Yes its very hard to open a bank account especially when you dont want to use the sketchy agent-route.

The 500k dont have to be in a thai bank or in cash. just use your home countries bank.

@Greg *******

the visa status will be saved in their system and with using an agent you will be one crackdown away from the account beeing locked… it just takes a simple database request for officials to find out. you could do it if you have small money in the bank but i wouldnt trust it really. and the last few years have proven that things get more and more strict.

4 business days - Frankfurt, Germany

@Luit ****************

they ask you to provide information about your current location to determine if the embassy you selected is correct. it does not even have to be your home country. you could use the evisa system in vietnam, malaysia, cambodia or any other country that has it implemented. you just need a proof of adress… for your home country thats often a letter head or id card. depends… they will check that and thats it… i personally know from many people that used the eVisa system while still in thailand and they all got approved on various different visa types. its not correct to do it this way but its also not really checked.

@Laura **********

wie oben beschrieben habe ich die botschaft in frankfurt nutzen müssen. da gibt es ja eine regelung je nach bundesland. Berlin dürfe laut rezensionen/reviews die bessere option sein.

Nachweis für deutsche adresse: Personalausweis beide seiten… und du könntest einen briefkopf anhängen wie z.b. ein brief von der krankenkasse oder versicherung oder was auch immer. die wollen nur checken, ob du die korrekte botschaft verwendest.

dokumente habe ich immer mit

dem programm pdf24 (kostenfrei) auf meinem laptop zusammegefügt und auf eine mittlere qualität gespeichert, damit es vom portal akzeptiert wurde. da man ja immer nur 1 datei hochladen kann…

@Laura **********

All documents in german language. Work contract + overview of bank account would be sufficient. if the contract states remote work. they asked me for „further documents“ which was a „certificate of employment“ (arbeitgeberbescheinigung). that stated my job, remote work, basic stuff. that was sufficient. i also added the last 3 payslips to the financiel proof but that wasn’t necessary i guess. i always think the more documents the less they will check each of them :D overall its very minimal effort to apply. just check the evisa page, its not a lot what you need… for flight you can just put in a flight number you potentially take. no need for ticket upload. for accomodation its similar. just put in your private adress in thailand or a hotel or whatever. also no proof needed…. ps: things could always change so surely they could ask for this and that. every embassy is different and dtv restrictions might change soon. as of now its an easy process

Officialy you need to be outside of thailand to use the evisa website. They dont really check that but if they find you inside thailand then you probably lose your visa fee (350€) and get denied. (they would be able to see it in the system)

2 weeks should be sufficient to get it done in germany. it took me about 5 business days with the embassy in frankfurt. just a current overview of my bank balance was sufficient for them. no individual bank statements provided. yes documents in german are just fine. if you want to extend the visa in thailand you will need them translated into english or thai. not sure if that really needs to be a notarized translation. probably not. otherwise you could border run every 180 days.

download pdf24 for free on your computer and merge the pages together + set a document quality for saving the file which will then reduce the final size. just try a little bit to find the accepted maximal file size for the system.

@Jason *********

i also got rejected at all the banks i tried which was a more than a handfull already… all of them said „dtv is special tourist visa - cannot open account“. things have changed in thailand this year for bank accounts.

@Alain **************

could always book an onward ticket for 5-10€ on spot if they cause a problem :)