From my own experience trying to use the soft power route in Taipei and other accounts about Taipei applications, they do not simply accept the 500K in accounts. They tend to require proof of income. It seems like their willingness to accept proof of funds without income is at their discretion.

Anonymous participant I also went to Taipei, and they did have your passport in their possession whle reviewing your application. But I have an employer. I'm not a freelancer.

Maybe not, but also my bank records would show transactions in Thailand.

Yes, it was pretty clear from my entry/exit records and work history that I was already working. There's some disagreement about this, but Thailand does not have the same concept of "working" that EU or Europe do, where you'd want to avoid confessing to doing remote work on a tourist visa.

Less than one day for approval in Taipei but didn't get the visa until the next day.

@Paul ******

The "employment prohibited" might be for potential Thai employers, not for immigration authorities. When a Thai company is doing their employment verification process, they'll check your visa to see if you have employment authorization. You'll give them your foreign passport during the hiring process and they'll see you can't be legally hired on the sticker visa in your passport.

I saw it in this group. Someone had applied for a DTV in his home country but already had travel plan to Thailand. Didn't get approval before he left and just traveled to Thailand anyway, probably planning to do a border bounce. I actually can't find the post anymore, so maybe he deleted it, but he received an email from the embassy asking whether he was still in his home country. He didn't know how to respond, and the other commenters said you shouldn't lie to consular officers. No, it's not proven, but probably a lot of the posts here are true, even if not verifiable.

You're not supposed to do this. Just be aware that the consulate has some resources to check your entry record to Thailand. Some people have entered Thailand during their application processing period with no problems, but there have been some reports of people being detected and having their application invalidated.

@Sahil *******

Yes, the Thai bank will notify your foreign card company that you're allowed to use Qr codes.

Hi, Do you think supplying so many documents might have delayed acceptance of your application? I see that you have an Australian bank account and a Thai bank account, but the Thai bank account was over 500k baht. Maybe you could have transferred the money to the Australian bank account and they wouldn't have questioned you about having a Thai income source.