Mark Son Softpower has no income anything involved in the application

@John *********

Officially it is so you can't find written official statements it can be demanded as a condition of entry for anyone else. Now are they making arbitrary demands of people? I dunno

Carrying money is a requirement for visa exempt tourists, never a requirement specified for the DTV. But then again, the country doesn't seem to have any sort of fixed laws like the rest of the world who knows what kinda crap they'll try to pull next!

Anonymous participant 982 hah. Actually retirement visa = 0% chance of arrest and deportation. If it was available to me I'd definitely take it over a DTV, but I'm a few years shy unfortunately.

@Daniel ********

Exactly that I *had* money, those were application time requirements. Thailand has other visa types that have financial requirements that are reviewed annually (maintaining a balance in the bank). The DTV didn't have any such annual review of the $16,000, as it didn't say it had this requirement. Visas that do, clearly spell it out

Anonymous participant 608 It wasn't prepaid, I literally booked it over Line. It's a dentist I've been going to for years for check-ups. (It was nothing but a check-up, yes I needed more appointments after to fix everything but this was not part of my DTV application)

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

Application requirements are not the same as on-going requirements. The government itself is 100% lucid on this point, they enforce it for certain visa types by insisting a constant on-going balance of the bank account required at application time. They explicitly did not lay out any such requirement for the $16,000 for the DTV post application. I read every associated document multiple times, no such language about it being anything but an application requirement appeared anywhere at any moment. I understand extensions in -country or governed by a different government body so they can require whatever they want to at that time and it can change. But the visa itself was not granted on the premise that application requirements would be checked periodically. So depending how this plays out, one might say we were defrauded by the Thai government. No one would tolerate a landlord renegging on conditions mid-lease for example

@Neale ********

Ridiculous sanctimonious comment, I read every document associated with the application and there was no such "requirement" but make up whatever bootlicking nonsense you want. Submitting a dental appointment and being accepted it's obvious to anyone with a functioning brain that I was not expected to have 5 years of non-stop dental work

Some of us were granted on a dental appointment, so the people with their stupid theories honestly sound very ridiculous. It was very obvious at the time of applying I couldn't be visiting the dentist non-stop for drilling new cavities 5 years. They could have rejected it and said so, but did not. Obviously there never was a real requirement of repeating the same activity for 5 long years.

GoldPineapple1806 also when you speak my language remember you are NOT SPEAKING SPANISH, this is not how questions are formed in my language. A question mark does not a question make.