You can only act on current practice which is no ongoing courses or activity are required if you are entering the country. Anyone guessing that may change is doing just that, guessing.

@Sefton *******

Every country is the same in that not everything is black and white. I have had a couple of talks with a British Consular Officer over this over a drink and football (before visa processing outsourced). I wanted to take my Thai friend to a wedding in London so was asking (This was not Thailand) for info. They leave much to discretion for a reason. PS: in the end we did not apply. The father of the bride was a British Ambassador but we thought too much hassle to apply.

@Jerry **********

You could go through the Priority Lane in that condition. Does not help with the walk from the plane to immigration area though. I once had to have a wheelchair service leaving. Hated everyone staring and being loaded on the plane but the back door :-)

@Ivan ***********

I worked in IT long enough to recognise these exact typeworkarounds. If the DTV had not been rushed by MFA and they had consulted other stakeholders, they might have defined the categories and expanded further. I suspect if there had been consultation, there would be no DTV 🙂 🙂

I do not think anyone has created any list. Too much hassle for what return? Off top of my head I think a couple of Muay Thai Gyms and a cooking school in Pattaya Area. (Although that does not come up in a search now).

@Ivan ***********

Exactly. If there is no specific field and not always in remarks how does Immigration know the category?

Anonymous participant 734 Could be but that would imply a specific field in the system for that. No idea and is the eVisa system same as the immigration system or conencted? This is getting among IT weeds which I was glad to leave 12 years ago lol.

@Nick ******

I moved out of IT into the business side. Project Management in New Product Development, M&A then covered all areas as a Director of Portfolio Managment and Global Head of PMO. The IT background was very useful as I could see through the same obfusification we used lol

@Nick ******

Somebody might know about the actual system but on the DTV issued the "Category" is in remarks rather than an actual category field. After 23 years in corporate IT and validated systems I suspect if there was a field for this they would not use "Remarks". The Immigration Department and MFA did not consult much before the DTV implemented - how much access would MFA have to make changes in an immigration owned system? (I am becoming an IT nerd here but the change control on a system like this would need to be robust)

@Nick ******

Are you sure? Reports of CNX asking people as they wanted to enter it in the system. I suspect it is in remarks and not all embassies add it.