If you email them, they’ll likely give you the ‘safest’ response, which is no. You have to go into branches. Different branches of the same bank will give you different answers.

@Luit ****************

I’m very pleased for you.

@Luit ****************

And the possibility of having to show the ฿500.000 again, but no one knows owns the details yet.

@Dan **********

Several people have posted that they re-entered by just showing the visa at the border. The cost of the visa is circa ฿ depending on where you get it. As with other multi-entry visas, you don’t pay the cost of the visa again when you’re using it. You buy it once, it’s valid for as long as it’s valid, then you buy another one, if you want another one.

@Dan **********

That would only have a benefit once your visa has expired but your entry stamp hasn’t. Say for instance your visa expires 1st November 2029 and you enter thailand one day before that, you still get stamped in for 180 days, and the only way to keep that stamp active if you leave the country again, would be to get a re-entry permit before you left.

During the validity of the visa, a re-entry permit just restricts your length of stay to the stamp you got before you left with the permit; ie it has no useful purpose.

As it did before the DTV existed, it depends on the branch you walk in to, and the staff member you speak to. Some will do it with a residence certificate, and the purchase of an insurance policy (฿5000) others will do it just with the purchase of the insurance policy, others won’t do it at all.

And as for the residence certificate, that too depends which immigration office you have to deal with. Some will issue one on a regular tourist visa, some won’t.

The DTV hasn’t changed anything to do with opening a bank account in Thailand.

@Martin *******

the visa, if you apply via the e-Visa government website, is emailed to you as a PDF file. You print it and show it to the immigration officer at the border.

@Luit ****************

true. I think it will more depend on the evidence required for the extension.

Probably easier to just leave and come back every 180 days rather than extend.

@Tod ********

I doubt it. But the options presented were, if I’m not mistaken, to use a passport to enter with a visa, or one that’s allowed visa free entry to Vietnam.

To use two passports (one for entry to Vietnam and one for the DTV use) would be too complex and open to refusal I would think.

I was just advising that the OP could still prove they were in Vietnam at the time of application with either passport.