hey, I see you’re still going through your application. In my opinion only, if you want to request a new contract it wouldn’t hurt, I would probably still attach the old contract just in case it’s useful for the embassy to know it’s not a new job?

since I presume asking for a new contract will have updated dates of your employment.

I suppose you could ask your employer if they’d be willing to back date the contract, but typically they would sign with the current date of signing.

I also think the embassy understands the nature of peoples job changes, so long as you can prove officially that the nature of the job has changed. If you want to ask your employer to state that in your letter you can, (with a signature, preferably stamp chopped with a company letterhead).

Maybe something like “that xx is employed at xx company has changed the nature of their role from full time in office to remote work full time from date DAY-Month-YEAR” and this will remain a permanent arrangement”

idk.. something like that

feel free to re-word, I’d just make sure to add your name, and that the employer made the approved change from x date and if you want to state that there’s no end date to that arrangement.

I also understand you want to submit all your documents right the first time, however I’m not really sure what the impact is? It’s quite common for the embassy to request more documents since the instructions are so vague and this DTV is new for people applying and the embassy.

Good luck!

@Toni *******

no worries yeah my employment contract was also from over 5 years ago 😅 seems like you and I have a similar situation

@Toni *******

i submitted the application on the website and after 3 days I received request for other documents

1. Employment contract

2. the letter stating remote work

I replied on the same day sending them

1. employment contract (the signed version)

2. email from my manager (as recommended by HR)

response was another 3 days stating they needed an official letter, now stating I could “work remotely, full time”

submitted the official letter, and received the approval in 2 days

they’ll attach the visa on the approval email

so roughly 8 working days/1.5 weeks

I didn’t provide payslips, but as I mentioned they requested my employment contract

yeah that’s pretty much what I had, I’d just state there the word “Full time”

I know that portion “they do not require to attend the office” seems pretty clear

but on their comments to me it said stating “Full Time Remote worker”

I suppose technically the latter doesn’t leave room for interpretation, whereas the one above could still technically suggest otherwise

I also input in the signature the name and title of the person who wrote the letter

including their location

For example:

INSERT SIGNATURE

Sam Smith, Managing Director

Company name, country

@Toni *******

No worries, btw I also applied in Hk through Thai evisa, I noticed you mentioned that’s where you were applying

I found they were quite strict about showing proof of full time remote work portion

basically they just want all the information you claim, to be vetted with official documentation

Hi, I originally sent my employment contract but it was missing the information about "full time remote work" so the thaievisa application requested for a company letter

HR advised that I could get my boss to just write an email however when I submitted that, thaievisa came back saying it needed to be a letter with a chop stating "Full time, Remote work"

what I did was created the template and sent it to my company, they vetted the wording, put it on a company letterhead

afterwards we uploaded the letter via Docusign where my manager could put an e-signature and HR could put a stamp chop

all of those were done digitally since everyone I work with are in different locations

if you google "letter from employee on remote work full time" you'll see some samples

if you want help with writing out the letter, start with some recommendations from chatgpt on the letter format and then change it around to what makes sense for you

We applied for DTV in HK, you apply via thai e-visa, it took 7 working days. Including that time they requested for extra documents but we repiled with the extra documents immediately/on the same day.

Response wise, they would respond to our submitted documents in 3 days maximum, sometimes quicker.

@Andi **********

I’ll take a look thank you!

@Alexander ***

thanks for the suggestion! Right yeah maybe another embassy..

@Alexander ***

Hongkong