HCMC in Vietnam don’t need to 500k for months but they do want to see financial activity in your account if you’re app,ting as a remote worker, they want to see money from your work going in to your account. So you’ll need a few months of that, plus a final balance showing the 500k plus in the account.

Also, if it’s not in Thai baht, then attach a short explanation of the exchange rate on the day you submit it to make it easier for them to see it’s above the threshold

You’ll get more accurate information by speaking to immigration. Go to their office and ask them. They don’t bite.

Anonymous participant You’re good if the people at the tax office can read your contract. They’re not required to be able to read and understand English at the level that contracts are written in.

I understood which sticker you were talking about. There is no sticker. It’s an online process. No sticker.

The visa is a pdf file which you print out and present with your passport.

There. Is. No. Sticker.

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.