Semyon Eyassu walk in. They switched to online recently

Based on my experience with the STV, if they remove it then it will be after the initial 5 years

@Lance *****

yeah, I always have. I didn’t need it for DTV, but I got one because $10 is pretty cheap for peace of mind and to avoid road blocks at immigration

Take a dummy ticket in case. It’s $10 🤷🏻‍♂️

I mean… why would they give you a 5 year visa for a 4 week Muay Thai or cooking class? Lol

You’ll most likely need to take a course every time to extend

@Pui ****

I imagine this visa will never be as popular as it is right now in its first few months.

The number of people that can live in another country for 6-12 months is very, very small.

90% of people take two week to four week vacations once a year.

In fact, I don’t know anyone in real life that can easily move away from home for 12 months - only the people I meet online in nomad style communities.

Well, this group has 9.2k members.

And the general Thailand tourism group has 772k members.

So I would imagine this visa is far less common than many people in this group think lol

@Paul ******

@Bastien *******

So over the last 5 years, I've been in Thailand around 9 months out of 12 each year on tourist visas.

And when I applied for the DTV, I included my employment contract, the invoices I'd sent my client for past 6 months, and a screenshot of my linkedin where every role has the word 'remote' under it (and I believe I have the word freelancer in my title). And I had no issues.

So those are just some ways to cover your bases - as they're looking for evidence you're a remote worker/freelancer (unless you own the biz)

@Bastien *******

I don’t think that’s a good idea. If your clients are from overseas just show enough proof that it’s easy for them to see that.

If you start making them think about ‘not working from Thailand’ they may want to question you further about why you included it (they may not even think down that route if you don’t mention it)

Christ - very happy I didn’t go through Taipei.

Thailand: we need more tourists, numbers have not recovered since 2019

Also Thailand: we’re going to interrogate you & stress you the f out right up until you pass the immigration gate 😂