You’re wrong. Show me one case of anyone being refused entry to Thailand with an approved DTV for that reason. There are zero documented examples.

Just to be clear: there is no general DTV rule that says you must “stay in the country” where you applied. Some embassies add their own local (illegal) conditions, but that’s not Thai law, and not part of the DTV requirements. People are mixing up (illegal) embassy policy with actual DTV visa regulations.

Yes, you are wrong again. Please read the original post: he applied in Warsaw, Poland. The screenshots you posted come from London and the Netherlands, which have nothing to do with his case. Each embassy issues its own local administrative “notes”, but the DTV itself is an MFA-managed electronic visa. Mixing up different embassies’ internal rules is simply misleading.

For a DTV visa, it makes even zero ( 0 ) sense to argue that you must remain in the country where you applied. The DTV is designed for digital mobility, and the requirements concern your income and remote-work eligibility — not your “physical location” during processing. The visa is electronic, delivered by **email** and linked to your passport number, with no “in-person” step at the embassy. You are completely free to apply in Vienna, then travel to Vietnam, and even be in Papua New Guinea or Tahiti when the e-visa is issued. There is no Thai regulation that obliges you to stay put like a sacred cow while waiting for an electronic DTV visa.

Wrong

Wrong.

There’s actually nothing in Thai visa regulations that requires you to stay physically in the country where you applied, especially for an electronic visa. The whole process is online, the visa is issued electronically, and there’s no physical passport handling at the embassy. So there’s no legal basis to say you must remain in Poland. You’re free to travel while the application is being processed, and it won’t affect an e-visa.