Samuel Israel It's crazy but it's true... And you know what? This thing with IO is around whole world... In Vietnam is even worst... In Panama is crazy... COLOMBIA AS WELL... The IO woman NEVER WANT TO HELP.. it feels like they hate them job...

🇹🇭DTV ADVICE 4 EVERYONE 🇹🇭

"I’ve been living in Thailand on a DTV since 2025, and while the visa is a great tool, we have to remember that Immigration officers have total discretion. Having the visa doesn't mean we are exempt from proving we still meet the requirements.

In my experience traveling between Vietnam and Thailand, I’ve noticed that your physical appearance is your first line of defense. Arriving with a 'dirty' look, looking like you just stepped off a party island, or having that 'marijuana-hippie' style are massive red flags for officers. They are profiling you the moment you step up to the counter. If you look like a professional remote worker, they treat you like one.

My advice: Learn to handle the situation strategically. Dress like an intellectual professional, have your 2026 physical documents (payslips, contracts) ready in a folder, and show them you have the means to be here. Once you pass through those gates and get your stamp, you can go back to your usual style and your life in the mountains, but at the airport, play the game right."

There is some agency that can help you with this paper, a friend of mine had same problem and this agency help her with it..

My last arrived to Thailand with my dtv was quite similar they did all this to me and the crazy thing is that I never show anything not even my address because I live in Pai but I arrived from Vietnam late to chiang mai and they did just the same ... Interview, sitting and recording with the phone and I didn't really show much worry... And she was why u don't have a hotel in chiang mai.. and I said . Because I don't live here i live in Pai and my house is in Pai and I didn't knew I will stay in Chian mai so I didn't book nothing... She was laughing.. as well this probably sounds crazy but as they see you they treat you.. I was wearing clean and smart clothes which I know everyone gonna laugh here because I am saying this... I know the migration was looking at my nails and my clothes like analyzing me .. after few more words she just tell the others to let me go .. I am 100 per cent sure if migration see you wearing clothes like a hippie or whatever they don't like holding a dtv .. could be a problem but as well could be not... What's the message... Choose a man always... MAN ARE AMAZING..

My love I m sending you strength for u and Ur husband.. I can't imagine being in such a situation not for the visa but for my pets.. 😭... Please let me know if I can do something for you..

This is obviously happening beginning of march it calls... CORRUPTION... I AM SORRY TO HEAR THIS... as well the Hanoi embassy is rejecting all dtv applications no matter if they have alll the requirements but just so people don't go to Hanoi to apply... Dtv Is going wrong

Calm down just pay the fine and go urself by u own to migration office... I don't understand why people so pathetic in Thailand always laughing about other expats man why

Jeff Stein Keyboard problems 😂...the airlines are the one that always asks for a flight out if you get in to the country as a tourist... If you have a DTV or something else just show it to them otherwise you can just book or make a simulation trough any platform.. like travel loka... And show it to them ...

But if you have a DTV you don't need a flight out !!! Just as tourists

The AIRLANE WONT LET YOU... IT JUST HAPPENED TO MY BOYFRIEND... DONT LET HIM IN TO THE PLANE... JUST BOOK SOMETHING WITHOUT PAYING IT JUST BEFORE YOU DEPARTURE!! I ALWAYS DO THAT