@जगद्गुरु ****************

Thanks! Haven’t seen this website previously. Just tried the online application check. It says I would qualify under soft power (Thai cuisine). However, it only asks about the 500,000 THB. No mention of proving income via six monthly payslips. Minimum income required is another matter. Known only to embassy processors and, no doubt, varies between countries!

@Paul ******

Never seen a backpacker (cheap or expensive) on our Air Asia or VietJet flights yet. Almost 100% Thais plus the occasional falang. Never claimed an international flight was 700 baht.

@John *********

Providing they ask in the first place. Are you saying they would request further information and not simply reject the application? Each country setting their own individual additional requirements (plus price of their DTV) is fundamentally flawed where applications are accepted from other nationals.

Anonymous participant 329 Would you agree that if Embassy staff have been issued with additional/amended criteria that applicants should also be made aware of the new requirements?

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

I doubt you know of another country which introduced an income requirement and didn’t publish it? There is no mention of it on central Thai government or individual Embassy websites. Rejecting applicants who fail to provide information not required or requested is diabolical. The fact that applicants claim to have been rejected by one country yet their same details were accepted elsewhere indicates inexperienced and/or incompetent processing staff.

@Tanja *****

If you upload a .HEIC format photo to your cloud storage system and then download it the file type becomes .JPG. At least, mine does!

Thanks for your most positive report!

@Muay ************

100%. Requirements absolutely need to be published, not kept as a secret weapon to disqualify applications and pocket the visa fee.

@Mark ******

‘Pretty clearly defined’. Agreed. Income details are not required. Looking now at Thai Embassy Manila DTV soft power financial requirements there is no mention of anything other than 500,000 THB. Thai Embassies shouldn’t reject applications for not complying with their own contrived and unpublished requirements.

@Wylie ******

2017. Just checked today and no problem (yet). Incidentally, more recently, a staffer at my Bangkok Bank Branch offered ‘help’ with my visa. Immigration office have also done so. Comforting to know that should I run short of savings, I have two more available options.