DTV is not a long term visa, but for now you can use it that way as long as the loophole of borderbouncing existss to get back to back stays of 180 days each time as long as you still comply to the visa requirements.

But don't expect it to have the advantages of long term visa, as having the possibility to open a bank account and get a 5 years valid drivers license.

DTV is a tourist visa.

Anonieme deelnemer 926 or even better Wise and N26 and Revolut, never bet on a single horse and they all have free accounts, so no need at all for a Thai bank account.

@Yassine *******

And as always, chances are best when you apply from the normal way for a visa in your home country or the country where you are permanent residence.

Visa tourism like you plan to do can work, but has some disadvantages like the local embassies are less familiar with documents from your home country.

Anonieme deelnemer 442 I know some are using DTV as long term resident visa, but it just is NOT a long term resident visa. DTV is for digital nomads and for soft power activities, which mostly do not take 5 years continuously.

When you want to be treated as long term resident, you should get a proper long term resident visa, or accept the disadvantages of using a visa in another way it was meant.

@Bob *********

As long as the loophole is not closed you can, no discussion about that.

But that does not make it a resident visa, and you cannot expect Thai institutes to adapt to DTV so it is more a resident visa.

When someone is choosing to use the loophole he or she has to accept the disadvantages of that, like no bank account and just a temporary 2 year drivers license.

And also you can expect that the more it is used in a way it is not meant to be used, the more checks there will be about still complying to the visa rules the moment you do a border bounce.

@Bob *********

of course you can do that, but saying that is by design is BS, it just is a loophole. DTV is not a resident visa, that some buy a condo and use a tourist visa to live in the country is their own responsibility, but it is not what DTV is designed for.

@Bob *********

The fact that it is a 5 year multi entry visa does not say it is designed for border bounces. A real digital nomad will stay at least for some months in another country.

"planning to move to Thailand" is a clear sign you don't understand what the target group of DTV is. It is meant for digital nomads travelling in several countries and stay in each for some time, not to move to a specific country.

Also owning a bar is not a remote job I think, but you might give it a try, maybe you can convince the embassy.

Anonieme deelnemer 873 Indeed, the majority of questions in this group is not how to get the right visa or even no visa at all for their course they like, but how to get the cheapest course to get a DTV visa, most of them want the course as short as possible, which suggests they plan to abuse the visa after the initial course.

In the meantime MFA will also have seen this I guess, and that makes it more and more difficult for applicants who really are serious about their soft power activity.

With the current prime minister DTV might be changed a lot or even disappear.

@James *******

mine was approved within a week