If maintaining the primary visa requirement for all types of DTV visa is unrealistic for you, you should never have gotten this visa. This requirement is in place becauae you might need it in emergency cases, but I guess that you in case of emergency you trust your family and friends to start crowd funding for you. According embassy and Immigration the requirement ia in place the whole visa period. At the official e-visa site it is exactly the same way describe as financial requirements for other visa, nowhere mentioned it is temporary. Not having it in the rare case you will get asked can be a reason to permit you entry.
Anonieme deelnemer 772 you can also travel to another country before enter Thailand, but I gues that possibility still exist in case they refuse entry. Why did you plan this trip anyway, the problems not just appear out of nowhere.
That is also my experience and the experience of many, many others.
But fact is that it is a requirement, very clear in Thai law, and that means when IO has any doubt about you whatsoever, they will ask for the money, and very often people don't have that much cash and then they have a perfectly valid reason to deny entry.
Anonieme deelnemer 418 I think this whole story is not about fast track service that normally works, but about entrance into Thailand from Cambodia which is complicated because of the war between the countries, but maybe you just missed that.
That also means that your ChatGPT not gives correct answers.
Sometimes it is still necessary to use your own brains and not AI.
is more important to note, but I guess you already saw this by now.
Thai are very nationalistic, when I hear my girlfriend about Cambodia that is shocking to me, and she is from southern Thailand, far away from Cambodia.