Although this DTV is new, if you have a current extension of stay (rather than an actual visa) it would make sense, if your DTV is approved, to go to immigration upon your return to Thailand and cancel it.

Although having said that, it would be interesting to see what they stamp you in on at the Thai border seeing as you have an active re-entry permit.

If you’re planning on being in Thailand on the DTV for the foreseeable future then best to cancel any extensions immigration have given you.

@Stephen ******

the three months you’re referring to is the validity of that visa. The DTV has a validity of five years so, you need to enter within that validity.

I do slightly less than I’m doing with your post; I scroll past. 🤷‍♂️

@Klee *************

you may well see them as the same as cash., and they may well be the same as cash. However, what matters in the visa process is what the embassy requirements are for evidence of funds.

My point was, as a person who has successfully applied for, and helped others app,y for visas from the Thai embassy in London and the uk embassy in Thailand on many occasions, often what we regard as sufficient evidence isn’t seen that way by the people processing the application.

So you can be as adamant as you wish about the nature of your financial evidence but if it doesn’t meet their criteria, they will refuse your application on those grounds.

It’s their criteria that matter here, not yours.

Rather than look for another category to apply under, maybe you can analyse why your application failed. Perhaps some of the evidence was not acceptable. Your financial evidence, your company evidence.

Because if you apply again under a different category and the thing that was wrong is still wrong, you’ll get rejected again.

You would be reporting the fact that you’ve been in the country for 90 consecutive days. So if you haven’t, you don’t.

@Wannikea ********

Yes, it’s so new that no one has extended it yet. I’m not sure how much they will charge for an extension of it.

@Wannikea ********

Plus the ฿10,000 fee?

Border bounce is best then 👍

@Andi **********

thanks. That’s very helpful.

I suppose they’re all just working out the details as to what evidence they need.

@Andi **********

thanks, but did they ask for 6 months with the 500k? If they only want the current balance to be 500k+ what were the previous months meant to show?