Anonymous participant Yes, maybe a couple of weeks out of date. The required 500,000 baht is what it’s based on. Good luck anyway! 🙏🏻

It’s currently about £12,000 (& perhaps continuing to climb) as the baht is holding strong whilst other currencies, like the £ not doing so well… 💴

@Yvonne ******

The Seoul embassy can take up to 4 weeks (for a DTV)… or at least that’s what they confirmed to me when I was there in October. [I already had heard that, and it even states it somewhere, officially, but they confirmed it ㅠㅠ]

You may email them if you like.

I didn’t apply in the end, as I was only staying in Korea about a month and didn’t want to risk the approval being made ‘after’ I had left.

Hopefully, they’ll be quicker than 4 weeks for you. 🙏🏻

Chris (

@Retired ******************

) and his side-channel, “RW4U” in particular has gone to the source for some of these DTV queries:

@Henrik ****

@Chris ****

Yes. Chris / Henrik, I didn’t mean go ahead right until the end and PAY. Just play around to see which countries come up & see what is allowed etc.

It’s the only way to know… unless you want to call every country’s embassy in the world.

This is just my opinion anyway - good luck with whatever you do. I don’t drink these days - 5 years dry & I feel amazing!

You can also try, by way of a ‘test’ application on the official site. There is a drop-down of countries which should be all those allowed.

You may have to play around - trial by error - to see which lets you progress.

You can either save that one OR delete it, I believe.

I only presume that this way works… if it’s the similar embassy protocol & procedure as it is if applying for a 60-day METV from another country.

I can’t swear by this but I think it’s a good indication. I wouldn’t have thought it’s limited to Laos. I’ve applied from South Korea before (for the 60-day…)… and wanted to know if I could before I went there, from Thailand…

So… same principal essentially.