Oddly they are behind one-way mirror so you can see them.