I have received my DTV today, two weeks after I had applied. Here is my experience :
I’m a business owner in Belgium, resident in Belgium and spending most of the “European wintertime” in Thailand where I have a condo since many years. I fly 2 or 3 times a year to Thailand and stay each time 1 to (maximum) 3 months.
Usually I apply for a Multiple Tourist Visa, and occasionally a Single Tourist Visa if I have an extra trip to Thailand outside the 6 months period from the MTV.
I have never had an overstay, never used the “visa exemption” multiple times within a year. And I have Thai driver’s licenses and Thai bank accounts.
My application :
- applied for DTV E-visa on 22nd September from Belgium; selected “workcation”.
- 2 days later the status -can be checked online- changed from “checking documents” to “pending approval”.
- this status continued for about two weeks until I received my E-visa by mail on 7th October. No other documents were asked.
Documents that I uploaded for the application :
- copy of my passport
- recent picture similar to pictures you would use for passport/ID card/…
- proof of current residency; official document from the local government. In Belgium we can get this online within a couple of minutes. Document was in Dutch en had digital signatures. No wet signature or stamp.
- address in Thailand; I have a condo in Phuket and entered that address.
- flight ticket; I have booked a flight arriving in Thailand end of October, returning end of November.
- bank statement of a Belgian savings account on my personal name. I uploaded the statements from the last 6 months though a specific period was not asked. The balance was never below 25.000,- euro (about 950.000,- THB), exceeding the requested 500.000,- THB all the time.
- I had made a portfolio to prove my status as “remote worker”. In that portfolio I started with a presentation of myself. Who I am, what I do/did for work, the average time I spent in Thailand since 2012, why I can run my business as a remote worker and why I think the DTV is the most suitable visa for me.
I added the most recent annual accounts of my company. This includes the balance sheet, showing a decent profit, and the shareholders with 100% of the shares on my name. All documents were in Dutch.
And finally I added a copy of the title deed of my condo to the portfolio.
I was getting nervous when the application stayed on “pending approval” for two weeks. Wondering if they would ask for some kind of labour contract or invoices, or reject my application as my next stay is only 1 month. But -luckily for me- I got approved without further requests.
