@Bryan *******

if I were you I would sell stocks and transfer it to your bank account to meet the requirement of 500k in a personal bank account, then submit 6 month of bank statements showing the current balance over 500k. They might reject it, but what do you have to loose? If rejected, you keep the money in your bank account and re-apply at another embassy. Search in this group to find an embassy that approves the money to be in the account less time. There are some embassies that appove applications as long as the current balance is over 500k.

There IS a rule that you should remaim in the country where you apply during the processing time!

And, since they requested more documents on the 27th, the processing time reset, meaning today is the 3rd day of the processing time (it has not been 6 working days).

Further more, you write "visa on arrival" - do you really mean VOA or do you mean visa exemption? Visa on Arrival is an actual 15 days visa, while the other is visa free... So do you plan to plan to apply for a visa at the border while you have another visa being processed?!

I advise you to stay until your DTV is approved. Of course only you can decide wether your need to be in Bangkok during the weekend is worth risking your DTV-application being rejected.

@Nongnuch *******

you write "it will apply solely to visa exempt arrivals"... It is actually planned for visa exempt arrivals AND for people that enter with VOA (Visa on Arrival).

@Koda *********

Yes!

@Kristoffer *********

skaffa visum och åk! 😁 Om/när du närmar dig 180 dagar ska du ansöka om ett TIN (Tax Identification Number). För det behöver du bl.a. ett Residence Certificate, vilket du inte kan få förrän du varit där minst 90 dagar, så du ska alltså inte söka det direkt.

Hur du sen redovisar inkomst/deklarerar i Thailand har jag inte så bra koll på. Du har dock tid på dig och kommer säkert att lära känna människor som kan det här.

Lycka till med att skaffa DTV och njut i Thailand!

@Kristoffer *********

Om du är i Thailand (eller annat land) i mer än 180 dagar under ett kalenderår blir du en s.k. "tax resident"...

Det finns ett dubbelbeskattningsavtal mellan Sverige och Thailand. Min gissing är att ambassaden sa så, pga av att du inte ska dubbelbeskattas, utan bara betala mellanskillnaden och Sveriges skatter är så höga att det aldrig kommer att bli någon mellanskillnad att betala. (Observera att detta bara är min gissning.)

It is a multientry visa - no re-entry permit needed.

@Omar *********

so if the most common flights are to a country where you need a visa to enter and the second best would be somewhere where you can enter visa free... would you still choose the first one, because it was the most common? 🤔

@Tony *********

thank you! 😊

...and yes, I find it somewhat frustrating to see all the posts where people mix things up. It is impossible to give correct advise when you have to guess where a person is from and what they are really asking. 😉

@David ***

Well I "kind of" guessed that, but like many others, you mixed things up... (you didn't ask about ETA, you asked about obtaining tourist visa online...) hence my long reply.