@Graeme ******

"shopping for high end luxury brands"

You spelled 'dull' wrong...

@Jan ***************

yeah pretty sure buses in the UK all have those little hammers next to the back window

@Marc **********

showing what? Pictures of a burned-out bus? It's not like he's posted pictures of the corpes?

@Bert **********

they wanted a letter from a company signed by an authorized person confirming ongoing employment-- so I wrote myself a letter, since I'm self-employed... apparently that's acceptable. I'd already submitted a legal work contract I'd signed with an agency, but they wanted this as well.

They also wanted bank statements showing a closing balance of £11k. Again, I'd already submitted screenshots and highlighted the last year's worth of invoices being paid to my account, as well as my stocks & shares ISA, but they wanted actual statements with my name & address on it (my RBS digital banking doesn't have it on so had to actually go to the bank and get paper copies and then scan them).

@Tony *******

got it, thank you. And yes:

// the flight into Thailand must be filed as leaving from the country in which the embassy application is made. But [...] you don't have to stick to the info you supplied for the physical entry //

I think this is where the confusion arises. Thanks.

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

as I said, this was for a *tourist* visa, last year, not the DTV. And as I said, I was asking about *initializing* the DTV, i.e. the first entry. As far as it never being stipulated that you need to enter from your country of origin, that was the consensus at the time when I posted a similar question like this in Facebook. If people on Facebook talk bollocks and aren't a reliable source, well that's precisely why I asked politely where you were getting your information from. Official sources of course would always be preferable.

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

yup, so you're saying you're going by the testimonies of other people here; fair enough

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

I remember last time I applied for a tourist visa on the evisa site, it was stipulated that you could only enter Thailand from your country of origin

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

super helpful, thank you, Brandon. Re. 1 & especially 2, are you absolutely sure? Do you have any official source, or where are you getting your information? Not doubting you, just obviously an important thing to get right. I don't want to inadvertently invalidate the visa somehow

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

that's quite a few foreign card ATM charges before it becomes worth it