Anonieme deelnemer 696 I agree, and that might also be the reason most embassies only accept employer sponsorship.

@James *******

I read aone stories from people who had to show they still work for the company, but I don't know if they are reliable. On the other hand, with the current requirements IO can ask for proof, because you have a visa for workcation and when that proves to be not a reason for the visit, IO can reject the entry. It will not happen often, maybe never, but I think it is good to realize they have those rights. People not abusing the visa have nothing to fear.

@James *******

I am not sure about that, when the job stops, it is not workcation anymore and the purpose of stay does not correspond with the visa type anymore. Thailand is very keen about having a visa type for every purpose of stay, therefore the enormous amount of different visa types.

@Dnatjugweme ***********

With the current rules the use of the visa has to stop when the required remote work not longer exists, but the way it is enforced at the moment, the risk is very low you get halted getting into the country.

Personally I do not expect very much checks on remote employment, soft power activity and even more likely the 500K are candidates to be checked more often.

But a change in rules is not necessary to change the enforcement of the rules

@Steph ****

The thing they might want to know is how you plan to pay for your living while being in Thailand during your Muay Thai training.

There is no income requirement, but they might see your source of income unreliable or unrealistic low.

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

The advice to ask credit card company for a charge back is an advice to commit fraud, which is against group rules.

The Embassy did deliver what he paid for, even if he might not like the outcome.

You don't pay for the visa, but you pay for the application process.

Apart from it being fraud, it would most likely also mean a permanent ban to ever enter the country again.

Anonieme deelnemer 999 In country extension should not have different requirements than the original application, because these the requirements should not change in the 5 year period the visa is valid, but as you say, in Thailand you can never be sure of this, and you can almost be sure different immigration offices will have different internal guidelines.

@Charles *********

@John *********

just is right, they can ask for the 500K because it is one of the DTV requirements, in fact it is the only requirement valid for all different types of DTV, so they don't have to look up any additional info on their system. Nowhere in the visa requirements is stated they can not be checked at moment of (re)entry, so I see no reason why it cannot be checked by IO. I only heard about one case where IO actually did, so I think it not will happen very often. But why make an issue of it, when they ask in most cases nowadays you can just show online the money is in your account within a few minutes.

I was not asked for anything else than the current statement, but that was July last year, so I have no idea if that changed in between.

Anonieme deelnemer It is not that rules change, from the beginning and as with all other visa everywhere in the world embassies can ask anything they want to decide if your application is genuine. They did not make a secret of that before you paid.