Hi! We have DTV visa and it's our 6-month travel period. We're in Phuket and all the flights are expensive. Has anyone driven across any borders?

Hanoi - Workcation DTV approved!

23/02 Documents check

24/02 Pending Approval

25/02 Approved

I am a Myanmar citizen. I just did my homework from this group. No agents, no interview, no additional document asked.

I really appreciate all the useful tips I got from this group. Thank you all very much!

Documents submitted

- 3 months bank statement with no less than 500k THB continuously (Didn’t need to cover 3 calendar months. Mine from 11 Nov to 11 Feb. Before 11 Nov, slightly less than 500k. I submitted a cover letter explaining that I had savings in Wise and transaction record from Wise into my bank on Nov 11)

- A monthly invoice of mine to the employer and corresponding transaction record into my account

(I am on a consultancy contract but paid monthly)

- Employer letter explaining that my work is 100% remote and my payment agreement

- Employment contract

- Registration document of the employer organization

- All pages of my passport with stamps

- My passport biopage + hotel room key in Hanoi + Boarding Pass captured in one photo

I combined

(1) bank statements + invoice + transaction record into one pdf as financial evidence

(2) Employer letter + contact + registration document into one as proof of employment

(3) Passport pages + the photo of three things I mentioned into one as proof of current location.

‼️‼️Some important things to note

First is to write your whole name in one slot or let the website scan your passport biopage if you don’t have a family name, like me!

In my case, I just let the scan do the work.

Second is to check the public holidays of the country where you will apply from. I checked the Thai public holidays but forgot to check that for Vietnam. I got here since last week and stuck, as the Embassy closed for the whole week. They started processing on Feb 23 and approved today.

I was previously on the ED-plus visa. I canceled the ED- plus, travelled to Vietnam, and applied for DTV. So, there’s no problem changing directly from ED-plus to DTV.

I’m sharing my experience just like others did before which really helped me. I hope mine does too!

I know it’s easier to fly, but…

Has anyone in Phuket or surrounding areas done the Ranong / Kawthaung (Myanmar) ferry crossing? Can you go out and in same-day, or do you have to stay longer?

Hi there,

Iv'e got the DTV and next month will be month 6 so i'll have to get out and come back. I'm in Khao lak so I'm wondering if anyone had experience about taking a boat to Myanmar ? Thank you :)

Applying for DTV from neighbouring Thai countries,

What is the

fastest/least problematic country in sea I should apply from?

Good morning everybody, if I want to arrange a land exit from Pai, could you advise me which is the best and cheapest way? For example is something possible to do it west side to Myanmar? Thanks.

Where to fly cheaper to reset DTV?

I’m in Pattaya

Good evening , I would like to ask , if the borders to Cambodia or Myanmar are open and if it is possible to make a visa run ? Thanks a lot .

DTV approved from Yangon.

Along with passport and recent photo, I submitted only a screenshot of my bank balance and my 2 year remote work contract from a company in Myanmar.

emailed to come in for interview 4 days later.

I was way over prepared for the interview with many months of bank statements, visa history in Myanmar, photos of me at work, website, copies of my degrees....

Interview lasted about 3 minutes. They had about 20 people report at the same time and you had to take a queue number and wait. They asked me how long I would be in Thailand, (I'm not sure, but at least 90 days) and would I do any work in Thailand other than remote work (No). That was it.

Approval notice within the hour.

It was the same day the notice came from Yangon that they were not going to issue any further tourist visas. The company that my contract is from anticipates having trouble in the future with business visa as well. So this post maybe isn't that useful for this group. I couldn't find much info about applying in Yangon when I was researching in anticipation of my application, so I thought I would just record my experience.

Hey has anyone been stamped out and then stamped straight back in at a land border? Thinking to just drive myself to the ranong border when it’s time.