My daughter’s application was still being processed when our flight was originally supposed to leave and they requested different documentation for flight itinerary saying they couldn’t process it while she was in Thailand. We sent our updated itinerary which was for four days later and they approved it the next day 🤷‍♀️

I’m not sure if this will happen to you but I applied for mine, got approved. Applied for my husband and daughter as dependents. My husband got approved but my daughters needed more documentation provided with a new flight itinerary because the day they were trying to finalize it was the day after we were originally supposed to fly over and it said we couldn’t be in Thailand when they approved the visa. We had just so happened to delay our flight by a couple days due to other circumstances so I provided them with a new itinerary and they approved the next day 🤷‍♀️

Anonymous participant No problem! ☺️

I’m from the US and I just wrote up a letter stating, “This letter is to confirm that I, NAME, am self employed as a remote ROLE.

I have been self employed since YEAR and as of April 2024 have been operating under the business name of BUSINESS NAME. This business is a sole proprietorship, and I am the sole owner. You can find proof of this on Page 4 of my submitted document labeled “DOCUMENT SHOWING OWNERSHIP OF BUSINESS”

The nature of my business is to EXPLAIN JOB ROLE

This work is done remotely by means of EXPLAIN HOW YOU WORK REMOTELY.”

And of course made it formal with my address and “Thank you for your time” at the end.

Signed and dated.

I only have a couple of small contracts, the rest of my work is fluctuating freelance work, and I did submit those contracts.

I’m sure between your portfolio and some sort of letter, you should be okay. If not, most embassies ask for more info if they feel the need.

Hope everything goes smoothly!

@Rok *******

Thanks for this!

@Rok *******

Thanks for sharing this. Were you based in Chiang Mai? I’m curious if a long term lease would be better…we just got one from our AirBnB owner but are waiting on the contract from our real estate agent for our new place.

@Lincoln *********

Yeah for sure. We have good travel cards with no foreign fees. And if there are ATM fees for withdrawals, they aren’t bad. But we usually pull out enough to last us for the month at one time.

Yeah it’s so different! You can do cash if you want. There are these drop boxes here that are like an ATM and you can just put your landlords info in, drop the cash, rent paid. Just depends on the owner.

I think like some countries, there are some areas that are super friendly and easy to foreigners but difficult in others. Thailand just released the DTV which was for the sole purpose of raising longer term tourism, yet at the same time, it’s a lengthy and difficult process to get into a rental. And it’s especially difficult when AirBnB’s are marked SIGNIFICANTLY higher than local rent. Won’t want to make people stay. Unless they’re planning on just hopping around the entire country for 5+ months.

@Lincoln *********

That’s really about it honestly. At least that I’ve experienced. We’ve gotten by for the past two weeks with either a US card or cash.

I guess if one wanted to avoid transaction fees then sure but yeah. I don’t think you would need one unless you’re trying to rent 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Tim *******

Do you mind if I ask which bank and city?

@Lincoln *********

Some places here don’t accept cards and are only cash or QR code from Thai bank account. If one wanted to rent property here, you have to have a Thai bank account. We are going through this right now.

It’s also so difficult to get one right now because apparently the Thai government did a massive investigation and found a ton of money laundering via foreign countries. So they cracked down on people opening accounts.