how'd they know about your second passport? have you used different passports to enter Thailand?

@Will ***********

If we're assuming this is true, does not having any money remitted into Thailand (because you don't have a Thai bank account) absolve you of doing a tax return? Maybe it's like the U.S. Even if you don't owe any tax, they want you to submit a tax return anyway.

I think some consulates will arbitrarily add the remote work in Thailand arbitrarily, but it may be possible to get an approval with just authorization to work remotely in general.

@David ******

In the OP's case, the embassy might have been able to see that the applicant did not know their uploads were being overwritten when they just received the 52nd page of his passport. What's so hard about explaining in one sentence that all pages must be in a single document? Or maybe it wasn't obvious and they really thought OP was just uploading single page documents for the hell of it. Or maybe they don't have the English skills to say that. Anyway, the embassy should have the courstesy to be more clear with the application fee being paid.

I have a sticker visa, and most advice I've seen is to carry both passports when I have to renew. But it seems that the IO can just pull an electronic visa record in the system by scanning your passport, so it may not be strictly necessary to carry your old passport if you get a passport replacement. Even so, maybe it'd be good practice to carry your old passport with you, but just seems like a nuisance. I'd almost rather have the e-visa to avoid the trouble and worry of losing the old passport.

Are you planning on de-registering AFTER you get the DTV and are staying in Thailand? Then, no, it wouldn't interfere. `You might get a new tax residency depending on where you spend your time after getting a DTV. However, if you are planning to de-register before applying for the DTV (and I don't know why you'd want to), then it probably wouldn't negatively impact you if you apply at the consulates that don't require in-country residency, like Laos, Indonesia, and so on.

BTW, how'd they know you had left the country? Did you volunteer that information, or did they get alerted somehow?

Are you registered in the Netherlands? Bt law, NL requires all residents to be registered, so this would be the first step in providing proof of residency. If not an EU citizen, do you have a visa?

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

Why are you assuming there are extra costs for staying in Thailand? Maybe it costs less.

Taiwan, sorry for the late reply. This was before the evisa system was implemented. But my work situation might have been a factor in the approval too, so I wouldn't take my experience as a guarantee.