upon entering Thailand, you will receive a 365-days stay permit. You must control the correctness of the stamp on the spot before you walk away from the Immigration desk. . . The stamp will look similar to this one

@Joseph ***

so, I guess you do not even ENTER Thailand, which makes a TDAC unnecessary, because you will not enter Thailand if your baggage gets checked through - you will remain airside in the international transit area

@Joseph ***

the downside might be that you don't arrive at the same Bangkok Airport where your connecting flights arrives. Thai VietJet arrives at the BKK Suvarnabhumi Airport, and they got codeshare agreements with many other airlines. Philippine Airlines definitely depart from Suvarnabhumi . . . You need to exchange a few emails with them

"and expect I'll have to pass through immigration and customs before checking in for next flight and different carrier." . . . . . . this depends if the two airlines you use, have a "codeshare" agreement or not. If they do, you often can get your baggage checked through, you need to ask when you check-in to your first flight. Which means that in Bangkok you stay airside in the transit area, just walk from the international terminal to the domestic terminal and enter Thailand through a special Immigration desk along this route. Your baggage then will only need to pass customs at the final destination airport

@Frank ****

watch your terminology: outside of Thailand, you apply for the visa, and agents have no connections to the e-visa system. Inside Thailand, agents help you NOT to the visa (which you already used up when you entered Thailand) but to the EXTENSION of the STAY PERMIT - for which they pay tea money to their connections on Immigration. It is not the Embassy E-visa system agents can bribe, it is Immigration's stay-permit system they can

@Timothy ******

your wife needs her Thai ID and her blue housebook to register her house in the TM30 online system. She will be issued a Login-ID and a password. After this she can always access the TM30 form and register a guest - or you - within 24 hours of arrival in the premises

@Pat *****

of course I know what money can get done in Thailand. . . I live here since 30 years and I already have worked in Thailand . . . But we are talking about if money can alter anything OUTSIDE of Thailand, if money can alter a process that relieson the acceptance of a Thai embassy abroad. Which is a whole different story than agents bribing authorities INSIDE Thailand

@Frank ****

please draw a difference between the income proof for an E-Visa application processed by a Thai embassy outside of Thailand, as with these an agent based in Thailand has no direct connections, no possibility to bribe directly, except he is faking documents for the applicant, and the application to the extension inside Thailand, for which agents use their connections with corrupted Immigrations to circumvene the rules. It is illegal, everybody knows it, and despite that it is widely commonplace

you would qualify for the new ED-plus visa, but sadly not for the DTV

@Pat *****

you could maybe be more than wrong! . . . that's where I start to wonder how much influence an agent inside Thailand would have over a Thai embassy's decision and procedure, outside of Thailand . . I have read reports of agents scamming people into believing that this would be possible!