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Does anybody know whether the terms of the new US-Thailand trade deal specify revised import duties on american wine? I have been trying to find some details in news reporting but couldn't find information on implications for US exports to Thailand. Would be great news if the price of american wine in thailand were to drop to a level that is only mildly extortionate.

Hi @Knight Rider I applied via Chicago about 1 year ago and was successful, you can read a brief account of it on the post linked below (page 42 of the DTV thread, near the bottom, in case the link doesn't work). Unless something has changed, which is possible or even likely after a year, I would guess that you'll be asked for articles of incorporation and a self-signed statement from your Arizona company that you can work remotely. Best of luck with it. As an under-50 who had very limited options before the DTV came along I have to say it has been fantastic. I travel enough that the 6 months stay limitation is a non-issue for me. Hoping to never endure another cambodia border run, once was enough for this life!

I don't know about Bangkok but in Pattaya there are several options. The only place I found offering the breath test was Bangkok Hospital Pattaya at 3300 baht. Neither Pattaya memorial nor the government hospital on buakhao currently (April 2025) offer the breath test. I ended up getting an antigen test at lifecare labs. I tested negative, but the sensitivity of blood antigen tests is not great compared to the breath test. Please report back if you find the breath test at a reasonable price in Bangkok. I still have symptoms and partner had H. pylori so I may get it done next time I'm up that way.

I was in a similar situation when I applied for a LTR-WP around June of last year. My employer's parent company is a large and publicly traded US company with many subsidiaries around the world. I was able to resolve various other queries they had, but they insisted on receiving the subsidiary company's financial statements and I was not able to provide them. I ended up abandoning the application and instead took a DTV visa in September of this year. The DTV was far easier and suits my situation almost as well as the LTR-WP. The only reason I may consider going for the LTR again would be if Thailand starts taxing worldwide income and the LTR remitted income exemption turns out to remain valid after the tax code update. I wonder if under a literal interpretation of current law all global income may have to make a roundtrip through a thai bank account in the first few months of the year after it was earned in order to remain exempt? If so it could become awfully cumbersome. Hopefully BOI/TRD would amend the code to strengthen and clarify the tax exemption if worldwide income tax becomes law.

I have no clue what they see in the visa database

There have been some questions raised previously in this thread about whether immigration officers would do any additional checks upon subsequent entries after the initial DTV entry. From my own experience the answer so far is "no". I entered BKK airport on the DTV for a second time yesterday and the IO just smiled and stamped my passport, no questions asked. I'm on the digital nomad flavour of DTV, so can't speak to what might happen in the case of e.g. a 5 year visa based on a medical appointment.

I was successful with a DTV application last week and want to thank the various posters here and elsewhere for sharing their experiences with the application process, it was helpful for me. I applied to the consulate in Chicago. They processed it relatively quickly, with a request for additional documentation coming just 1.5 days after the initial submission, and the approval coming about 4 business days later (across the labor day holiday weekend). I applied in the digital nomad category. I am a founder / director of a company in the US and have an employment contract with a nominal salary, < $10k. Most of my income comes from other sources. In the initial application I sent only the employment contract, along with bank statements from January and July that show continuously held balances above the threshold. They did not question the income, but did ask for a statement from the company that I am allowed to work remotely. So I sent them a self-signed PDF asserting my authority as busines owner / director to work remotely, along with the company's articles of incorporation showing that I incorporated the business. Just as we heard previously from the report of a London embassy application, this approach seems to be accepted in Chicago as well and the visa was issued without further questions. I was very happy to see the approval. As someone under the age of 50, the visa options were not very good before the DTV came along. Best of luck to those of you who are applying.