Anonymous participant Even though your employment contract will be with a foreign company, and therefore won’t be written in Thai?

It’s an online process. There will be no sticker in your passport. They will, once your application is approved, send you a pdf file by email. That will be your visa. Keep it, print it out, and show it to the immigration officer when you enter Thailand.

You can apply from Vietnam. I think from your location it will be via the HCMC consulate but you need to check that on the eVisa site. It gives a list of places in Vietnam and which embassy/consulate you need to apply to.

Proof of current location is required; your entry stamp to Vietnam, your hotel or lodging booking.

You need to stay in Vietnam until your application is processed.

Anonymous participant what documents did you need to show them?

Unless you need to go to an immigration office for something, residence certificate, TM30 filing, visa extension etc. you will face no sanction or difficulty.

The maximum fine for not doing a 90 day report is ฿2000

@Greg *******

That’s what I thought when extensions were first mentioned. I doubted that many immigration offices would accept foreign bank statements as financial proof without some kind of verification. How you go about getting that verification done in Nakhon Nowhere is another matter completely.

I think that’s one reason why many immigration offices will just tell people to bounce out and come back in.

If you turn up with financial evidence in a form they’re accustomed to, Thai bank account, letter confirming the amount from the bank, then that part of it will likely sail through.

Immigration division 1 in Bangkok have produced details about how to do an extension.

And as with any extension, apart from maybe the standard 30 days on a tourist entry, people should go to their immigration office before requesting the extension to find out what that specific office requires.

This YouTube guy is just like all the others; we’re consuming opinion when we watch them.

So, how did you get the tax number?

HCMC which covers a few places in Vietnam (Da Nang being one of them) is pretty quick. 3-5 working days.

You need to be in Vietnam to apply, plus stay there till you get the visas approved.

They require proof of entry to Vietnam as part of the process.

A friend of mine had his application ready to go, with the Vietnam entry stamp/hotel booking being the last part uploaded before submission.

A similar experience that I’m involved with. Application submitted to HCMC 29th January. Obviously due to the holiday the first day of processing was the 3rd February. Request for additional documents received Wednesday (5th February) document uploaded that afternoon and an hour and a half later, visa approved.

So total time excluding holidays/weekend was three working days.

You would be working in Thailand, earning money in Thailand. That’s not what the DTV remote working means.