@Khristie ********

I see. Okay a few points I can suggest based on your reply is that this time if your friend is a foreigner (non-Thai), attach his/her visa, work permit, proof of residence, rent agreement, proof of employment, invitation letter. If Thai, it should have Thai ID number, invitation letter, contact number and address, house address book ( Thais know what that is).

If you don’t have a job presently, you may have the last three payslips before resigning, experience letter which shows your resignation and last working day, ITR ( income tax refund) of last two three years as available.

INR 50k is minimum bank balance requirement, which shouldn’t be just a one off deposit and then there is no transaction history of last two three months. Try to show a good bank statement which has frequent deposits, withdrawals etc to show you have enough going on in your home country to just go as a tourist and not as someone who will misuse a tourist visa to search, gain employment there.

You can attach a hand written self declaration writing your intent to travel, and self declare that even though you don’t have employment, your purpose is to merely use this hiatus as travel holiday to experience Thailand and nothing more, nothing less.

To save some money, you can apply yourself rather than engaging agents.

Also your tourist visa application should be for days more than days allowed by visa on arrival. This means your hotel stay, flight tickets should have gap of more than 15 but less than 60 days.

Good luck!

Well the embassy is in its right to seek additional documentation or reject. They don’t also have obligation to spit out the reason why they did so. An agent who deals applications regularly in the same embassy might give possible points that can be addressed to get a visa. I understand you got a void visa?

If so, you can go back to the checklist and see did you attach all the mandatory documents in order? If so, okay great. If not, check that did you submit hotel booking for the entire duration of stay planned, or not. If you were to stay with a foreigner did you attach his credentials (work permit, address etc) or if with Thai friend ( their address proof, Thai ID, invitation letter). Did you have a travel history to Thailand before of repeated tourist visas one after another?

Did you submit any of the additional documents ( listed in checklist) which are not mandatory but which makes embassy believe that you have reasons enough to go back to your home country. Eg can be proof of your employment, salary slips, letter from employer proving your current employment, income tax paid in last years, if government employee, No objection certificate from your current office.

There can be just n number of reasons and only a thorough recheck of your application can help.

It’s a hit or miss. I understand it’s a pain to get rejected visa after paying fee, application work and all. You can try again with more diligent paperwork.

@Ellie ******

thanks a lot. My office is a non-BOI company and it’s not a self owned company. I visited immigration office at chaengwattana today and the information desk says that first I should cancel work visa, work permit at OSSC chamchuro square as they are the one to issue it. After that there is no time limit of 48hrs to apply for Covid visa extension, I can come any day to chaengwattana office within grace period to apply for Covid visa extension. Is it correct or I really have to be going from chamchuri square to chaengwattana on same day itself? It will be a bit of rush to do it all in one day.

My office tells me that it will be 7 days grace period but OP in reply says it’s 14 days. This is also a bit confusing.

Thanks again for the advice.

Thank you very much Kath Kath and Moderators for the valuable advice. 🙏