@Christopher **********

Asking chargeback simply is called fraud, and will certainly place you on a blacklist for Thai embassies.

@Ray ****

That sounds to me as generating the answers you want. The point of AI should be that you don't need to know how the processor works.

For now AI is far from perfect, but that can change fast.

@Dee *****

the guidelines are simple, just print it as asked, it nowhere says digitally on your phone is enough. E-visa means it is applied for electronic, that tells nothing about how you show the visa.

@Dee *****

Wrong exit date might be caused by not handing over the printed copy of the visa as in the guidelines. Even when they can see you have visa, that does not mean you should ignore guidelines and wait till IO ask for it. Just follow guidelines to make the job for IO more easy.

@David *******

Embassies just have a rule you should not apply over 3 months before intended day of travel, making this different for every visa type makes things unnecessary complicated. When everybody just would apply between 1 and 3 months before travel, there would be a lot less problems.

@Ray ****

What is your point?

@Ray ****

That is nice, for me it also works, but both of us have a remote job as it seems, but topic starter is talking about a "soft option" and then DTV might become expensive.

@Ray ****

For you it might better at the moment, but most people don't leave the country they live in 4 times or more each year.

As long as I still work I also keep DTV as long as it exists and I don't live in Thailand.

@Ray ****

You never can fully trust chatgpt gives a correct answer. It might give you ideas, it might give a correct answer or it might give an incorrect answer, but you still have to do own research if you want to be sure.

Especially on subjects where people have different opinions you will have higher risks of getting wrong answers.

@Ray ****

DTV you need to visit immigration at day 90 of each stay, unless you travel every 90 days.

So when you not want to leave the country every 90 days, with DTV you visit immigration more often than with non-o.

With DTV you might keep your current bank accounts, but there is also a risk they have to be closed.

On non-o you don't need 800K when you have income of 65K each month.

The 20,000 for re-entry permits is only when you travel 20 times in and out the country, which is not something the average retiree does, and then you could better buy a mult re entry permit, would cost you 19,000.

And just like I said before, in some cases DTV might have some advantages in mainly edge cases, but generally spoken non-o is the better visa, in fact the only disadvantage is you have to extend it always in country around the same time of year, so when you travel a lot and are longer times away DTV might be better.