Even when extending for a month after your two month visa is sometimes complicated and confusing due to language barriers among all the parties involved. Meaning your landlord, the immigration staff and yourself. So when renewing a DTV, that means 10 times more confusion and complications. So it is best just to do a border run, enjoy a new destination for a week or two and come back. I know we all love Thailand that we don’t want to be away for a minute, but let’s not be cheap Charlies and do what is simple and stress free.

Sometimes they just randomly select an individual or two for a little extra screening from all categories, they could be even platinum thai elite visa holders. It is just a safety protocol that is common in all countries’ airports and they do it to their own citizens as well. This time you happen to be the one selected, there is nothing wrong with that. Just cooperate and handle the situation politely and you will be on your way.

Anonymous participant 778 that’s right. I thought the immigration officer was going to place that cool sticker on my passport, but in the end it was just the usual stamp with hand written DTV and 180 days on it. Still I am glad I got the DTV visa approved 🙂

@Graham *******

long time or short time?

@Brandon ***********

100 baht is the tip

Congrats 🍾 🇹🇭 🇺🇸 🎉

Was it the LA consulate?

@Colin ********

that is super ridiculous 😂 I am not sure if they’re intentionally trying to earn some money for Thai government by these non sense rejection or the operating system is not perfected yet.

@Nick **********

you might have got away with entering California as the city of birth. But there is too much inconsistencies that I see some people are getting approved in three hours by providing a litter that says “to whom it may concern, Mr. Patel got $50,000 in his checking account in Bank of America.” Signed by a bank manager and time stamped. Then others who actually upload official bank statements are rejected. For your next try it may be better to update your passport info and request a new one before applying again, or if you do want to try entering California as the city of birth hopefully the consulate staff will be an easy going person who will accept it as it is.

You need everything to match on all your documents, word for word, letter to letter and number to number. Unfortunately I made a similar mistake and within a day I got the bad news. There is no refund of the fee and you have to start a new application.

@Stuart ********

thanks