Do you have any feedback on the current delays with the Paris embassy?

DTV Approved in Fukuoka, Japan 🇯🇵

9/9 - Submitted online application for workcation (freelance)

* Passport Page

* Visa Photo (I used the same as my passport as my passport is brand new)

* Page screenshots from my professional website and digital portfolio showing my work (I'm a creative)

* Contract with one client + screenshot of an email where I had an agreement with another client

* Official bank statement from the bank showing my current balance + digital banking screenshot to show 3 months worth

* Payslips from clients as well as corresponding deposits highlighted from my bank statement just to show that I'm actually getting paid (different bank so different screenshot to above)

9/10 - Additional documents requested (flight ticket proof & accommodation in Bangkok)

* I am staying with my mother who is a Japanese national with a work permit in Thailand for the past 20 years

* I submitted a copy of her rental agreement with the landlord that covers the duration of my stay, her passport copy and her Thai work permit copy just in case

9/11 - Approved!

I was quite worried I wouldn't get it after reading so many posts about rejections + people getting a METV instead but I didn't think I would get it this fast🥹 For reference, I'm a Japanese national living in Tokyo. I chose the Fukuoka consulate as I read that the Tokyo consulate is one of the most difficult consulates.

*Edit: Added more details in case it helps any future applicants. *

my visa status went to pending approval and then after 2 hr again back to pending doc check. anyone got same experience

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to share my DTV visa experience with the Thai Consulate in Dubai.

I applied as a company owner and submitted:

• Trade License

• Share Registration Agreement

• No Objection Certificate (NOC)

• Bank statement

I don’t keep funds sitting in one account for 3 months. Instead, I open monthly fixed deposits — every month I transfer money from my personal account into savings to earn interest. It’s clearly visible in the statements that funds always come from my personal account to deposits and return back after each term.

At first, I submitted 4 separate statements for March, April, May, and June, showing I always had over 500,000 THB.

However, the consulate requested one 3-month statement showing the required amount.

Today I provided the 3-month statement along with a cover letter explaining my deposit structure.

Just wondering — has anyone else faced a similar situation with DTV applications?

Would appreciate any insights

Queue at Consulate Vientiene today to pay 10,000 baht for DTV. Prepare to queue 1.5hours but queue goes fast no queue cutting 💕 nice people. But I've paid last week. Today interview success!

Hi Guys, Have you ever got experience in Royal Thai Consulate in Los Angeles. You were apply for DTV Visa but they're granted TR Multiple Visa. I don't know why and trying to contact the embassy and still waiting for their reply. Anyway i'm Indonesian and just vacation in LA and tried to apply DTV E-Visa in Los Angeles

Report: Non O dependent visa for US Wife aquired in Penang a couple weeks ago.

This was our experience...

I'm US citizen on a retirement extension.

She's under 50, also a US citizen on a 30 day tourist, with a 30 extension.

We flew to Penang and booked a room for a week just in case there were issues.

Monday morning we showed up at the consolate 30 - 40 min early and there was already a huge line OUTSIDE and it was going to rain.

A lady saw us in line and said we should be in the shorter foreigner line. So we moved to the proper line where there were more western looking people. The other line was Chinese I was told.

There are no signs or order to the Queues sadly. THERE ARE NO AREAS TO MAKE COPIES OR TAKE PHOTOS NEARBY, so be prepared.

They finally let everyone in, Chinese first and the small visa room fills up quickly. We had our form filled out ahead of time and they didn't look at it (yet), instead handed us a Check list sheet which is NOT on the website. They tell us to fill it out.

We fight our way through the crowd to a table area and fill out the check list form. There are no Queue numbers, it's first come first serve.

We go back to the line where we were, and hand her all of our docs and she looks them over and tells us to wait.

We wait for an hour or so. They call my wife and tell her she is missing a copy of my passport visa stamp page. It was in the packet we gave her but now it was lost. Luckily I make 3 copies of everything, so I pulled it out and gave her a backup copy.

We wait another hour or so and they call us up and tell us to come back tomorrow at 2pm - 4pm(?) When this happens it tends to mean they had all the correct documents needed. At this time we paid the fee in Cash (THERE ARE NO ATMS nearby).

There was a huge rain storm at this point outside and some of the staff actually drove us to the Paragon mall and would not take any money for the trip. Very kind of them!

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Now that covid extensions have finished more and more people are having to use the old “tried and trusted” techniques of doing border bounces or visa runs to gain extra time to stay in Thailand.

Because so few people have needed to use the nearby SE Asia embassies or consulates we would appreciate your feedback on any experiences you have recently had using one.

Your feedback could be of value to others contemplating using that embassy/consulate and we welcome any input you may have.

Whilst the admins, moderators and forum members will try to answer questions about XYZ consulate their knowledge may be limited to experience prior to Covid. Times have changed and almost certainly people’s experience at these embassies/consulates will have too.

Areas of special interest to most would be whether the consulate requires an appointment (for application and/or collection) and the sort of requirements they’re asking for tourist visas, business visas, marriage visas, guardian visas or dependent visas (to name a few).

One would hope that their website would show as much, but as we all know some websites aren’t updated as frequently as we would desire.

I need some experienced advice please. I was here almost two years on an O-A (thanks Tod Daniels for explaining how to make that work) and thought it might be easier to get a new visa on a trip back to NYC than extend here. However I was refused in NYC because I did not have 800,000 in the bank, even though I had two years of bank statements (American bank— I showed them my Thai bank book as well but that seemed to confuse the situation) showing monthly deposits of a pension above the 65,000 requirement. I was given a six month tourist visa instead. I want to reapply on my next trip. I have heard the L.A. embassy is easier to work with. My question: what will be considered an income certificate (an original copy) with a monthly income of not less than 65,000 Baht, that will be acceptable? A bank statement, motorized by the bank, did not do it in NYC. Should I get a pension statement? Thanks in advance for help.

This business about 'void' on visas is making me a little nervous.

Anybody have experience with Beijing Thai Consulate? User friendly? Right twats?

Anybody, Anybody?