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not clear on all that yet, believe you can do an extension after 6 months in country then a visa run at the 1 year mark, rinse-repeat for 5 years total. I received the visa earlier this afternoon, the visa just says DTV, no other label.

no additional fees, just the 10k, visa collected 2 days after application... submit monday receive visa wednesday etc

yes you can, just applied last friday, pickup on tuesday... just posted a report that may answer some of your questions

Hope this report helps others applying for the DTV in Vientiane, specifically freelancers. Applied Sep 6th, 2024. The officer was courteous and professional for the most part. I do remote work, creating instructional video courses and selling them on my website, but most customers opt to subscribe to my membership giving them access to all courses, and pay monthly or annually for the service, and this kind of business model seemed to confuse the officer a bit. For evidence of my business I wrote a letter detailing the nature of the remote work with links to my website, on my company letterhead and signed by me. I also printed out several pages from my website showing my online portfolio of courses/membership. For the financials I printed out a screenshot of my US bank account showing funds well in excess of the required 500k, this also clearly showed my name and date, same as application day. For what it listed on the embassy requirements this seemed to check all boxes. But the officer wanted to see specifically who my customers are. I kinda anticipated this so I printed out a report of my sales over the last 30 days. This showed amounts, dates and email addresses but NOT names of customers. This created a little headache for him I guess as he kept asking to see customer names. So if you are a freelancer selling products/services online I suggest you have customer names in whatever document you use as proof. Fortunately I had a backup... I also create courses remotely for the biggest name in my industry. I asked them to write me a letter listing all the work I have done for them and that this work is ongoing. I also printed out a screenshot showing the bank deposits from them for this work. It appears this satisfied the officer more than my own website's proof, even though the sales income from my own website far exceed the income from the other company. So if you are asked to provide income amounts it doesn't appear there is a threshold that needs to be met. It seems the most important thing for freelancers is to show clearly who your customers are, and it appears they may prefer to see work for a known company over your own website etc. The only other additional documents requested were the last 3 months bank statements. So he allowed me to go out and get those printed. Brought them back, paid the 10k and was on my way. I'm due to pick it up tomorrow, assuming all will be fine but you never know until you get it in your hand.

thank you, very helpful! I'm doing my DTV there in a couple weeks, one question I have is what did you provide for proof of location? Since you were just in Laos to do the visa, what did you provide, your hotel booking in Vientiane? Anything else requested for that?

I'm Currently on the Non-O Thai Spouse visa, but I meet the eligibility for the DTV as well. Has anyone previously on the Non-O had success applying for the DTV? Or are they requiring foreigners with Thai spouses to stay on the Non-O. Thanks!