Thai visas by profession
The visa is usually the same. The evidence is not. A salaried developer, a platform teacher and an Amazon seller all end up on the DTV, but each is refused for a different reason. These pages set out what your occupation has to prove, and where cases like yours go wrong.
Software developers
If you write code for a company outside Thailand, the DTV was written for you — five years, 180 days a stay, no Thai employer required.
Online teachers
Teaching students abroad from a laptop in Chiang Mai is remote work, and the DTV covers it. Teaching in a Thai classroom is not, and it never will be.
Digital marketers
Retainers from clients abroad are DTV income. A single Thai client on the invoice list changes the answer entirely.
Content creators
Platform income counts, but only once it looks like a business rather than a hobby that happened to pay.
Freelance designers
Design freelancers qualify for the DTV comfortably on income, and get refused on paperwork.
E-commerce sellers
Selling to customers abroad from a laptop in Thailand is remote work. Holding stock in Thailand is a Thai business.
Consultants & coaches
Consultants have the cleanest income evidence of any freelance occupation, and the easiest way to breach the terms of their visa without noticing.
Muay Thai students
The DTV's soft-power category was built for exactly this: train for six months at a time, on a five-year visa, without working at all.
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