The remote-worker lane.
For people working from Thailand for an employer or clients based outside it. Everything turns on one point: proving the money comes from elsewhere, and that it actually arrives.
Five documents, on top of the common base.
- 01
Employment contract or employer letterIf employed
From a non-Thai employer, saying the work is done remotely. Authenticated.
- 02
Client contracts and invoicesIf freelance
Several clients, all outside Thailand. They replace the contract entirely.
- 03
Portfolio of remote activity
Six to twelve months of real history, not a folder built last week.
- 04
Company registrationIf you own it
Authenticated copy, if the entity paying you is your own.
- 05
Home-country link
Tax residence, employer, property. A file anchored nowhere gets refused.
The DTV carries no work permit. Remote work for a non-Thai employer is allowed. A salary from a Thai entity is not. The boundary is who pays you, not where the laptop sits.
Then the common base.
The half of the dossier that sinks most applications. Page two of the one-pager below spells each one out.
- Passport, six months
- Photograph
- 500,000 THB
- Bank statement
- Source of funds
- Current address
- Minimum age 20
- Filed from outside Thailand
- Eligible nationality
- Clean immigration record
- Dependents, if any
- What you get
- Five years, multiple entry, 180 days per entry, extendable once by another 180 days.
- Government fee
- $380 to $475 at most Western posts, $260 to $340 from several Asian ones. Your card, direct to the embassy. Full table.
Every document, every trap.
The sheet we hand our own applicants. Page one is this lane, page two is the common base. Print it, take it to the bank.
Current at August 2026. Updated when the rules change.
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