tautomerica

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.