Written in a Thai MFA checklist, the e-Visa portal, an embassy page or Immigration. The badge links to the page it came from.
thai visas, decoded
Pick the Thai visa you can actually prove.
Most people choose a visa by how long it lets them stay, then discover their paperwork was never built for it. This site works the other way round: what you can evidence, which route that opens, and what the file has to look like before you send it.
facts checked 2026-07-29 against the sources below
Every route we cover
Four clusters are built. The rest are queued and get the same treatment: every figure stored as a record with its source and the date it was checked, and attribution on every claim.
route who it is for stay per entry money shown
DTV Destination Thailand Visa remote workers, freelancers, long soft power programs 180 days 500,000 THB open → O-A Retirement visa age 50 and over, settling in for the long run 1 year 800,000 THB open → ED Education visa language school, university, long training courses 90 days USD 1,000 / mo open → O Family visa Thai spouse, Thai children, dependants of a foreigner here 90 days 40,000 THB / mo open → TR Tourist visa and visa exempt entry short stays and first looks — — queued
LTR Long term resident high earners, specialists, investors — — queued
TPV Thailand Privilege paid long stay with nothing to prove each year — — queued
queued routes carry no figures here on purpose. a number without a source is not information
Where most people start
The DTV is the route built for income earned outside Thailand, and it is the one most people ask about first.
How we check facts
Visa pages fail people in one specific way: they blur what the rule says with what someone experienced once. Every claim here is labelled with where it stands.
What consulates are doing lately, with the date it was true. Practice moves. It is never presented as a rule, and it is never a promise.
Our own standard for a file we would send. Stricter than the rule on purpose, and always labelled as ours.
Records get re-checked on a 90 day cycle, and the check date sits next to the figure on the page.
Questions before you pick a route
01 Which Thai visa should I start with
Start from what you can prove, not from how long you want to stay. Income earned outside Thailand points one way, age and savings point another, a Thai spouse points a third. The route table above sorts them by who each one is built for.
02 Do you file the application for me
We prepare and check. You file through the official portal, and the consulate decides. Nobody outside that building can promise you an outcome.
03 How current are the numbers on this site
Every figure is a stored record with a source link and the date it was last checked, shown next to the figure itself. Records older than 90 days get pulled back for re-verification before they stay on a page.
Sources
- Royal Thai Embassy, London — DTV london.thaiembassy.org
- Royal Thai Embassy, Singapore — DTV singapore.thaiembassy.org
- Thai e-Visa — DTV www.thaievisa.go.th
- Issa Compass — DTV timeline report www.issacompass.com
last checked against these pages on 2026-07-29
Get help
Not sure which route your case fits?
Tell us how you earn, where you are now and how long you want to stay. We come back with the routes you can evidence, the one we would build, and what your file is missing.
- a written read on your case, not a sales call
- the routes your paperwork can actually support
- the weak spots named out loud, before you file
We prepare and check paperwork. We do not decide cases, and no one can promise you an approval.