As with most things in Thailand it will differ from office to office.

Best way to find out is to go and ask them.

Maximum ฿2000 fine if you ever need to go to an immigration office and someone there spots that you missed it.

Plenty of people, usually those who live far from an office, never do them and just pay the 2k if they ever need anything from immigration.

Just concentrate on getting well again.

If you apply for the DTV as a remote worker, without the ฿500,000 in an accessible account, and without permission from your employer to work from Thailand (25 days is not enough to qualify) you will indeed lose your application fee.

Didn’t the Thai eVisa system direct you to apply from the embassy in HCMC when in Da Nang? Hanoi is for different parts of Vietnam.

It's not ineptitude, it's 'go away we don't want to do it'.

So the slow drip feed of anonymous bros spreading negative ideas about the DTV (special rooms at immigration, my brother’s sister’s cat works for immigration and said that it’s all going to change) seems to have taken hold and a few people seem to have made their minds up that it’s going to change.

Mainly, I suspect, due to their original idea that no one should get a five year visa for a couple of dentist appointments. This original seed of doubt has been effectively watered by the anonymous bros and agents trying to convince people to quickly book their services.

One major suspicion? Suspicion of what exactly, using a multiple entry visa to enter multiple times?

Anonymous participant 682 That seems expensive. I usually pay ฿1300

@Greg *******

not usually for me

They showed as ‘other bank’

I believe their Thai partner was Dee Money ? Not 100% sure but it arrived in seconds from a Thai source.

I think the new banking clampdown has put a stop to that.

Needs to be approved by BB staff now

Does show up as international now though

@Jordan ****

Wise was minutes too but recently the banks have changed how they process transfers