I did mine in Jakarta. It took almost 2 weeks, but didn't request any additional documents.

@Chris **********

which embassy did you go to?

No onward flight needed

What I'm assuming you mean is that she has a Thai parent and so is half Thai... Because being born here definitely doesn't grant citizenship 😅

But assuming so, then she can re-enter on her Thai passport, and no visa required for citizens. ❤️

I've lived here a very long time. I top up an old sim card with my number that I've had forever, just to keep it alive to receive calls and for the occasional outgoing call. But 99% of what I use is data, so every year I buy a new secondary SIM with a prepaid annual plan on it, and I use that for everything data. 50gb of data for a month, fast enough for seamless streaming and video calls, or even hotspotting my laptop for the odd video conference in any area where the wifi sucks.



You can take it to a phone shop with your passport and they can register it for you easily.

Also, if you want to keep a prepaid sim alive for a long time, then top it up 20 baht at a time. Every 20 baht adds 1 month of validity. So if you wanna keep your number but will leave the country for 6 months, put 20 baht on it 6x, and your number won't run out of validity and the number won't get recycled back into the system. You can check your validity, plan, credit, etc in the AIS app. 👍🏼

Don't believe there's a way to "convert". You can just cancel and exit, and apply for a new one. They're very separate visas so that's typically how it is done. Especially given that a DTV is a tourist visa, and Non-O is longstay.

Anonymous participant 248 isnt that the one with the fee?

If you can't get a bank account, then True Money is the next best thing. You can get it on DTV, and you can go through the steps of secondary authorization, which will then allow you to do PromptPay QR also (the most common one)

But True Money can be used at Big C, 7-Eleven, lotus, Lazada, and plenty of other places

@Gregory *********

I only have if I was entering without a visa (visa except stamp). But whether I had tourist, student, non-b, or DTV, never been asked too.

@Nina *******

geez, there was no QA team that caught this in the system before release? 🤦🏼‍♀️ Such an entry level test.