Just get the proper visa for your purpose of stay and you don't have to wait.

Visa exempt is for tourists, and I think with 3 visits of a month and one visit of 3 months in about a year time it might be difficult to make an immigration officer believe you are a tourist, but you just might have some luck.

@Marcus *******

so since Wise is not a Thai bank card, it should have a fee of 220 THB or am I missing something?

@Dennis ********

It is up to you what cash you need to trade with. It is up to MFA to decide what they want from applicants for DTV, and I can understand they want to keep it simple. Just a direct access savings account is simple. When they accept different, what would they have to choose as limits? 2 days like your account? What can happen with that money in 2 days? Some applicants might just speculate with high risks. They just want have applicants have a stable financial position, that is also why some embassies want to see the money during a longer period and not just transferred to the account for the visa application.

But the fact you never need over $500 to trade with speaks for itself I think, obviously you see 500K as big money.

@David ********

IDP alone is not a drivers licence, it has to be used together with the national drivers licence you obtained the IDP with.

@Greg **********

it would not be a big update to add an attribute to an information system for a group of users.

And now a border bounce just works, but I am not speculating it will also work in a year.

@Dennis ********

2 days is not direct access, I understand why MFA wants applicants to have direct accessible money, and we are only talking about 500K baht. 500K might sound as a lot of money, but it are only baht, and you don't loose them.

@Greg **********

so we agree, we both don't know how border entry requirements are next year.

@Aliz ***

Why should Wise account be closed when used in Thailand?

@Marcus *******

Are you sure you pay not 220 baht fee when you use ATM with your Wise account? It is Thai bank who charges 220 baht ATM fee for foreign cards

@Andrew ******

that only works if the one you have to pay money to, accepts a Wise transfer to his account.