@Ben ******

You do not activate a DTV visa, it is fully active the moment is approved.

For me the count will stop at about 120 days.

@Waqar *******

Why should the max days be 360? It is not meant to be used like that, but nothing will stop you to use it that way.

@Frank-Steven **********

It is 5 years, not 5.5. It is not guaranteed now that you can use it over 5 years.

It is designed to have digital nomads frequently visiting the country ion a period of 5 years, but not to facilitate people to live in Thailand full time.

There is a reson for a stay duration of 180 days, but a lot of people just don'tr want to understand the meaning of that and use border bounces to trick the system. Border bounces are completely legal, but it is a loophole to trick the system.

When I am on workcation, why should I be denied to travel out and not be allowed in because they made the visa single entry like you propose.

And why should I as a digital nomad not have the possibility to get back to Thailand after I left some months to work in another country.

The intended use of the DTV is not the problem, but the people who are to stubborn to get the visa that is intended for their purpose of stay, or people for which there is no matching visa, because Thailand is simply not interest in them to visit the country.

Anonieme deelnemer 418 Why should a tourist only stay up to 30 days? Living the year around on a tourist visa indeed is not how it is meant, but creating complex checks only because there is a group that is too stubborn to choose the correct visa, matching their purpose of stay, also is difficult.

When they want people not whole year around but only for regularly stays of up to 180 days but not back to back would be difficult.

Anonieme deelnemer 448 When you don't want to be treated as a tourist, you should choose for a visa that gives you a long term stay over 180 days.

Anonieme deelnemer 172 Personally I did not find immigration offices unhelpful about DTV. Just out of curiosity I asked them how the extension process would work, and they just answered friendly giving details needed.

If they really hated it, I would expect them to advise not to extend.

Anonieme deelnemer 172 The fact that there are a lot of people abusing the DTV visa does not make it a joke.

In my opinion when you have a non-o retirement it is strange you want to switch to the lower qualified DTV.

In my case I made the decision for DTV because the only way to extend is in-country, and each year at the same time,

Because I am only part of the year, less 180 days a year in Thailand, non-o retirement just is not easy.

When they would allow to extend online, I would have choosen the non-o and not DTV.

@Frank-Steven **********

Where did you get information that DTV is a 5 year visa that wants attract people stay long term?

Official info is completely different, the default stay is 180 days, so not long term.

If they would attrect long term staying people they would have made the stay 1 year like existing real long stay visa and give the possibility to extend that stay as many times you like.

So your idea of what DTV is designed for is completely wrong, for that purpose they already have LTR, Elite and non-O visa.

@Fabian ********

Buying a condo certainly is not a valid reason for every bank to open an account for you.

And agents opening an account will have a high risk to be closed again in a short time.

And not only in Thailand, there are always possibilities to do things that should not be done.